Exit Ticket

Exit Ticket

An 'Exit Ticket' is a strategy that helps students to summarize and reflect upon information learned during a lesson.  

 An 'Exit Ticket' helps students to:

*  review key ideas

* summarize their thinking in a few words or sentences

An 'Exit Ticket' helps educators to:

* evaluate the effectiveness of a teaching process

* create an informal tool to measure a student's understanding of a lesson or a concept

There are several templates and types of  exit tickets that are offered in the internet that you may download.  Also, there is a wonderful website that helps you to create exit tickets digitally.  Educators can register for free, plus there are videos that guide you through the process of creating exit tickets. 

This is the website, The Exit Ticket Student Response System:

www.exitticket.org

Below I have offered an 'exit ticket' I created.  It is mostly visual, due to the needs of some of my students.  Click on the link.

Exit Ticket

I hope this is useful!

Beverly

Creating your own ClipArt and Icons with Microsoft PowerPoint

Hi,

Are you ready to set some attainable goals for yourself in 2014? I sure am.  One of my professional goals is to learn how to create my own clip art.  I've been searching for software that I can learn how to use.  I've found a few options, but it is quite of an investment for me at this time.  During my 'searches' I viewed a youtube video on creating clip art and icons with Microsoft PowerPoint.  Personally, this is a wonderful option for me, as PowerPoint is accessible, affordable ( it's part of my computer programs anyway ) and best of all I know how to use it!  I am sharing the video with you!   I can't wait to try it!   :)    Enjoy!

I hope some of you find this useful and that you will be able to reach your personal and professional goals in 2014!

Happy New Year,

Beverly

A Gift from Me to You!

Hello All,

I'd just like to take this time to thank you all for your support by reading my little blog.  I love sharing and giving to others, especially during this season.  I hope you all have been able to use some of the activities and freebies.  To show my appreciation, I am sharing another activity with you.  This one is a bit more substantial as it has many more pages than what I usually post. I hope you can use it and if you can't and know someone who would benefit from this freebie, please refer the person to my blog.

Click the link for the freebie.  Merry Christmas (because this is one way that I acknowledge my savior Jesus Christ), Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukah, and Happy Kwanza.  Whichever way you celebrate this season, I wish you ALL; happiness and much love.  We all need LOVE!

A Gift for You!

Enjoy!

Beverly

Basic Concepts and Temporal Directions Activity (Pirate Theme)

Hi Everyone!

If you're looking for a basic concepts and temporal directions activity and you love pirates,  click on the link for a freebie!

A Pirate's Life for Me


Enjoy!

Beverly

Parking Lot and Landing Strip Vocabulary Activity

Hi,

I've created an activity using a parking lot and landing strip as a motivator to increase knowledge and usage of antonyms, synonyms and homophones.  I used it with my own students and they really enjoyed this one and were engaged in the activity.  Click on the link for access to the activity.

ParkingLotLandingStripVocabulary




Enjoy,

Beverly

Creating Booklets On Your MAC

Ever wonder how to create a booklet on your MAC?  I've been creating booklets for my students and it's been a 'BIG HIT'!    Here is a tutorial that can help you create booklets for your students.  If you're a MAC lover like I am, this video tutorial may be very helpful.

Enjoy!   :)

Beverly

Freebie Friday!

Here's an activity that may help your kiddos formulate and write sentences.  Click the link!

Writing and formulating sentences

Also, soon I will be hosting a linky party!  Stay tuned..



Enjoy,

Beverly

Being Compassionate

I need a little compassion in my life.  Lately, not sure why, I've experienced some very disappointing encounters with people.  The lack of empathy and compassion demonstrated have left me astonished.  It seems more prevalent today, to abstain from showing kindness, understanding, patience and benevolence towards people.  I consider how this will effect the behavior of our children.   As adults, if we lack the skill to put ourselves in another person's place/situation, we will not be able to teach and expect our children to demonstrate empathy towards others.

This experience has really made me think.  How can I teach children the concept of having compassion and empathy?

  My pathway to this journey may take a while, but I've started with a very simple graphic organizer.  I thought about various terms to use during teaching this concept, and narrowed it down to four terms that young children can grasp quickly.

Four terms to describe compassion

1) kindness

2) patience

3) understanding

4) helpful

As educators/clinicians, we have a unique opportunity to teach skills which may be lagging.  My hope is that we can all be responsible enough to begin to teach important character traits that are necessary to sustain intimate relationships and friendships.  At least, I can turn a dismal experience into a lesson to enrich the lives of children.

