Understanding complex sentences is critical for understanding everything from picture books to oral communication to classroom texts. This resource includes digital activities, a digital assessment file, and a printable version as well!
The activities target adverb clauses, relative clauses, and object complement clauses because these sentences are uniquely difficult for students with language disorders.
To increase comprehension of these sentence types, this resource supports the skill of sentence deconstruction. It challenges your students to break the sentence apart into separate pieces, understand how the pieces relate to one another, and visualize each piece together as a whole.
In this resource, there are 40 different sentence targets included. Each sentence is targeted in 4 steps:
- Read the sentence.
- Zoom in on the sentence parts. Imagine what each part means.
- Reflect on the sentence. Answer questions about it.
- Check your comprehension. Choose the correct picture (from a field of 4 real pictures) that shows all of the details and parts from the sentence. You’ll get immediate feedback about if you’re correct/incorrect including reflection questions.
This resource includes digital files (as clickable PDFs) for so you can purchase it and use it immediately with no prep or printing.
I also included an assessment version of the sentences if that format is best for you. This version includes 4 sets of 10 sentences and auto-scores to make data collection and progress monitoring even easier.
Last, the resource now also includes a printable version of the sentences and pictures in case that format works best for you.
Foundational sentence comprehension skills including vocabulary, syntax, working memory and more are all targeted using this one activity.
In addition to the three primary complex sentence targets noted above, there are a few sentences in this resource that include other complex language including reflexive pronouns, compound predicates, as well as longer, more complicated noun phrases, verb phrases, and prepositional phrases.
Note: The pictures and sentences repeat in the activities and assessment file. There are 40 unique sentences targeted and included in this resource.
To learn more about complex sentence comprehension skills (including example goals!), click here.
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Cheryl W. –
I have used the resource with my students. I love the targets and photographs that are a part of this resource. There were some errors with the parts of speech.
Eileen W. –
Great resource! Very helpful and will use often!
Melanie Coseo –
I love all of her products! I was just talking to a fellow SLP the other day that I was looking for a resource exactly like this. Thank you!
Ashley M. –
Love the thought that goes into every one of these materials to make it beneficial for my students’ growth!
Sarah J. –
I’ve only used this with one student but it was very helpful in determining that understanding complex sentences was not her primary area of difficulty.
Amy D. –
Just what I needed for an intervention group focusing on grammar & language. So many of my students don’t understand complex sentences which impacts their general understanding of curriculum and social language. This has provided many practice opportunities as well as talking about how to visualize sentences as they read/listen. I’ll be using this for many years to come!
littlespeechthings –
This is a thorough resource for targeting complex sentences with my middle schoolers.
Katelyn O. –
I loved this resource and how easy it was to use with my students. This no-print resource is so nice for both teletherapy and my in person sessions. I love how it breaks the sentences down using the WH question prompting. I have not found another sentence comprehension resource that works on complex sentences!
Carolyn E. –
I love this resource and the time and research that has been put into creating it! My speech/language students at school do well having a hard copy to interact with, so I’m glad I could print each page from the pdf. I put them into a clear sheet protector, and organized the four specific pages for each separate sentence-picture task and put them together with a mini binder ring. That way I have a quick grab-and-go activity, and I can use dry erase markers to draw the students’ attention to different parts of the sentence. I love that each sentence task follows the same format, which helps with teaching and practice. I also love that this task can be used for receptive and expressive language skills, which works well when targeting mixed groups.
Thank you!
Arlene L. –
My students loved this activity. They listened to the sentence and chose a corresponding picture. We used it as a group activity where everyone got to choose a picture that matched what they were thinking and then we voted. This resource was well organized, required no prep and was easy to use! Thanks so much.
Colleen T. –
I’ve been using this resource on the promethean board with my speech groups. They’ve been enjoying breaking apart the components of each sentence to best understand it. Picking a photo to best represent it is fun too. All Speechy Musings materials are so easy to use yet effective. Thanks for another great resource!
LaCoach.SLP –
This is an excellent resource for older elementary students that are refining their language skills. You can target many morphosyntactic goals (receptively and expressively) using the same material. Great for mixed groups!
Rebecca Ansen –
This is a wonderful resource for targeting complex sentences!
Ashli G. –
This is an amazing resource that really breaks complex sentences down for students!
Jessica N. –
What a great resource. Easy to implement with students. Thank you!
Danielle M. –
Your products are nothing short of amazing! I literally just looked for something similar and wasn’t satisfied, and was so thrilled when I was notified of this release. Thank you!
Tammy M. –
I love all of Speech Musing products that I have purchased so far and this one did not disappoint!! It is well organized and I was so glad it is easy to use and with no prep! Thanks so much for all your hard work!!
JoAnne B. –
I always look forward to Speech Musings’ new releases and this one did not disappoint! Very thorough. I appreciate the included research information as well as the assessment.
Joeleen A. –
Wow… I keep saying with each new resource from Speechy Musings that this is the resource I needed… but this one really is it! It covers so many things from vocabulary in context, grammar, inferring, syntax and more. It is a hit as I only have half an hour with my learners and we can really dig deep with this. Thank you!!!
Elissa Kaufman –
I have been able to use with many students on my caseload. Thank you!
Rachel W. –
Great resource for many of my students! I love all of the visuals.
RUTH H. –
Really appreciates how this resource breaks each step down. My students enjoy drawing/sharing their visualizations with the group and then checking to see how close they were with the provided visuals.
Brooke R. –
Guiding the students through visualizing the sentence and matching it to a picture was amazing! It really helps them see the importance of attending to phrasing in sentences.
Stacey D. –
Another great resource from this shop! So versatile and worth every penny!
Stephanie C –
I am trying to build my repertoire of complex sentence materials. This fit the bill. Thank you. Great for establishing baselines and also working with students.
Mackenzie Saenz –
Great resource! Easy to adapt for a variety of goals/activities-thank you!
Maureen M. –
My students loved using this resource. It is easy for them to follow along and see their success!
Margaret M. –
This is a versatile product that I use in telepractice and in person teaching, paper and pencil and on a smart board. The students love the layout and are always engaged. It has become a staple in my weekly sessions.
Lauren K. –
Thankful to have this! My students are engaged when using this resource.
Shireen G. –
Really love all her resources! Super functional and no prep!
Alicea B. –
A really great resource that is easy to use with minimal preparation. Helpful for students with syntax and semantics problems.
Anna L. –
What a great resource for teaching higher-level language skills. Wonderful scaffolding, too. This is a staple resource for me and my upper grade students with language delays/disorders.
The Language Lighthouse –
I like this resource a lot. I own many of Speechy Musings resources so I had to give this one a shot! I thought it would be great for my students who struggled with the Sentence Comprehension subtest of the CELF-5. Ive used it so far with special ed 2nd graders during speech. I like the assessment portion to figure out exactly where they are having the most difficulty. Not going to lie, I wish that it was a little bit more challenging… there werent as many slides to go over with them as I thought there would be (like I wish there were pictures that were more similar that makes them think/look a little bit more… I felt like the pictures for the most part had pretty obvious differences). I’ll probably end up using it with my 1st grade special ed students the most. But I do love the idea of the resource as it really does go over a lot of complex language.
Iliana R. –
ANOTHER GREAT RESOURCE BY SPEECHY MUSINGS!!! I love that it has real life images as I find it easier for the students to relate/connect. I also love that it comes with an assessment portion
ANGIE M. –
I love all of your materials. I like how this resource breaks down sentences to increase understanding as well as adding the visuals.
