Coyle's Communication: 2019

Short Videos can be engaging and informative. They contain visuals and pictures with information and we know visuals are evidenced based for language therapy. When you combine that with a quiz element that then makes the videos INTERACTIVE, they can track understanding of concepts too while keeping kids ENGAGED! I am excited about a new website, Edpuzzle.

Above is a video that I edited with 12 questions targeting compare and contrast. The website is free to use, but you can only store 20 videos that you make. To get more video storage, you have to refer other educators. YOU and I will BOTH get +3 more storage space if you use the link below!

Please check out Edpuzzle Here:
https://edpuzzle.com/signup/teacher?rc=0e3mga

Here is my own Edpuzzle Channel that I will post all of my videos on:
Ms. Coyle's Edpuzzle Channel

You can also search for video lessons that other people have made. Here are a few that I have found:

Cause and Effect: https://edpuzzle.com/media/5c7d72d4007294410d134df1

R- controlled Vowels: https://edpuzzle.com/media/5de900ed74529e4116be4624

Rachel Riggs: https://edpuzzle.com/channel/570152ad8ad0ee3941a4e879

Sarah Boron-Trotter: https://edpuzzle.com/channel/5beb0dc68de3ed404820aba4

Basic Position Concepts:

You can add your class by typing them in or using Google classroom and then you can assign activities and check your students' grades. As far as I can tell this is all free!

I think the potential learning from Edpuzzle is high and I love the quiz element and the audio option that is easily added to videos!

Please sign up using my referral link so that WE can continue to make more videos. I will get more storage space AND SO WILL YOU!

I will make my videos public on my channel so that everyone can use them for FREE!

Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP

From time to time I am going to post about another speech therapist that I admire. Today, I am highlighting Ashley Rossi from Sweet Southern Speech. Ashley is a Texas SLP and I always find great ideas on her website. I especially love the monthly lesson plan ideas that she posts every month for FREE! Some of them do include links to items you pay for in her TpT store, but you can do most of the things for free. (Plus, support other SLP's and buy their cute things!) She also often gives us freebies in her lesson plans too (thanks, Ashley!).

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I can barely stand after day 2 of #asha19 🤣🤪It’s so wonderful to meet so many amazing SLPs at our booth and finally meeting in person my SLP twin 👯‍♀️ @grahamspeechtherapy If you are here, make sure to stop by and say hi to me, @pandaspeech and @msgardeniasspeechroom #texasslpsontpt #slpeeps #asha2019 #slplife #speechtherapy

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I also went to the 2019 ASHA convention in Orlando last weekend and I met Ashley! (The picture above is from her Instagram). I am sure I am one of the hundreds of people that said hi and told her they appreciated her website, but it was cool to see her toolbox organization system in person. I am big on organization. Spreadsheets and labels make me HAPPY! (no like for real, super happy).

I encourage you to visit her website and get some great therapy ideas: https://sweetsouthernspeech.com/

Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP

I thought I knew how to and was making some cool interactive powerpoint lessons. Then I found a creator named Herber on iSLcollective. The powerpoints he makes are so good they look like professional games that you might buy.

Herber is a teacher whose first language is Spanish and he lives in Spain. So- some of the grammar in the powerpoints is incorrect. For example he needed "fewest" and used fewer or he needed the irregular past tense "caught" and used catched. So when you download them, enable editing and then go through them and check and change the grammar and sentence structure. I have usually found about 2 words on average that I needed to change in each lesson. That is a small price to pay however for the amazing interactive FREE lessons!

You do need to sign up to download items on iSLcollective. Once you sign up it is FREE to download on the website. I encourage you to look around- especially at the powerpoint games made by Herber.

I plan on using Herber's fun games in therapy for targets such as: basic position concepts (Herber calls them prepositions of place), pronouns, verbs, sentence construction, categories, comparatives/superlatives... He has 35 pages with 12 games on each page on the website!

I like looking at ESL (English as a second language) resources on the internet. Often I find some really amazing, fun resources that are perfect for my language therapy targets. If you know me, one of my VERY favorite things to use in language therapy (especially with Pre-K through 1st grade, and children with autism) is "Genki" by Richard Graham. Genki was originally designed to teach children in Asia to speak English. His program is about 400 dollars to buy, but I believe it is worth every penny (and then some). However, his website has a lot of FREE pictures that you can click on and they say the word which are pretty cool too.