Click on the link to access the activity.

Being Compassionate

I hope you all can use this in your classrooms or therapeutic settings.

Beverly

Grandma Loves a Taste of Synonyms

It's Finally Here!

Looking to work on synonyms during Thanksgiving? This packet will help you to work on this skill with your students. The packet is themed around a Grandmother whom is preparing a Thanksgiving feast. Your students help Grandma choose the best words to use for her menu. In the end, your students will write the menu using the words they have learned.

The packet includes: 
Grandma's Dessert- Choose the synonyms that describes a sweet pie.
Write a sentence that describes Grandma's pie.
Tasty Turkey- Choose synonyms for the word tasty. Add wings on the turkey.
Squish Squash- Take a survey and find out who enjoys eating squishy squash. Answer questions using survey results.
Graphic Organizer and Chart
Describe the Delicious Turkey
Choose the Synonym-Read the sentences and choose a synonym for the indicated word.
Write the Menu- A template is provided for students to create a Thanksgiving Menu.

It's all in black and white so your students can be creative and use their artistic skills!

I also have a freebie available as a preview. (Booklet format)

My TpT store

Enjoy!

Grandma Loves Synonyms!

Greetings Everyone!

Today I'm sharing a preview of a Thanksgiving packet that I'll be posting on TpT very soon.  The theme is Thanksgiving and the skill to address are SYNONYMS.  If you are in search for a fun way to teach or reinforce this concept, take a look at my TpT store next week for the full packet.  In the meantime, follow the link for a preview/freebie of one of the activities this product has to offer.

Grandma Loves Synonyms Freebie


Enjoy!

Beverly

Honoring our Veterans

 

Veteran's day is near and dear to my heart.  My dad served in the Vietnam War and was also part of the national guard after the war.  He continued honoring his country most of his life.  I remember many weekends and summers that my dad would go to serve and protect our country, the United States of America. 

 

He was so very proud to be part of the US Military and took his role, of course, very seriously.  I learned to honor, and love this country because of my father.  He was and still is the epitome of what God, family and country represents.  My dad still honors this country.  Every Veteran's Day and Memorial Day, he flies the American Flag in front of his house with great pride and joy.  Others from his neighborhood took note and began to honor veteran's in the same format.  If you walk down his block, you'll see many flags displayed in front of homes.

 

 

I would like to take some time to honor all our veteran's both living and dead.  I cannot demonstrate all the appreciation and gratitude I have for all who have served our country.  I can however, do what I do best and create an activity, so the next generation can understand how important our military personnel are to this country.

 

I created a small booklet about Veteran's Day.  It's very simple and to the point.  If you will like to use it for your students or children, please feel free to download the booklet.  Just click on the link.

 

 

Veteran's Day Booklet

 

On November 11th, remember to say thank you to a veteran.  They deserve it!

 

Enjoy the activity!

 

Respectfully,

 

 

Beverly

Halloween Phonemes Activity Set

Hi Everyone,

Looking for a vowel and sound activity?  Well, I just may have one for you. I just created a phoneme packet with a halloween theme.  Your students will enjoy blending sounds, identifying vowel sounds, writing CVC words and completing sentences.  Below are a few samples from the set.

Click on the link to access the complete set at my TpT store.  

Halloween Phonemes Activity Set

I hope it's useful!

Beverly

A SunDay FunDay Freebie!

Have fun with your students while improving their reading and vocabulary skills!

Click on the link.

Wheels of Language

Enjoy!

Beverly

Fall Freebies

Hi!

Click on the links for some simple yet fun fall games for your students! 

Vowel and Consonant Fall Activity


Fall Scavenger Hunt


Enjoy!


Beverly

This looks like fun!  

Vocabulary Development... Read, Read, Read; Talk, Talk, Talk

                                                         

The understanding of the spoken and written word are crucial in your child’s development of language.  It is estimated that children need to acquire approximately 3,000 words each year to give them an academic edge. That is an astounding amount of words!   

So how do you proceed to help your child acquire new vocabulary?  The most current research suggests that reading to your child everyday and speaking with your child is key for the acquisition of new words.            

When you read with your child, discuss the characters, setting, plot and resolution of the story.  Apply the moral of the story to real-life experiences and current events.  As you speak with your child, use a rich,vibrant and full vocabulary to describe events, people and things.  

