My sparkling summer 2024 is almost at an end. I have had such a nice rest. I did a few of the things on my to-do list and I am not going to beat myself up about all the things that I just did not get to because the #1 thing on my list was to relax and reboot my mind which I did a LOT of! I spent my time swimming in my pool, followed by floating in my pool for hours reading Kindle unlimited books on my waterproof Paper white. That is my definition of a SPARKLING SUMMER! 


    I also made lots of BOOM decks that have been on my to-do list. I bought a bunch of clipart last November and am now just getting around to making all the deck ideas that I have been wanting to make. I made 21 decks this summer! If you have not been over to the Coyle's Communication BOOM store in a while, it is a great time to go take a look at all the new speech and language therapy digital decks. I even have an amazing special 50% off Speech Memory Match Bundle with 107 Memory games. This is a special introductory price until August 5th; so get it this week to get this special BOGO price!  


CLICK TO GO TO THE COYLE'S COMMUNICATION BOOM STORE

 


    Everything in my Teacher Pay Teacher store is 25% off on 11/27 and 11/28/2023! Most of what is in my TpT store are really digital  Boom™ Cards, so this is a great time to get a huge discount on Coyle's Communication Boom Card Decks


My store is 20% off and then you can put in the Code: CYBER23 at checkout and get an additional 5% off for a total of 25% off! 


While you are there, check out my new adorable banner ad! The coil in my logo springs across the page and makes my heart happy with how cute it is! 




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Happy Shopping!

Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP

 


Black Friday through Cyber Monday 2023 is here and #cyberboom is trending. I made a cute Numbers and Counting FREEBIE that will be free until Monday 11/17/23, otherwise known as Cyber Monday. Get it now, while it is FREE!

FREE Until Monday 11/27/2023 🔢 Identify numbers 1-10 🔢 Read and Match number words to the numerical number 1-10 🔢 1:1 Correspondence, Count items 1-10, Number sense 🔢 Write numbers 1-10 🎨➡️🔢 Color by Numbers 🎨 Read Color Sight Words ⚡ Perfect to assign with a fastpin ⚡ Slides will appear in random order with every play with a fastpin



Next, I have released some gingerbread cuties! The "Decorate a Gingerbread Speech House" will be 50% off until Monday 11/27/2023 as a #cyberboom deal. 

#cyberboom ON SALE 50% off Friday 11/24-Monday 11/27 🎄 Decorate a Gingerbread House as you practice your speech sounds. 🎄 L, L-blends, R, R-blends, S, S-blends, Sh, Ch, Th, K, G, F, Z, V, P, T, M, N, H, FCD 🎄 38 houses to decorate 🎄 12 target practice words per page 🎄 Click the decor pieces to change colors to customize the house. 🎄 Merry Christmas




I also released a Decorate a Gingerbread Language House. 

🎄 Decorate a Gingerbread House as you practice your language skills. 🎄 Functions, Categories, Describe, Position, Compare & Contrast 🎄 Synonyms, Antonyms, Multiple Meaning Words, Homophones 🎄 Who, What, Where, When, Why Questions 🎄 Pronouns, Regular & Irregular Plurals, Possessive Nouns, Regular & Irregular Verbs 🎄 21 houses to decorate. 🎄 12 target language concept words per page 🎄 Click the decor pieces to change colors to customize the house. 🎄 Merry Christmas



Then I made a really cute Christmas candy-themed 1 and 2-step direction activity. The colors are not overly Christmas (red and turquoise) and really could be used all Winter and/or year-round. 

🍬 Follow 1-step directions (20 included). 🍬 Follow 2-step directions (20 included). 🍬 Full Audio Support for all directions, click the speaker to hear them again. 🍬 Reward, decorate a Christmas/Winter Candy Bar! 🍬 Directions with spatial concepts- in, on, under 🍬 Directions with describing words and colors. 🍬 Directions with quantity concepts, empty and full. 🍬 Directions with multiple modified nouns and post-noun elaboration. 🍬 Directions with negation and exclusion. 🍬 Directions with emotions.




Finally, I made a Compare and Contrast Gingerbread Boy and Girl Book Companion Boom Deck and Printable PDF Bundle. 