The energetic world of Genki songs, games, and lessons helps me get children EXCITED about talking every day. Students can't wait to talk about Genki! I have continually seen nonverbal children (whose first language is English) learn to talk in sentences using Genki. Genki has been researched by Harvard and Oxford and found to be evidenced-based for ESL children. I have found that it works for language-impaired children too!

Do you have any ESL resources that you love for language therapy?

Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP

TEACHERS:
VOOKS is an animated storybook site and they currently have some cool promotions. They are offering teachers one year free. You can use three personal devices and up to 30 classroom devices used for in-school purposes. There is no purchase necessary and no credit card required- it is actually really FREE! They said to give them up to three days to process your application.

PARENTS:
Also, we can let our parents know that they are offering parents three months free. You get 90 days free for home use and after that it costs 4.99/month.

I signed up for my free year and I am excited to get the access information in my email in the next few days. Vooks' goal is to provide better screen time with read-along highlighted text to promote reading and reading comprehension. I will be adding this to my "Language Through Literacy" interactive sites list.

Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP

I have re-discovered an old favorite that I used to use a lot in therapy and forgot about. I first found this tool in 2011. I used it for a variety of purposes. It is designed to facilitate writing and it certainly can be used for that, but I found a lot of different ways to use this tool.

Scholastic Story Starters, http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/index.html, will generate a writing prompt with 4 themes and various grade levels that you get to choose.

Some ideas for using this online tool in speech and language therapy:

Generate a prompt, brainstorm, and write together as a group with your students orally saying the sentences.
Have speech students write a sound loaded story with their target sound.
Write a single sentence that includes who + did what + where + when + why. Then write 5 WH questions about the sentence.
Have students write a past tense story/paragraph and include past tense verb forms.

Here is an example of number 3 above: Using this to generate WH questions/answers.

I chose scrambler theme with K/1 grade level. I spun the lever and got: Write a question about a yellow fox who rides zebras. You can keep spinning the larger lever or push the small buttons to just change parts of the prompt until you get something you like and want to write about. I chose to change the second part "a yellow" because that seemed like a strange color for a fox.

I got this:

When you are happy with the prompt, hit next and choose a format for your story: notebook, letter, newspaper, or postcard. I chose notebook and I wrote a sentence and 5 questions. Then you can either draw a picture for your story or leave it blank. After you are finished you can print it out and let the students draw their own pictures after they write the answers to the questions.

I also like to pull up "how to draw" step by step instructions and let the students read the steps to me as I do a quick draw or for them to draw if I print it out. Then I can ask all kinds of great sequencing questions like what did I draw first. What do/did I draw after the.... etc. It really depends on your goals! Here is what I came up with for this prompt: The old fox rides zebras to the store everyday because he is too old to walk.

You can then print it out and/or download it as a PDF to save it. This particular activity could help with these language goals:

Writing more detailed sentences
Formulating/asking questions
Answering WH questions

You can use this tool prior to therapy time and print it out or use it during therapy and have the students help you write.

I hope you find some creative ways to write sentences, paragraphs, and stories using this fun interactive story starter tool!

Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP

I have found a new website that I am really excited about! Wordwall.net

You can search for other user created content that they have made public and you get to make 5 free activities of your own. After that you have to pay for the program on this website. It is 6 or 9 dollars a month and you can create unlimited resources with both plans. Basically it allows you to create really fun interactive games with just a few words, click create, and ta da! It took me literally a minute to create my first activity, subordinating conjunction category sort.

I made my first (of my 5 free) activities here:

You can see more about the categories or relationships for Subordinating conjunctions in these quizlet card sets that I made:
https://quizlet.com/164997347/subordinating-conjunction-categories-flash-cards/
https://quizlet.com/433587105/subordinating-conjunction-category-chart-diagram/
https://quizlet.com/439359250/time-subordinating-conjunctions-4th-6th-grade-flash-cards/
https://quizlet.com/439781563/cause-and-effect-subordinating-conjunctions-flash-cards/
https://quizlet.com/439832994/contrast-subordinating-conjunctions-flash-cards/
https://quizlet.com/439852710/condition-subordinating-conjunctions-flash-cards/

I really love the group sort and the unjumble game. I can see using group sort to sort categories, phonics sounds, and any number of speech or language targets! Doing sorts is a research based learning strategy and this webpage makes it so easy! Unjumble is where you put mixed up sentences in order- wonderful for syntax goals in language therapy.

