This week Rachel from The Queen’s Speech and I switched products. I got to review her What Am I: School Edition product and she reviewed my Stoplight Emotions packet.
I use riddles a lot in therapy and am always looking for new materials to address this. Riddles work on inferencing, receptive language and building vocabulary skills.
Receptive Language
What Am I-School Edition contains 24 Riddle Cards with a School Theme. Each riddle card has three different clues listed with the answer. The illustrations are colorful and clearly represent the objects beting described.
Expressive Language/Vocabulary
The second part of this product has the students make up their own riddles. Queen’s Speech includes 24 vocabulary pictures and 24 cue cards for riddles. I think the cue cards are really helpful since a lot of my clients can’t think of how to describe objects. The cues stay the same on each card so with repetitions, nonreaders should begin to do this independently as well.
Sorting Mat:
I think maps such as these are really helpful as a graphic organizer to help clients internalize how to describe objects. Take the red cards and put them in the middle. Then use the vocabulary map to help the students describe the object.
Disclosure Statement: I did receive a complimentary copy of What am I: School Edition for this review. However, the opinions are my own.
Getting to know you activities and review of their summer
I like getting to know you activities – not only do I find out what motivates my kids, but I learn so much about their current level of skills (i.e. how much they lost over the summer! eep!).
I do a summer review and all about me activities
The first week of school we do a lot of get to know you activities and play basic speech language games! This activity looks fun!
Getting to know you activities and review of goals so they know what they are working on.
Getting to know of activities and review of goals.
Getting to know you and review of goals.
I usually do a get to know you activity and also some games or sharing to get a baseline for students.
definitely summer review, getting to know you and of course sept 11 related activities.
I like to really get to know the kids and make them feel comfortable in therapy by letting them get to know me too! I typically use summer and school based activities to help them ease the transition back to school!
I like to discuss what we all did over the summer. We talk, write and draw about what we did.
We talk, write and draw pictures about what we did over the summer!
I like to have the kids do a getting to know you or what you did over break while I try to get some baseline data for progress/regression.
I love to work on activities that allow me to get to know my clients and them to know me.
The first week of school I am trying to get my schedule together and help with kindergarten screening. However, when I start with the kiddos, I like to do “get to know you” activities.
The first week of school I am working on the schedule and helping with kindergarten screening. Once I start with the kiddos, I like to do “get to know you” activities.
The first week of school I am working on the schedule and helping with kindergarten screening. When I start with my kiddos, I like to do “get to know you” activities.
The first week of school I am working on the schedule and helping with kindergarten screening. When I start with my kiddos, I like to do “get to know you” activities.
The first week of school I am working on the schedule and helping with kindergarten screening. When I start with my kiddos, I like to do “get to know you” activities.
The first week of school I am working on the schedule and helping with kindergarten screening. When I start with my kiddos, I like to do “get to know you” activities.
I like to play a game, read and talk about some favorite books to slowly get into the grove.
We do a lot of getting to know you and what did you do this summer activities while I collect baselines.
We do a lot of getting to know you and what I did over the summer activities while I collect baselines and language samples.
Talk about your summer and check goals.
Kids male cut out people if themselves. We talk about ourselves, practice describing ourselves and work on following directions as we do the activity.
Love this activity!
I love all of these ideas – get to know you, review of rules