Holiday Lights Speech Therapy Language Activities

by Stacy Crouse

Price: 500 points or $5 USD

Subjects: speech,expressiveLanguage,receptiveLanguage,diwali,christmas,kwanzaa,hanukkah

Grades: 6,7,8,9

Description: This deck is FULL OF LANGUAGE activities for your OLDER students! After reading the included high-interest passage about 4 different holidays, you and your students can work through any number of coordinating language activities to target a variety of speech therapy goals. The 6-paragraph passage gives tons of interesting information about 4 fall and winter holidays (Diwali, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa) and how each one utilizes light. Then, you'll USE the passage as context for targeting language, with 4-6 prompts for each of these goals: ✅ Identifying the main idea of and summarizing paragraphs ✅ Answering comprehension questions ✅ Making inferences from the text ✅ Identifying synonyms and antonyms ✅ Determining the meaning of unknown words ✅ Using conjunctions to complete sentences These activities are perfect for MIXED GROUPS since you'll be using the same context (holiday lights passage) to address a variety of language skills. The activities are tailored to older students, with the use of... ✅ Real PHOTOS ✅ Interesting information about an interesting TOPIC (holidays) ✅ A variety of DIGITAL INTERACTION types, such as clickable buttons and fillable text boxes. Plus, you can differentiate the activities by allowing students to verbally RECORD their answers and/or using the optional COVERS to hide answer choices. This deck has tons of language opportunities BUILT-IN, giving you a COHESIVE activity for most or all of your older speech therapy students!