Reading helps both parent and child to learn new vocabularies and using  these words will help your child academically and socially.  For those reasons,  mastering the ability to effectively communicate leads to SUCCESS! 

Have fun learning,

Beverly

Sentence Construction Freebie!

Making Sentences

Verbal Exapnsion

 

 

I'd like to share a few activities to make constructing sentences a little bit more fun.  Click on the link to have access to the activities.  I hope some of you can use it!  :)

Sentence Construction Activity Here

 

Teach your students to give and request information creatively.   For more sentence building (verbal expansion) activities, visit my TpT store. 

 

 

 

Have fun learning,

 

Beverly

Congratulations to:

Dinah E.

Carol B.

Amy M.

and Zita

You have won the Giveaway.  

I will be contacting you to send you the packet. The author will also contact you soon to sort out details .

Thank you to all that entered and I will be having another very soon!  :)

Beverly

MARTINA FINDS A SHINY COIN GIVEAWAY

Monday, September 9 is the Big Day!  The Giveaway goes LIVE!!!!


Here is the Book Trailer------------Enjoy!!!!!

Welcome Back to School Giveaway K-1st Grade! (Martina Finds a Shiny Coin)

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Welcom Back to School 2nd-3rd Grade Giveaway! (Martina Finds a Shiny Coin)

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Welcome Back to School Fourth-Fifth Grade Giveaway! (Martina Finds a Shiny Coin)

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Martina Finds a Shiny Coin: A Book Review

Martina Finds a Shiny Coin

Author:  Yadhira Gonzalez-Taylor

Illustrator: Alba Escayo

Book Review by:  Beverly Gonzalez

Martina Finds a Shiny Coin is a heart-felt children's book about love and acceptance.  It is an adaptation of a Puerto Rican folktale, La Cucarachita Martina also known as Martina y Perez.  The main character of the story is a very talented and gifted cockroach-yes a cockroach- whose journey to find beauty, love, and self-acceptance begins with finding a shiny coin. This book is beautifully illustrated, the drawings are rich in color and depicts a detailed portrait of a very real town in Puerto Rico.  The center theme of this book authentically teaches any child or adult that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, to look beyond the surface of the skin and embrace the values, gifts, talents and qualities that make individuals unique.  

As I read this book to my daughter, it  prompted wholehearted conversations about self-esteem.  I’m sure that reading this book to your own children or students will also begin in depth discussions.  As we all know, many of our students struggle with self-acceptance or may struggle with accepting others’ differences and opinions.  This book is an excellent platform to gauge inquiry about tolerance, self-esteem, bullying and basic traits that develop a strong moral character.  

On September 9, 2013;  I will be having a huge giveaway.  Three lucky entrants will win an autographed copy of Martina Finds a Shiny Coin.  You will be able to enter on September 9, 2013. The giveaway will end on September 16, 2013.     Please enter for a chance to win!

A Must Share

Books by the Foot

     I have to share this website with all of you.  You can purchase a box of gently used books for 9cents per book. It  adds up to $12.99 per box.  

Click here for the link

     I love great deals!

Beverly

Quick and Easy Vocabulary Activities and Games at your Fingertips

A Freebie for You!

Here are some nifty ideas to help with vocabulary instruction!  Enjoy....

Click here for the freebie

Are you ready for the new school year?  

:)

Digital Resources

Amazing Websites

     Begin the school year with digital resources at your fingertips and quality access to web tools for your students.  These are a few awesome websites that will get your students to build their skills.  Check it out!

Awesome websites!!!

Universal Design for Learning:  

http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com 

Math dictionary for kids: http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/dictionary.html

Grades 6-9: http://www.brainingcamp.com/resources/math/

Interactive fraction tools for instruction which align with NCTM standards:

http://www.conceptuamath.com

A creative, interactive math resource to help students understand how to solve word problems. http://thinkingblocks.com

Students can organize their notes, create flashcards, make use of 3D tools and more in this great mind mapping tool. It is downloadable. http://recallplus.com/index.php

Eyejot on the desktop

Source:  Eyejot Mobile Simulator

Eyejot is the first comprehensive, client-free, online video messaging platform ideal for both personal and business communications. Eyejot offers everyone the ability to create and receive video messages in a self-contained, spam-free environment. With nothing to install, you can start using Eyejot immediately with any browser, on any platform. It even features built-in support for iTunes™ (and iPods™), mobile devices and social networks.

