tinyeye: classroom themes to boost speech and language skills
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The list of tips provides a general age-range when word errors may be considered normal or“age-appropriate” for a specific age.Written by Marnee Brick, Speech-Language Pathologist, and Director of Speech Therapy for TinyEYE Therapy Services.TinyEYE provides Speech-Language Pathologists via Telepractice. SLPs connect to students online via TinyEYE.com with headsets and web cameras. Therapy is facilitated by TinyEYE's growing base of Speech Therapy computer games.If your School District is having trouble hiring Speech-Language Pathologists or if you are a Speech-Language Pathologist who would like to work from home with flexible hours, feel free to get in touch.Give TinyEYE a call at 1-877-846-9393 or send an email via our website: http://www.TinyEYE.comTRANSCRIPT
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Quick TipsThemes
Incorporating themes into the curriculum provides a planned redundancy to help the children learn new vocabulary and encourage ongoing joint planning and discussion.
Theme: Airplanes
Ideas for Goals:
• Learn and use new and familiar vocabulary• Learn and use new and familiar sentence structures• Interact with peers• Sequence familiar outcomes• Expand knowledge about the world
Incorporating the Theme into Centers and Activities
• Dramatic Play – Airplaneo Materials : Seatbelts (men’s ties), luggage, cash
register, tickets, envelops, counter, instrument panel, chairs, pilot hat, trays, plates and glasses with pretend food, dolls, carts, maps, globes, travel magazines
o Roles : Pilot and co-pilot, flight attendants, passengers, clerks at the ticket counter, security check
o Sequences : planning and packing, buying tickets, going through security, handing over the boarding pass, boarding the plane, asking for help to find a seat and buckling up, enjoying a beverage, looking out the window at the world below, serving passengers, flying the plane, landing, de-boarding, experiencing the new location before returning home…
o Select your words based on the developmental level of the children. For children who are just
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starting to use words, you will provide a simpler model than for more developed language users:
• “We’re coming in for a landing so fasten your seatbelts” vs “Plane’s landing!”
• “Do you want a beverage?” vs “Drink please”
• “May I see your ticket?” vs “Ticket?”
o Set-out toy airplanes (Little People/Barbie/Fisher Price…) so that children can re-create experiences with dolls/toy people. (Ask parents if you can borrow one for a week)
• Art o Paper airplanes
• Story o The Tripo Books and magazines depicting planes and air travel
destinations
• Groupo Measure how far the planes flewo Explore different sizes, sounds, and purposes of
airplaneso Talk about personal experiences on airplanes
• Music (to ‘I’m a Little Teapot’)I’m a Little Airplane, long and wide
I have a nose, a tail and
Two wings on my sides
When everyone is sitting
It’s time to try -
Buckle up and watch me fly!
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