Summary:
- Book Reading
- Talk about vocabulary in pictures
- Ask questions about story and pictures
- Retell portions of the story for grammar
- Talk about the social situations and expected behavior
- Ask the child to point to various things in the book for following directions
- Listen for words that contain the child’s speech sounds and practice when they come up
- Play Dough
- Use cookie cutters to talk about vocabulary or build something and have the child guess what it is
- Ask questions about what the child is doing
- Make letters out of play dough and then practice words with that sound
- Act out and describe scenarios with the play dough to target grammar
- Practice play skills and interaction skills while working together with play dough
- Ask the child to follow directions with the play dough
- Puzzles
- Name objects or talk about what the picture may be
- Ask questions about the picture on the puzzle
- Have the child practice his speech sounds 5x before he gets the next piece
- Describe the picture or the pieces with full sentences to target grammar
- Have children work together to complete the puzzle
- Have children follow directions with the pieces of the puzzle
- Game
- Label the parts of the game and the actions necessary to complete
- Ask questions about the board/game
- Have the child practice his speech words so many times before his turn
- Have the child describe the rules of the game and game play using good grammar
- Talk about how to be a good winner/loser and how to take turns
- Give the child directions to follow for set up, tear down, and game play
- Marble Works
- Talk about the different tracks and marbles, use some describing words
- Ask questions about what the ball is doing or how the child is setting up the tracks
- Have the child practice his speech sound 5x before getting the next track or marble
- Have the child describe what is happening in full sentences to practice grammar
- Have the children work together to create something using good social language
- Have the children follow directions to create something