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30 Vocabulary Goals for Speech Therapy (Based on Research)

Need some ideas for vocabulary goals for speech therapy? If you’re feeling stuck, keep on reading! In this post, I’ll provide some suggestions you could use for writing iep goals for vocabulary and semantics. This blog post provides a list of vocabulary-based iep goals that should be modified for each individual student. They can serve as a way to get ideas flowing! Not only that, but I’ll also share some strategies for vocabulary intervention. Vocabulary skills are an important skill to work on in speech therapy!

30 vocabulary goals for speech therapy (includes an iep goal bank for school SLPs)

Goal Bank of Ideas

If you’re a school speech pathologist, then you know you’re going to have a huge pile of paperwork!

We have a lot going on, and it can be helpful to have a suggested list of vocabulary goals that you can modify in order to meet the needs of your students.

Many times, we know what we need to write a goal for, but finding the right wording can be tricky.

Needless to say, it can be very helpful to have a goal bank that can provide a starting point for ideas. *** Please note, the article linked in this paragraph is a general goal bank- keep scrolling for vocabulary-specific goals!

Please note, the goals in the goal bank are just that: ideas. We must always, of course, write goals that are individualized to our students . Which isn’t easy, and takes a lot of your SLP knowledge and expertise into account!

How to Write Measurable IEP Goals

It’s very helpful to learn the SMART framework for writing specific and measurable IEP goals . There are some CEU courses available for SLPs. This ceu course discusses writing SMARTer goals. Likewise, this course also discusses IEP goal writing.

SMART stands for:

Learn more about the SMART framework here .

Reference: Diehm, Emily. “Writing Measurable and Academically Relevant IEP Goals with 80% Accuracy over Three Consecutive Trials.” Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups , vol. 2, no. 16, 2017, pp. 34–44., https://doi.org/10.1044/persp2.sig16.34.

Reference: staff, n2y. “Tips for Writing and Understanding Smart Iep Goals: N2Y Blog.” n2y , 22 Feb. 2021, https://www.n2y.com/blog/smart-iep-goals/.

Target Vocabulary Words: Where to Start

It can be tricky to know where to begin when it comes to vocabulary intervention! However, vocabulary practice is important!

The first step for some children may be learning core vocabulary . If your student needs to work on functional communication, this is a great place to start. I like to teach core vocabulary during play or throughout a child’s school day.

Both younger children and older children, however, will greatly benefit from exposure and explicit instruction to a variety of Tier II vocabulary words.

What are Tier II vocabulary words? These are words that are used by more advanced language users, and they can be used across a variety of contexts. An example of a tier II vocabulary word is ‘observe’. Research tells us that Tier II vocabulary words are exceptionally important for reading comprehension.

Speech-language pathologists don’t need to wait until a child is older to work on Tier II vocabulary! Even preschool students can benefit from the exposure and explicit instruction during speech therapy sessions. A great activity for younger students might involve using picture books that contain tier II vocabulary words. Or, use a wordless book and the possibilities are endless!

Tier 1 vocabulary words are everyday words that your student likely has had a lot of exposure to naturally. The word ‘table’, for example, is a Tier 1 vocabulary word.

Tier III vocabulary words are domain-specific words. These could be the type of words that are taught during math or science.

References:

Beck, I. L., McKeown, M. G., & Kucan, L. (2002). Bringing words to life: Robust vocabulary instruction . New York, NY: The Guilford.

Boshart, Char. “Exploring Vocabulary Interventions and Activities From Preschool Through Adolescence”. . SpeechTherapyPD.com.

Vocabulary Strategies for Intervention

Need a great way to implement vocabulary instruction? How about 15 great ideas to encourage vocabulary knowledge and development? These best practices for vocabulary building skills are based on research and can be used with a preschool student, an elementary school student, or a middle school or high school student.

Your students with language disorders will no doubt benefit from vocabulary intervention. Vocabulary intervention, along with grammar and sentence structure intervention , is an important component of reading comprehension success.

Vocabulary intervention can- and should- be fun and meaningful. So don’t hesitate to read engaging books, break out a sensory bin, or play games! Check out this list of recommended board games for speech therapy .

