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Middle school oral communication creative writing interactive whiteboards
The M&M Game
*NOW EDITABLE! This is a fun activity to do in the early days of school. My students love it and always want to play it more than once. Basically, each student has a mini-bag of M&M’s and, depending on which color they draw out, they tell different things about themselves. Students first play in a large group with the visual display on the SMART Board, and then return to their table groups to play in small groups.*UPDATED* Now includes an editable version, and comes with paper “candy” if you
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Grades:
K - 12th
Back to School Activity - Would You Rather Game!
Would You Rather Silly Question PowerPoint GameNo prep! Whew! This 45 slide presentation is great as an icebreaker or a brief moment between activities during the first few weeks of school. You'll learn who would rather travel 2000 years into the past or the future, and give students a chance to explain their reasoning. This presentation includes: • Ideas for using presentation• Student instructions for play • 40 questions (32 silly/interesting and 8 school/mindset related)We love this activi
Grades:
1st - 6th
Also included in: Back to School Bundle of Activities on PowerPoint
PIXAR-like Shorts: Films for Literary Devices Elements Theme Characters Plot SEL
Teach literary elements using this Pixar-like animated short film , Carl & Ellie from the movie UP! It is a highly engaging way to teach character traits, theme, and dialogue. This film may be may be cute, but it is packed with rigorous and challenging activities. Students will step through a complete character and theme analysis of Carl and Ellie and learn how real writers use characterization techniques to add layers and details to make realistic and fascinating stories. They will learn
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Stuttering Activities Boom Cards™ for Speech Therapy
Your students will enjoy learning about stuttering in this fun, interactive, and engaging BOOM Cards™ deck. This hands-on approach to stuttering education includes a question or a stimulus prompt and true/false, fill-in-the-blank, matching speech makers to their jobs, matching types of disfluencies, and identifying stuttering modification techniques. Students will increase their fluency knowledge in no time at all with this helpful resource!**This deck is meant to initially be used during direc
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Stuttering Activities & Visual Supports Bundle for Fluency Therapy
Working Memory Executive Functioning NO PRINT Speech | Distance Learning
Memory for Messages is the perfect functional resource to target working memory skills in your middle and high school students. This lesson is designed to be NO PRINT and NO PREP. You can download it today, and use within minutes. *****************************************************************************************************************Each student is presented with a printed message, then asked to determine which words are relevant in that message, to be written down on a "sticky note"
Grades:
6th - 9th
Seven Steps to Writing Success - Sizzling Starts - 2 Week Unit
Need a great introduction to narrative writing? Look no further! Inspired by Jen McVeity's Seven Steps to Writing Success program, here is an all inclusive 2 week unit to introduce, develop and consolidate sizzling starts in narrative writing. There's no prep required - just display on your whiteboard or Apple TV and go for gold!Your purchase includes a detailed teacher guide with 2 full weeks of writing lessons along with both PowerPoint and PDF options of the below:- 3 explicit lessons to expl
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Short Stories for Comprehension for Older Students
Comprehension work for upper elementary, middle school, and even high school speech-language students made easy! Target receptive language, expressive language, and reading comprehension using vocabulary meanings in context, iidioms/figures of speech, wh- questions, inferences, and predictions with these original high-interest short stories made for older students. 8 stories allow for multiple practice targets! Each Story Includes:A total of 9 pages!3 containing the story and vocabulary activiti
Grades:
4th - 10th
In Your Opinion Task Cards Boom Cards™ Conversation Speech Therapy Activity
Students will practice expressing opinions and understanding fact vs. opinion with printable task cards AND digital Boom Cards activities. These task cards could be used to improve persuasive speaking skills or conversation skills. They could also serve as writing prompts for persuasive writing practice. I have included a written prompt on each card (I think....because...) as a reminder for students to support their opinions with complete sentences. You could also have them practice agreeing or
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Short Films Literary Elements Devices & Techniques Inference Character Theme
Guaranteed fun and laughter with this animated short film workshop that teaches character motivation, inferencing, providing evidence, and summary writing. Students are guided through the interactive Google Slides as they learn the importance of creating characters with motivation and how other character's motivations can cause conflicts. This workshop is simple and would work great for struggling students, ESL learners, or for a light lesson in general ed. ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: A young girl
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5th - 8th
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Exciting Endings - Narrative Writing
Resources to support the Seven Steps to Writing Success program for narrative writing.Exciting Endings are super important to finish your narrative on a high - ensuring you provide the reader with an emotional resolution - what happened to the characters? Are they happy?My students LOVE writing after taking on the Seven Steps approach, even my most reluctant writers. We set achievable goals and celebrate writing in different ways - I highly recommend you attending a Professional Development day
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3rd - 6th
NO PRINT Directing Your Tone of Voice Middle & High School Inferences
Do you find it difficult to teach tone of voice? Do you find that the instructions your giving sound vague and too abstract? This interactive PDF provides instructions for tone of voice vocabulary including practice tools, video examples, and quantifiable measures for concrete thinkers. Additionally, the social scenes and scenarios take ONE phrase in THREE difference contexts to solidify how tone of voice changes in different contexts.Have middle school and high school students in mixed group
Grades:
4th - 12th
Don't Break the Chain Boom Cards™ Speech Therapy Conversation Activity
Are you looking for a digital resource to practice conversation skills? How long can you keep the conversation going? In this cooperative activity, group members will add a chain link each time they comment, ask a question, or answer a question to keep the conversation going! This cooperative activity is appropriate for students with autism spectrum disorders, or who attend social skills groups or pragmatic language groups. You could target a variety of conversation skills (maintaining the topic