Lindsey Hill –
I have been looking for a resource like this to target complex sentence language. I really like the way that it is broken down and allows me to see what specific subskills are weak in my students. I was surprised by a few of my students’ strengths and weaknesses. On top of that, this is so easy to use and very well designed. I love the interactive PDF format. The kids really liked it.
Marlowes Loft –
If you’re considering this but aren’t sure I very much believe you need it. It’s excellent and clear.
Carolyn B. –
The assessment component is really helpful – I have used as a probe for most of my students so far. Speechy Musings always has great stuff
Christine H. –
This resource has the just right visual supports and cues to help students understand and remember how to create complex sentences on their own. I have seen a lot of success with my students using this resource.
Lindsay C. –
Another fantastic resource! It’s systematic and engaging. The fonts and visuals are clean and easy to read. My students know exactly what they’re working on and what is expected of them. I’ve always struggled with coming up with activities to target comprehension of sentence structure – this is a game changer for me. Thank you!
Lori B. –
All of your resources are engaging and easy to use!
Sheri S. –
Thank you! I love the help breaking down different parts of the sentence- it has helped me work on parts of speech with a few students.
Reni H. –
I’ve used this for in-person and distance learning. Frankly, I’m not sure how I worked on comprehending complex sentences before. The build in strategies cards on their own are the best! My students comment on how help it is!
Mary V. –
This is the one of my go to resources for my older students in speech. It is a very engaging way to teach the concepts.
Jennifer P. –
Wonderful and engaging resource! Students enjoyed this!
Cinnamon T. –
Wow! Game Changer! I used this in conjunction with the Systematic Sentence Combining resources and it was awesome! My students were engaged and ready to use this resource! Thank you!!
Kim K. –
This is such an awesome resource! I hope there’s an expansion pack at some point because I use it all the time!
Amy B. –
I love that this resource is research-based, scaffold the students, has clear visuals, and works on both receptive and expressive skills.
Jennifer Pearlman –
Such a great resource and my students enjoy this a lot.
Ellen H. –
Very nicely presented materials. My students were enthusiastic about using this resource.
Julia H. –
Great resource. It is so useful for so many groups
Kelly F. –
This was a great introduction to this skill for my students. I love the assessment, organization and real pictures.
Sandy P. –
I loved the photos! One of the students commented that he guessed the pictures wouldn’t look like him and the next slide had a very diverse group of photos. He was so happy!
Barbara B. –
This resource is great for helping my students analyze complex sentences for meaning. My students like the pictures and stay engaged throughout the sessions.
Mary T. –
My students loved using this resource. Very organized approach.
Katelyn D. –
I just started using this product with my students and they are loving it so far!
Caitlin K. –
I love every resource I purchase from Speechy Musings. I love how well everything is thought out. This resource has been perfect for helping me to target complex sentence comprehension!
Speech Goober –
Another incredible resource from Speechy Musings! I have used this primarily with my distance learning students. I love that it includes an assessment/screening tool. I’ve displayed the images via screen share and used my iPad to take data using the included record forms, which has worked perfectly. I also wanted to highlight how much detail and information is included in the background and directions for use file! There’s so much great info on why and how to use this resource.
Kimberly R. –
My students enjoyed this resource and building on it with other activities I added to modify it to fit their needs.
Corinna W. –
So helpful. The annotation skill is so important for my students. This resource is very throughout and systematic. I really enjoy using it.
Felicia L. –
I recently started using this product and I LOVE it! My students feel like they are playing a game while working on their comprehension and visualization skills!
Erin Proffit –
This product has great visuals and great examples for scaffolding.
Margo Simmons –
I’m always impressed with Speechy Musings products! This is great for my 3rd-5th grade students working on language. I love how this product breaks down the sentence so each part and be discussed and comprehended by students.
Nicole Bacigalupo –
This resource provides a wonder visual for my students to see sentence structure and visualize what the sentence is about.
Alexandria V. –
I have been waiting for this resource!! It is everything I imagined. I love using the screener during my evaluations!
Arika H. –
I used this resource with my outpatients. One of which is language delayed and the other is ESL. Great for use on the iPad!
Kaitlin A. –
Very comprehensive and engaging for my students. I love the scaffolding aspect of the resource and is easy to just grab and go due to it being digital.
Arianne Robichaux –
My students love this resource!!! Very engaging and hands-on. I love how it breaks down steps to teach.
Jade S. –
Always love your resources! Love to use this to support student comprehension. Also love that it is a digital resource.
Lara K. –
Another quality product by Shannon! I’m a school SLP and work one day a week with high school. Her products break higher level language down and teaches students the skills with scaffolding. The time that goes into this resource has not gone unnoticed!
HyeIn K. –
Great resource for students! I can see this resource being useful for upper elementary and 6th grade. It was a little too easy for my 7/8th grade students though. It does a good job of reviewing understanding sentences and the different parts of sentences so that was great!
Holly F. –
My 5th and 6th grade students found this resource to be super engaging!
Speechaholic SLP –
Great product for working on higher level sentence comprehension. Love the included assessment – perfect for baselining goals and progress monitoring.
Meghan S. –
This was a great resource for my language student’s. Thank you!
Kristin R. –
I love this resource. So great for older kids and for groups. Thank you!
Cheridan N. –
This is a great resource! My students enjoy it so much that they think they are playing a game.
Corynn H. –
Always quality products! Straight foward and helpful for so many of my middle school students. Thank you!
Sarah H. –
I am never disappointed when buying a Speechie Musings resource!
Jessica P. –
The best product I have used for understanding complex sentences. Love the assessment tool. So easy to use on my iPad for in person or teletherapy sessions.
Nicole G. –
This was a great no prep resource to use with my students to help them with understanding complex sentences. The quiz/assessment activities were great for quickly gathering baseline data
Emily S. –
This is such a great resource for building expressive language! thank you
Angela C. –
Another amazing resource by Speechy Musings! I have used both in-person and for teletherapy. It is very comprehensive and love the built in cues.
Rosy Dialogue –
Great resource, loved it. It was a good resource to have.
Christa J. –
This product is great for my upper elementary kiddos who are still demonstrating difficulty with comprehension. The directions and visuals help to reinforce difficult concepts for my students!
Kaitlin C. –
I love this! It keeps my students engaged and I feel like we’re making steady progress towards their goals. I also love that it is digital, so I can take it anywhere.
Kayla Megan –
Wonderful resource to target sentence comprehension! Tons of practice within 1 resource.
Fui Jinn L. –
Love this! Helps me teach comprehension skills for complex sentences! Students also get many opportunities for practice!
Rebecca H. –
This is such a great therapy tool, but the assessment is the most helpful part for me!!
Amanda H. –
I love everything about this resource. It works great with Adobe. I love the research included and the easy, step by step process to implement. I highly recommend!
Julia D. –
So many of them need this direct support. Thank you!
Erin B. –
I have been looking for a resource to target sentence comprehension. I love how there’s an assessment included and tips for how to guide students through the process of understanding the different components of complex sentences
Speech T. –
Great product, my students loved it, thank you for sharing!
Amy Rohlfer –
Love these to work with my kiddos who struggle to understand complex sentences. A great way to work on comprehension.
SLP Madness –
This is just what I needed for a specific student’s needs. Thanks!