15 Effective Vocabulary Strategies Based on Research

The following ways may be fun ways to incorporate vocabulary activities and vocabulary intervention into speech therapy sessions:

Select a small number of tier II words to focus on during your session, perhaps 3-5.
Don’t be afraid to repeat those words- repetition is important!
Keep your student actively engaged. Engaged learners will retain more information!
If reading a story aloud, stop and have active discussions. It’s okay to take lots of time to finish the story, even across consecutive sessions.
Have your student say the word aloud multiple times- this is called “phonological rehearsal”.
Have your student write out the vocabulary target word.
Have your student draw a picture to explain the definition of the target word. Keep the picture card and collect them and review them.
Make sure to explain the definition in child-friendly terms.
Have your student generate their own sentence and definition using the vocabulary word.
Act out the word’s meaning.
Don’t forget about the importance of morphological awareness and knowledge. Discuss prefixes, suffixes, and word roots.
Talk about word relationships, synonyms, antonyms, or multiple-meaning words.
Discuss similarities and differences between targeted vocabulary words.
Print out a picture of an object (to represent the target vocabulary word) and color it or paint it!
Try concept mapping .

This is a vocabulary activity for speech therapy. It can be used with elementary students.

Robust is a must | The Informed SLP. (2023). Retrieved 19 March 2023, from https://www.theinformedslp.com/review/robust-is-a-must

Vocabulary intervention: Start here | The Informed SLP. (2023). Retrieved 19 March 2023, from https://www.theinformedslp.com/review/vocabulary-intervention-start-here

Vocabulary intervention for at-risk adolescents | The Informed SLP. (2023). Retrieved 19 March 2023, from https://www.theinformedslp.com/review/vocabulary-intervention-for-at-risk-adolescents

Speech Therapy Goals for Vocabulary and Semantics

Writing goals can be a tough task, but it is so important. Well-written goals and having a structured activity or interactive activity in mind can also be helpful for data collection.

Here are some vocabulary iep goals that a speech therapist might use to generate some ideas for a short-term goal! As a reminder, these are simply ideas. Think of this as an informal iep goal bank. A speech pathologist will modify as needed for an individual student!

Also, don’t hesitate to scroll back up to read about writing measurable goals (i.e. SMART goals). You will want to add information such as the level of accuracy, what types of cues (such as visual cues, or perhaps a verbal cue), and what level of cueing (i.e. minimal cues). Don’t forget how beneficial a graphic organizer can be while working on communication skills!

Vocabulary Goal Bank of Ideas

using a total communication approach (which may include but is not limited to a communication device, communication board, signing, pictures, gestures, words, or word approximations), Student will imitate single words or simple utterances containing core vocabulary in order to…. (choose a pragmatic function: request, request assistance, describe the location or direction of objects, describe an action, etc.)
using a total communication approach, generate simple sentences containing core vocabulary in order to… (choose a pragmatic function to finish the objective, such as direct the action of others, request, describe actions, etc.)
label common objects or pictured objects (nouns)
label pictured actions (verbs)
answer basic wh questions to demonstrate comprehension of basic concepts related to…. (location, quantity, quality, time)
generate semantically and syntactically correct spoken or written sentences for targeted tier II vocabulary words
use a target tier II vocabulary word in a novel spoken or written sentence
provide synonyms for targeted vocabulary words
provide antonyms for targeted vocabulary words
provide at least two definitions for multiple-meaning vocabulary words
provide a student-friendly definition for a targeted tier II vocabulary word (i.e. “explain in his own words”)
identify unfamiliar key words during a read-aloud or structured language activities
sort objects or pictured objects into piles based on the semantic feature (i.e. category, object function)
label the category for a named object or pictured object
state the object function (i.e. what it’s used for)
describe the appearance of a given item or pictured item
provide parts or associated parts for a named object or pictured object
complete analogies related to semantic features (i.e. based on category- dog is to animal as chair is to… furniture)
identify an item when provided with the category plus 1-2 additional semantic features
explain similarities and differences between targeted items/ objects
answer spoken or written questions related to temporal semantic relationships (i.e. time)
answer spoken or written questions related to spatial semantic relationships (i.e. location)
answer spoken or written questions related to comparative semantic relationships
complete spoken or written sentences using appropriate spatial, temporal, or comparative vocabulary
segment (or divide) words into morphological units (i.e. cats= cat / s)
create new words by adding prefixes or suffixes to the base
provide a definition for a targeted affix (prefix or suffix)
sort words into piles based on targeted affix (prefix or suffix)
finish a spoken or written analogy using targeted prefixes or suffixes (i.e. Regular is to irregular as responsible is to…)
provide the part of speech for a targeted tier II vocabulary word (i.e. label it is as verb, adjective, etc.)