Joining Eyejot takes just moments and there are three account levels to choose from: free, PRO and PRO Plus. The best way to learn what Eyejot can do and how well it works is to try it yourself.

Eyejot for mobile devices

Eyejot is now available on Apple’s iOS platform and is supported on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. It also works on iPod Touch and iPads equipped with cameras. Learn more about Eyejot Mobile here. Try our web-based simulator to see some of the applications in action.

http://corp.eyejot.com/?page_id=15

Lit2Go: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

Enjoy!

Beverly

Celebrating 53 Followers!

Wow, I just logged in and realized I already have 53 amazing followers on this blog.  I would like to celebrate this milestone by setting up a linky party sometime next week.  

Question:  What type of lessons or activities would you like to see other educators or therapists link up?  Let me know...  :)

Beverly

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

A Freebie for You

Hi!



Here's an activity I created targeting multi-syllabic words.  Hope it is useful....


CLICK HERE



Clip art by: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:pink+cat+studios

Have a great summer,

Beverly

Research on Syllabication

Research Behind the Common Syllable Frequency...

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Multi-Syllabic Words

Hello Again,

It's been a while.  The year is coming to an end and at this time of year, things get very busy.  I just wanted to let you all know, that I will be posting over the summer. However, it will not be as frequent.  I'll be working on some activities and searching for more resources.  When I find interesting tidbits, I'll surely pass it on to you folks.  Also, if I finish a project over the summer, I'll post a link with a description.

This year and for a good portion of the next school year, I will be working with my groups on recognizing and articulating multi-syllabic words. This is very challenging for my students because of their language and learning based disabilities. Today, I want to share with all of you a website that I found to be very helpful to generate ideas for developing lessons that focus on this topic. The Florida Center for Reading Research is one resource that in my opinion is excellent!  If you are looking for ways to teach vocabulary, like multi-syllabic words, take a look at this site.  It has lesson plans, activities and games that help students to acquire reading and comprehension skills.  At the same time, it helps educators  and parents by breaking down reading into fun lessons by grade, by sharing research based techniques and by sharing great ideas. I hope you find it helpful.

Here is the web address for The Florida Center for Reading Research:
http://www.fcrr.org

If you want access to the multi-syllabic lesson from The Florida Center for Reading Research, click on the link.        

MULTISYLLABIC-WORD-GAMES

I hope you all have a fun and safe summer!  Make sure to drop by and read my posts over the summer. One is a review of a beautiful book one of my friends has written-I don't want you to miss out on that one, especially if you are looking to read multi-cultural books to your students or your children!

I hope you all have a fun and safe summer!

Beverly

Prayers Requests

Please pray for those affected by the tornadoes near Oklahoma City this afternoon!

Survey of Language Skills

Collecting Language Data

Hi,

I took some time to create a 'live survey form' on google docs.  I use this format to send to my students' teachers so I can compile data and get an overall sense of how my students are doing in their classroom setting.  I usually work with my kiddos in a small group setting and sometimes I need a different perspective of how they are generalizing skills.  As a result I have a more complete picture of their performance during small group and larger group settings.  

Use the 'live form' to send to your respondents and make sure to make it your own by copying to your own files.  Request for editing access and you can easily edit and add information as needed.  

Click on the link below for access to this survey.

SURVEY OF LANGUAGE SKILLS 

Hope you can use this!

Beverly

Grandma's Kitchen

A Writing and Description Activity

Who doesn't love grandma's kitchen?  Imagine all the warmth you felt as you were growing up, savoring grandma's meals and basking in the sweet aroma of her kitchen.  As I recall my childhood, I can still picture my grandmother cooking up some amazing meals and telling me step by step how I could prepare it for my own family one day. 

As I was reflecting on those memories, I thought about how I can incorporate those associations to an activity for my students. Why do I always go back to my students and their learning?  :)  Anyway,  if I had such fond memories of her kitchen, I was sure my students also had similar experiences.  It could be loads of fun writing and speaking about a creative grandma story.

What I generated was an activity incorporating writing and verbal skills so your kiddos can create an original story about "Grandma's Kitchen".  I scaffolded the writing from simple to more challenging tasks.  In the end, students learn to 'break down' the writing process into manageable steps and also learn various transitional words to make their piece flow. 

Click on the link below to my TpT store for this product:

GRANDMA'S KITCHEN

Click on the link below for a freebie:

CHARACTER CHART AND STORY MAP


Enjoy,

Beverly

Happy Mother's Day

A Happy Mother's Day to You!