Michelle R. –
I love the 4 step process to really break down the sentence in order to help my students study it, use their memory strategies. Also, the digital option is so nice. I was able to use it almost immediately!
River City Speech –
Nice complement to the sentence combining unit! I like how each sentence is broken down into its parts to help with comprehension.
Tracey N. –
This resource has made my job so much easier. Love it.
Coral S. –
I enjoyed this resource and my students were engaged. I wish it was easier to anotate.
Nicole H. –
This is an extremely comprehensive resource and I have been LOVING it for my older kiddos who really struggle with comprehension – despite being fairly good readers! Thank you!
LynnAnne Dale –
This was a great resource for higher-level language.
Lindsay L. –
thank you for creating this product, it has been really helpful!
Ashley T. –
I like having this resource in my toolbox! It is helpful when assessing students and trying to figure out where to start. I like to pair it with Speechy Musings’ Systematic Sentence Combining Packet once I identify areas of need.
Erin W. –
I love Speechy Musings products. They are comprehensive and well thought-out. I really appreciate that the option for printing out the activity was added. This makes it easier to use this product in groups. I have used this product as intended for comprehension but also had students describe the pictures. Great bang for the buck!
Nicola B. –
This is a really well thought out resource for students with comprehension difficulties.
Allison S. –
This resource is great for progress monitoring and checking to ensure my students are understanding the complex sentences structures we’ve targeted.
Jill E. –
Great to have visuals to pair with the complex sentences.
Julie B. –
This has been such a good resource to help my students learn strategies to understand the meaning of a complex sentence. I absolutely love it!
Mrs G SLP –
The scaffolding of this resource is fantastic! Having an assessment is so helpful for IEP baseline and progress monitoring. This has helped me feel more confident teaching my students these types of sentences.
AMY C. –
Perfect for students working at the sentence level!
Stephanie G. –
I love that you use real photos. I love that you include the assessment. I love that it’s in both a digital or print format. So helpful for my students. Thank you!
Emily N. –
Amazing visual resource! Students have loved the visual supports and it’s so engaging
Karen P. –
Really like how this product helps break down complex sentence structures!
Nicole D. –
I have enjoyed using this as a way of practicing the receptive knowledge of complex sentences in order to know which ones to practice more expressively.
Addie T. –
This resource is great! The pictures are super helpful and there are enough “tricky” ones that can trip students up, but great ways to help them figure out where they went wrong.
Kaarin E. –
It’s as if Speechy Musings’ has read my mind, knowing exactly what resources my older students needed! This is the most thorough resource for teaching complex and compound sentences out there.
Joyce M. –
Engaging and targets understanding of complex sentences. Benefits visual learners very well.
Jamie S. –
Very thorough material, I’ve been looking for ideas to work on comprehension. i think visualization is such a helpful strategy, and this really breaks down the skill!
Monica Blair R. –
I have numerous resources for creating complex sentences and this is my first purchase for comprehension. This was a time consuming area to create my own resources and I’ve appreciated this well prepared resource.
Roxanne L. –
I work remotely with a high school population. This product an excellent addition to my toolkit. I use it to guage understanding of complex sentences and if there are patterns in grammar elements where the client may stop listening. It’s nice for IEP time to be able to examine sentence comprehension that isn’t too simple for older populations. Speechy Musings materials are always top notch. Love it!
Jessica S. –
I loved this resource! It’s exactly what I needed to target understanding these higher level sentence structures
Annette P. –
This is such a great concept and working so well for those who need to jump from the simpler sentences to more detailed information.
Stephanie M. –
An excellent and extremely comprehensive resource!
Ereeni Roulakis –
This resource really makes my students think carefully on their own and I love that!
Tara M. –
I love how it breaks down comprehending complex sentences. Love the strategies and how easy it is to use!
Creative Communication Corner –
This is such a comprehensive and well-designed product that uses great visuals, encourages visualization and annotating to break down the sentences to build comprehension. I really appreciate that it includes an informal assessment and data tracking forms.
Rosemary R. –
This is such a useful resource to help determine where students are becoming confused in longer sentences and why. It is a useful tool to use for working on visualizing. listening comprehension, and as a review prior to working on forming complex sentences.
Barbara T. –
Another great resource!! I need to get a second job to pay for my Speechy Musings addiction : ). The kids love this as it is systematic and makes a lot of sense for them as they learn these skills.
Rachael Freeman –
This is a comprehensive resource that is well though out. I like the visuals and teaching for how to understand each part of the sentences. The assessment pages are great as well for progress monitoring. I have used the assessments on an iPad successfully. I do think for teaching having a larger screen such as a smart board or paper copies could be helpful if you need to “flip” between the sentence and the comprehension questions frequently.
Jill K. –
Take my whole paycheck! Every product is so great. This one has been so helpful to use alongside teaching complex expressive sentences.
Susan M. –
I have used this with different children in an individual setting and they absolutely loved it! They were immediately intrigued by the photos and were so interested in finding out how to do the activity that they actually performed above anything they had ever shown me in class! How’s that for motivation! They actually didn’t want to stop when our time was finished, the one literally begging for ‘just one more, please!’.
Tiffany H. –
So much work and effort went into this resource. Great examples and tons of practice for students!
Emily S. –
I like having an assessment and practice combined into this resource.
melissa K. –
This is a wonderful resource. I use it with my students who are having difficulty with oral and written comprehension skills (reading comprehension).
Amy B. –
This is a great, well put together and no prep resource for my kiddos who are struggling with correct sentences and comprehension
Faith S. –
My students love that one of the steps is visualizing-they get excited to see if the picture in their brain matches one of the pictures that is presented. Thank you for such a comprehensive resource.
Speech Made Sweet –
This is the perfect resource for breaking down parts of a sentence. My students love finding the correct picture at the end!
Kristen B. –
Loved using this to help my students understand what complex sentences mean before expressing them themselves
Sara S. –
This resource is highly effective in teaching complex sentence structure to students with language impairment or learning disability. Great visuals to go with the lesson. No Prep!
Rebecca K. –
This is a great resource for my students! Thank you!
Christina C. –
Another great, ready-to-use resource! I really love Speech Musings!
Matthew G. –
This is such a great way to target so many skills in an engaging way!
Courtney W. –
Great resource! I printed the printable version and placed it in a binder when my smart board is not available. Staple for my sentence comprehension students
Emily B. –
Another great resource from one of my favorite creators! I love the engaging images, and how it helps students use a visualizing strategy when they are presented with oral sentences. And anything that can be used no-print/no-prep is a must have in my book. I’ve seen my students make a lot of progress since using this.
Caroline V. –
Seriously love this resource! The photographs are amazing.
JennySpeech –
Great visuals and able to adapt for extension activities.
Sarah B. –
I found this to be very helpful in teaching my students how to break down and understand complex sentences.
Jetzabel A. –
I don’t know why I haven’t thought to work on this skill before but it is so helpful for my students and tells me so much more about their needs than before!
Beth G. –
A very useful activity for practicing complex sentences – high quality as one expects from Speechy Musings.
Colette T. –
It is difficult to find products to work on this skill. This has been a real life-saver for therapy. Thanks!
Jill B. –
Thank you for making this resource, it’s greatly appreciated!
Lynn M. –
Very helpful resource for addressing careful listening.