BOOM CARDS: Compare and Contrast Two Texts Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst 🎄 Follow Directions and Draw/Color and decorate a Gingerbread Boy and Girl 🎄 Learn 6 Tier 2 Vocabulary Words 🎄 WH Question Compare and Contrast Chart 🎄 Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the books. 🎄 Summarize using the SWBST strategy 🎄 Sequence the stories with pictures and then retell the stories in sequential order 🎄 Little something for /r/ articulation or mixed groups, all the R words in the Gingerbread Boy NO PREP PDF PRINTABLES 🎄 9 Pages of PDF no prep printables to go along with the Boom Deck "Compare and Contrast Gingerbread Books" 🎄 Blank "Somebody Wanted But So Then" Summarizing chart- good for any book 🎄 Black and White Gingerbread boy and girl cookies to print 🎄 Color Gingerbread boy and girl cookies to print. 🎄 The directions from the boom card to print so you can do the activity as a printable or with the boom card, or both! 🎄 A harder following direction activity to do with the gingerbread cookie. 🎄 Blank Venn Diagram with color gingerbread cookies to print (and laminate) so students can fill in the Venn diagram with expo markers while you do it with the Boom deck on the board. 🎄 Blank Venn Diagram with black and white gingerbread cookies to print so students can fill in the Venn diagram with pencils while you do it with the Boom deck on the board. 🎄 The R word chart from The Gingerbread Boy to print.

So many Holiday Goodies! 

Merry Christmas 2023!

Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP

 


    I first started using planbookedu.com in 2010. This is my 13th year using the site to organize my schedule, therapy plans, goals, DATA, and even my IEP dates in one convenient space. My usage of the program has evolved over the years because I did not always use it for data notes for example. At first, I just used it for my schedule and therapy plans and over time it evolved into what I use it for today. 

    Keeping track of my data has been a constant struggle in my career. Balancing a usually a 100 to sometimes over 100 caseload and keeping enough data to drive my therapy and having the data easily accessible has been tricky. At first, I had binders with hard copies of all my goals and I hand-wrote data on the bottom of each goal sheet. I organized them in multiple ways, alphabetically, by grade level, and by groups. While I was data tracking, organization by groups was easiest, but then using it to make therapy plans and to write upcoming goals was easier alphabetically. Nothing ever seemed like the perfect organization system for actual hands-on quick use for a super busy SLP so then I was not utilizing data to drive therapy as much and as often as I wanted. 

    I currently have a caseload of 140 that I split with an SLPA and I keep both mine and my SLPA's schedule, plans, goals, and data in planbooks using https://www.planbookedu.com/. This is my 23rd year as an SLP and it is my 13th year using planbookedu. I love the program for many reasons. First, the price. It is $25 for an entire calendar year. A few years ago (after having used planbookedu for almost 10 years), I did a trial of SLP Toolkit. While it does have features that are above and beyond caseload management such as quick quizzes for data collection, at $18 dollars a month billed annually for $216 dollars it was not a cost-effective choice for me when compared to my $25 dollars aYEAR current system. Also, as a clinician of over 20 years, I already have tons of my own data collection materials that I have made and/or acquired over the years. 


    Let's make a sample planbook to show you how I use this program and tailor it to what I do as a speech-language pathologist. When setting up your planbook, take however many 30-minute blocks you have in your daily schedule and multiply that by two, this is your periods per day. For me, that is 22. 

Then you put your daily schedule with times and student names into one of the first weeks of the year, skipping a box after every group for data collection. The schedule/planning boxes you are going to save WEEKLY for the first time that you set up your schedule.   When you do this, you will put the schedule on every day for the entire year with one click. So when you go to the next week, your schedule is all there and ready for you to plan. I leave these schedule boxes white. When you use these boxes throughout the year, you will save them as "This entry should appear ONCE" so that it is only the therapy plan you used on that one day and it does not go forward to your whole year. 

The FIRST time you save your schedule boxes will look like this: 


The rest of the year, when you save your schedule boxes it will look like this, "This entry should appear ONCE" with your daily therapy plan for that particular day. When you go to the next week, the only thing that will be there is your schedule and it will be ready for your next therapy plan. 


        One of the reasons that I love planbookedu is that I am a very digital therapist. I put my digital links, Boom card deck links, and also attach files (such as pdfs and powerpoints) directly to the schedule box so that when I am doing my very busy therapy day, I can easily find the resources I want to use with that particular group and can just click on them to bring them up. This saves me so much time throughout my day and inevitably leads to my students getting more speech goal practice/trials done! I have written separate blog posts about digital materials that I have created such as wordwall, memory games, quizlet, and Boom. MANY of my online resources are totally free. I also have resources you can buy in my Teacher pay Teacher and BOOM stores, both titled "Coyle's Communication". For example, the 1000 challenge is a motivational bulletin board set that I created that starts off all my articulation therapy and my students LOVE it and are so motivated to "race," that is available in my TPT store. 

