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Thanks to all of you who came to parent/teacher conferences I enjoyed meeting each of you. This month in speech we will be having a Thanksgiving Theme. We will do different activites while working on our speech.
Students have also been making puppets. The puppets have the beginning sound in their name. For example, students who make Sherman Shark are working on the /sh/ sound. He likes to eat shoes, shrimp, shell fish and shells. I read them a story about their puppet. The story contained lots of their sound.
I will be at a conference Wed. and Thurs. the 10th and 11th of this month.
Please feel free to e-mail or call me if you ever have any concerns. snowdene@brier3.afsc.k12.ar.us
Activities To Do at Home
Language Activities
Use books as a way to enhance language and vocabulary skills:
Choose books of interest to read to your child. Depending on the age ask comprehension questions such as who, when, where, why and how. If they have difficulty with answers model the correct answer.
Ask your child to re-tell books or chapters by saying “Now you tell me the story.”
Practice:
Opposites
Synonyms
Multiple meaning words
Play categorization games with your child, ex colors, animals, foods etc. Have them name as many as they can in one minute.
Play same/different games with your child. Name 2 words. Popsicle and ice cream cone, ask how they are the same and different.
Use correct grammar. If they say a sentence incorrectly then say it correctly. For ex. “I gotted a dog for my birthday.” Model by saying “You got a dog for your birthday.”
Practice sequencing, have your child tell you how to do certain things in order. Like make a sandwich.
Articulation Activities (to improve speech sounds)
Provide a definite time each day for a 5-10 minute speech lesson at home.
This speech time should be a time of fun as well as improving speech. Work on homework assignment.
Work on one sound at a time.
Do not expect immediate improvement. Sounds are usually corrected in this order: isolation, with vowels, in syllables, at the beginning, end, middle of words, in sentences, reading, in conversation
A child may be able to do a sound correctly in words, but not in conversation, because he has not reached that stage in the improvement of his speech.
Have him watch you as you say the sound so he may see how you make it.
Have the child practice before a mirror, so that the child may see how he is making the sound.
Ear training is important. You say the sound or word and have him listen.
Compliment your child on their progress. Do not criticize.
Check out the posters below. I had a contest at the end of the school year celebrating May is Better Speech and Hearing Month. The first one was the winner. The others were honorable mention. (I would put the names of the winners but that is confidential. They know who won).
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