Earth Day Speech Therapy Activity on Recycling and Composting BOOM CARDS™

Use this mini-lesson to teach elementary students about recycling and composting this Earth Day in speech therapy. This Boom Cards™ deck includes quick activities throughout to evaluate comprehension of the vocabulary and extend the language concepts discussed on the teaching cards.

This deck includes 15 cards and many interactive and engaging components:

♻️ Short passages and specific examples explain what composting and recycling is.

♻️ Real photographs also help students make connections with the information.

♻️ Interactive drag-and-drop activities throughout the lesson allow students to identify what items are made of and sort them into the appropriate recycling and/or compost bins.

♻️A quick review of recycling and composting at the end of the deck prompts students to fill in the blanks to label each definition and provide examples that they learned about in the activity.

This recycling and composting mini-lesson is a language-rich activity to use with your speech therapy students. Use it to target any number of speech and language goals that your students are working on. Supplement this Earth Day activity with any book, video, or other resources about recycling and composting that you'd like.

This mini-lesson and activities are perfect to use with your Earth Day theme. You can use this Boom Card deck to target a variety of goals:

✅ Answering questions and comprehension of the presented content

✅ Following directions (Use the ones built into the deck, or make up your own.)

✅ Identifying the meanings of unknown words using the passage context

✅ Practicing various syntax goals (verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, plural markers, etc) when describing recycling and composting

SLPs and teachers like you have said....

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Taylor G. says, "Easy to use, clear language for Earth Day! The students love this resource!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jacylyn C. says, "I use this during my earth day unit and have also used it independently when the environment is a high-interest topic for the student. Always keeps students engaged."

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