The NOVEMBER Listening and Language By The Month resource includes seven activities that can be used ALL MONTH for auditory memory and comprehension, seasonal vocabulary, developing grammar, and build ...

This checklist is designed to be part of biannual discussions and monitoring between early intervention professionals and family members of infants and toddlers with hearing loss. Family members are a ... sked to consider the different areas that can affect the rate that communication skills develop and how often their child receives attention to each of these considerations. Areas covered are: Auditory Communication, Visual Communication, and Effective Communication Strategies.

This bundle of instructional stategies includes information and activties for using prior knowledge, cooperative learning, goal setting, key information, effort v. practice, comparison, and visual org ... anizers. 71 pages. Use with all ability levels.

This exercise is designed to share with families but provides information useful for teaching students about the different types of figurative language. Includes definitions of the different types of ... figurative language.

Listen & Think Brainplay is a rich activity that targets listening, following directions, auditory processing, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.Ideal For: Listening & Spoken Language, Executive Fu ... unctioning, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Auditory Processing, Speech, Auditory Verbal Therapy, ELA, Teletherapy, Home...The more a child knows about a topic, such as Thanksgiving the easier it is to comprehend and retain the information. Background knowledge of recurring holidays and seasons is fundamental for language, academic, and communication success. Listen & Think Brainplay is not only a great way to grow Thanksgiving vocabulary but it fosters back-and-forth conversation. Research is clear that when children engage in serve and return interactions, activity increases in the parts of the brain responsible for listening and spoken language processing and production.Children who are deaf and hard of hearing as well as those students with limited language may struggle to increase their vocabulary because of weak auditory memory, difficulty with auditory comprehension, and lack of exposure. What's Included?28 Thanksgiving-related conversation starters, questions, and trivia topics.Answer sheet with space for data collectionFive suggested ways to playListening and Spoken Language (LSL) TipsEasy one-time prep. Print the game card and laminate them if you wish.◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈CUSTOMER TIPS:➼ Questions? Email me before purchasing this resource or anytime later♥ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn Emails♥ Let’s Connect:InstagramFacebookKeep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way. Thanks so much!Lynn

Beautifully designed November jokes and riddles to grow listening, spoken language, and social skills that kids love. ❤Understanding humor is  a key element in developing✢ higher-level language skills ... skills✢ complex language patterns✢ multiple-meaning words✢ inferences✢ multiple-meaning words✢ idioms which are often weak for children with hearing loss without intervention. Telling jokes is good for kids too. They✢ increases  confidence, ✢ helps  with auditory memory and  recalling  the joke or storyline ✢ encourages clear speech to tell others. Try this:➯ Pick a joke or riddle to target each session➯ Send them home to practice understanding and telling skills.➯ Share by distance learning, in teletherapy and include in face to face sessions."A day without laughter is a day wasted." Charles ChaplinVisit the blog at HearSayLW.com:Encouraging A Sense of Humor - Joke of the WeekMake A LITTLE Riddle & Joke Book With Your LITTLE ListenerI’m All Ears! SAY WHAT? Fun With Idioms◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈CUSTOMER TIPS:➼ Questions? Email me before purchasing this resource or anytime later♥ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn Emails♥ Let’s Connect:InstagramFacebookKeep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way. Thanks so much!Lynn

This article provides basic, intermediate, and advanced activities supporting learning idioms. Examples of specific idioms at kindergarten, grade 1- grade 6 levels are provided along with ... interpretations of idiom meanings. A reading comprehension story is included that uses many idioms in which students must identify each idiom and explain what it means.  Another worksheet activity asks students to fill the appropriate idiom in the blank when given a sentence. This extensive article provides much practice in understanding and appropriately using idioms.

Are you looking for a fun, humorous figurative language activity for Halloween?Give Me a Break is a game featuring 40 body-part idioms and skeletons. The idioms cards are shaped like bones and can be ... hung on a toy skeleton or placed onto a skeleton mat. The idiom game cards correspond to body parts. Example:Cold feet - tape the card to a foot of the skeleton.Spine-tingling card attaches to the skeleton's back.Give someone a hand attaches to a bony hand.This resource will easily stretch across many sessions leading up to Halloween and is sure to be a valuable figurative language tool for years to come!Targets:  Vocabulary, idioms, understanding figurative language, auditory comprehension, executive functioning, higher-level critical thinking, and communication skills.What's Included:A huge PDF resource of: ✧ 40 idiom bone game cards, Print and Digital versions ✧ 6 skeleton game mats ✧ Progress monitoring or data collection sheets✧ Definitions or answer key✧ Listening and Spoken Language Tips✧ A guide with instructions➼ OPTIONAL but not included: Use a toy skeleton available online and at a Halloween or dollar storeIDEAL FOR: Listening & Spoken Language, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Auditory Processing Disorder, Speech and Language Therapy, School Lessons, Auditory Verbal Sessions, Special Education, English Lessons, Homeschoolers...FACE TO FACE - TELETHERAPY - HOME✢ PRINT - One-time easy prep. Print and cut out the 40 bones cards.Print the skeleton mats OR use a toy skeleton.✢ DIGITAL - The body part idiom bone cards can be screen shared with your favorite PDF reader such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈CUSTOMER TIPS:➯ Questions? Feel free to email me before purchasing this resource or anytime later. ➯ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn emailsLet’s Connect:InstagramFacebookHearSayLW.com❤  Keep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way. Thanks so much! Lynn

Perk Up Your Ears is a fun activity that contains 20 passages with ear-related sayings or idioms. This resource is created to encourage self-advocacy skills in children who are deaf and hard of hearin ... hearing but is effective when targeting listening skills in all kids. In addition to fostering communication skills, Perk Up Your Ears builds figurative language, nuances in word meanings and vocabulary that are essential to spoken and written language, pragmatics, and communication competence.While not age-specific it has been successfully used with kids as young 1st grade and up through middle school. This resource and be easily leveled up or down to meet a variety of children's goals and needs.Perk Up Your Ears require no prep or planning because everything is in this resource. It can be easily used by parents at home, teachers, and therapists both face to face and on tele-platforms. This Digital - No Print resource can be opened and played with your favorite PDF reader app on a tablet. When playing on a computer, open and use a PDF reader such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

Making Sense of Idioms introduces the importance of working on idioms to families of students with hearing loss. The worksheet provides a number of idioms and leading questions for families to discuss ... with their children to increase their understanding of idioms, specific and as a part of figurative language.