5 Recommended Vocabulary Activities for Speech Therapy

Need some ready-to-go vocabulary activities for those busy days? Here are some recommendations for school speech-language pathologists.

Semantic Relationships Speech Therapy Worksheets
Describing Digital Task Cards
Analogy Worksheets
Weather-Themed Morphology Activities for Speech Therapy
Prefix and Suffix Worksheets for Speech Therapy

These are prefex and suffix worksheets for speech therapy that speech therapists can use during therapy sessions.

More Speech Therapy Goal Ideas

Are you in a hurry and need this article summed up? To see the vocabulary goals, simply scroll up.

Next, make sure to try out these best-selling vocabulary resources:

Finally, don’t miss these grammar goals for speech therapy .

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Targeting Vocabulary Development in Speech Therapy Sessions

April 5, 2021

Happy spring everyone! Today’s topic is all about vocabulary and how to target vocabulary in a variety of ways when treating clients via teletherapy. We will dive into how to work on vocabulary with clients of different age groups as well. I will be incorporating resources throughout this post targeting vocabulary development that also goes along with a spring theme so you can use them in your upcoming sessions!

Quick tip for targeting vocabulary development in speech therapy sessions :

When planning activities that target overall vocabulary development, try using thematic instruction within your speech therapy sessions! Integrating themes within speech therapy sessions helps to support improved vocabulary development along with additional receptive and expressive language skills. According to research, thematic instruction helps children learn basic concepts, categories, semantic mapping skills, word retrieval skills, answer wh-questions, and so much more (Maria Del Duca, 2013). All of these skills help support improved overall receptive and expressive vocabulary development.

When working with a student who is struggling with vocabulary development, try planning speech therapy sessions to go along with themes. You can even carry out the same theme over multiple speech therapy sessions to continue to provide repetition of familiar vocabulary words and concepts. Bring the theme to life through pretend play interactions, reading books, sensory play, movement-based activities, music, etc.

Using a thematic instruction approach, here are tips and resources for targeting vocabulary development with different age groups while using a springtime theme:

There are many different types of activities you can plan when working with young children on vocabulary development.

1. Targeting new vocabulary while engaging in play-based activities:

Whether you are conducting a speech therapy session in person or via teletherapy, try using toys and/or objects in these sessions when working on vocabulary development with younger students. Bringing in fun and interactive toys/objects within speech therapy sessions allows for increased engagement and more opportunities for vocabulary development.

Here are some examples of items you can use in sessions to work on vocabulary development with a spring theme:

Easter Eggs: there are many different goals you can target while using Easter eggs in speech therapy sessions, all of which support vocabulary development. You can work on the child both receptively identifying colors as well as expressively labeling colors of eggs. Hide the eggs around the room and have the child find the various colors or tell you what color to find. You can also hide toys inside of the Easter eggs to go along with vocabulary development. Hide objects (or pictures of objects) that have associations with one another within the eggs (i.e. picture of sock in one egg and shoe in another – find the two pictures and put them together). You can even have the child guess what is inside each egg!
Feed the Animal: young children love to play pretend with animals or dolls. One activity I love is “feed the frog”. You can find a frog puppet or… take a tissue box, put a picture of a frog on the box, cut out the frog’s mouth, and now you can “feed the frog!” You can talk all about frogs in your session, incorporate frog books, and then play your game where you feed the frog different silly “spring theme” pictures.