I made another word sort. This time sort types of answers to WH questions. As you play and sort tell whether the answer is a person, thing or thing you do, place, time, or reason answer. (hit the 4 arrows on the bottom right to go full screen so you can read all the cards.

Look at all these interactive games you can make:

I am definitely going to be exploring this website more and seriously considering upgrading for 6 dollars a month too.

Are any of you using wordwall for speech and language therapy?

Michelle Coyle MS CCC/SLP

I love Quizlet! Cards have been a big part of speech therapy for as long as we have had Webber articulation cards (and probably before that too). So using interactive, talking card decks in therapy seemed like a no-brainer to me. My students love Quizlet too! I use a wireless mouse and a projector and the students say their targets as they take turns going through the card decks.

You can find me on quizlet here: https://quizlet.com/coyleSLP

You can join my quizlet group here: Speech Language Therapy

I have made a variety of folders to organize all of my card sets. I hope you find something useful!

Asking Questions

Answering Questions

Phonological Awareness

Word Parts (Morphology)

Grammar

Syntax

Semantics

SPEECH

Apraxia

Pragmatics

Higher Order Thinking Skills

Pre-K to Kinder (Age 3-6 Language Skills)

Enjoy!
Michelle Coyle MS CCC/SLP

TELETHERAPY RULES:

https://matchthememory.com/teletherapyrules *NEW*

WH QUESTIONS

WH Question Picture Cues: https://matchthememory.com/whquestionpicturecues

https://matchthememory.com/teletherapyrules

SEMANTICS/VOCABULARY

Multiple Meaning Words: https://matchthememory.com/multiplemeaningwords1
Multiple Meaning Words 2: https://matchthememory.com/multiplemeaningwords2
Multiple Meanings 1 https://matchthememory.com/multiple_meanings
Multiple Meanings 2 https://matchthememory.com/multiple_meanings_2
Multiple Meanings 3 https://matchthememory.com/multiple_meanings_3
Multiple Meanings 4 https://matchthememory.com/multiple_meanings_4
Multiple Meaning Words https://matchthememory.com/speechtherapy_multiplemeaningwords *NEW*
Antonyms: https://matchthememory.com/secondgradeantonyms
Antonyms 2: https://matchthememory.com/secondgradeantonyms2
Antonyms: https://matchthememory.com/antonyms_speechtherapy *NEW*
Antonyms: https://matchthememory.com/speechtherapy_antonyms2 *NEW*
Synonyms: https://matchthememory.com/speechtherapy_synonyms *NEW*
Categories (match picture to word): https://matchthememory.com/categories1
Opposite descriptive concepts (adjectives). Match the picture to words: https://matchthememory.com/MissPau2
Opposite descriptive concepts Match two pictures: https://matchthememory.com/grade1adjectives2
Simile Matching Game: https://matchthememory.com/tiffterrell (the eagle picture is missing. You could have students say what the blank picture should be).
Fill in the blank in a sentence with describing words, comparatives, superlative targets: https://matchthememory.com/Secondgradephonicsgame6670
Quantity Basic Concepts: https://matchthememory.com/quantityconcepts
Basic Position Concepts (for readers: match the picture to words) : https://matchthememory.com/basicpositionconcepts
Basic Position Concepts (for readers: match the picture to words) https://matchthememory.com/prepositionsofplace
Basic Position Concepts (pictures only): https://matchthememory.com/basicpositionconceptpictures
Basic Position Concepts (pictures only): https://matchthememory.com/prepositionsunit9
Community Helpers: https://matchthememory.com/jesscommunityhelpers
Jobs (Occupations): Match picture/word with description of the job: https://matchthememory.com/danigal34
Jobs Pictures and Words: https://matchthememory.com/Jobs
Jobs (match picture to word): https://matchthememory.com/ns3u7jobs (Therapy idea: Have students ask a WHO question after they make a match)
Jobs Pictures and Words: https://matchthememory.com/occupations
Jobs and Place of work matching: https://matchthememory.com/kibajobs2
Jobs Match picture to words: https://matchthememory.com/jobsteens4
Fruits (pictures only): https://matchthememory.com/kcmatch
Fruits and Number Words (match the picture to the words): https://matchthememory.com/fruitandnumbers
Vegetables (pictures and words): https://matchthememory.com/fn393vegetables
Fruits and Vegetables (pictures only) https://matchthememory.com/fandvforleo (there are 29 matches which is way too many so choose less in the drop down) (Therapy ideas: have students identify the picture and then tell whether it is a fruit or a vegetable).
Vehicles (pictures and words): https://matchthememory.com/eslvehicles
Transportation: https://matchthememory.com/transport
Vehicles (match word to picture): https://matchthememory.com/VehicleTalk
School Supply Pictures: https://matchthememory.com/objectsatschool
School Supplies (match word to picture): https://matchthememory.com/SchoolSuppliesTaLK
Body Parts (match word to picture): https://matchthememory.com/ealbodyparts
Kitchen Tools (match word to picture): https://matchthememory.com/kitchentools
Tools Pictures and words: https://matchthememory.com/englishwordgamestools
Furniture (match pictures to words): https://matchthememory.com/ALE
Places (pictures only: museum, swimming pool, planetarium, aquarium, zoo, amusement park, movie theatre, water park): https://matchthememory.com/placestovisit (Therapy Idea: have students name the place and then ask a Where question that shows that they understand what happens at the place.)
Wild Animal Pictures: https://matchthememory.com/jungle

