Want some easy no prep therapy ideas you can use with a variety of kids and groups? Look no further! These fun ideas are nearly material-less and most involve movement to keep our students engaged! ⬇️ 📝 Sticky Synonyms: Write words on a white board that have relatively easy synonyms. Write those synonyms on Post-It […]

Like I do with many language skills, I like initially introducing context clues explicitly, one type at a time. The 5 main types of context clues that I teach are: Definition: This clue defines the word, or tells you what it means. Synonym: This clue tells you another word that means the same thing. Antonym: […]

Visualization, part of non-verbal working memory, is an important, often overlooked skill that we can easily target within our therapy sessions. Working memory, or the ability to temporarily hold, process, and manipulate information, is critical for learning. I will chat more about other skills (like complex sentence comprehension) that rely on working memory in the […]

Have you fallen in love with my sentence sliders yet? These digital, interactive slides (available in Boom cards, Power Point, and Google Slides format) feature beautiful, real pictures with drag and drop supports to work on your students’ goals. This digital product is perfect for teletherapy, of course, but it’s also great for SLPs using […]

Why do we work on categories in speech therapy? Describing? Attributes? How do we target categories and describing in speech therapy? What are some good measurable goals to track progress? I’m glad you asked! Why We Work on Categories in Speech Therapy   There are two ways to describe how we learn vocabulary, or semantics. Fast […]

Update 2022: I released a new sentence sliders product, just for tackling spatial concepts! If you want to learn more about this new product, just for tackling these concepts, scroll down! What are spatial concepts? Spatial concepts, or spatial relationships, describe an object’s location, important concepts for speech therapy. In grammar-land, we call these words […]

Are you ready for 70 printable or digital describing pictures for speech therapy with real pictures? Check out my One Sheet Real Picture Describing for Speech Therapy packet! Enjoy no-brainer speech therapy with high quality photographs (perfect for color printing, digital materials, and teletherapy), plus helpful visuals to maximize your students’ success. Not ready to […]

Need quick therapy prefixes and suffixes worksheets and activities? Then you need my Prefix and Suffix Activities for Speech Therapy – Morphological Awareness packet, with everything you need to target affixes, root words, and help your students’ vocabulary growth! With over 200 clean, well-designed worksheets, targeting 50 prefixes and suffixes, you’ll get an entire year’s […]

If you need vocabulary activities, strategies, and ideas for speech therapy, you’ve come to the right place! Check out my: Alternatively, if you’re just in need of a quick vocabulary goal, scroll to the bottom of this post, or check out my Speech Therapy IEP Goal Bank! Vocabulary knowledge is one of the most important […]

Ready for 100 no-prep, printable vocabulary worksheets, featuring vocabulary words targeting a variety of age-appropriate, functional, academically relevant words? Check out my Upper Level Vocabulary Strategies: Worksheets + Assessment for Speech Therapy! (Or for all ages, my Vocabulary Worksheets for Speech Therapy: One Sheet, Digital, Uses Real Pictures). Working in a middle school, many of […]

I’m always on the hunt for no-prep, easy games that target a variety of skills. I feel like I come up with these games all of the time and wrote a goal to try and share more of them on the blog. All you need for this game is paper! A bonus would be a […]

There are some apps you get and immediately think, “Why didn’t I think of that?!” and Clue Catcher is one of those apps. Clue Catcher teaches your students how to use context to understand unfamiliar or difficult vocabulary words. I love the app for many reasons but the biggest one is that it actually teaches […]