by sashabro89 | May 21, 2021 | Literacy, Receptive Language, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
Working with middle and high school students, I know how challenging it can be to find functional WH-question activities that are not babyish. I am also keenly aware that the picture sets we use for WH-questions are not always the most functional; in other words,...
by sashabro89 | Feb 1, 2021 | Expressive Language, Literacy, Receptive Language, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
Secondary school students with language impairments are often quite behind their peers in vocabulary, and it can be difficult to know where to start with them; moreover, we want to find a way to target their vocabulary deficit and use middle/high school class and...
by sashabro89 | Jan 5, 2021 | Context Clues, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, syntax, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
I don’t know about you but when I first started working in middle school, I was tough to transition from elementary to secondary level speech & language goals. Students in middle and high school are spending less time reading narrative or stories and more...
by sashabro89 | Mar 8, 2020 | Receptive Language, syntax, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
If you’ve been following my posts Teaching Complex Sentences and Teaching Complex Sentences II: Lengthy Nouns, you may already know that many students with SLI struggle with comprehension at the sentence structure level and need explicit instruction. ...
by sashabro89 | Feb 17, 2020 | Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
I don’t know about you, but I have found those HedBanz questions pretty inadequate for teaching my students how to describe vocabulary. Similarly, EET type guides or TPT visuals that focus on category, function, location, etc can be great for basic nouns but...
by sashabro89 | Oct 29, 2019 | Literacy, Receptive Language, Vocabulary
Often, getting our students to engage with reading-based therapy tasks can feel like pulling teeth- both for students and therapist! Our school clients often present with co-morbid reading and learning disabilities that make reading a daily struggle, and so it’s...
