Feed the Penguin Companion Packs

So many of you downloaded my "Feed the Penguin: Bilabial Sounds" FREEBIE on TPT!!! (If you missed it, you can download it HERE).

Feed the Penguin: Bilabial Sounds

I read all of your comments on TPT and many of you were interested in other sounds and/or using the activity for other goal targets.  So, I created TWO new activities:

Feed the Penguin:  Articulation Pack

I left in the large penguin if you wish to have your students physically feed the fish to the penguins.  However, if you plan to use this activity with older children, they may not want to play that way.  Because of that, I included these penguin mats:

Print enough copies for each student to get a mat. As they say target words, they can place fish on their mats.  The student with the most fish at the end of the game is the winner.

This activity includes 7 sounds:  /l/ (initial and medial); /k/, /g/, /r/, /s/, /sh/ (initial, medial, and final); and voiceless /th/ (initial and final).  Each sound/position has nine fish with target words/pictures.  (The words are printed on the fish's tail).  Here are some examples:

And the complete word list:

You can find this packet HERE in my TPT store. 

Feed the Penguin:  Language Pack

Now for the Language edition.  In this packet, you also get the large penguin and the penguin mats.  There are four target areas included:

Associations:

Categories:

Verbs:

Activity Includes:  Present Tense, Present Progressive, Regular Past, & Irregular Past

 Antonyms:

You can find this activity HERE in my TPT store.

For those of you who are interested in purchasing BOTH items, I put them together in a bundle, offered at a special value price! Find the bundle HERE.  Also, don't forget about the New Year! New Materials! Sale January 2nd and 3rd. The individual packets will be on sale those days (20% off)!

Happy New Year!

Penguin Plurals HW

Remember the Penguin Plurals activity I posted about the other day?

I came up with this quick sheet to send home for additional practice and carryover:  

You can grab a copy HERE.  What do you think?  Do you send home homework?  How often?

Penguin Plurals FREEBIE

This week in my speech room, I'm continuing my Gingerbread theme.  I figured some of you may want to get ready for January though, so I'm going to be posting some of my Winter themed activities this week!

I don't know if this is country-wide, but Massachusetts just passed a new Educator Evaluation System.  As a result, we all (teachers, SLPs, OTs, PTs, etc.) have to write up smart goals for student improvement and professional practice.

For my plan, I noticed that many of my just-turned-three preschool students had significantly reduced MLU (< 2.0).  Because of this, I wrote a goal to increase MLU in a cohort of these students (I know that probably sounds weird since increasing MLU is a goal for most of our students) and to research EBP methods for increasing MLU.  What better way to increase MLU than to increase use of morphological markers?

Here's an activity I plan to use...The penguin graphic is from Scrappin' Doodles.  All other graphics are from Graphics Factory.

It's actually a modified version of an activity I created a few years ago.  There are 24 cards with penguins holding a piece of paper containing objects (regular plurals only).  There are 8 plural nouns with each type of plural ending (/s/, /z/ and/ez/).  You can ask students to simply name the plural noun or use a carrier phrase (e.g., “The penguin wants/has two dogs” ). 

You can download a copy here.  If you do, let me know what you think!  (For some reason, when I converted to a PDF, one of the pages turned upside down, but the content is unchanged.  Not sure how to fix it right now.  Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause!)