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Sizzling Starts - An Introduction (No Prep)
Need a great introduction to narrative writing? Look no further! Inspired by Jen McVeity's Seven Steps to Writing Success program, here is an all inclusive lesson introducing sizzling starts in narrative writing. There's no prep required - just display on your whiteboard or Apple TV and go for gold!Check out the preview for some samples of student work - that's just after this lesson!Enjoy! :)WANT MORE? Check out my new 2 Week Sizzling Start Unit - complete with PowerPoints, interactive activiti
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
BELL RINGERS FOR ENGLISH | DIGITAL & PRINT DAILY WRITING PROMPTS | DISTANCE
Complete with a printable student workbook, these bell ringers are sure to engage your students in unique quality writing. Give students a lot of variety and practice with the writing process, interdisciplinary writing, and multiple genres by including this resource in your daily practices. This product includes 180 slides and the accompanied workbook for one entire school year of daily writing, but it is versatile enough to work whenever you need in your curriculum. In addition
Grades:
7th - 12th
Leveled Topic Maintenance Task Cards
Looking for an easy and straightforward way to teach topic maintenance? Do you have students who struggle with staying on topic or or generating appropriate responses? Then check out this low/no prep product that guides students through 3 levels of topic maintenance practice. This product comes with both printable task cards and a no print PDF option!Here's what's included:-Level 1: Students must determine if a response is on or off topic (32 cards/slides)-Level 2: Students must select a resp
Grades:
1st - 6th
Conversation Questions & Comments Mega Bundle Boom Cards
This Boom Card deck series works great for speech/language or special education students working on social skills, expressive communication, or carry-over of speech skills by providing sample scenarios in which to practice best conversational responses. Each deck includes 20 cards with situations pertaining to that deck topic in order to help students think about appropriate comments, questions, or answers. Incorrect choices provide great starting points for discussion. Good for teletherapy or s
Grades:
6th - 12th
101 Quick Writes Daily Writing Prompts **Google Slides**
Use these Quick Write Daily Prompts with your students to promote creativity, social emotional learning, spelling, grammar, writing skills, and so much more! You can display these Google Slides to your students in either a face to face class setting, or virtually! Have your students copy the sentence starter in their journals and let their creativity flow! A mini writing checklist is also included as a reminder for them each day!The Google Slides are also editable and customizable if you would l
Grades:
K - 6th
Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving, Narrative Poetry, PowerPoint Show
Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving, by Dav Pilkey, is one of my favorite books to read during the weeks before Thanksgiving. Pilkey’s book is a wonderful adaptation of the holiday classic, The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Moore. We have created an awesome POWERPOINT Book Companion covering so many different aspects of poetry for you to use this Thanksgiving season. If this wasn't enough, our exciting Thanksgiving PowerPoint Show also includes animated turkeys to keep the students entertain
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities and Decor Bundle
How To Write A Speech
My students are required to write a 4-H speech. This was my first time teaching a group how to write a speech. I created this flipchart to explain components of a speech along with a rubric.
The grading rubric is embedded into the flipchart. In the notes section on the final slide, the directions explain how to open the grading rubric. The grading rubric is open to change. You can change it to fit your requirements or needs for your students.
Thank you very much!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Conversation Questions & Comments: Winter Holidays Boom Cards Distance Learning
This Boom Card deck is great for social skills and pragmatic language therapy! These winter holiday communication situations help students think about appropriate conversational responses. Wrong answers provide great starting points for discussion. Good for teletherapy or social skills groups!To play:Read the communication situation and four possible responses. Determine the "best" response. Variations on play include: Cover responses and have student give their response before reading and
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Conversation Questions & Comments: Holiday Bundle Boom
NO PRINT Mapping Out Language Functional Life Skills BUNDLE
This is a collection of innovative, interactive PDFs that will allow middle school and high school students to work on life skills while targeting attention, memory, semantic reasoning, executive function, auditory comprehension, and verbal expression on just 5 pages for 5 different cities: Charleston, SC; Big Sky Resort, MA; El Paso, TX; Washington, DC; and Chicago, IL. *****Watch this YOUTUBE video to see my 6 tips in action for using Mapping Out Language resources in teletherapy sessions!!**
Grades:
6th - 12th
Historical Fiction Writing Unit
Looking for a step-by-step way to teach a historical fiction writing unit with your students? This unit is one that I have used with my students for the past few years. It includes a list of historical fiction picture books, a "noticing chart" to help guide your students to read like writers, a SMART Board presentation or Power Point presentation) that you can use as a step-by-step guide through the learning/process, a ten day written lesson guide-for you the teacher, and a copy of the grade she
Grades:
4th - 8th
Verbal Problem Solving Scenarios Speech Therapy What Do I Do BOOM™ Cards
Say goodbye to the time-consuming task of creating problem scenarios for your students dealing with language or executive function disorders. You need effective materials that focus on solving real life problems and generate conversations.Key Features:1. Comprehensive Set: With 50 carefully crafted cards, this BOOM deck covers a wide range of real-life problem situations. No need to scour for scenarios - I’ve got you covered.2. Versatile Compatibility: Playable on tablets, computers, or Smart Bo
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Problem Solving Speech Therapy Activity Bundle for Language Skills
Conversation Questions & Comments: Holiday Bundle Boom
This Conversation Questions & Comments Boom Cards bundle includes 7 different holidays to target conversation skills throughout the year: Birthdays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Winter Holidays, Valentine's Day/Relationships/Friendships, Spring Break, & Summer Vacation. Each deck provides 20 situations in which the individual has to identify the best question or comment from four options. The situations spark lots of discussion and are great for social skills groups, group, or individual se
Grades:
5th - 8th
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