STEPHANIE O. –
This was an excellent, comprehensive resource to assess my student’s knowledge of complex sentences. I also felt like it provided a clear path forward on which types of complex sentences to target based on their errors–the item analysis on the answer key is so helpful! Another great product from this seller! 🙂
Courtney W. –
Great resource to work on sentence comprehension!
Jennifer S. –
It is hard to find materials that target receptive language with complex sentences. This was just what I needed for one of my groups. The pictures that go with each target sentence are great.
Krista K. –
Great way to introduce complex sentences and help students to understand and remember the information in the sentences.
Rachel Miller –
This resource breaks down teaching complex sentence structure in a way that I’ve found difficult to do with my limited planning/prep time. Great resource!
Pamela N. –
Another high quality produce from Speechy Musings. My 5th grade students request these cards and the method used to break the sentence down into parts has helped my students gain a better understanding of the grammar.
Sweet Talk 2 Me –
This was a fun and engaging activity for my students. It is a great addition to my therapy materials. These materials can be used to cover a lot of language skills.
Amy Curley –
This resource is great for targeting specific parts of sentence comprehension. I like the visuals that go with it.
Kris Barrios –
This is an excellent resource for speech therapy. I have used it with several students, and it gives the opportunity for lots of discussion as well as answering the questions. I have returned to this store and purchased several other resources for my sessions.
Nicola S. –
Exactly what I needed. Complex sentences are a challenge for so many kids and I love how real photos are used!
Suzanne Clark –
Great product! The students really liked it and were engaged.
Natasha A. –
Pictures were engaging and my students enjoyed doing this activity. Thank you.
melissa M. –
I am using this with so many grade levels! 2nd-10th! For my elementary students with high functioning autism I use it to target WH questions and for my lower level (LD) students at the high school level I use it to target semantic relationships.
AKILA B. –
As with all of your resources this one hits the mark. Amazing!
Suzanne R. –
So convenient to have on hand for teaching this skill!!
Jill W. –
Love using this as a digital resource. The real pictures are an added bonus and I think help the kids make real-life connections. Thanks!
Brenda G. –
Helps break down the teaching of these more complex sentence types.
Amy G. –
I was in need of a good resource when targeting understanding of complex sentences. This was perfect. The visuals and layout of this resource were perfect for helping my student understand how to break down the sentence. She was able to carryover this skill to other sentences not in this resource. Highly recommend!
Sinead S. –
I just started using this product. So far, it’s engaging and easy to use. Overall, I’m happy with the product, but somewhat disappointed by the lack of variety regarding complex sentences. I typically try to incorporate AAAWWUBBIS words when teaching complex sentences. It would have been wonderful (and convenient!) for more of them to be included.
Shirin A. –
This resource has been very helpful in teaching my students to expand their sentences into more complex ones!
Ashley R –
I love this resource so much! I love how it goes into so many different ways of ensuring comprehension of more complex sentences.
Rachel H. –
My students loved this resource. Pictures are clear and engaging. Assessment very helpful.
Karen P. –
This material is just perfect for my students. They have great difficulty with complex sentences and this product gives tons of practice examples. The instructions are very clear. The only thing I would like to see is more examples of the use of ‘before’ and ‘after’ in complex sentences. My students have so much trouble with the concepts. ie ‘Before cutting her hair, she washed it’ vs ‘She washed her hair before she cut it’. That example is logical however sometimes temporal sentences require a higher level of understanding of those concepts. Still, this product will be invaluable me for my caseload next year.
Erin W. –
Easy to navigate! Wonderful resource with activities and visuals that benefited my students’ progress.
Gillian W. –
Great no print resource to work on a difficult skill! I was able to purchase and use the resource within minutes, easy to use.
Zee P. –
My students loved using this resource during small group activities.
Jen J. –
I love this resource it has made such an impact on my students.
Speech Resources Down Under –
This resource was super useful for so many of my students!
Holly K. –
This is a great resource to use with a variety of students!
Monique O. –
Great resource to provide visuals for students. Visuals helped student understand concepts easier.
Jacqueline M. –
Used these with my son and they were both engaging but yet very educational and much thought went into creating these! thank you
April C. –
I have a hard time finding quality sentence comprehension resources. Thank you!
Jessica R. –
This is a great resource to support complex sentence comprehension! The pictures are just close enough to be good distractors and I love how it systematically teaches students to break down the sentence to aid their comprehension.
Amanda Champion –
This was perfect for what I needed. Thank you for the great resource!
Beth Kennedy –
I love how thorough and clear the materials from Speech Musings always are! I know that I will never be disappointed with the materials!
Rachel P. –
This resource is incredibly user friendly and really breaks down the concept of sentence comprehension for my students. The simple design and real pictures keep my middle school students engaged.
Ashley G. –
My students loved this resource! They were very engaged during the entire session.
Laura R. –
Fantastic resource! My students love it and I’m definitely getting a lot of use out of it.
Daley Speech –
Super easy to use and engaging resource, I love it!
Jacqueline B. –
This resource has been great for teaching complex sentence comprehension to the older students on my caseload (grades 3-5).
Yena F. –
Loved the pre-post test data sheets and how on the form each question was labeled by the grammar target.
Jennifer E. –
Great resource. Students found it enjoyable and challenging. Clear instructions and easy to use.
Jane H. –
I find my students respond best to photos and your resources are always fantastic. They enjoyed the activity and also the success in completing it thanks
Kathryn W. –
great for providing instruction and practice with complex sentences.
Miss B SLP –
I love this resource! This is fantastic for teaching visualizing and understanding complex sentences.
Angela G. –
I’ve been looking for a resource like this for some time. Thank you!
Crooked River Communications –
The digital version has been a no-prep life saver with my older students with listening comprehension goals. I’m able to address challenging skills that usually have some task avoidance, since the pictures are engaging and getting to work on the iPad tends to increase engagement.
Shannon H. –
I really appreciate the organized way to address this skill. Shannon’s materials are always so visually appealing to me, and they are very clear and easy to follow for my students. Thank you for a great resource!
Karina J. –
Another great resource and targeting something I have not seen many resources for!
Jennifer K. –
Another fantastic resource! I always appreciate that Speechy Musings embeds the strategies to support the targeted skills directly into the resource.
The Jolly Poppy –
It’s a great resource for students of varying abilities. A great tool.
Brittany S. –
I love all the resources from Speechy Musing! Great for mixed groups, interesting photos, and helpful resource for comprehending complex sentences. Thank you!
Prosperity Therapy –
As always with resources from Speechy Musings, this is a well-made resource that’s easy to use in therapy!
Amanda Hart –
This resource provides excellent visuals that my students were able to follow easily.
Alyssa Jacobs –
I have used this for therapy but also as an informal evaluation tool! I think it provides great information about receptive and expressive language skills.
Lisa T. –
This is a great resource that i use with my mixed groups to target multiple goals.
All Friends Learn and Lead –
These were great to use during my centers rotations.
Norah Breindel –
I like that there is an assessment and scaffolded teaching in this material. This worked best with my students in grade 3. I appreciate that it is very systematic and provides the visual support for teaching this complex language skill.
Heather M. –
I have looked high and low for resources for sentence comprehension that target more complex sentence structure. THis is it! It is a great scaffold for teaching sentence structure using pictures. Very useful with teaching the grammar in expanding sentences.
Rachel Sudhoff –
Thank you for creating this resource. My students were able to break down the sentences in order to comprehend.
