Thanksgiving Speech Therapy Language Activities

by Stacy Crouse

Price: 400 points or $4 USD

Subjects: speech,holiday,thanksgivingUS,expressiveLanguage,receptiveLanguage

Grades: 4,5,6,7,8

Description: Use the Thanksgiving theme in speech therapy without offending your older students! This deck features engaging information, mature images, and interactive activities to target multiple language skills while exploring the origin of Thanksgiving. With its multiple activities, this deck fills an entire speech therapy session. After reading the included passage about how Thanksgiving began, students can dive into a variety of language tasks that reinforce comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar. The activities include... 🎯 Answering reading comprehension questions (10 cards) 🎯 Sequencing the historical events with drag and drop (1 card) 🎯 Identifying synonyms for underlined words (5 cards) 🎯 Identifying antonyms for underlined words (5 cards) 🎯 Practicing past tense verbs to describe actions (6 cards) This resource extends a Thanksgiving theme to OLDER students in speech therapy. They love learning about how Thanksgiving originated and completing activities about the text. Support your students' learning with: 🖼️ Age-appropriate pictures and graphics 🧠 Multiple comprehension activities to reinforce information 👆 A variety of answer types keeps students engaged 💡 Functional tasks targeting multiple goals in a group or class 💭 Flexible opportunities to address other goals, such as articulation or making inferences This deck gives your students an engaging way to learn about Thanksgiving history in speech therapy while practicing essential language skills.