Wishing you all the happiest of days!

Enjoy,

Beverly

Two Amazing Books to Teach Character, Vocabulary and Comprehension

Hello All,


I hope you were able to take advantage of all the links posted from all creative and talented teachers that contributed to my first "link party"! Thank you for sharing your work with us!  In the near future, I will host another "link party".  Next time it will be a different theme.

These past few weeks, I've been focusing on Character Education lessons.  Now since I work with special needs and language impaired children my character lessons target vocabulary and comprehension skills.  Last week, I made activities based on the book, My Friend and I by Lisa Jahn-Clough.  This week my lesson began with another book by the same author, Alicia Has a Bad Day.

I love these two books, as I was able to make interesting and motivating activities to go along with the book.   I was very pleased because I read to books out loud for my kiddos and it kept their attention.  The simple short sentences coupled with the vivid illustrations, captivated my students and inspired me to create fun lessons.

This book helped my students with their social skills

Besides comprehension and vocabulary, my students were able to practice social skills.  They gave each other compliments and stated why they appreciate each other.

The illustrations captured my students' attention

If you will like the activity I produced for my students, CLICK HERE.

Also, I constructed other activities for the book, Alicia Has a Bad Day.  

These activities are available at my TpT store.  CLICK HERE

Keep visiting for more opportunities to "link up", freebies and giveaways.

Have fun,

Beverly

Freebie Language and Vocabulary Linky Party!

Hi,

Would love if you're able to link up your free language and vocabulary products.  I'd like my followers and homeschool parents to have quality resources they can use with their kiddos!

I hope I did this correctly!  It's my first time throwing a linky party.  :)

Happy Linking!

Beverly

Emotion Commotion

Fun Activities to Promote Emotional Intelligence and Vocabulary

Hi Everyone!

I've been out for a little while-not too long.  Sometimes inspiration doesn't come so easily, but today that spark began to ignite again. If you have students who are struggling with regulating their emotions or verbalizing what they feel, I just may have an activity that can help your kiddos gain the words needed to articulate their feelings more appropriately.  With this activity you will also be addressing other goals. Such as understanding prefix, suffixes, understanding synonyms/antonyms and manipulating parts of words to create new words.  There are also a few more surprises that aligns with a few ELA Common Core Standards nicely.


This activity is meant for students in 3-4th grades.  Click on the link to access the packet.  I hope it is useful for you.  Let me know how it works out in your classroom or small groups.

Click Here for Fun Activities to Promote Emotional Intelligence and Vocabulary

It's Free!!!!
lary

Enjoy!


Beverly

Character Education Freebie

Looking for activities to reinforce your character education lesson?  Try these quick and easy printables that focus on respect.


I created these printable activities and I hope your students enjoy it!


Click for Character Ed freebie here

*Note:  This is the answer key for the unscrambling words activity....

1. friendly

2. caring

3. loyalty

4. patient

5. integrity

Describe It!

Promote oral language development and writing for your students with these fun activities.

This packet is aligned to these Common Core Standards:

Aligned Common Core Standards
Speaking and Listening
First and Second Grade
First Grade Speaking and Listening Standards:
•SL.1.4. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
•SL.1.6. Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.
Second Grade Speaking and Listening Standards:
•SL.2.4. Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
•SL.2.5. Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
•SL.2.6. Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification
*Speech and Language Pathologist may align goals to these specific Common Core standards

This set includes:

How to describe (explanation of describing skills)
What's in the Mystery Bag? (Game)
What's in the Mystery Bag? (Writing Activity)
Sorting Descriptive Words by color, shape, size, smell, sound and texture
7 Graphic Organizers
What Am I? (Guessing Game by Description)
Tell Me About It! (Game of Details)
Recall and Describe (Game with cards)
Yes/No card tasks
2 Descriptive Word Sort Acitivities
Descriptive/Expressive Language Rubric for Assessment

Go directly to my TpT store

Hope it is useful!

Beverly

Spring Forward with a Freebie

Spring Break is Here

Spring break has begun for me, so I'd like to celebrate by offering you a free fun game.  If you're looking for a way to reinforce identification of consonants, and word families, then this freebie is for you.  

With this game, your students combine consonants with a word family to create words.  Write the words the students make on a chart and have them make sentences to focus on expressive language.

Get Your Consonant and Word Family Game Here

Enjoy!

