Speech Therapy Reading Comprehension Passages Activities BUNDLE Older Students

This BUNDLE is FULL OF LANGUAGE activities for your OLDER speech therapy students! Each of the 15 resources includes a PASSAGE about a high-interest topic (food, technology, sports, animals, etc.) plus several coordinating language activities to target a variety of SPEECH THERAPY GOALS.

The passages (4-6 paragraphs in length) cover a variety of ENGAGING, YEAR-ROUND THEMES, such as video games, dogs, space, the northern lights, hearing loss technology, soccer, drones, candy, popcorn, popping/cracking joints, bats, haunted houses, Black Friday shopping, holiday lights, and chocolate.

After reading each one, you and your students will USE the passages as CONTEXT for targeting language, with 4-6 prompts for each of these goals:

✅ Identifying the main idea of and summarizing paragraphs

✅ Answering comprehension questions

✅ Making inferences from the text

✅ Identifying synonyms and antonyms

✅ Determining the meaning of unknown words

✅ Using conjunctions to complete sentences

Each language unit comes with 3 FORMATS, so you can use what works best for your setting and students. You'll get...

1. PRINTABLE PDFs with the passages and each activity that you can use for face-to-face therapy or send for homework
2. BOOM CARD DECKS to add to your library using clickable links within the PDFs mentioned above
3. GOOGLE SLIDES presentations that you can add to your own Google Drive using the clickable links in the PDFs

These activities are perfect for MIXED GROUPS since you'll be using the same contexts (passages) to address a variety of language skills. The activities are tailored to older students, with the use of...

✅ Real PHOTOS

✅ Interesting information about FAMILIAR, PREFERRED TOPICS

✅ A variety of PRINT and DIGITAL INTERACTION types, such as clickable buttons and fillable text boxes.

Using the Boom Card decks, you can differentiate the activities by allowing students to verbally RECORD their answers and/or using the optional COVERS to hide answer choices.

This bundle has tons of language opportunities BUILT-IN, giving you COHESIVE activities for most or all of your older speech therapy students to benefit from. ANSWER KEYS are included!

⭐Any FUTURE VERSIONS of this activity will be added to this bundle. The bundle price will increase with each addition, but the new resources will be FREE for those who have already purchased!

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