HOTS (Main idea, inference, prediction, compare/contrast, cause/effect)

Main Idea: https://matchthememory.com/mainideaconcentration1
Main Idea: https://matchthememory.com/mainideaconcentration2
Main Idea: https://matchthememory.com/mainideaconcentration3
Figurative Language https://matchthememory.com/speechtherapy_figurativelanguage2 *NEW*

HOLIDAY and SEASON VOCABULARY:

Halloween Pictures: https://matchthememory.com/halloween
Thanksgiving Pictures: https://matchthememory.com/thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Basic Concepts: https://matchthememory.com/thanksgivingprespositionsofplace (first, second, third, in, on, under, next to, behind, middle, between)
Christmas Pictures: https://matchthememory.com/xmas
Christmas word to picture match: https://matchthememory.com/evre
Christmas words and pictures: https://matchthememory.com/christmasesl1
Valentine's Day Pictures: https://matchthememory.com/stcvalentinesday
Spring Pictures: https://matchthememory.com/sights-of-spring
Spring and Easter (match word to pictures): https://matchthememory.com/easterandspring
Summer Pictures and Words: https://matchthememory.com/primrosesummerfun
Summer Pictures and Words: https://matchthememory.com/summermemory
Summer (match word to picture): https://matchthememory.com/bpi-summer
Fall Pictures and Words: https://matchthememory.com/CRCFall
Winter (Match word to pictures: https://matchthememory.com/Winterwords20132014
Winter Pictures and words: https://matchthememory.com/JimSeasons2
4 Season Trees (match picture to word) https://matchthememory.com/ealseasons
St. Patrick's Day Vocabulary and Basic Concepts (match pictures to words): https://matchthememory.com/stpatricksday3rd4th

GRAMMAR:

Irregular Plural Nouns: https://matchthememory.com/Irregplurnoun
Irregular Plural Nouns, must say the plural: https://matchthememory.com/2164
Irregular Plural Nouns: https://matchthememory.com/LRIN
Regular and Irregular Past tense Verbs: https://matchthememory.com/regularirregularverbgame
-ing verb matching words to pictures: https://matchthememory.com/presentprogressive2
Perfect Tense Irregular Verbs: https://matchthememory.com/irregularverbs2
Genki Pronouns: I, you, he, she match the picture to the words: https://matchthememory.com/genkipronouns
Genki Pronouns: we, they, everybody, nobody match the picture to the words: https://matchthememory.com/Genkipronouns2
Pronouns (match word to picture): https://matchthememory.com/englishpronounsgrade1A
Reflexive Pronouns Cloze Sentences Pirate Theme (fill in the blank): https://matchthememory.com/reflexivepronounsdada
Irregular Past Tense Verb Sentences https://matchthememory.com/jgraham *NEW*

MORPHOLOGY:

Suffix -less and -ful (match words): https://matchthememory.com/suffixesfullless (Therapy ideas: students read the words and explain the meaning of the two words using what they know about the suffix)
Root Words: https://matchthememory.com/vicjackson
Prefix: https://matchthememory.com/prefixes

PRAGMATIC:

Smiley Face Emotions: Match feelings to faces: https://matchthememory.com/seec

SYNTAX

Match the beginning and ending of a sentence/ Subject and Predicate sentence parts (reading about 2nd grade level): https://matchthememory.com/secondgradephonics3640\

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS: