This week, I had a lot of fun working with the book Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson .  I love the Bear series of books, they are just so sweet! To work with this book, I used an awesome book companion by Shannon over at Speechy Musings .  You can check out this companion HERE! This story really is very sweet.  It is about a bear who is hibernating while his animal friends have a party in his cave without him.  He eventually wakes up and realizes he has missed a lot of the fun.  Spoiler alert!  Don't worry, his friends console him, and he gets to join in too. Let me tell you about my the activities from the book companion that I used this week.  First of all, Shannon put some great cover cards in this packet to use to organize all of the cards.  Look here next week to see how I organize all of my book companions now.  These cover cards are a great way to keep your materials organized.  There are six different activities in this packet: Comprehension Conversation Start...

As some of you know, I am basically obsessed with using book companions in therapy.  I love the versatility of using the book to target a variety of goals and objectives in one session.  Teachers and administrators love that I am using real literature in my therapy.  The skills that we target with books always translate into skills in the classroom. So, because of my slight huge obsession with book companions, I got together with some of my other SLP blogger friends and have started a new weekly feature on my blog called: Getting Speechie with a Good Book!  This weekly feature will highlight one book companion from a fellow blogger each week.  I will show how I used the book companion with my students, and let you know what their favorite parts were. This week is my first installment of this feature.  This week we read the book  If You Take A Mouse To The Movies , by Laura Numeroff, and used the book companion from Mindy Stenger of the Speech Bucket. This book is one of my f...

I have two winter themed freebies for you! Winter Yes/No Questions The first one is a new pack that I just created for a little guy I am working with.  It focuses on yes/no questions.  There are three types: "Do they match?" "Is this a ____?" and "Can you ____?" The second freebie is an oldie but a goodie: Winter People Sentences: A 3rd person pronoun use game In this activity, there are three mats with visual sentence starters:     There are also three mats that do not have the sentence starter: There are 24 item cards that you can cut out and place on the mats: Thanks for letting me share my winter freebies!  I hope you and your students enjoy using them.  Please link back to Busy Bee Speech for links to  a whole lot of great winter and holiday themed freebies!...

So, I have articulation students coming out of my ears!  I can't even believe how many students I have found this year.  I dread going into the teachers lounge, because every time I do I hear, "Hey Jen, there's this student I want you to listen to.."  Well, I have taken an RTI approach with the majority of the these new finds, and am seeing them in small groups.  I want to get most of them out as quickly as I can, and in order for me to do that, I need them to really understand why they are with me. At a recent staff meeting, my principal started talking about learning targets.  She said that they are a bit different from Common Core "I can" statements, in that they are very specific about their target goal.  They basically break down a Common Core goal into smaller pieces so that students can understand exactly what is expected of them.  I found this quote in an article titled "Knowing Your Learning Target" by Connie M. Moss, Susan M. Brookhart ...