    Then the next box is going to be your IEP date, Goals, and DATA box. I color code my boxes and make my data boxes blue. You will ALWAYS save these boxes as weekly so that from week to week your data compiles and builds and is all in one easy place right next to your therapy plan boxes, sitting there ready to be used to drive your therapy plans. Below is what it looks like the first time you save your Goal/ Data box. The dates after the student names are when their annual IEP plans are due. This is all sample, hypothetical students, and hypothetical goals that I wrote quickly as an example to make this blog post. All student confidentiality of my actual caseload is strictly kept according to FERPA and ASHA ethical standards. 



    So now our base planbook looks like this below. This is also on every Monday for the rest of the school year. I have only filled in one SAMPLE therapy group, but imagine this extrapolated to your entire schedule and all the boxes filled with your daily schedule and data. 



Now let's go look at this therapy group in a few months after we have taken some pretend, sample data on Student A's #1 goal. 





    Now imagine each goal with some data, that has compiled and grown over time. As you go forward in the school year you will keep saving these blue data boxes weekly so that the entire data set for the goal is in one convenient place that happens to be right next to your plan box which makes planning therapy much easier and most importantly: data-driven! 

    When you finish your therapy group on November 12th, saving this goal/data box looks like this, Pull down WEEKLY in the top and click SAVE on the bottom left. Then this data just went onto every week in your planbook. I personally highlight my data so that it is easily visibly distinguishable from my goals.  



I hope you have found this useful. If you have any questions, please leave a comment on this post and/or email me at coyleslp77@gmail.com


Happy Therapy Planning and Data Collection!

Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP



 





    Coyle's Communication FIRST Boom Pack on SALE. Normally 300 points, NOW on Sale for only 100 points from November 13th-18th 2022. 

    This Boom deck covers 12 speech sounds /p, m, t, k, g, f, ch, sh, L, R, S, th/ all in ONE deck! Practice the sounds in all word positions as you create your cute Thanksgiving turkey! 

Get it HERE: TURKEY TALK







Happy Thanksgiving! 
Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP

 




The first FREE Boom product is a fully functioning complete deck about animals that I could easily sell- a truly free gift and not a sample of a larger deck. This is the entire almost 50-page deck! This deck is intended for lower language level learners, pre-kindergarten, Kindergarten, and children with autism and developmental delays. 

I am giving the I Like Animals! deck as a free gift to say thank you to my customers. My Boom store is two and a half years old and I am really loving making and sharing my Boom decks with you! 

The following concepts are covered in this deck: * Two levels of the category: animal receptive identification. * Yes/no Animal questions * Receptive and Expressive Animal Plurals * Opinion Do you like.... to encourage comments (I like or I do not like___) * Two low-level animal memory games with 4 matches each

Then I have released three new decks recently and one has a free sample with one fully functioning /k/ game at the sentence level. 




Practice target sounds /k, k/g blends, sh, ch, dg, th, L, L-blends, S, S-blends, R, R-blends, Vocalic R/ at the sentence level in a fun memory match game!




You can get the /k/ sentence memory game, which is a fully functional game, as a free sample! 

Next, I made two fun decks that are sure to engage your kids! Design a Speech T-shirt Deck and a Jokes and Riddles Deck!



 Jokes and Riddles!



Find it all in Coyle's Communication Boom Store!


Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP




 


    It has been way too long since I published a new Boom deck, but I released a new one this weekend.  This one is almost 70 slides of phonological processes most commonly seen with the /sh/ sound target. You get 21 minimal pair contrasts in this deck!  

    For the phonological process of stopping /sh/ is contrasted with /t/ and /d/, and for fronting /sh/ is contrasted with /s/. There are seven minimal-pair picture sets for each of the three contrasts and four different activities with each set also. 

    First, bombard your client with /sh/ words with two auditory bombardment lists. Then, go over the seven minimal pairs in a card set that is fully audio-supported. Click the pictures to hear them talk. Then go play with the minimal pairs by putting them on a shelf. This is intended for open-ended play so that you can use it for receptive practice to see if the child can process the difference OR you can have the child say the pair of words as they put the pictures on the shelf to differentiate from the way they say the /sh/ and the target sound. 

    Level up the comprehension of the minimal pairs by moving the talking pictures into fill-in-the-blank sentences to really show that you understand the difference between the words. Finally, play a fun memory match game to practice the seven /sh/ target words in your chosen minimal pair set. The game pictures will change positions every time you load the boom deck which makes it playable over and over and each time it's a brand new game. 

    If your client misarticulates /sh/ due to a phonological processing disorder, this deck has you covered with tons of activities to meet all your needs!

See it in my boom store; HERE. 


Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP