This year in my speech room, I want to have a quick language and/or articulation task that students complete at the beginning or end of the session. Why? This should allow me time to quickly check over homework, while simultaneously fostering independence in my students and giving them more practice with their speech/language skills.
I realize this might need tweaking throughout the year and won't always happen, but that's ok.
Introducing Daily Lang-Tic Tasks:
(click the picture to be taken to the TPT link)
The concept is simple. There are 180 pages that look like the picture below:
Red pictures frames have a language task, while blue picture frames have an articulation task.
Display
these somewhere in your room. You can print all pages and display one each day OR download and pull one on up on your iPad each day.
Language
tasks include: comparing/contrasting, describing, unscrambling sentences,
grammar, WH and how questions, inferences, prediction, categories, social
skills, multiple meaning words, problem solving, and object functions.
Articulation tasks require access to
articulation decks. There are repeats of these tasks, only because it's difficult to come up with 180 different articulation tasks. The goal of these cards was to get more trials! There is a blank page included for your to add your own.
I realize that for some students the task of the day might not exactly hit one of their goals/objectives. I tried to make the language tasks broad in nature and tasks that would generate language. You can have your students do the tasks out loud so you can hear them, write them down (language task), or maybe have them record themselves so you can listen later.
What do you think? Is this something you'd utilize and how?
