As the weather gets colder, it can be challenging for students to focus. Some dream about playing outside in the snow. However, others dream about hanging inside and drinking delicious hot cocoa. Either way, it can be hard to keep students focused and engaged! Since there is only so much time in each speech therapy session, it is vital to use every minute. Thankfully, the Speech Therapy Boom Cards for Winter are the perfect way to ensure students show improvement in their goals. With the help of these Boom Cards, winter lessons for speech therapy will bring all the festive elements of the season to the classroom.
Speech Therapy Boom Cards for Winter
Every child in speech therapy works on different skills. Thus, it can be overwhelming to plan activities that will genuinely help each child target specific aspects. Luckily, the winter lessons for speech therapy include 9 interactive Boom Card activities! These all include colorful scenes and visual aids to support each child. Additionally, there are moveable pieces, animated verbs, and photo scenes to ensure little learners stay engaged!
Speech Targets
Specifically, the activities focus on pronouns, verbs, increasing MLU, WH questions, inferences, vocabulary, prepositions, following directions, and MORE! Children will also work on sentence formulation and expansion, asking and answering questions, articulation, and fluency.
Real-World Elements
Many times, students love when lessons include real-world elements. This makes them feel grown up as they prepare to be positive classroom and community members. Therefore, the Boom Cards have real photos and visuals. In total, there are 178 interactive pages of photo scenes to ensure students stay interested in this activity.
Hands-On practice
When working on language skills, students often learn best with hands-on practice. Honestly, this helps them focus while working on many skills. Thus, there are stacked circles to guide thinking. This helps elicit “who,” “is” and “what” for lower-level utterances and “who” “what” and “where” for higher-level utterances. This differentiation will help each child focus on language targets that are most appropriate for their skills. Then, children can cover the visuals as they express each sentence structure. Or, they can cover each aspect if they are working on listening comprehension.
Additionally, there are moveable pieces to keep the Boom Cards fun and exciting. Similar to the visuals, there are multiple ways to use the moveable pieces. For instance, the speech-language pathologist can give directions for the draggable elements. Or, the child can tell the adult where to put the pieces. Honestly, this is a great way to work on prepositions and expanding expressive and receptive language. Additionally, the visual circles and moveable pieces help as children focus on increasing MLU and articulation skills.
Ultimately, the Speech Therapy Boom Cards for Winter allows students to work on so many language targets in fun, exciting ways. Since the cards are so versatile, the implementation options are endless. Students will love having a consistent activity to work on so many different skills.
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