My students need to improve their vocabulary skills which Vocabulary Builder, Games for Vocabulary Practice, and 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know will help them to do.
Speech and language therapy needs to be fun as well as educational for my children.
I work with a variety of children in our Long Island school district from kindergarten to high school.
These children have a variety of experiential needs. They work very hard but need to have a fun experience during our speech and language sessions.
Since the children have limited exposure to vocabulary at home, they need to have a way to develop these skills at school and that is what these items will help them with.
My Project
By using these games during sessions, the children can begin to use their skills in a variety of contexts and environments. Their vocabulary skills will improve. Their ability to show good group skills, like clarification responses, will improve. They can practice their vocabulary skills in a game based setting.
These vocabulary books and games will help a great deal by supplementing the speech and language sessions and by helping with the carryover of our goals. Much of the difficulty of speech therapy is in getting the children to use their skills outside of the therapy setting. By using their skills during game playing, they will get better at using their skills in many different settings.
My project will help improve my classroom by giving me and the children a better way to carryover vocabulary to conversational settings and to have fun while doing so.
I have found that the children enjoy games during therapy and do not realize that they are learning. However, they are learning a great deal.
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