Speachy Feedback September 2014

My favorite reason to look forward to a Monday! Speachy Feedback Linky time!

Here is my winner for this month:

Thanks Julianne for leaving great feedback! Email me at teachspeech365@gmail.com with your choice of product (no bundles)!

If you're interested in checking out Speech & Language Zoo, head here!

Make sure to check Nicole's original post to see if you won from any other SLP bloggers!

Thrifty Finds Linky

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Jenna at Speech Room News is hosting a Thrifty Finds Linky. I also frequent thrift stores a lot and occasionally find some awesome goodies. Below are Amazon links to some of my favorite things I've found, since most of my stuff is packed up in boxes.

1. Beware of the Dog: I found this gem at a local thrift store and it's been a hit. Be careful with this game if you have younger kids who scare easily. You push the the dog back and he snores. You have to get the bones out of his dish without waking him up. If you do wake him up, he jumps up and barks. I've had some kids who LOVE it and some who are quite terrified!

2. Pop the Pig: I found this one at the same thrift store and the kids go bananas for it. So do fellow teachers for some reason...haha. Feed the pig the burgers and press his head. Watch his stomach get bigger and bigger until he POPS!

3. Holey Cow: This is a card game that features funny pig dressed up as various things. Each card has a bunch of holes and you're supposed to put two cards together and count how many holes you see. There's a game board, but we have played by putting marbles on the holes, discussing the names of the cows, and other ways.

Those were my favorites this year! Don't forget to check out what gems other bloggers found here.

Love It & List It Linky

Today I'm linking up with Jenna from The Speech Room News for her Love It and List It Linky. This month features fluency products. I have to admit, fluency is one of the areas I feel weakest in. I usually only have a few students working on fluency skills. 

These are the items I find myself using frequently:

1. Snooky the Snail's Preschool Fluency Worksheets: I use these frequently with my younger kiddos.

2. Fruit Bowl Fluency Game: This was one of my first TpT products, but it's great for a range of ages. It works on easy onsets, light contacts, pausing, and bumpy vs. smooth speech. 

3. I also tend to use whatever I've got planned for my language students and work fluency in. I actually don't have any older kids working on these skills right now. So I model slow, easy speech and we identify bumpy vs. smooth speech. It's less direct with the younger kids! 

Check out what other SLP bloggers are using!

Speachy Feedback Linky February

Another month has flown by, which means it's time once again for Speachy Feedback. As a treat for leaving constructive feedback, two lucky buyers win a free product from my store! Check below to see if it's your lucky day!

Megan purchased my Pin the Heart on the Conversation activity and Natalie left feedback on my Mirror-TIC: TH freebie. 

If you see your TpT username, email teachspeech365@gmail.com with your choice of product (sorry, bundles are excluded)!! Keep leaving constructive feedback on free and paid products and you could win a product next month!

Carryover Linky

Jenn from Crazy Speech World started a linky party for carryover. This is an awesome idea because I think it's an area that our students can really struggle with. Similarly, I'm sure SLPs are banging their collective heads against the wall when we KNOW our kids can produce their sounds perfectly in our rooms and forget all speech-related things when they walk out the door.

Here's some of the things I do:

1. I did a Clinical Skills Confidence post back in August about this very subject [freebie alert]. This post gives some helpful tips about carryover, including nonverbal cues (which are my go-to method). 

2. Now that I'm back in the schools, I will sometimes "drop in" to classrooms to check up on students. It's funny when some of them will automatically start paying more attention to how they're saying words. I have also placed visuals on the students' desks to remind them of correct placement.

3. At my school, the kids broadcast the morning announcements onto TVs in all the classrooms. Getting your students to do this is a great way to take speech outside the therapy room!

4. Have your students find a peer "artic" buddy, who can help them monitor their speech in the classroom! Keeps them accountable when you're not around!

5. Tongue Twisters are a great way to start working on carryover - check out one of my first TpT products that works on these here!

Looking forward to seeing what everyone else does! 

S...Peachy Feedback Linky Party September 2013

It's that time again!! S...peachy Feedback for September!! After perusing comments left by some of my fabulous followers, I have chosen a winner: 

If you are Heather Porter, please email me at teachspeech365@gmail.com with your choice of product (excludes bundles). If you're interested in checking out the product she reviewed, click HERE. 