Shannon A. –
Another really great resource, useful targets and easy to prep
Taylor P. –
My students really enjoyed this and it was easy to implement!
April M. –
I used this for my students with processing difficulties to teach them listening strategies and then implement them.
Jean’s Speech –
This is incredibly helpful in working on complex sentences with students. It adds a nice piece to working with this area. I’m very happy I bought it.
Bree Geibel –
This is a great resource that I plan to use more and more to increase receptive and expressive language skills with my students who have language impairments!
Lindsay M. –
Love the visuals and the question supports to work on sentence comprehension, question response, and verbal descriptions.
Clearly Speechie –
This resource has been a great activity for my student. The visuals really help them feel confident, and then they are able to answer the questions confidently as the visuals are taken away.
Jill LaClare –
Great resource! I love the pictures. Easy prep for working on comprehension!
Marlie U. –
This product is fantastic!! He has helped my student with syntax so much!!!
ThelmaJean G. –
I love all your materials! This really has helped my students with comprehension of text!
Dayna Bell –
I was looking for something that could help me break down complex sentences for students and this was perfect!
Taylor R. –
This is great I have my students complete the paperwork sheet and display the digital version on my computer. Works great!
Jennifer O. –
Great PDF deck! I would love to see this in Boom format as well (pretty please!).
Leslie Morris –
Great resource- love all my Speechy Musings products and use them all the time!
Venus S. –
My students loved this resource! They were engaged and I found it to be very helpful during our sessions in targeting their goals. Thank you!
Chelsea Eldreth –
Great resource for working on listening comprehension of complex sentences. I appreciate the photos used vs graphics/clip art. I definitely recommend.
Julie Ane L W. –
I love how this teaches the students to break the sentence down. Sometimes they get overwhelmed by all the words in complex sentences but this is helping them see that it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Thank you!
Shazil Z. –
Speechy Musings’ products are usually top-notch and this one is no different. Highly recommended if you’re looking to teach your child complex sentence comprehension.
Aimee V. –
This resource fills a need in a niche area that is so important for student learning! This is one of the main reasons why my students struggle to understand materials in the general education curriculum and provides a clear method to target this skill.
Emily R. –
I love this resource. There is so much included and various ways to target language goals. I appreciate the scaffolding and strategies that are included.
Laura C. –
I have a student with goals for complex sentence comprehension and formulation and was having trouble finding resources to target this skill. This product is working well for him!
Lori McElveny –
Great resource to work on analyzing sentence structures to help with comprehension.
Carolyn J. –
Understanding sentences is a must-have skill, especially for EFLs who are constantly comparing or translating from their own language. This resource helps them understand sentences simply and clearly.
Thank you.
Whitney D. –
Great comprehensive resource! Students found it engaging.
Suzanne A. –
My student enjoyed using this resource. I appreciated the systematic approach to understanding sentences. Resources from this SLP are always top notch and tend to be resources that I use over and over. Thank you!
Rachel Jones –
My Students with ASD greatly benefited from the visuals!
Gail V. –
Such a wonderful resource to add for students who are working on complex sentences. A must-have in any SLP’s toolbox!
Katie Hopper –
I love targeting complex sentences with students. This is a great resource for that!
Susan F. –
This resource really helped my students understand complex sentences and they enjoyed all of the pictures.
Heather R. –
I was able to take off running with the resource! It was engaging and just what I needed! Thank you for making such quality products!!
Jennifer H. –
I have used the printable version of this resource and I love how it breaks apart the sentence and helps students learn to pay attention to the information given. I have confidence that my students will grow in the their comprehension skills after using this resource!
Anastasia Balkissoon –
Great comprehensive resource, I haven’t seen many out there targeting this skill this well.
Step Into Speech –
I just started using this with a student working on compound and complex sentences. Having a systematic way to target his goals has been so helpful for both of us!
Grad Student Resources –
I recently used this as an informal screener for complex sentences! My student loved the pictures and it was easy for me to score and follow. Absolutely recommend!
Kharyl B. –
This resource is so helpful. I like the way it breaks down the sentences and uses real-life pictures.
Lee L. –
Love this resource, I love to target increased syntax complexity and found this very useful.
Shelley H. –
Another easy to use, well researched and interesting resource – thank you! My students love using the interactive PDF.
Jen C. –
This is great for older elementary students. This is a way to support complex sentences!
Christina J. –
Great and thorough resource! Love how it’s structured!
Belinda B. –
I am really enjoying this resource. It has many applications. I am using it with 6-11 year old students in my private practice.
Ashton S. –
A go-to for complex sentences; I love the visual F04 and could easily make it F02 if a student needed more support.
jodi M. –
This is a good resource. Some of my students have difficulty reading due to reading level but that’s not a fault of the resource
Spazzy Speech –
so comprehensive, so well done – can’t say enough great things about this product and the author – all her stuff is above and beyond amazing!!
Shelby S. –
I love having a systematic approach to breaking down complex language. My students enjoy defending their answers and turn the activity into a competition.
Emily G. –
Loved using this to assess where students are at and to use for progress monitoring!
Carlee O. –
I used this daily with at least one student. It is great for conversation, but also the main focus of listening to understand. So many trials we can get to and it is just ready to go. I had it made into a spiral bound book so it is easy and quick to use. Love this, so many of my students need this practice of listening and identifying. The pictures are great and detailed too. We can often follow up with an expressive task as well.
Nikisha C. –
I use this resource with my teletherapy students who have varying language delays and learning disabilities. It was really helpful, easy to use, and a great product! I’m highly satisfied!
Katharine P. –
This resource was engaging and helpful. My students liked it.
Angela P. –
This is such a great resource to teach and practice the use of conjunctions.
Nelle H. –
I LOVE that this resource comes with an assessment tool (so easy to use on my touch screen Lenovo!) and plenty of trials to help students understand complex sentences. The visual aids lend itself to direct instruction and my students appreciated the real pictures!
Anastasia Lucich –
Goes along well with visualizing and verbalizing. Helps guide the students to look at the main details of the sentence.
Katrina G. –
This resource is well laid out and effective in teaching skills systematically! I love all of Speechy Musings resources, especially for teaching higher level skills effectively.
Mark A. –
Great resource. There is so much great content and it is worth the price!
Stacey C. –
The assessment portion is used easily for baselines and progress monitoring. The students were engaged with the material and the clear intervention and steps of visualization made the material very easy to use with a clear, specific goal area for my students with difficulties in auditory comprehension.
ANITA V. –
This is a great resource for complex sentence comprehension, as there are not very many resources available for this skill. I project it onto a whiteboard and have my students circle the parts of speech, then go to the next page to check if they identified all of the subjects and verbs correctly. Unfortunately, the answer sentences usually don’t line up with the original sentences, so the markings end up on different words.
Samantha F. –
My students love the pictures! This is a great resource and a really easy to use tool!
Esther C. –
I’ve been wanting a resource that targets receptive skills. This deconstruction activity assists in receiving complex sentences and answering WH questions. It also acts as a cognitive activity for short-term memory. I love how this resource is evidence-based.
Kathryn P. –
This resource is such a thoughtful and logical way to help kids learn how to read and understand complex sentences. I was able to build up my students towards independence as they practiced identifying the core information and finding those elements in images to re-enforce what they had read.
I was also able to add more questions to suit kids at different levels – like getting them to define words or find the conjunction word – so this resource works for so many different language goals. Its one I will pull out again and again and again!!!
