Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
Common Core curriculum recognizes the importance of vocabulary in learning. Refer to this blog to learn about the three tiers Blog on three tiers of vocabulary. Background knowledge of the topic being taught in the classroom is a key component of learning. It becomes the foundation…
Pacing during a treatment session can be crucial in maintaining a child’s attention and focus. The easiest way to do this is using a schedule and a pattern of an opening and closing activity. Using a timer to go off five minutes before the end…
In working with teachers or student speech and language therapist I often find that one of the goals that they want to work on is ‘eye contact’. At first glance, this might make sense as how do we know if a child is listening…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin This week we worked on practicing our grammar. We first reviewed the parts of speech we have gone over. I love using whiteboards as it allows me to quickly review all the student’s understanding of the concepts. I use the…
I love using literature to teach. It gives me a jumping off point to teach vocabulary and story grammar. It Takes A Village by Jane Cowen-Fletcher Book Companion is a great story that is set in an African village. Yemi is given the responsibility…
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed This is a fun poem about five monkeys jumping on the bed! The first part is appropriate for those children that are readers or to can be read to the child. The second part has a pictures and…
I am always looking for ways to connect with families and include them in their child’s treatment. This has meant homework for my articulation children, and vocabulary letters to my language children with a note that they can get a vocabulary keychain from me to…
I am linking up with Kim from Activity Tailor to share an experience that made me speechless! I love my job, every day there is something that makes me smile. My day job is at a kindergarten to 2nd-grade school. There is a young boy who…
As part of my group work within the special education room, I have a story as part of the routine. I have a variety of students in this room who are all are different levels of expressive language and who have different goals. In order…
Often the students that we are trying to teach tenses to are very young so that they are not readers. This can complicate how we teach them regular and irregular verbs. One way is to display pictures and to teach the tenses as a sequence.…