Beverly

Fun With Vocabulary

Vocabulary Word Sort

Develop your students' higher order thinking skills by using word sorts with your small groups.  A vocabulary word sort is assembled into categories and students place each word with its association or common features. The students also have an opportunity to tell why the word belongs there.

Take a look at some vocabulary word sort activities I created.  Print it out and use it with your students.

VOCABULARY WORD SORT

Enjoy!

Beverly

Building Oral Language

Building Oral Language

  Building oral language is a central component with developing reading and writing skills in children.  Research in this area has indicated that there is a strong correlation with oral language, reading, writing and also thinking.

  Let’s take a look at four areas that make up oral language and a very simple description for each:

·         Phonological Development:   This includes identifying, locating and manipulating sounds.  The structure of sounds include: syllables, onsets and rimes and phonemes.

·         Semantics:  The meaning or relationship of meanings of a sign/symbol or words.

·         Syntax:  Function and grammar of language/words.

·         Pragmatics:  The social language that involves learning rules of acceptable behavior and interaction with others.

 

Reading, writing and thinking require all four areas.  Therefore, the development of oral language skills is crucial to work on during all grade levels.

Activities that enhance oral language development

During the early school years there are many activities that can promote oral language.  These are just a few of many.

·         Songs

·         Games

·         Dramatization of Poetry

·         Show and Tell

·         Riddles and Jokes

To get you started with developing oral language skills in children, click on the link and grab a free game.  It’s useful and loads of fun!

TELL ME ABOUT IT!

Stay tuned for a new unit on oral language that I will be adding to my TpT store.  It'll be out by the end of the week!

 

Enjoy,

 

 

Beverly

 



Spring Blessings Giveaway at Heather's Heart

Click Here to enter the giveaway

I Have, Who Has?

Hi,

I was going to post this on Friday, but for the next couple of days, I'll be quite a busy bee.  So I'll share this today.

I created "I have, who has" cards with first grade sight words and a spring theme.  Your students can practice saying a sentence, asking a question, waiting their turn and practice identifying and reading sight words all at the same time.  Just cut out the cards, give it out to your students and have a great time playing this game.

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE GAME

I hope you have fun with these!

Beverly

Listening is Fundamental

Hi All,

     It's been a little while since my last post.  It gets really busy during this time of year for me.  For this post I'd like to focus on listening skills.

      Developing listening skills in early childhood is very important.  Listening is a skill needed to acquire language and reading skills.  For some children, listening becomes a bit challenging when they enter school.  Think about your early years in school.  How many directions did your teacher give throughout the day?

       Listening is vital to help with gaining new information and also improving interpersonal relationships with others.  To help your child with increasing listening skills you can do very simple tasks with them.

1. Play a directions game- Hide some toys around the house and describe where the toys are located. Make sure to tell your child to "Listen Carefully",

2.  Read rhymes to your child.  Ask your child to say a word that rhymes with another.

3.  Make noise-  Tell your child to close their eyes.  Pick up objects with familiar sounds and make the sound with the object.  Have your child guess the object that corresponds with the child.

Click here for a free listening activity


Click here for a listening activity at my TpT store

      Listening is a fundamental skill that lasts for a lifetime.

Have fun learning,

Beverly



     

Express Yourself!

Increasing Conversational Skills

Hi,

I just finished working on a project which I am offering at my TpT store.  I've been thinking about various ways to improve my students' conversational skills, so I developed this activity/game, that will help them to do just that.

With this activity you can incorporate a few of the speaking and listening common core standards.

Common Core Standards Addressed:

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1b
Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1c
Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, 

• and link their comments to the remarks of others.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1d
Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.

How to use this activity:

Recommended for a small group, 2-4 students.

Establish rules for having a conversation (included in packet)

Cut out and laminate cards.  Sort cards into categories (personal/school questions, entertainment questions, food questions, random questions)

Teacher/SLP chooses a category and chooses a student who will answer a question from that specific pile.(personal/school questions, entertainment questions...)  Other student(s) should write questions or comments and ask the question or make the comment written.  Students may use terms provided in this packet that is included  (on iPods).  It can be taped on the working table or wall as a visual cue.

Another student answers a question from one of the categories and the same procedure is followed.  

There are ten questions for each category.

Student Self-Evaluation (My Conversation Inventory) and a Teacher/SLP rubric are included.

Students are provided with phrases to generate comments

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I hope you find it useful!

Beverly