Coyle's Favorite Interactive Sites

Use a computer, projector, wireless mouse and/or wireless keyboard to bring your groups to interactive life!


INFORMAL ASSESSMENT:



LANGUAGE AND VOCABULARY:

                 General Game Sites

                Categories and Basic Vocabulary
              Seasons, Days, Months: Time Concepts

               Basic Concepts
                Sequencing
                Vocabulary (synonyms, antonyms, multiple meanings)
                  Answering Basic Questions

 COMPREHENSION AND HIGHER LANGUAGE SKILLS NEEDED FOR COMPREHENSION:

                    General Comprehension
                    Inference

                    Main Idea
                    Cause/Effect

                     Compare/Contrast Comprehension
                    Persuasive Verbal Reasoning
                     Figurative Language


GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX:

                  General Grammar Game Sites
                 Mad Libs
                  Perfect Tense Verbs

                  Syntax- Mixed up (Scrambled) Sentences

  • EduGames The Teacher's Room and John's ESL  (3 free sentence scramblers, not interactive but a great resource. Type in your sentences and then you can download and print and it scrambles for you)  
                  Types of Sentences

                  Subject-Verb Agreement
                  Verb Tense
                  Adjectives, Comparatives/Superlatives
                  Conjunctions
                    Pronouns
             Possessive Pronouns
                  Reflexive Pronouns
  
                   Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns


                  Grammar Judgements, Repair Grammar
                  Mixed Grammar Targets

 MORPHOLOGY


ARTICULATION:


MIXED PRACTICE:


AAC: (not interactive, but good resources)

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS (PA) and PHONICS:
  • Pink Cat Games: 3 games to play with CVC words, does it rhyme, alphabet letters, beginning consonant digraphs (sh, ch, th), Vowel teams, L-blends, Long/short vowels, CVCe words
SIGHT WORDS


LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERACY (Online Stories and Books)


  • Language Focus Book List  (Not interactive, BUT a wonderful list of books organized by language therapy topics. Use this list to find books that might be in the above interactive websites and will target your language area of focus.)

ONLINE SPINNERS:

http://www.superteachertools.us/spinner/ I really like this one because you can customize it. So you could put 6 categories on the spinner and then play a game where the students list items in that category for points. You can customize it and put whatever you want on the spinner (questions, verbs, speech words, etc!). Then you can save your spinners and re-use them. It can, of course, be used for spaces to move on a board game as well.


INCENTIVE GAMES (if you say your word, make a sentence, name a language target, etc, then you get a turn): You can turn the sound and music off on all the games individually also.
  • Snakes and Ladders (up to 6 players! by far my favorite online, interactive reward game!!)
  • Connect 4 (only 2 players, but you could do teams for larger groups)
  • Pizza Challenge (only 2 players, need a keyboard. I use my wireless keyboard. Student on the right hits the up arrow, student on the left hits W and they try to grab the most pizza. A super quick, about 10-15 second reinforcer for 2 students at a time). The pizzas come out with different toppings, so you could have the student(s) describe the pizza in a sentence. 
  • Darts (use mouse, control where it goes by where the pointer ends up as you slide it forward, can turn off the music and sound by hitting the icon in the top left. Throw 3 darts)
  • Battleship (Your group plays against the computer. After a student does their speech/language turn they get one turn which is 3 tries to find the computers ships. Then you watch the computer take a turn. Then the next student says their targets that you have determined will get them a turn and then they get 3 tries. Game continues until all 5 ships are found or the computer finds yours. This is a cooperative group game.)
  • Factory Balls (you are shown what a ball must look like and have to make it) This is almost a therapy activity in itself. If your targets are sequencing and critical thinking, this game is for you. You can have the students explain what they think should happen to make the ball. Have them all write it on a white board and whoever gets it correct, gets to make the ball. You can have them just take turns telling you orally and then making the ball (as a target itself or after they take another speech/language turn). This gets hard fast. The first two levels are 3 steps and it gets harder and harder. It might be too hard for severe language students past the first few levels, but it might be great for speech kiddos. You could have them say 10 targets before they get to verbalize how to make the ball (using their good speech sounds of course) and then make it. 
  • For example here are the seven steps needed for level 6 of Factory Balls: 
    • First, dip the ball in red paint.
    • Next, put on the small hat. 
    • Then, dip the ball in yellow paint
    • Take off the small hat. 
    • Then, put on the large hat. 
    • Dip the ball in blue paint. 
    • Last, take off the large hat.
  • Strategic Tic Tac Toe (playing on 9 boards to up the difficulty. only for 2 players, so you can do teams if you have more than 2 students) After they say their therapy target, they get a turn. The team with the most boards, wins. 
  • Molly's Magic Adventure: A choose your own adventure story. Help a Unicorn find a rainbow. You could have students do targets in order to get to make the choices in this story. 
  • United States Puzzle: This would be very student specific, but I have had a few students with Autism that LOVE the USA puzzle and this would be HIGHLY motivating for that small group of kiddos. 
  • Toy Theater: Goose Game. Snakes and Ladders. Connect 4, Basketball multiplication math. Maze, 
  • Tic Tac Toe: one person against a computer on standard board
  • Fun Brain
  • Make an Ice Cream Cone
  • Mr. Potato Head
  • Happy Clicks (for young learners)
  • PBS Kids
  • ABCYa
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     I have been using Match the Memory to add interactive fun to my speech therapy sessions since 2015. I use an iPad or the grid that is a feature in match the memory.  The thumbtack makes the pictures stay open until you click them to turn them back over so you have time to have your speech student practice saying their sounds correctly. The grid button on the far right turns on the A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 grid so that if you are projecting the game to a group the students can tell you the cards to flip by choosing the letter and the number to indicate where the row/column the card they want to flip is located. 



Memory Games for Speech Therapy (Links checked 9-26-23):

 R and r-blends



L and L-blends




S , S-blends and Z




SH, CH, DG


TH




F and V




K and G




P and B




T and D




M and N

 H

  • /h/ 



Phonological Processes



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