Carolyn M. –
My students enjoy using this on my laptop in the therapy room with me. They also enjoy the pictures, and choosing the correct one feels like a game to them.
The Speech Chambers –
This has been fantastic for my middle school special day class caseload! It’s challenging without being inaccessible thanks in large part to the visuals
Sabrina P. –
Very helpful! I love the step-by-step comprehension instructions with a lot of visual supports.
Larissa H. –
Very useful for supporting both language goals and developing vocabulary with children who are EAL. Thank you!
Brianne S. –
Great resource to use with my high school speech students! Love it!
Nikole S. –
Sentence comprehension is often overlooked. This resource does a fantastic job targeting this.
Emily B. –
This resource is so helpful for breaking down higher-level language concepts for my students who are struggling readers. I feel like I’m having a more direct impact on increasing their reading skills using this resource. Thank you for always creating resources that are research-based with great attention to detail!
Miranda H. –
This resource is so helpful! I love that there are options for both data collection and treatment included, and for presenting the materials in hard copy or digitally. Thanks!
stephanie T. –
Easy to use, ready to go resource! I like how the overall skill was visually broken down and easy to understand by my students. They enjoyed the picture responses and were able to increase independence with this support.
Lauren W. –
I love how this is scaffolded and organized. It is so well designed to teach a thought process as opposed to just answering questions about pictures and either getting them right or wrong. I really appreciate how your resources ALWAYS have racial diversity. They are clearly very well thought out. Thank you, Shannon!
Kacie R. –
I love that the product has an assessment portion attached in addition to the teaching portion.
Sara K. –
I work at a middle and high school. I use these to review syntax with my students and really love this!
Cara K. –
Had to buy more licenses due to other SLPs wanting it after seeing it!
Stephanie R. –
LOVE LOVE LOVE this complex sentence comprehension packet. I love the way each picture is broken down and this strategy is applied to each picture. Great way to target comprehension of complex sentences.
The Mobile SLP –
Great activity, as always, from Speechy Musings! This is a skill I’ve never really considered targeting specifically because I didn’t have any resources to use for explicit instruction. This resource has opened my eyes to how beneficial targeting this skill is for students with receptive language difficulties.
Marianna F. –
This is a great resource for working on receptive language skills with students. It breaks down the skills in an easily digestible way. I also use it for progress monitoring. No prep is a bonus too 🙂
Kelly L. –
This is a wonderful activity for my students who have been struggling with sentence comprehension. I love the way each sentence is broken down, and how questions are asked about each sentence. A great resource for my students who had difficulty with the sentence comprehension subtest of the CELF-5.
Sadie H. –
I love all of the Speechy Musings resources. They are so well thought out and evidence based. I loved the break down of the steps to ensure comprehension. This resource benefits so many of my students!
Elizabeth D. –
My students seem to enjoy this resources. I love incorporating visualizing, as this is one of their goals. As a user, I wish there was a quick guide as to the type of sentence. It would make sentence selection more efficient when you are running short on time. I also really like the assessment. I haven’t been able to use the digital version on my clear touch, but that is more of a systems things. Thank you.
Emily F. –
I haven’t found anything else quite like this. My students benefitted from the metalinguistic opportunities embedded throughout.
Lauren Rogers –
This resource is comprehension and easy to use however, it was more difficult for my students then I thought it would be.
Tegan S. –
Excellent resource for teaching sentence comprehension! Great scaffolds and visuals.
Katherine L. –
This is a great resource for so many of my students–you know, the ones where you use vocabulary they know in novel sentences, and they don’t understand. The vocabulary in the resource is mainly Tier 1, so we are truly teaching comprehension of different types of complex sentences when using this resource. The assessment was a great screener to add to triennial assessment of a student who is struggling with comprehension but doesn’t have vocabulary difficulties.
Jennifer K. –
Many of my students have difficulty with comprehending complex sentences. I like that I can print this or use it digitally and there is an assessment too! For the most part, my students are engaged while using this activity. Thank you!
Lisa V. –
This is a great resource. It is very comprehensive and made planning lessons much easier for me.
Krista K. –
Great, no-prep resource. Good pictures and a nice way to target complex sentences. Thanks!
Naturally Speaking Speech Therapy LLC –
I love the simplicity of this material and the visuals are very engaging!
MARY K C. –
I used this in speech therapy with a student who scored low on the CELF Sentence Comprehension subtest. This product was perfect for practicing comprehension.
WEI JUEN L. –
great resource to improve reading comprehension for students
Ramsey Speech –
This was great for using with clients with goals around using complex sentences and subordinating conjunctions. I love using it for sentence deconstruction activities. Thank you!
The Communication Station –
Love the real photos in this unit! A great way for students to work on sentence comprehension – and for therapists to identify gaps in certain components of syntax that are most challenging for their students.
Rambling SLP –
This is loaded with visuals and supportive instructional strategies.
Sherry Biddle –
I find complex sentences so hard to teach so really appreciate this well-crafted therapy tool. I use it frequently with my upper elementary students.
Leanne S. –
This was a fantastic resource for helping to both evaluate and treat receptive language at the more complex level.
Aubree G. –
A great resource to break down these sentences in a way that makes them easy for students to understand.
Jeannine E. –
Excellent visuals created for this resource. It was exactly what I was looking for.
JENNIFER S. –
A nicely put together resource. I appreciate the real pictures and the digital presentation for working on understanding complex sentences.
Patricia F. –
This was helpful to use with my students as the visuals were organized and clear to understand. They were able to pick up and learn the concept quickly.
Claire C. –
I like that it targets comprehension instead of just production
Morgan T. –
Great resource for my older students! Great for working on attending to grammar and understanding how grammatical changes can alter meaning.
Jessica B. –
Great resource! Just wish it was a Boom Card. Love the complex directions, and I really think this will help my students.
Katie S. –
My students benefit from the systematic approach to sentence comprehension. The pictures are engaging and developmentally appropriate for a variety of ages!
Alisa G. –
The viusals were a great resource to have! It was easy to flip through
Ilanit A. –
I was missing a resource for addressing comprehension of complex sentences and this is it! It is well organized and has many opportunities for practice.
Speech and Language Cousins –
I had the expansion pack first and knew I needed some more! This resource is great!
Christina T. –
This is a perfect resource for my students working on listening/reading comprehension skills, as well as students working on expanding expressive language skills. Great visuals, easy to use as well as adapt for different needs. Thanks!
Katerina K. –
My students absolutely loved this resource! It’s incredibly well-organized, making it easy to navigate and find exactly what you need. The colorful design and engaging content really capture students’ attention and make learning about sentence comprehension fun. I highly recommend it.
Kelly G. –
I like this resource because it offers some good strategies to better understand complex sentences
Ashley S. –
Great resource. Organized well and was able to use with a variety of student populations.
Rhonda G. –
Pictures and stories were relatable for my students.
Christine S. –
Great resource!
Nahri L. –
This resource is great for working on deconstructing sentences for students who diffculty comprehending complex sentences. It is very structured and provides plenty of opportunities for practice.
Abigail D. –
Another great resource from Speechy Musings! This resource makes more a simple, no prep activity to use with my older language students!
Shauna C. –
I love using this resource with with RTI kiddos. It helps their basic understanding of sentence structure and they have been able to apply the skills learned within more complex texts.
Mister R Speech Room –
I love love love this resource. I enjoyed how the pictures were so vibrant and realistic. It made targeting complex sentences much more easier.
