Mrs. Horton-McGinley Speech-Language Pathologist

Dear Parents:

In an effort to provide your child with Speech and Language skills during the extended school closure the following activities may be utilized :

• Please review your child's Speech-Language folder for sound production and/or listening comprehension/oral language activities.
• Websites for Speech and Language activities are accessible by clicking on "More" at the top of this website and on Classlink (BrainPop Jr. and Learning A-Z). The Hearbuilder Program (Phonological Awareness, Following Directions, Auditory Memory and Sequencing) is available and can be accessed with a student login.
• I am available everyday (Monday-Friday) from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. to answer questions, respond to phone calls and to return e-mails messages.
• IEP students will be contacted for Google Hangout sessions
• Other Suggested Activities:

• Have your child say 5 sentences with words containing his/her sound.

Have your child tell you about his/her day in correct sequence. Monitor grammar.

• Find 10 words with your child's sound in the speech folder for practice .

Read a paragraph to your child and then ask wh-questions about it.

• Have your child pick an object and try to describe it using words with his/her sound.

Read a short story to your child and discuss the beginning, middle and end.

• Provide a mirror for your child to monitor sound production.

Read a paragraph with your child and monitor his/her sound production.

Have your child tell you a story about a friend with a beginning, middle and end.

• Say a word to your child and have him/her tell you where his/her target sound is in the word or whether the word contains the sound. Then have your child generate sentences containing the target sound.

Have your child talk about a topic of his/her choice or discuss the pros and cons of making a decision.

• As your child is speaking, listen for correct production of the target sound.

After watching a TV show, ask your child question about what happened. Listen for appropriate responses and good grammatical organization.

• Read a book with your child and have him/her identify words with his/her target sound in the text.

Have your child discuss alternative endings to a fictional story verbally.

• Describe a word to your child that contains his/her target sound. Let your child guess which word you are describing.

Have your child generate at least three clues for an object. You guess the word.

• Use a RAZ Kids story for practicing target sounds

Answer the comprehension questions about that story.

• Play a Brain Pop video and count how many times you hear a word with your sound.

Tell your parent some facts you learned from the Brain Pop video using your good sentences.

• Pick out a page from your child's speech-folder and have him/her practice the words on the page.

Pick out a paragraph from the speech-language folder and have your child retell it .

• Have your child say 5 words with his/her target sound in mixed positions and use them in sentences.

Have your child generate words which are synonyms/antonyms.

• Have your child guess which words with his/her sound you are describing.

Have your child tell you a story with a beginning, middle and end. Listen for use of grammatically correct sentences and proper organization.

• Have your child say 10 words with his/her sound.

Read sentences to your child and ask your child questions about them​