The Listening Hierarchy Speech Discrimination Tool, adapted from David Sindrey, is a step-by-step guide for tracking a child’s auditory skill development. It helps educators and therapists show parent ... nts measurable progress in listening and speech discrimination, from simple sound contrasts to more advanced distinctions. This tool makes it easy to set goals, document growth, and celebrate communication success.

Support development of foundational reading skills with activities and materials to practice: 1) vowel perception in isolation and in words, phoneme blending and sound-letter association; 2) discrimin ... ation of vowels in words, sorting long & short vowels.

Sound patterns within words are used in oral and written language to create emphasis of thought and attention the rhythm and tone of language. Instructional strategies include ideas for teaching word ... families, riddles, and word family sentences.

In conversation, the use of pausing has several purposes. A speaker may pause and then emphasis the first word in a following phrase to specify meaning in the sentence. Instructional strategies includ ... ed for basic, intermediate, and advanced readers. Ideas and activities include listening for key words; fluency practice; and progressive sentences.

Do you have kids who need practice using clear and natural-sounding speech? The Tongue Twister Challenge Game is hilarious and gets kids listening, moving, and engaged! The game sharpens listening and ... d spoken language skills. It is a game kids ask to play again and again and a must for your toolbox! The Tongue Twister Challenge Game ➼ Targets CLEAR SPEECH Helps children learn to use natural prosody (rate of speech, volume, intonation, pausing, and fluency.  Provides practice to learn to say each syllable and speech sound carefully and precisely. ➼ Develop AUDITORY skills. Uses the auditory feedback loop. Increases auditory memory and recall. Builds strong phonological awareness skills. ➼ Broadens LANGUAGE skills. Teach the vocabulary used in the tongue twisters. Reinforces grammar, synonyms, antonyms, and more. ➼ Encourages SOCIAL skills. Kids practice saying tongue twisters to each other while gaining confidence and interacting in the game. The Tongue Twister Challenge Game is great for             ✧ Tongue Twister Tuesdays     ✧ 1:1 Sessions      ✧ Small Groups      ✧ Class Game      ✧ Home Practice      ✧ Skill Practice or Review Includes: • Challenge game cards • 12 Twist game cards • 50 tongue twisters • Listen & Spoken Language Tips  ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ CUSTOMER TIPS ➼ Questions? EMAIL ME before purchasing this resource or anytime later. ♥ Sign up HERE for the Listen With Lynn Emails ♥ Let’s Connect Instagram Facebook Keep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way. Thanks so much! Lynn Wood

Describes how adjectives help us more clearly visualize the person, place or thing being described. Includes activities, book suggestions, and 9 worksheets to develop use of adjectives in speech and w ... riting. Worksheets include: adjective picture cards for pre-k and K-1; color and describe a chair; using comparative and superlative adjectives; create an adjective bank; using cumulative and coordinate adjectives for advanced readersGives an adjective rubric and sample IEP goals.

These instructional strategies and activities are designed to introduce and/or reteach identifying syllables. Activities include change the vowel, change the word, number or sounds v. number of letter ... s, and number of syllables.

Information for teachers about the auditory / acoustic components of phonemic awareness, including similarities among vowels and among consonants. Activities include vowel & consonant perception, phon ... eme isolation(initial, medial and final consonants), phoneme segmentation, and phoneme manipulation. Six levels of difficulty are addressed. Teacher scripts, including 91 word prompts and 108 picture cards.

Listening for vowels can be difficult for students with hearing loss. That's why I created this simple vowel sorting activity for Google Slides. This prep-free resource is a perfect way to practice li ... stening to long and short vowels, in beginning, medial, and final positions. And because it's formatted for Google Slides, it's compatible with Ipads, Chromebooks, and Smart Boards.What's Included:A PDF with a link to save the activity to your Google DriveTeacher's notes with answer keyThis resource features 3 sorts:(1) long vowels vs. short vowels with 16 vowel sounds(2) short vowel sounds with 20 vowel sounds(3) long vowel sounds with 17 vowel soundsStudents will say or listen to each target word and drag to where it goes on each slide.

Letter–sound association supports comprehension of the written word. Includes instructional strategies and 3 worksheets.