Anne S. –
I love how step by step and comprehensive it is, thank you!!
The Speech Banana –
My students loved this resource. It was informative, engaging, and perfect for their level!
Megan C. –
I use this as a warm-up for my middle school/high school students. It is a great ‘check for understanding’ and supports their syntax/ vocab/parts of speech goals.
Joan G. –
Understanding complex sentences is difficult skill to teach. Many materials are too simple and don’t offer enough of a challenge because the pictures are too obvious. These materials were great because the lessons broke down the parts of the sentences, and students had to attend to the details in order to choose the correct picture. I also like that the pictures are real photos – a nice change from clipart.
Kayla B. –
Students really enjoyed this material especially with the added pictures! Will be using again this year.
Ellie Phillips –
This was an amazing resource to use with my 5th graders with reading and language comprehension difficulties.
Allison S. –
I love how this resource is set-up. The way it is physically set-up is how I would have done it!
Hayley G the SLP –
This has been a fun and useful activity with my students. Thanks!
Navigating is a SNAP –
LOVE your products! Love the organization, visuals, and ease of use. Thanks so much!
Jennifer A. –
This has been a great activity to help my students transition from simple sentences to more complex ones. It helps them practice both fluency and comprehension at a deeper level.
Shannon B. –
I use this resource often. This helped me tease out what types of comprehension difficulties were holding back certain students! I love that there are pictures and a color coded break down for the different parts of the sentences. Great resource!
Danielle M. –
This is a helpful resource for students working on sentence comprehension. I love that there is picture support and that the parts of sentences are coded by color. My students enjoy using this resource.
Kristian A. –
This resource has been so helpful in working with older students. I love the informal assessment that comes with it.
Sabrina A. –
A great resource for teaching how to break apart a sentence and visualize it to assist with comprehension. With real photos, it is very useful across a variety of grades!
The ABC Shop –
I am a reading specialist and I always go to Speechy Musing’s TPT store to find what I need. This was very useful for my students who struggle with formulating sentences.
Caitlin D. –
This is a good resource but I would’ve liked a description of each sentence type along with each sentence instead of having to reference back, and a way to sort sentences by type.
Diana H. –
Speechy Musings always has the best resources to target the nuances of language. I appreciate the thoroughness of the resource and I am able to identify what parts of a sentence that my students are having difficulty with in a complex sentence.
Kamalpreet K. –
Amazing resource! Thank you so much! My clients love using it in our sessions.
Radiant Speech and Language –
This is a great tool work on sentence comprehension. I appreciate that the formatting, images, and fonts are not specific to any age group, which allows me to work with all my students of various ages and abilities.
Alison Latham –
I used this as part of an assessment for a three year reevaluation. Great information my teachers and parents!
Stephanie P. –
Great resource for working on higher level comprehension and questions.
Midwest SLP –
Great resource! Super simple, easy and fun! Quick and easy resource!
That Speech Character –
This has been so incredibly helpful! It teaches younger students how to break apart each sentence to interpret the meaning. It also targets answering WH questions and auditory comprehension. I have also used it to help older students learn to write complex sentences. I love how versatile it is!
Rachel Sarro –
I have used this resource as a bell ringer for my DHH students. Great resource!
Speech Tx with Sara –
This is yet another great product from Speechy Musings that is comprehensive, immediately usable for SLPs and helpful for children struggling with comprehension. It has multiple levels and an assessment to gather baseline data, which makes it even more useful for progress monitoring.
Rachel S. –
This is such a helpful resource for teaching sentence comprehension, as well as teaching students how to listen for details! I’ve also used this as an expressive tool to have students look at the other pictures and create their own complex sentences to differentiate from the original sentence/picture.
The Multisensory SLP –
My students enjoyed working through this activity, I’ve appreciated using it for therapy and using it to probe the skill of understanding more complex language. Thanks so much!
Amanda C. –
I like this resource. I have a student with a TBI and another student with auditory processing difficulties and this has been my go-to for these two kids. The first slide is just the sentence, so if a child needs more support, that will be provided on slide 2, which prompts the child to “picture” the sentence in his brain. The third slide is reflection, and then, the fourth slide is answering with 4 picture choices. Going through each of these steps helps ensure the child is taking words comprised of a sentence and picturing the sentence to improve their comprehension. It’s very systematic and you can see where kids need increased support.
Sara B. –
I loved how this resource is scaffolded and includes visual cues. My students enjoy using this and I feel it really helps them comprehend complex sentence structures.
Krystina W. –
Love using this with students who need to practice visualizing accurately and recalling key details.
Kamila K. –
This was a really great resource for working on language skills!
Sharon Rodrigues –
This resource worked great with my clients working on visualisation and comprehending sentences
Kristian P. –
Fantastic Resource! This has been such an amazing resource to help ensure students can understand complex sentences before working on forming compound and complex sentence. This resource also provides opportunities to help students form visualization skills, which are critical for working memory and comprehension.
The Communication Curriculum –
This is a resource I felt was really missing from my therapy toolkit! I love the systematic, approachable lay out of this resource.
Emina R. –
I supplement this with other reading comprehension tasks and I love the break down. It helps my kids feel empowered.
Kacie W. –
This resource is great to use with students working on listening comprehension.
Leila Jachimczyk –
I inherited a lot of students with complex sentence goals. This has been a great addition to my toolbox! My students enjoy this!
Mackenzie P. –
Great resource to progress monitor students and provide instruction and practice for comprehension.
Sarah C. –
Love all of your work. It’s consistent – know what to expect and it’s high quality.
Valerie Worley –
This is an amazing resource! All the real images are so good and exactly what I needed to target this skill with my students! I also really love the teaching slides that help scaffold students through it step by step.
Karen M. –
This is a great resource for targeting those complex sentences. Quick and easy to use!
Sara H. –
This resource is amazing for teaching by comprehension. It was really easy to follow and my students enjoyed it
Kelly E. –
This was a great addition to my grammar practice with my middle school students. It was great to have the pictures to match the sentences and have the students work on understanding each part of the sentence!
Kaitlyn M. –
Such great resource for teaching a very important skill! The resource breaks down how to teach complex sentences step by step!
Tania S. –
As with all the Speech Musing resources – really well laid out and no prep. My students found engaging also.
Rachel L. –
Great resource that can be used for a variety of students on my caseload!
Kally G. –
This resource has been very helpful to use in sessions!
Sarah D. –
Amazing resource!! This has been perfect for working on complex sentences with my students!
Brett Zuckerman –
This resource is very well organized and requires no prep. My students find it engaging. Another great product from Speechy Musings!
Amairani S. –
I love how versatile these complex sentences are!!!
Heather T. –
This has really helped my students with visualizing and describing, as well as understanding.
Genevieve M. –
Great to use for direct treatment and gather baseline data. Students are engaged with the visuals.
Mary F. –
Great comprehensive and engaging resource for all my speech students
Morgan C. –
I thoroughly enjoy the scaffolding within this resource. It sets students up for success and is highly engaging. I appreciate the digital format, as well as the hard copies.
Minnesota SLP –
This was a really helpful and fun resource. My students enjoyed this activity!
Rhaveena R. –
This resource was exactly what I needed for my speech sessions. It’s easy to use, engaging for my students, and targets key goals effectively. I saw great participation and progress. Highly recommend for SLPs looking to save time and keep students motivated!