Once again, don't forget you can earn TpT credits for purchasing items and leaving feedback! It's a win-win for you! Thank you for continuing to follow my little blog! :)

Love It and List It Linky: Vocabulary Activities

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This month, Jenna Rayburn's Love It and List It Linky features vocabulary activities. Check out her post here.

Here's what I use on a pretty regular basis:

1. Books: This is a no-brainer. I like to use books to discuss new vocabulary! It's quick and can quickly generate conversations in small groups, as the students discuss what they know and hear what others have to say.

2. Super Duper Sentence Building Fun Deck: These pictures are actually designed for sentence building, but I found that the pictures are pretty "busy" which leaves a great opportunity for discussing different vocabulary words (nouns, adjectives, etc). Some of my students really need visual pictures, so this is great.

3. Learning Games For Kids website: This website has a multitude of vocabulary games, including synonyms, antonyms, and homophones.

4. Teachers Pay Teachers activities: My fellow SLPs are enormously talented and creative, so why not use some of theirs and some of mine? Below are my favorites:

Out of This World Context Clues from Carrie's Speech Corner

Bug Out: A Multiple Meaning Word Activity from Let's Talk Speech Therapy

Secret Word from Sublime Speech

Don't Say It Describing Dash and Mirror-SYNANT are some of my most used products from my store 

S...Peachy Feedback Linky Party August 2013

Nicole over at Allison's Speech Peeps started a Linky Party last month featuring one of my favorite things since I embarked on my blogging adventure: FEEDBACK! Her post for this month can be found by clicking the picture above. 

The concept is simple: I look at my feedback from TPT and pick one person who left descriptive feedback and that person wins a free product from my store (bundles excluded). My winner this month is:

If your username is "egspeech," please email me at teachspeech365@gmail.com with your choice of product. I hope everyone has been taking advantage of the sale! 

Show Me The Data Linky Party

Jenn over at Crazy Speech World had an awesome idea to do a data collection linky! So far, a bunch of fabulous SLP bloggers have linked up to bring you their methods of collecting data. I decided to join in the fun. 

I must proceed with a word of caution. Due to moving a lot in recent years, I've had different methods of collecting data, depending on the state and setting I was in. One district had data collection sheets that we were all required to use. That was my Clinical Fellowship Year, so I didn't mind having something already in place. The next year, the district I was in didn't have a formal system, so I made up my own simple data tracking sheet. Then I was in a private practice, which was a whole different ballgame. 

Whew! This fall, I am excited to be returning to the school system. Based on past experiences, I created a sheet that I know I will end up tweaking as the year goes on, but at least it gives you an idea of how I like things laid out. I like to have a big space for writing goals/objectives and an open space to write data. I usually jot myself a note regarding the activity we did. 

Click on the picture below to grab a copy of my data collection sheet! If I change it later, I'll be sure to update it here!

How do you keep your data organized? 

Love It and List It! Linky

I'm linking up with Jenna's Love It and List It! Linky - check out her post here.

Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links!

Jenna will be choosing a topic every 3rd Friday of the month. This month she'd like us to share our favorite games! Here goes...

1. Chef Cuckoo: Choose some ingredients to make the best or worst meal (salad, pizza, soup, etc). Students love to discuss how to make the ickiest dinner...the higher the yuck factor, the better! 

2. Funglish: This game has a ton of tiles with different adjectives. Your task is to describe an item by pulling various tiles. Better suited for the older, reading students! I like to use the tiles for sentence formulation and other tasks as well.

3. Melissa and Doug Felt Food: not really a game, but can easily be made into one using any cards/language task. First one to build a whole sandwich wins!

These are just a few in my arsenal!! What are your favorite games???

S-peachy Feedback Linky

Click on the above picture to be taken to Nicole Allison's blog - she's the awesome SLP who came up with this idea! 

So I searched through some recent TPT feedback and found this comment from stephlovescsd:

"This is a FANTASTIC resource!! I'm currently completing my last clinical practicum in a hospital based pediatric outpatient program. The toddlers and preschoolers I work with LOVE the my play home app. This packet will be great for pulling more language out of them during therapy. Thanks!!"

If you left the above comment, email teachspeech365@gmail.com to let me know what free item you'd like from my store!

Check back every 3rd Monday of the month for more fun feedback linky parties!