Reese's Report

Fun game to help practice medial /er/ words

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HOME PRACTICE (Mrs. Thomas's students)

Using Communication Book:

**Please return the letter sent home inquiring about your child's favorite items/activities.  I need this to organize a communication booklet for your child to have at home**

Using the communication cards throughout the day is a great way to increase daily interaction and meaningful communication with your child.  To have your child request, remove two of the cards from the communication book.  Place the two cards in front of your child and ask which activity or item the child would like.  Have your child touch the desired card to make the request, or if he/she isunable to touch the card due to physical limitations, have your child look at the card of his/her choice.  Once your child touches the desired card or purposely looks at the desired card, reward him/her with the activity or  item chosen. Continue to use the cards daily to help with your child’s functional communication skills. As the year progresses,  please let me know if there are other communication cards you think would  be helpful to you and your child.

HOME PRACTICE (Pragmatic Skills)

It is very important for the students working on social skills and pragmatics to practice these skills at home.  One way to practice these skills is to work on problem solving activities.  Pick one problem from the attached problem solvong list and come up with 2 appropriate solutions to the problems.  Talk about these problems and solutions with your parents. 

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HOME PRACTICE (Mrs. Snider's Students)

Speech Students in Mrs. Snider's class: It is very important for the students to practice their language skills at home to help further develop these skills.  Use the attached short reading passages from Story Comprehension to Go to practice these skills once a week. Students should complete the reading passages independently or with a parent and answer the comprehension questions. These language activities are very helpful and cover the following skills:

Detecting the main idea, Recalling details, Vocabulary and semantics, Comparing and contrasting, Exclusion, Problem solving, Characters and actions, Figurative language, Predicting, Making inferences, Drawing conclusions, Paraphrasing, Summarizing

 

Download Story Comp To Go

HOME PRACTICE (Language)

Language students:  One great way to work on your language skills at home is to complete logic problems.  These types of problems are great when working on inferring skills, organization of information, sequencing, problem solving, critical thinking and vocabulary development.  It is very important to read through the information slowly for accuracy and to go over the information several times to ensure understanding.  Pick a logic problem to work on at least once a week. 

 

http://www.puzzles.com/Projects/AllLogicProblems.html

 

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HOME PRACTICE (Articulation and Fluency)

Articulation and Fluency Students: In order to build for transfer and to generalize appropriate communication skills, it is important for the speech students to continue to practice these skills outside of the therapy room.  It is very important for each student to practice for at least 10 minutes a day to increase correct articulation production and fluency skills.  I will be sending a home practice packet with each student working on articulation and/or fluency skills.  It is very important that this home practice packet is used consistently to help with these skills. 

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Download Fluency Strategies