Vocabulary Description Guide for Teens and Tweens

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...

Generating Definitions

Why Can’t My Students Give Definitions? For students with language disorders, definitions are tough work.  It’s consistently the weakest subtest for many of my adolescent students on assessments like the CELF-5 and the TOLD (Test of Language Development). ...

Adolescent Grammar & Sentence Structure

Grammar & Sentence Structures Difficulties in Middle & High School I’ve noticed a trend when it comes to working on grammar and sentence structure with middle and high school speech & language therapy students.  My students often look like they have...