Early Language Activities- Thematic Units for Preschool and Early Intervention

These Early Language Units are perfect for your Early Intervention and Preschool therapy sessions. There are 6 themed Units included, covering common early vocabulary. Each Unit comes with a huge range of activity ideas/plans, visuals, digital activities, and more.

This Bundle of Early Language Units for Early intervention has been designed in line with research and best practice to help you confidently and easily support late-talking toddlers and pre-schoolers with language delays to develop their vocabulary and language skills.

• Do you wish you had a clear plan and set activities when building vocabulary with young children?
• Do you want to know you're delivering effective, evidence-based interventions for your late talkers and preschoolers with language delays?
• Would it help to have specially designed activities and materials for 6 common early language categories?
• Do you need engaging activities that can be used both in-person and virtually?
• Do you need session plans, materials and parent-friendly handouts that you can use in your Early Intervention coaching sessions and preschool therapy sessions?

The Early Language Units contain all this, and more.

⭐️ About the Bundle:

• This Bundle contains Six Early Language Units (Farm themed Unit, Transport themed Unit, Verb Unit, Body Parts themed Unit, Clothing themed Unit, and the Food and Drink themed Unit).
• You can save 30% by purchasing the bundle compared to buying each Early Language Themed Unit separately.

⭐️ Early Language Units Included in the Bundle:

Check out the preview and video preview for an overview of what is included.

Free Sample of Activities from the Early Language Units- This FREE SAMPLE includes 6 activity plans - one taken from each Unit.

Farm Themed Early Language Unit ($30 value)- This Unit includes research, activity plans, visuals and activities, four interactive PowerPoint activities, and two printable interactive books, all designed to help you support young children to learn the names of eight common farm animals, two verbs, and two social words.

Transport Themed Early Language Unit ($34 value)- This Unit includes research, plans, visuals, engaging activities, five interactive PowerPoints, and three printable all designed to help you support young children to learn the names of seven common vehicle names, two verbs, and three concepts.

Verb Themed Early Language Unit ($36 value)- This Unit includes research, plans, visuals, engaging activities, four interactive PowerPoints, and 12 interactive books, all designed to help you support young children to learn 12 verbs.

Body Parts Themed Early Language Unit ($32 value)- This Unit includes research, plans, visuals, engaging activities, four interactive PowerPoint activities and two interactive books, all designed to support young children to learn 12 body parts and two verbs.

Clothing Themed Early Language Unit ($30 value)- This Unit includes research, plans, visuals, engaging activities, three interactive PowerPoints, and 2 interactive books to help you support young children to learn 9 nouns (clothing), 2 prepositions (on/off) and a core word/verb (want).

Food and Drink Themed Early Language Unit ($32 value)- This Unit includes research, plans, visuals, engaging activities, four interactive PowerPoints, and 3 interactive books to help you support young children to learn 7 nouns (food and drink), 2 verbs (eat, drink) and 3 core words (more, yes, no).

⭐️ About the Early Language Units:

The Early Language Units are based on the evidence-based therapy approach ‘Focused Stimulation’ and contain a mix of engaging adult-directed and child-led early language activities, all designed to provide the child with multiple opportunities to hear and learn the target words.

Therapist activity plans and parent/caregiver handouts are also included; these outline each activity, and provide examples and ideas for using language facilitation strategies during the activities.

The adult-directed activities include both printable and digital activities (in PowerPoint show format); ideal for both in-person and teletherapy sessions.
** Please note, the digital activities only work in PowerPoint. They do not work in Google Slides or Keynote.

Each Early Language Unit targets twelve pre-selected words (the Body Parts Unit targets 14 words). Criteria re. target selection and the data from two studies into child developmental language norms was consulted when choosing these target words. A mixture of word types has been chosen in line with the best practice guidance also. The rationale and research/evidence supporting these Units is included within each Unit.

⭐️Who are these activities suitable for?
This approach and the activities are designed specifically for children who are at single-word level of language development, and is beneficial for children who have gaps in their vocabulary and language skills.

Also suitable for children who are learning English as an additional language.

⭐️ Each Early Language Unit includes:

• Information and Research for the therapist- so you know you're delivering evidence-based interventions.
• Themed vocabulary checklists- use to gain a baseline and for progress monitoring
• General session plan example- so you have an idea of how to structure your sessions.
• Caregiver handout- so caregivers understand the intervention you're delivering and why
• Blank therapy planning sheet- use the activity plans provided to help you plan effective and engaging sessions with ease
• Visuals that you can easily refer back to in your sessions- with clipart and real photo options
• A huge range of activity ideas and materials are included to make planning and delivering effective and engaging sessions, a breeze!
  Activities include:
  - Matching picture activities- includes real photos and clipart
  - Puzzles- includes real photos and clipart
  - A range of play-based activity ideas and games
  - Hands-on play-based activities (i.e., mailing activities such as "feed the dog", "mail the animals into the barn", etc.)
  - Interactive books
  - Interactive PowerPoints (Microsoft PowerPoint required)- these are great for using in both virtual and in-person therapy sessions.
  - Dough mats
  - Bingo games
  - Songs and rhymes and visuals- great for engaging young children and reinforcing the target vocabulary
  - Themed book lists- useful for sharing with families, and another great way to reinforce the themed vocabulary
  - Daily routines/activities- ideal for sharing with caregivers to encourage carryover at home

Please note: The Interactive PowerPoint activities will only work in PowerPoint. They do not work in Google Slides or Keynote. They will work on an iPad, if you use PowerPoint.

Therapists LOVE this bundle:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Julie S. says: "The best part of this resource, if you use nothing else, are the interactive power point activities. The children love making things happen! It's very reinforcing and they want to do it again and again. Lots of room for expansion and flexibility. I love the parent resources, as well."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rosy Dialogue says: "Wow- just wow. The amount of time and thoughtfulness of this resource is incredible. It’s so user friendly and finds ways to engage all. It’s amazing"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Natasha R. says: "This resource has made the speechie life so much easier. I have themed each month and now my prep time has been reduced significantly as 60% of my caseload is early language and now have been prepped months in advance. This resource was also very easy to adapt for telehealth."