Vocabulary Strategies Worksheets For Slps

Vocabulary Strategies Worksheets For Slps Youtube Shannon is a pediatric slp and the creator behind speechy musings. as an slp, she is most passionate about language, literacy, and aac. outside of being an slp, she loves hiking, camping, dogs, and travel. activities and goal ideas to target vocabulary in speech therapy with well designed, no prep, printable or digital, evidence based worksheets. Based on the research i’ve read, vocabulary instruction needs to…. 1. include multiple repetitions of the same target word. we can’t just have students hear a word once and pair it with a definition or synonym and expect it to stick. we need to give our students lots of practice hearing and using the word. 2.

Early Intervention Language Strategies And Vocabulary Checklist For Slps 1. show visual representations of vocabulary (visual imagery) 2. provide child friendly definitions 3. provide opportunities to say the word and the definition 4. provide models for vocabulary activities 5. encourage children to make an original sentence with the target vocabulary word 6. prompt the student to use the word during the activity 7. First, don’t feel you need to work on every possible vocabulary word in the book. pick 5 7, tier 2 words, or words that are re occurring in the text to focus on. then, pre teach these words before you even read the book. give the students a definition right away rather then having them guess, and let the learning go from there. Instead, we can focus on evidence based strategies, like teaching morphological analysis of prefixes and suffixes. affixes are a huge clue to help students figure out word meanings, especially when they don’t have an awesome slp perched on their shoulder 24 7. it’s effective and efficient, even for our bilingual students. This is an important take away for many slps who may feel like we need to constantly have new books or new activities. explicit instruction (specifically teaching vocabulary words and definitions) repeated exposure results in even more vocabulary learning (bolger et al., 2008) = effective vocabulary strategy.