Special Education

GRADES K-5

LANGUAGE PRACTICE

• Play “I spy”/ ”Headbandz”/” Guess Who” using describing words (soft/long/bumpy/noisy, etc.)

• Play “Go Fish”/ Memory/ Charades/ Pictionary/ Googly eyes- all of these games are great for targeting memory, vocabulary, and expressive language while having fun

• WH questions: Ask your child a variety of WH (who, what, when, where, why, how) about shows, their day, games, or stories you have read with them. Have your child retell stories in their own words.

*If your child has limited verbal skills or is on an AAC system, please have them use their device with all of these activities as well!

ARTICULATION

• Find words within a book that contain your speech sound. Practice the sound five times.

• Work on a puzzle: when you’ve found a match, drill your speech sound 3-5 times.

• Find five items that are green that contain your target speech sound and practice production of each sound.

• When watching a show or playing a video game, talk about characters that have names containing your speech sound. Practice the sound five times.

• When eating dinner, discuss any of the foods that contain your speech sound. Practice the sound five times.

HELPFUL LINKS & BLOGS

Parent Articulation Handout

Speech and Language Kids

Speech and Language Kids Podcast

Mommy Speech Therapy

5 Minute Speech Activities

GRADES 6-8

• Speech, Language, & Fluency Practice

• Home Practice Follow the directions on the pages that apply to you. “Speech Sounds- All Ages & Grades” & “Upper Elementary & Older Students Language Skills”

• Articulation Word Lists Use these words to practice the sounds you work on in speech.

• Video Companion Use this video companion to practice your language skills after watching one of the suggested YouTube videos.

• Speech & Language Resources

• Parent-Student Conversation Starters

• Have dinner as a family, discuss your day (two good things and one thing you can do better then next day)

• Skype/Facetime other family members and friends

• Write a letter to a nursing home resident, military member

• Create a care package for neighbor/those in need

• Assist with jobs around the house

• Play board games and card games

• Create an obstacle course using household items

• Fold laundry together

• Put away groceries and toys together

HELPFUL LINKS & BLOGS

Social emotional calendar Grades K-5

Junior High SEL Ideas Grades 6-8

PBS Kids - Feelings

Emotional ABCs

Stop, Breathe, and Think

Mindful Powers for Kids

Cuirej's Character Corner

Heavy Work for Sensory Regulation and Calming

Tactile (Touch) Sensory Activities For Home

Indoor Gross Sensory-Motor Activities

Your Therapy Source

Your Kids Table

Meraki Lane - Heavy Work Activities

Meraki Mother - Sensory Activities

In addition to grade level materials, try these resources:

Grades K-2

• www.n2y.com Username and passwords have been sent to parents.

• Activities on individual Boardmaker Online accounts Username and passwords have been sent to parents

• Reread leveled Reading A-Z books from home library

• Complete Individual Homework Calendar

• Practice writing first and last name

• Practice writing letters with playdoh. Use your finger, a pencil, or form the letters with your hands.

• Find a picture in a book. Write a topic sentence about the picture with 1-2 supporting details.

• Identify time to the hour using analogue and digital clocks

• Measure items to the nearest inch using a ruler

• Pick three items. Put them in order from shortest to longest.

• Make a pictograph with your stuffed animals.

• Practice adding addends 0-9 with the use of manipulatives, household items, or Touch Points.

• Listen to books on Storyline Online

• Sign up for Vooks - Storybooks Brought to Life

• Activities on Do2Learn

• Activities on Starfall

• Activities on ABCya

• Printable resources

• Scholastic Classroom Magazine

• Mystery Science

In addition to grade level materials, try these resources:

Kindergarten

• Practice sight words

  • Build sight words with playdough, wiki sticks, pipe cleaners

  • Rainbow write (rewrite the letter in a different color each time)

  • Rearrange letter cards to make the sight word

• Work on reading CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, identifying letter sounds, identifying uppercase/lowercase letters, beginning/middle/ending sounds

• Practice writing first/last name

• Copy sentences using correct capitalization, spacing, and punctuation

• Read leveled Reading A-Z books

• Play Bingo with sight words, letters, CVC words, etc.

