Have a preschool aged child (age 3-5) with speech/language and/or other concerns?  Please visit this website to learn about District 58's free developmental screenings offered throughout the school year. 

Summer Activities:

• End of year letter and a blog post with many speech and language activities to prevent the "summer slide" for speech and language skills.  Many of them also include reading so you can target 2 skills at once!

• 5 speech tips for summer.

• Chalk:

  • • Articulation: Draw pictures and write words containing speech sounds.

    • Language: 

      • • Draw a scene and ask "wh-" questions (who, what, where, when, why) about the picture.  Have you or your child make a story about the picture and then ask questions about the story.  

        • Draw  a variety of things that:  go together, are in the same category, are opposites, etc.

    • Following Directions: Give your child directions of how to draw something or tell the different steps to make a picture scene.

    • Social Language: Work together to make a picture scene and take turns adding different details. 

• Bubbles: Take turns blowing and popping bubbles. Talk about their different sizes and shapes.  Also talk about where and how the bubbles pop. 

• Play "I Spy" and when it's your turn try to pick something that has your child's sound in it.  If he/she is working on /s/ or /s/ blends, make sure he/she says, "spy" correctly.  If working on /l/ or "th," use the phrase, "I spy with my little eye..."

• Other activities (that can be done in the car, at the pool, at home,  or traveling anywhere) can be found at Home Speech Home.

• Use the word list below to target words with your child's speech sounds in them.  Have him/her practice saying the words and making sentences with the words in them.  For younger kids, give them clues as to what the word is or find pictures that go with the words.  

• Use the activity calendars in the section above for a variety of other speech and language activities.

• Reading based activities are a great way to work on speech-language and reading skills at the same time!  Please check out these free Read Works passages based on grade level.  These are great for targeting language comprehension by asking questions and great for articulation by having the student practice saying words with their speech sounds in them. 

• Have fun! :)