It’s DAY 27 of my Birthday Month Giveaways and I am raffling off a giveaway by Straight Up Speech, which is Elementary, My Dear Analogies.
This adorable 12-page critical thinking packet targets early analogies and uses child-friendly graphics to engage students in filling-in-the missing answers.
Packet Contents: Continue reading Birthday Extravaganza Day Twenty Seven: Elementary My Dear, Analogies
It’s DAY 25 of my Birthday Month Giveaways and I am raffling off a giveaway by Teach Speech 365, which is There was a Silly SLP who Got Stuck to Some Categories .
This catchy little mini-book activity targets categorization skills. The silly SLP gets stuck on all sorts of things. There is also a complementary silly male SLP [named Sam] which contains the same activities!
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You can find this product in Teach Speech 365 TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my giveaway for a chance to win.
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It’s DAY 24th of my Birthday Month Giveaways and I am raffling off a giveaway by Kristine of Live Love Speech, called Mad Scientists Inferences.
As I am sure many SLPs are aware mastery of inferences doesn’t exactly come easy for our language impaired students. So Kristine created a cute an engaging activity to facilitate this skill.
Continue reading Birthday Extravaganza Day Twenty Four: Mad Scientists Inferences
The Dabbling Speechie is having a bilingual therapy resources Linky Party so I decided to join in and write a few posts on what I am using and referencing when it comes to assessment and treatment of bilingual and multicultural children.
First up I’d like to tell you a little bit about the post I wrote and materials I created for this purpose.
A few months ago I did a post on Integrating aspects of multiculturalism into group language therapy sessions where I offered some suggestions on how to integrate multiculturalism into your group therapy sessions, which included books, activities and websites.
Below are a few products I’ve created for bilingual/multicultural assessment and treatment purposes:
I also created specific products relevant to comprehensive data collection and narrative assessment of multicultural children
What materials are you using to assess your bilingual/multicultural students?
My birthday month has been absolutely fabulous! And its not over yet! So take a look at the Week Four Giveaway Lineup and decide whether you want to enter a few giveaways or all of them, it’s really up to you! Each giveaway will last only one day so you better keep up because if you blink you’ll miss it!
It’s DAY 20 of my Birthday Month Giveaways and I am raffling off a giveaway by Rock Chalk Speech Talk, which is If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: Language Activities for Preschool.
This cute 57 page packet of course goes along with Laura Numeroff’s book, “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.” The activities in this packet target common language goals for preschoolers and include categories, vocabulary, basic concepts, sequencing, functions, WH questions, and associations. The packet is loaded with adorable pictures and cute games all preschoolers are sure to enjoy!
You can find this product in Rock Chalk Speech Talk TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my giveaway for a chance to win.
Today’s giveaway Food Category Sorting is brought to you courtesy of The Speech Summit.
This cute 26 page activity involves sorting: fruits, vegetables, desserts, meat, and drinks.
It includes:
picnic boards to sort each categories
food items on 3 ½ x 3′ cards
picnic themed game boards
pages of food themed tokens
An interactive game which targets category sorting and vocabulary building activities is also included. For those who don’t want to use the game you can use food cards and picnic boards for strengthening listening comprehension and verbal expression by sorting the food items into the correct categories as well as naming items in correct categories. You can find this item in Speech Summit’s TPT store HERE or you can enter below for a chance to win your copy.
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It’s DAY 18 of my Birthday Month Giveaways and I am raffling off a giveaway by Speech2U, which is a Grocery Theractivity. This is an awesome 48 page packet which contains 72 different food pictures and 9 different activities. It can be used with ages ranging from preschoolers through middle school and is great for goals targeting life skills.
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You can find this product in Speech2U TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my giveaway for a chance to win.
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It’s DAY 17 of my Birthday Month Giveaways and I am raffling off a giveaway by Kids Games for Speech Therapy which is a Halloween: Language Activity Pack for preschool children. This adorable Halloween themed packet targets the following skills:
The pack contains baseboards, picture prompt cards, cutouts, and written cue cards. Detailed SLP and parent instruction sheets are included. The pictures are adorable and very engaging.
You can find this product in Kids Games for Speech Therapy TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my one day giveaway for a chance to win.
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Critical thinking are a set of skills children need to make good independent decisions. Critical thinking abilities involve children analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information in order to recognize patterns, distinguish right from wrong, offer opinions, anticipate reactions to their actions, compare scenarios to choose favorable outcomes, as well as consider a variety of solutions to the same problem.
Even for typically developing children critical thinking can at times be a bit of a challenge and needs to be nurtured and encouraged through a variety of ways. However, for language impaired children, critical thinking skills hierarchy needs to be explicitly addressed in therapy sessions in order to improve these children’s independent decision-making abilities.
Teaching critical thinking skills to language impaired students is no easy feat especially considering the “seriousness” of the subject matter. One fun way I like to address critical thinking skills is through picture books utilizing the framework outlined in Bloom’s Taxonomy: Cognitive Domain which encompasses the following categories: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Prior to story reading ask the children to flip through the pictures and ask them questions regarding what the story might be about and what could be some potential story problems based on provided pictures.
During story reading actively question the child to ensure that they are not just passive story listeners (e.g., “Why do you think…?). Begin with basic story recall of characters, events, and outcomes (knowledge). Here asking simple -wh- questions will do the trick. Then move on to checking on what the child has done with the knowledge by asking him/her to identify main ideas of the stories as well as associate, compare, contrast and classify information (comprehension).
As you are reading the story as students to compare and contrast different characters as well as different story situations. Children can also critically compare different (satirical) story versions of popular tales like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc.
Involve children in active story discussion and analysis by asking questions the answers to which are not directly found in the story (e.g., Who else do you know who also…?; Why do you think the ___did that?) Ask the student to identify each characters motives. When looking at a particular problem in the story ask the student how they would solve a similar real-life problem (application).
Have them weigh in pros and cons of the characters choices. Make a ridiculous statement about a story or character and have the students argue with you and explain constructively why they disagree with it. It will teach them how to find weaknesses in someone else’s reasoning. Ask the children to synthesize the presented story by generalizing it to relate to another story or an episode from their daily life.
Consider covering up story ending to have the students create their own creative alternate story conclusions. Do a shared story reading in group therapy sessions and then have a debate (e.g, Who is your favorite character and why?) in which each child has to provide appropriate rationale in order to successfully defend their point of view.
Teaching children critical thinking skills is an integral part of therapy since children need to use their language skills effectively in order to make informed decisions and function appropriately in social and academic settings.
Looking for suggestions on the hierarchy of addressing analogical problem skills then grab this one page FREEBIE I created entitled “Teaching Hierarchy of Problem Solving Skills to Children with Learning Disabilities” from my online store HERE.
So how are you teaching critical thinking skills in therapy?
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