Pre-Plan for December Events in Speech and Language

  • You are receiving this email because you have students with speech and/or language IEP’s. We would appreciate your support during our family traditions theme for the month of November. Please include this attachment to the bottom of your weekly letter that you are sending home for your students this Monday. Thank you for all of your support.
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  • This month is very special for many reasons. The most important is the focus on family and traditions.We will be requesting information from each student regarding a favorite/unique tradition the family participates in during this month.
  • The literature will focus on: The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers
  • Classroom teachers will send out an email regarding this request. If youdo not wish to share please be sure to let us know this with a return email to:
  • For the involvement of family, we have postedthe entire lesson plan to our speech and language website: Please discuss with your child by 12-12-11, an annual family tradition that you and your family participate in. It could be a special recipe or it could be a special event. With this we will discuss the speech sounds important to your child, the language involved, vocabulary and an explanation as to why tradition is so important to each one of us.

We will focus on: Fiction, sequencing, multiple animal species, old fashioned animal crackers, rhyming, comparison and contrast, irregular and regular past tense verbs.

  • Sequencing: directions for decorating the Gingerbread Girl or boy
  • Story retell:
  • Vocabulary:
  • Extensive words throughout the story
  • Tradition
  • Speech Sounds:

***1st Day/Therapy Sesssion- Oral reading of the Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers to include:

  • K-1 focus will be: story genre, sequencing, rhyming, past tense verbs, comparing and contrasting
  • Grades 2-6 will be: story genre, comparing and contrasting other Gingerbread stories, Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary words, story retell
  • Text Talk strategies will be used to highlight Tier 2 and Tier 3 words extensively throughout the story. Text Talk is a research based program designed to promote vocabulary and comprehension by Dr. Isabel L. Beck and Dr. Margaret G. McKeown.
  • Speech Sounds: Articulation students will practice sound production during and after the story with specific target words to meet their individual IEP goals.

***2nd Day/Therapy session: Sequencing: directions for decorating the Gingerbread Girl or boy

3rd Day/Therapy Sessions-discuss compare and contrast from original Gingerbread Girl book