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
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