Paula C. –
Very useful resource with regard to teaching sentence comprehension. My students enjoy using this resource.
Haley T. –
I love using these to assess my student’s comprehension at a sentence level. Thank you!
Speak from the Hart –
Great for targeting detailed descriptions! These are so helpful to target receptive and expressive language.
Carolyn R. –
This is a great and engaging resource. My students enjoy it!
Katie D. –
I very much appreciate your thoughtful creation of this resource.
Very helpful!!
Krista N. –
It provided great opportunities for structured practice, and I saw increased confidence in their ability to use targeted skills during sessions.
Kristen K. –
This resource is worth the price. The real pictures are so important for the older students on my caseload. This is a skill so often required in the classroom and throughout the day and often hard to identify and work on while easily taking data. I use the pictures for sentence comprehension as well as language expansion. It is great to have the written sentence as well because I can use for matching depending on my students skill level.
Jillian D. –
Well Created Resource
I love this resource. I have started to target complex sentence with students who have difficulty with comprehension and following directions. In love that this resource gives you the opportunity to do a pretest. It allows you to track your students progress.
Ms Rosemary –
Excellent!
This was excellent for teaching and reinforcing complex sentences to my ELL students. Thank you!
Sarah M. –
Amazing Resource!
Such a comprehensive and well-crafted resource for working on complex sentence comprehension and syntax!
Araceli Roldan –
An amazing resource
I purchased these to help my students develop their reading accuracy and fluency. I used this resource every week, and it made a difference in my students’ reading fluency and comprehension. I had them write their answers on their whiteboards. Then they came up to our viewboard to circle the clues in the pictures and/or sentence that helped them identify the correct picture. I can’t wait to use it with my class again this year!
Jeanette Ortiz –
Go to resource
This is a helpful and useful resource that my students enjoy.
Rachel S. –
great resource
Well designed, thorough resource for my older students working on understanding and generating complex sentences.
Susan M. –
Really handy resource!
I found this resource to be really helpful for the children I am working with!
Karen K. –
Much needed
The systematic, hierarchical approach with visuals is very effective for student learning and engagement.
Emma M. –
Amazing resource!
This resource is GREAT for language therapy. I love how it is organized and how there are so many opportunities to practice the targeted skills!
Tara S. –
Life Saver!
This resource has been a life saver! I love that it includes both print and digital options. This is such a great breakdown of complex sentences and as always, I love the visuals included to help teach the skill.
Speechy Travels –
So helpful
Thank you so much! This resource has been so helpful for targeting syntax and complex sentence comprehension. Very comprehensive.
jennifer E. –
great for middle school
Great item for my middle school speech students. Easy to use and enjoyed by my students.
Lisa B. –
Well Organized
It’s easy to print or show digitally. It’s clear and organized.
Erica K. –
Great picture supports
Thank you for creating a matching activity with sentences and pictures. Just what I needed for a visual support for speech therapy.
Breann V. –
Amazing resource
I use this resource with my upper grade level students (3rd-5th) and it is so effective! The students are now able to identify important information in complex sentences. Would love more resources like this one!
Lindsey P –
Teach & Challenge
This resource is a great mix of teaching students language skills and challenging their language skills. They enjoy the pictures and piecing apart the sentences to build their understanding. I love that we can use them for an entire lesson or as a quick review.
Stephanie M. –
Excellent resource
Speech Musings did it again. Their resources are pretty dependable to be well organized and easy to use. This helped my student to understand sentence structure and the different parts of speech. Great pictures too!
Danielle N. –
organized and systematic
This resource is great because the student can access the information and do some independent learning after the teaching lessons have been completed.
Debra S. –
Very thorough
This is always a tough concept for kids with language deficits but it has really helped several of my students.
Hannah Zimmerman –
Another great resource!
This is a great resource for my middle school students! I like how I have the option to print out these resources or use them digitally. I highly recommend this resource.
Shawna T. –
Excellent resource that can be used across multiple grade levels
Very Comprehensive tool to use in therapy. I like how the difficulty level gradually increases.
Janelle B. –
Just what I was Looking For
This is a well-designed resource that clearly shows students how to break down a complex sentence. This has been just what I’ve been looking for to add to my collection of therapy materials. This resource will be getting a lot of use this year.
Jill Farino –
Love this resource
Great material for my speech and language sessions.
c M. –
Works for a variety of goals.
I use this resource to work on a variety of goals with my students.
Jill N. –
Add this to your library!
Great resource to have with students working on language and organizing ideas.
Rita T. –
good to target complex sentences
Great! It’s not easy to find materials that target complex sentence structures for the elementary level.
Amy L. –
Great Resource!
Love the pictures and the layout of the resource. Very helpful with comprehension skills.
Emily Straw –
Amazing Resource for Comprehension
Really makes my students think, and I love its easy to use in teletherapy.
The Language Files –
Excellent
It’s hard to find good resources for complex sentence skills. This is a great resource and I love having both the digital and print options for therapy.
Irina M. –
Love this
Love everything by this author. I use this resource frequently!
Heard In Speech –
A well-crafted resource.
A great resource. Clear and organized. Helpful for a variety of student needs.
Kat G. –
Great for comprehension and attention
A lot of products teach making complex sentences but this really lets you see their comprehension first. They pictures are greay and colorful.
Kay S. –
I use it every day!
I have been targeting a complex sentence each week for all of my speech groups; this has been great!
Heather D. –
Another great resource from Speechy Musings!
This resource helps to break down complex sentences for my language students in a way that they can understand with helpful visuals. I really appreciate that this resource includes both print and digital options.
Vickie S. –
Excellent Product
Great resource that saved me much time. Would recommend.
Your Words Matter –
Scaffolding
I’m able to easily scaffold this resource and use it for a multitude of different goals, including listening comprehension, describing, sentence generation, and more!
Julia V. –
Great resource
This is a great resource for my students who have difficulty with receptive language skills.
Lisa B. –
Great resourc!
The pictures keep my students engaged. I love the variety of complex sentences that are included.
Jessica T. –
Complex Sentence Comprehension
Love this resource and pairing it with the use of visualization strategies. This keeps my students engaged, and I use it across multiple grade levels.
Amy H. –
An amazing resource
Takes the guesswork out of generating pictures and complex sentences to target.
Shea M. –
Great Resource for Working on Receptive Language
This is a fun and easy way to target comprehension.
Cristi J. –
Excellent Resource for Targeting Complex Syntax
This resource is a strong, research-based tool for helping students understand complex sentences. The structured activities break down challenging syntax in a clear, manageable way and the visual supports are especially helpful for student comprehension.
Vanessa Smith –
Perfect
This is perfect for working on sentence level comprehension.
Ashley W. –
Engaging and easy-to-use resource to build complex sentence comprehension
My students really enjoy the pictures in the product. The materials are easy to use and engaging.
Shaden C. –
helpful resource
My student struggled and this material was very helpful! They caught on and are able to produce complex sentences.
Lauren M. –
Good product
I generally like Speechy Musings’ products! So far, so good with this one too.
Elizabeth K. –
Love this resource
This helped me to structure teaching the concepts as well as assessing how my students are progressing.
Courtney W. –
Great resource
I feel like I often struggle to find resource to target sentence comprehension. This activity makes it so easy. I love that there is an assessment to use as a “baseline”. I also love that there is an option to print it or use it digitally which saves time, ink and paper. Highly recommend.