2. Using No Print resources to target vocabulary development in speech therapy:

There are many wonderful resources out there that you can incorporate into speech therapy sessions with younger children to target vocabulary development. Using fun and interactive no print resources can continue to encourage the development of language concepts along with vocabulary. I will share a few great resources from The Digital SLP site that go along with the spring theme.

Here are some examples from The Digital SLP website of resources you can use in sessions to work on vocabulary development with a spring theme:

No Print Spring Actions Interactive Book Action Verbs : this resource targets expressive language to label the action within the picture shown. All of the pictures have a spring theme so you can talk to your students about the picture and relate them to your students’ personal experiences. Talk about puddle jumping, flying kites, or even feeding ducks! This resource also provides the opportunity to work on matching pictures.
No Print Easter Vocab Builder : working on both receptive and expressive vocabulary development with young preschoolers, then this resource is for you! Talk all about Easter while learning new vocabulary terms. Not only are there sections to work on receptive vocabulary and expressive vocabulary, but you can also select “Learn About Easter” to read an interactive book with your students. If you are wanting to plan a vocabulary enriched session all about Easter, try using this resource and also bringing in the Easter egg idea from above!
No Print Spring Vocab Builder : this resource is similar to the one listed above, but instead of only being about Easter it encompasses vocabulary pictures all about spring. There are many different concepts you can target using this resource and it is also a great choice when introducing the topic of spring.

Early Elementary:

There are several great resources and activities that target vocabulary development with children in early Elementary.

1. Targeting new vocabulary while engaging in activities:

as your students get a bit older, remember to continue to engage in hands-on and interactive activities along with incorporating resources in sessions. Help your students improve their vocabulary development by engaging in sensory activities, pretend-play, etc. Here are some examples of ideas you can use in sessions to work on vocabulary development with a spring theme:

Sensory Activities: Creating sensory bins that relate to the spring theme can provide you with several opportunities to target vocabulary development. Try creating sensory bins with “grass” using green tissue paper or use beans to create “dirt”. You can cut out bugs to put in the grass/dirt and have the student describe the bugs. Or you can even cut out spring-related pictures and play a game of “I-Spy” to work on describing as well as labeling vocabulary words. Don’t worry – you can use sensory bins over teletherapy too! Create a bin and make sure your students are able to see the contents in your bin. You can still plan the same activities and the students will still remain engaged!
Books: reading books in your sessions relating to spring allows for many opportunities to learn new vocabulary words. I especially love creating activities to go along with the books we read in order to enhance the new vocabulary terms we just learned in a more hands-on learning experience.

Here are some examples from The Digital SLP resources you can use in sessions to work on vocabulary development with a spring theme:

Language Packs and Interactive Spring-Themed Resources:

Preschool Spring Language Pack : even though this resource says “preschool” in the title, this can be used both with preschool students as well as early elementary. This resource targets several receptive and expressive language skills, all supporting overall vocabulary development. Try working on pronouns and talking about all of the different spring-related actions. You can also try “Tell Me About It!” to work on hearing a description and labeling the spring-related object.
Spring Elementary Language Pack : this resource is similar to the one listed above; however, it incorporates a bit more challenging skills to work on with your students. All of the activities are spring-related to continue to incorporate the spring theme in your session as your students are learning new vocabulary.
Spring Pronouns Interactive Slides : use this resource to work on pronouns with your students while talking about the action verbs. Each picture depicts a different spring-related action (i.e. flying a kite, smelling flowers, blowing bubbles, etc.) allowing for continued opportunity for vocabulary development.

Later Elementary/Middle School/High School:

Web activity interactive slides spring reading passage.

Using a spring-related reading passage within your session may target reading comprehension skills, story retell, as well as vocabulary development. Have your students read the passage or listen to the passage, answering the questions as you go. Talk about the vocabulary terms in the story that your students may not know. Write out those vocabulary words so you can refer back. You can also relate these passages to the student’s personal experiences (i.e. Have they gardened before? What do they know about Earth Day?, etc.). Listed below are three different spring theme reading passages you can try with your students

Gardening with Grandma
St. Patrick’s Day
Stretch-A-Sentence Language Expansion Activity : this resource may be modified for students both in middle and high school. Show the students pictures and have them describe what is happening in the picture. Prompt the student by asking “who”, “what”, “where”, “why”, and “when” questions in order to become more descriptive. These pictures allow for discussion using novel vocabulary terms to continue to work on improved vocabulary development.

