quick and easy activities for articulation practice this autumn season
I share my time between two different buildings, so I prefer to use activities that involve minimal prep. And with articulation students, I want to make the most of our time together and pack in tons of practice. Let me show you some things we've done this season...
- Die Cuts: I love using the school's die cut machine for seasonal activities. This year I cut out leaf shapes in various colors and had students write fall-themed articulation words on the leaves. They could take these home for extra practice.
- Tech Search: Look through a book or do a "fall"/"autumn" Google image search. How many Autumn-related words can you find that contain your target phonemes?
- Leaf Rubbings: Bring the outdoors in with leaf rubbings! You can write artic words on the leaf veins and students can have art and artic practice all in one.
- Hide and Seek: I cut out pumpkin shapes (using that handy die-cut machine again!) and wrote fall-themed articulation words on each side, then hid them around the room. For groups, each student could only collect the pumpkins that had his/her target sound.
- Go for a Walk: Enjoy the last of our beautiful warm weather before winter comes. Look for things around you which contain target speech sounds.
- Don't Spill the Beans: I don't know about you, but in my therapy room this is one of the most requested games of all time. At Easter we used real jelly beans to play the game; try using candy corn or autumn-colored M&Ms this month. Students have to practice their sounds before each turn.
- Craftivity: Paper plate crafts are always a favorite of mine (see here, and here, and here!). This year we made fall wreaths. Sometimes students wrote their target words on the leaves, and others we just left plain and practiced our targets while we crafted.
- Carryover: For students who are moving towards generalization of their speech sounds, try playing the I'm Going on a Picnic game, but change it to "I'm Going on a Hayride" or "I'm Going to the Pumpkin Patch".
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Don't forget to go back to the Frenzied SLPs and read everyone else's fun fall ideas! The link-up this month starts at Doyle Speech Works. Feel free to link up your own ideas!
Love your activities! Die cut shapes offer so many possibilities in therapy!
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda! They are a life- and time-saver!
DeleteI love old school! Sometimes I feel I get encumbered in just too much planning and preparation! I love the idea of simplicity and using candy corn for Don't Spill the Bean! Great ideas!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Don't Spill the Beans is requested all. the. time. in my room! I love putting a twist on it. Thanks for reading Annie!
DeleteI love your tech search idea, especially to use with my older students. Leaf rubbings? I haven't done those in awhile-great idea!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Donna! It was a blast from the past doing some leaf rubbings :)
DeleteI always loved doing leaf rubbings as a child. Great idea!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisette!
DeleteCute wreath, and I love the twist on I'm Going on a Picnic game!
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Thanks Laura! I can't get enough paper plate activities :)
DeleteTech search and going on a hayride, love these ideas!! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sparklle!
DeleteI love that leaf wreath!!
ReplyDeleteBonus: it was super quick and easy to prep and make! Thanks for reading Kayla :)
DeleteGreat idea to use candy corn, M&Ms, and Jelly Beans for "Don't Spill the Beans"!
ReplyDeleteIt puts a fun twist on the game. Although then the kids always WANT the beans to spill on their side ;) Thanks for reading Mary!
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