Phenomenal Phonological Awareness!

                  Awesome Articulation!

                                   Fabulous Fluency!                                          

                                       Lively Language!

Homework is not mandatory but everyday practice is highly suggested.

PARENTS & GUARDIANS:

******If you would like Speech and Language homework to be sent home with your child, please have your child bring a 2-pocket 'Speech Folder' with them to Speech.*******

Home Practice Suggestions

Try to integrate "good speech" into your child's daily activities as much as you can.

Direct your child's attention to any spelling, reading, science, or social studies words that contain his/her sound.

Don't feel that you need to correct your child's speech all the time.   Say to your child, "For the next 5 minutes, try to use your best speech".  That takes the pressure off both of you!

After reading a story, ask your child if he/she heard any words that contain his/her sound.

Encourage your child to use his/her best speech while making a phone call.

While riding in the car or going for a walk, look for things that contain your child's sound.

Try making up tongue twisters or silly sentences containing as many words as possible that contain your child's sound.  This can be a lot of fun!

Activities

You provide a sound ('s'). Your child provides a second sound that blends with the first sound and contains both sounds ('st'). You provide a word with the 'st' sound (street). Your child quickly provides another word (star).

Before bedtime, have your child retell the events of the day using sequencing vocabulary such as first, second, next, then, last etc.

After a story reading, have your child retell the story back to you in his/her own words.  Talk about the vocabulary in the story, describe the pictures in detail, talk about different endings the story could have, talk about possible solutions to problems in the story.

Choose a sound each day. Give your child white construction paper and have him/her draw a picture or several pictures of objects that inlcude that sound.  Describe the pictures--talk about what it does or what we do with it, where it is found, its parts, its color, the category it belongs in (food, people, transportation, tools, things found in a bathroom) etc.  Use the drawing as the placemat for that day.

SUMMER EXERCISES-see links at bottom