Today for Marvelous Monday, I am not going to tell you about a product.  Rather, I am going to tell you about one of my favorite things to use on my iPad- Guided Access! Have you ever directed your student to an app, and they quickly push a few buttons and are out of the activity?  Their progress and data are sometimes lost when they do this.  Guided Access can solve this problem for you. To enable guided access on your computer, you just have to follow a few simple steps. ENABLING GUIDED ACCESS First, launch your settings app.     1. Tap “General” 2. Scroll down and tap “Accessibility."   Scroll down and under Learning, tap “Guided Access”.     1. Slide on “Guided Access”. 2. Tap “Set Passcode”.     Type in a 4 number passcode.   Now you are ready to use Guided Access with one of your favorite apps! USING GUIDED ACCESS First, select and open the app that you want to use guided access with.  I am going to use it with Auditory...

I really liked how my Auditory Circus came out.  My students enjoyed the theme, and I liked having some new stories for them to retell.  I decided to make another set similar to this called... Auditory Farm!  (click here for my TpT link) The activities are very similar to Auditory Circus, but with a different theme.  The first activity is Auditory Memory For Sentences.  Students are asked to repeat a sentence exactly as it is read to them.  Sentences are 10-14 syllables long.  If the students get the sentence correct, they can move a game piece on the game board provided. The next activity is Barnyard Riddles.  You read the clues out loud, and the students guess what the farm item is.  If they get it correct, they can put their card in their "barn."  I have not used this packet with students at school yet, but my six year old was begging for me to read more of these riddles to him! The third activity is Auditory Memory for Farm Stories.  Each sto...

As you might already know, I work with a Kindergarten intervention group, and our focus is on phonemic awareness skills.  In this group, I mainly focus on using literature to target the phonemic awareness skills of syllables, rhyming, and sound awareness.  We work together for a half hour, four times a week.  When we get back from the break, we are going to use the story The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.  I have created a companion pack of activities to accompany the story. The Snowy Day Phonemic Awareness Companion Pack is available at my Teachers Pay Teachers store.  How Many Syllables- This is a worksheet activity that focuses on counting the number of syllables of words from the book. Blending Syllables- This is one of three activities that can be played with the game board.  Students are asked to listen to two syllables, and then state the word that they hear. Generating Rhyme- Students are given a word, and asked to state a word that rhymes with it. ...

I finished my new bulletin board for the year this afternoon.  I am always looking for ways that students can have a fun way of identifying their goals.  In 2013, we are going to write our "Speecholutions"!  I thought this would be a fun way of identifying goals.  I already wrote mine and added it to the board.  Here is a picture of my bulletin board: Here is a link to the pages students will write their goals on:  "Speecholutions" Have fun if you use these with your students! Wishing everyone a very relaxing break! Jen ...

In Michigan, it has been dreary, without any snow.  I needed a little pick-me-up of color!  I made Auditory Circus to target auditory memory for sentences, riddles, and stories.  This activity pack contains four different activities. The first one is Auditory Memory for Sentences.  I have a few students with ASD who really benefit from repetition of auditory sentences of increasing length.  They have done really well with this activity.  There is also a game board included with this activity that could really be used as a reinforcer for any card based activity that you are working on.        The second activity is Big Top Riddles.  Students listen to three clues, and have to guess what the item is.  If they get it correct, they can keep the card and put it on their "big top" mat.       The third activity is Auditory Memory for Circus Stories.  These are two to three sentence detailed stories with three questions for each story.     ...