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Hi everyone, I wanted to share one of my favorite ways to get students more engaged during comprehension activities: layering questions. When I use a short story or passage, I ask three types of questions, if I can. But it depends on the student. I do not always use them all at once.
Even if your student is not ready for inferential questions yet, connection questions work for everyone. Making a personal connection between what is happening in the story and what is happening in their own life is important for all students. It really shows you care about their lived experience too. Anytime you can get those connections between home and school/speech room, it deepens the discussion and it promotes generalization as well. Kids who need more buy-in benefit too because maybe just maybe they start to see how stories relate to them. If you want ready-made passages that follow this same framework, I created these 50 Reading Comprehension Passages Task Cards that include literal, inferential, and connection questions. Try it this week. Ask one question that helps your student make a connection to real life and see how much more they open up. Enjoy the start of a new month! Thank you, β |
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Hi everyone, Back 18 months ago....one of you fabulous people named Mary reached out to me and asked me to create a Spanish version of the Imitation Hierarchy by Laura Mize. The Imitation Hierarchy is something that I think a lot of SLPs know on a gut level, but back before I wasn't aware of a formal hierarchy. It is part of the 180 page Building Verbal Imitation Skills in Toddlers program that Laura Mize has created on her website. She is a legend and a tremendous resource who has a ton of...
Hi everyone, Well, new year, new sale! TPT is going live tomorrow with a February sale and everything in my Speech Therapy is Beautiful store is discounted Monday (tomorrow) and Tuesday. If you need something to get you through to spring break, now's your chance I wanted to make your life easier by highlighting the resources SLPs tell me they use the most. The Spanish Phonology Minimal Pairs Bundle, the Apraxia in Spanish Workbook Bundle, the Figurative Language Task Cards, my Picture...
February has arrived! π Wow, January flew by and I'm hoping that February is a fresh start in so many ways. January wasn't a great start to the year, am I right? It was a rough one for our country and boy did that month drag on or what? February in Illinois brings ISHA, our state convention. I've been to ISHA a lot over the years and I've always liked it. The last time I was there was in 2019 and back then I actually made a video about it: What ISHA is like. Funny to think that it probably...