• When reading a story aloud, encourage your child to point to each word while you read, repeat the sentence after you, find sight words on the page that they recognize, turn the page for you, talk about the story as you read it (‘wh’ questions, make predictions, characters’ feelings, etc.)

Grades 1-2

Freckle

Class Code: q3kfwj

• Work on skills in ELA and math

• Practice reading at home, spelling words, and reading sight words.

• Practice handwriting/writing complete sentences

SplashLearn

• -click class

• -class code: FOYWYY

• Practice basic math facts for addition and subtraction

• Practice adding with and without regrouping

• Practice subtracting with and without regrouping

In addition to grade level materials, try these resources:

After reading or listening to a passage, story, or book:

• Ask students questions related to specific skill areas:

  • sequence of events

  • Fact or opinion

  • Summarize compare and contrast

  • Identify main ideas

  • Basic comprehension questions

• Make a movie/act out a portion of the book

• Watch the movie version of a story

• Make a youttube review of a book or story

• Complete task related to new or unfamiliar vocabulary:

  • Make a list of unfamiliar words and define them

  • Make a graffiti wall with new vocabulary words

  • Make word clouds on line with new vocabulary and related words.

  • Vocabulary.com

After giving students multistep directions:

• Have them repeat back the sequence of the directions

• Have them complete the task or activity

• Or have them list the directions for an activity:

  • Give a demonstration of something like(making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich) while explaining the steps

  • Have them show a younger sibling how to do a play something, focusing on clear language.

Take a virtual field or watch a movie about a place:

• Compare that place to Manhattan

• Recall significant landmarks or facts

• Do further research related to the place

• Come up with persuasive arguments(written or video) to visit the place

Word and Spelling related games:

• Scrabble

• Boggle

• Bananagrams

• Scattergories

• Apples to Apples

Simply practice conversations maintaining a topic

In the Kitchen:

• • Have students measure ingredients

  • Have students work with fractions

Around the house:

• • Help paying bills, adding and subtracting

  • Measuring with a tape measure area and perimeter

  • battleship

Grades 3-5

• 3rd Grade Math 4th Grade Math 5th Grade Math

• 4th Grade Vocabulary

• 4th Grade Science 5th Grade Science

• Author's Purpose Main Idea Summarizing

• Writing Practice Sight Words

Grades 6-8

**IXL(https://www.ixl.com/): all the SI students have an IXL account

**Read Write Think(http://www.readwritethink.org/)-go to parent and after school resources

**NewsELA (https://newsela.com/) -level articles high interest levels

**Common Core Sheets has thousands of worksheets to reinforce skills

In addition to grade level materials, try these resources:

Grades 3-5

www.n2y.com

• Username and passwords have been sent to parents. Podcast has been posted on bloomz on how to access and work through the online source.

• Read Picture book stories with the students- increase engagement by having them point to pictures, asking comprehension questions in a field of two.

www.vooks.com/parent-resources

• Sign up for parent resources (free) using this link.

The two following links are free lesson plans for parents to use during the school closure to assist students:

Reading Lessons

Reading Lessons

STARFall website/ app- please contact Ms. Gurnea for full access to the site.

Websites:

https://www.storylineonline.net/

https://reading.ecb.org/index.html

https://do2learn.com/

https://www.readingrockets.org/atoz

https://www.adaptedmind.com/index.php

https://www.arcademics.com/

https://learningally.org/Browse-Audiobooks

https://lescapadou.com/LEscapadou_-_Fun_and_Educational_applications_for_iPad_and_IPhone/Montessori_Numbers_-_Math_Activities_for_Kids_on_iPad_and_iPhone.html

http://aaamath.com/

https://do2learn.com/

https://www.adaptedmind.com/index.php

https://www.arcademics.com/

Grades 6-8

Reading/Writing

• Practice sight words

• Read picture books or chapter books and ask questions as you read.

• Write a sentence about what you read.

• Watch a movie version of a book.

Math

• Help measure ingredients while cooking meals

• Practice addition/subtraction math facts

• Practice sorting objects

• Practice counting money