I hope you have found these tips and resources helpful when targeting vocabulary development in speech therapy with students of all levels. Have fun planning your upcoming sessions all related to spring!

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How to Teach Categories To Build Vocabulary

Aug 19, 2017

category activities to build language and vocabulary in speech therapy.

Have you had a student on your caseload with category goals? Do you feel limited with the resources you have for teaching categories? Do you know where to start with how to teach categories? Incorporating category activities in your language therapy will build your students’ depth of knowledge with vocabulary. Today, I will share why teaching categories are essential for building vocabulary and give you a list of speech therapy category activities for your caseload.

Why are teaching categories important?

Teaching categories in speech therapy is essential for vocabulary development. When we teach vocabulary words in “groups,” SLPs can create a schema for the students to understand those words. Grouping items by similar features provide a familiar setting for students to organize and understand related nouns.

Students who put words in “groups” learn to associate other words for that specific group. Someone with typically developing language may associate waves, sand, seagulls, beach towels, and sand castles with the group “beach.”

When students know the category group nouns belong in, they have one more way to describe that noun. For example, when teaching depth of knowledge for the word apple, you would explain, “An apple is a fruit.”

How to Teach Categories – Category Hierarchy Example

It is crucial to get a baseline of where your student is performing with their understanding of word relationships. If students can’t name categories independently, you can gather other information by assessing sorting skills and matching identical objects and pictures.

Match identical objects and pictures
Sort a group of objects or pictures into two similar sets
Sort a group of things by one feature
Choose an item to match a given category description or name
Sort into 2 and 3 categories
Name categories
What doesn’t belong and why
What goes together and why
Name multiple items of a given category
Express similarities and differences

Further down in the blog post, I share resources you can use that would go with some of these category hierarchy examples so you have materials to implement those skills!

Considerations When Deciding Where To Start With Teaching Categories

Some of our students may struggle with understanding category groups because they have yet to experience the vocabulary in real life. If your student has yet to go to the beach, then your student may not know to associate buckets, umbrellas, and boogie boards as items in the beach category.

When thinking about what categories to start teaching first, you will have to think about your students’ exposure to those words or add in additional time to increase their background knowledge of those category groups.

Taking a baseline assessment can help with narrowing down where to begin. Based on your probes, you can see what category groups your students understand and don’t understand. Also, consider introducing those early developing categories such as shapes, colors, and food for students struggling with categorizing.

If you need a resource that has progress monitoring tools to help you find a baseline for determining your student’s understanding of category groups, check out the Level Up Categories Activities Bundle . You will have activities to help you with teaching categories, but also determine your student’s current level of understanding with word relationships.

How To Teach Categories – What Level To Start With Students

Let’s say your student can sort a group of objects or pictures into two identical sets with 80% accuracy without prompts. When you asked them to sort a group of things by one feature, they needed visual cues at 40% accuracy. Since mastery is below 80% accuracy, sorting items into groups by one feature probably is an excellent place to start in therapy. As your students increase their accuracy, you can move to more challenging category activities or change the group objects to new category groups.

Keep reading the blog post for materials you can use to teach categorization confidently!

Free Category Visual Printables

You need to make an I Spy sensory bin for a fun category game. Your students can go on the hunt to find mini trinkets for the list of category groups. Head to this blog post to grab the game printables .

With students exhibiting moderate-severe deficits with their receptive and expressive language skills in categories, breaking down word relationships is essential for your students to understand the skill.

You can use the Level Up Category Activities Bundle to have students sort by one category feature, c hoose an item to match a given category description or name, name a category group, and name multiple items in a category group.

For working on matching pictures or sorting pictures into one category group, having a set of noun flashcards is excellent!

Here is a set with many pictures for basic categories (Amazon affiliate link included.) Check out this set for various nouns, verbs, and adjective flashcards .

