Sarcasm Speech Therapy Practice Social Language Activity Worksheets & Boom Cards

Teach your speech therapy students to UNDERSTAND and USE SARCASM in social situations... using REAL PHOTOS! This activity includes printable worksheets AND a Boom™ Cards deck, and provides a structured way for students to fully grasp this pragmatic language skill!

With this unit, you'll have a clear-cut and methodical system for teaching the abstract concept of sarcasm.

1. First, the MINI-LESSON introduces sarcasm with a simple definition.
2. Then, an organized CHECKLIST helps students ANALYZE sarcasm in 20 scenarios (photos + descriptions) depicting real-life examples. AUDIO CLIPS are included to help identify changes in tone of voice.
3. Lastly, students practice USING sarcasm. Based on what they learned in the previous section, students determine if and how sarcasm should be used in 20 different situations.

You'll get...

✅ 2 PDFs (one with color photos and one in grayscale for easy printing)

✅ A BOOM CARDS deck (Click here for a PLAYABLE PREVIEW!)

✅ A TpT EASEL Activity

✅ 21 AUDIO CLIPS in mp3 format. These clips provide descriptions of the photos (in #2 above) for students to identify when sarcasm is being used.

Take out the guesswork of teaching sarcasm to your students, and use this tool to finally help your students understand and use sarcasm using real-world examples. You'll engage them with...

• Easy-to-understand LANGUAGE and VISUALS to explain sarcasm
• Real PHOTOGRAPHS and everyday SITUATIONS
• AUDIO recordings to learn about using tone of voice to detect sarcasm
• Helpful MINI-LESSONS that can be re-visited over time

This resource to breaks down sarcasm into smaller pieces. The straightforward explanations, clear examples, and practice scenarios will make the concepts understandable and applicable to your students' everyday lives.

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SLPs and teachers are saying....

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Debbie C. says, "I was so pleased and impressed with the real-life pictures. It has been so fun to use with middle school students on my caseload. They were highly motivated and engaged with the activity."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cammy G. says, "This is a great tool for supporting the use of tone and nonverbal language, helping my students become aware of tone and meaning through this resource has been fantastic"

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