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Homework Policy
Speech Homework is not mandatory; however, if you ever want to graduate from speech you MUST practice and review of what is done in speech class at home. Materials sent home focus on skills your child has acquired in the speech therapy room. Additional practice in other settings helps to generalize and habituate new sounds/motor speech patterns. Think about the last time you tried to change a habit or learn a new skill- it's not easy to do!
Please check your child's speech folder to see what we did in speech during the week! Folders should stay in the backpack and be brought to class on your child's assigned day. If you cannot locate your child's speech folder or see it infrequently, e-mail me. Also, if any of the practice sheets from this web page are completed at home, have your child bring it in to me. Please spend at least 5 minutes per day reviewing your child's speech folder or notebook. Thanks for your involvement in your child's progress!
Articulation
Read the stories aloud using good speech on your target sound.Follow the steps to either use a pre-written story or to write your own story. If you choose to write your own:-
Step 1: “Write your own story”.
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Step 2: “Choose your target sound”.
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Step 3: Write the story.
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Step 4: If you would like to share your story, click the button, if not print it out to use for practice with your sound.
Language
Language homework may be simply a language worksheet which emphasizes the goals we are currently working on in therapy. Your child can also draw a picture or bring a momento of an event to facilitate sharing in class. Again, the student simply needs to complete the worksheet and bring it back on the due date. Please sign the homework log so your child can get a stamp. For extra stamps, try the weblinks below.
Students are asked to complete 2 activities per week which will be sent home in the folder. Of course, they may complete more if they would like. An adult must help the student with the activity to make sure that it is being completed accurately. Some of the activities may be too difficult or too easy for your child. If this is the case, then you can modify the activity by asking easier questions, asking more difficult questions, using different vocabulary, offering choices, giving models, showing pictures, or another modification.
Journals
Monthly Homework Calendars
Grammar:
Includes:
- adjectives
- plurals
- pronouns
- verbs
Vocabulary:
http://www.quia.com/pages/worldowords.html
Includes:
- associations
- antonyms (opposites)
- categories
- homonyms
- idioms
- multiple meaning words
- same & different
- synonyms
- WH questions
- vocabulary
Information and ideas to help your child with word finding
www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html
Inferences
Extra Homework
Speech Tx: http://www.speechtx.com/
This website provides resources and activities to facilitate speech and language skills.
- This website provides activities to download and print, resources and valuable links.
Fluency
Video for kids by kids who stutter
Voice
http://www.communicationconnects.com/parent_activities.asp
Teacher sites at the top ... scroll down for online storybooks and games for children of all ages http://www.iage.com/section2.html#speced
- Homework tips for parents of children with learning disabilities
- Super Ideas for Speech and Language Skills
Auditory Processing
- Ideas and Information on Working Memory
- www.brainconnection.com
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) Modifications for Home & School
- Information on CAPD and the link between home and school
- Listening to learn-help with auditory processing
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Journal letter.doc
fluency.pdf