Whether you need digital category activities, printables, or crafts, I have some resources that could work for your caseload.

Category Boom Cards

Category Flipbook Printable Version

Category Wallet Craftivity

No Prep Category Worksheets

Category Activities With Apps

Categories From I Can Do apps -I love using this app to get baseline data for how students are currently doing with identifying what doesn’t belong and which items go together.

Smarty Ears Go Together APP – This app works on categorization through matching. You can also have the students explain why the items go together after matching them up!

Smarty Ears Categories Learning Center – This app is great because it has different levels to differentiate for your students. You can make things more difficult as your students progress in the categorization levels!

What resources do you have that you love for working on categorizing?

How do you teach categories to your students?

What resources or techniques have you found helpful in teaching your students categorization? If you have a strategy or material you love using that isn’t listed in this blog post, share it in the comments!

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Teaching Vocabulary in Speech Therapy can be one of the trickiest areas to work on, mainly because there is no clear path for it. The best way we have seen however is to target address building vocabulary is to focus on using strategies and meaningful repetition.

Students need to comprehend at least 90-95% of words in a text to comprehend it (Nagy & Scott 2000) … So, This means working on vocabulary development is a critical element of therapy.⁣⁣ According to Storkel et al., 2019, students need at least 36 exposures to a new vocabulary word for it to stick. That means 6 different exposures to the word across 6 different sessions ( or 9 exposures across 4 sessions, however you want to work the math). ?⁣⁣

Before we dive into strategies, somethings to keep in mind when working on vocabulary and literacy. First, don’t feel you need to work on every possible vocabulary word in the book. Pick 5-7, tier 2 words, or words that are re-occurring in the text to focus on. Then, pre-teach these words before you even read the book. Give the students a definition right away rather then having them guess, and let the learning go from there.

Ok, onto strategies!

Vocabulary in Speech Therapy: CONTEXT CLUES

Using context clues has been an evidence-based way to help students boost and learn new vocabulary. No matter how much vocabulary a student has there will always be words they don’t know. This helps students understand how to find the relevant information for the word within the context it is being used.

Fair warning, this strategy can overwhelming for kids, so I have developed a concrete system to make things more straightforward. I call it the Clue Sandwich. You start by highlighting the sentence the word is in, then in another color, highlight the sentence before it, and finally highlight the sentence after it in a 3rd color. This gives a visual area for the students to focus on, rather than a bunch of daunting text. I have the whole strategy broken down in this post .

I use these Context Clues in Color pages to help students practice this breakdown in a structured setting before branching to using academic texts or passages from class.

Vocabulary in Speech Therapy: Prefixes and Suffixes

These little parts of speech can have a big impact on vocabulary. While understanding the full word may be tricky at first, students have a fighting chance if they can pick apart the ‘little words’ they do know. Seeing the word ‘reoccurrence’ might be intimidating to a student but if they recognize the prefix ‘re’ and know that it means ‘to do again’ then they can apply context from the text to get an idea of the definition. Suffixes can do just the same. Teaching prefixes as suffixes doesn’t have to be a long-drawn-out event either. I use a prefixes bulletin board with my students as a warm-up. We focus on two prefixes a week and it has truly helped them start to identify these prefixes in text.

Finally, kids who identify the part of speech of a word ( noun, verb, adjective ) had better vocabulary skills than those who could not. If a student can use clues to determine how the word is being used, it puts them one step closer to establishing meaning for it. My favorite strategy for this is Word Mapping.

It has the student break down the word into parts of speech, synonym/antonym, application, and illustration. As we complete each map, we keep them and review them at the start of each session to increase our exposure and repetition. I have used these Vocabulary Kits for years. These are best for students whose vocabulary deficits are in the mild to slightly moderate range. It gives you all the words, pretest/post-test, activities, and more.

These strategies are shown to give those students the actual boost in vocabulary development they need. Do you have a favorite method to teach vocabulary?

