Just Speechy! Freebie

Happy Saturday!

I hope you had a wonderful week!

We just wrapped up our third week of school. It doesn't feel like three weeks, it feels like three months! Not because time is dragging, but because I've learned SO much from my new caseload of precious students. I've learned about their strengths and their challenges. I've learned how awesome and unique they are :)

I've also learned a whole heck of a lot about language development! Yes, I've even gone down to the basement this week to dig out my old speech and development textbooks!

I've been busy creating and testing language tools to help support my students. I'll be sharing what I'm using and learning about with my new series:

Just Speechy!

Hopefully you'll find tools to help your learners, too!

I want to kick it off with this freebie I'm using to developing conversational dialogue with students I'm working with who have autism. I printed pages 2-5 on assorted cardstock to provide color-coded visual support. Page 1 has all eight carrier sentences on one page (in case you want to skip the color-coding).

Here's a glimpse of the assembled dialogue sentence strips:

I wrote in the appropriate responses (individualized for each student) using a permanent marker. I suggest laminating the strips first, so if you make a mistake like I did, you can use nail polish remover to "erase" the marker and try again :)

Download the freebie here!

Gotta run...I have a date with my BFF:

And before I forget...

if you're keeping track, here's Day 5 (& variations):

Have a wonderful weekend!