Semantic Absurdities for Speech Therapy Picture and Sentence

by Stacy Crouse

Price: 600 points or $6 USD

Subjects: expressiveLanguage,cognitionProblemSolving,cognition,speech

Grades: 0

Description: Use SEMANTIC ABSURDITIES in speech therapy to target critical thinking and reasoning. This comprehensive activity includes a MINI-LESSON and multiple LEVELS of practice ensure you can utilize the deck for a range of ages and abilities. 1️⃣ First, you'll TEACH your students about absurdities with a simple and easy-to-understand explanation and examples. 2️⃣ Then students can PRACTICE identifying and explaining absurdities in 25 pictures and 50 sentences. In addition to stating each absurdity, students will use REASONING, PROBLEM-SOLVING, and EXPRESSIVE LANGAUGE skills to determine why each item or word doesn't make sense and what it should be. Differentiate the activity for each student with... - Sections for both PICTURE and SENTENCE absurdities - TWO LEVELS of sentence complexity - Optional COVERS for multiple-choice answers - Optional AUDIO RECORDINGS of sentence absurdities - Open-ended questions that can be answered aloud or typed Use these picture and sentence semantic absurdities to improve students' critical thinking skills in a fun way! Your speech therapy students will love the task of finding the silly object or word on each card.