Elleman, A.M., Steacy, L.M., Olinghouse, N.G., Compton, D.L. (2017). Examining Child and Word Characteristics in Vocabulary Learning of Struggling Readers. Scientific Studies of Reading . Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/10888438.2016.1265970

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Build Your Child’s Vocabulary! Top Speech Therapy Activities

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Speech therapy activities often work to improve a child’s understanding of language. If you’ve read our recent posts on boosting expressive language and receptive language skills in children, you’ve probably already realized that vocabulary has a lot to do with those crucial areas. After all, how can your youngster follow your direction to “Stop aggravating your sister, Billy!” when he does not yet understand the word “aggravating”? Before jumping to the conclusion that your tiny tot is in a rebellious stage and is purposefully trying not to follow directions, consider whether he understands the vocab you’re using.

Building a child’s vocabulary probably sounds like a tedious task. But you can banish those images in your head of long hours spent doing flashcard drills (unless, of course, your youngster actually – gasp! – enjoys doing flashcards). Building your kidlet’s vocab can – and should – be fun! There are countless games you can play that helps strengthen vocab skills, and I’ve listed a few of them in this post to get you started. As always, it’s important to collaborate with your child’s speech-language pathologist (SLP). She can point you in the right direction for speech therapy activities that suit your child’s needs.

Introducing New Words

Introduce new words gradually so that your youngster doesn’t become overwhelmed with a bunch of unfamiliar terms. When you use a word, provide a simple definition that you know your child can understand. For example, you can tell your child that “aggravating” means “annoying,” but only if your child already understands the definition of “annoying.” Instead, you might tell your child that he’s doing something that his sister doesn’t like. You may need to define each word for him repetitively until he seems to grasp it.

Reinforcing new Words

Reinforce new words so that he remembers the meanings. One great way to do this is simply to scatter them throughout your day-to-day conversations. So while you’re driving your youngster to school, you might say, “This traffic is aggravating me. I don’t like it at all, because now we might be late.”

Encourage your child to use the new words, as well. You could also challenge him to think of words that are similar in meaning to the new word. (Or, ask him to think of words that have the same sounds as the new word for another quick speech therapy activity.) Continue to use the new words in various contexts throughout the following few weeks to help reinforce the meanings.

Speech Therapy Activities – Play Some Games!

And last but certainly not least, play some games! For some vocab games, all you need is paper (or an activity book) and a pencil. Create a hangman game with a new vocab word, or do a word find puzzle with your child. Just remember to define each new word in the puzzles or hangman games, give your child an example of the word in a sentence, and ask him to create his own sentence with the word.

The next time you’re shopping, check out vocab-friendly stuff in the game aisle. Scrabble, Blurt!, and Bananagrams are some good possibilities. If you’re not familiar with those two newer games, Bananagrams is much like Scrabble in that children take tiles from a banana-shaped pouch and create their own crossword puzzles. Blurt! challenges kids to think of words, when given their definitions, as quickly as possible and blurt them out.

As well, use books to expand your child’s vocabulary . Pick out unfamiliar words in the books, ask your child to repeat the words (for articulation practice), and define them for him. You could also turn the lesson into an interactive crafts activity. Draw pictures with your youngster that relate to the book and use the new words within the pictures. (For example, write the words “enormous elephant” next to a picture of an elephant.)

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How To Improve and Take Data on Vocabulary In Speech Therapy

How many of your students have vocabulary goals for Speech Therapy? #nearlyallofthem We know our students struggle with vocabulary. We can see it in their poor reading comprehension and oral expression. Vocabulary is vitally important. But man, it’s a huge mountain to climb when faced with vocabulary as a goal. Where do we even start? Why do grade level lists vary so much? How in the world do I take data on it? Let’s look at what the research says on best practices for vocabulary intervention in Speech Therapy. We CAN improve and take data on vocabulary!

Research on Teaching Vocabulary:

“The most effective vocabulary teaching methods included both definitional and contextual information in their programs, involved the students in deeper processing, and gave the students more than one or two exposures to the to-be-learned words.” Stahl and Fairbanks (1986)

Children with LI need many exposures to achieve complete word learning, and they also require continued follow-through to maintain their vocabulary gains ( Riches et al., 2005 ; Rice et al., 1994 )

“Children in Grades 3–5, with reading fluency in the normal range but poor reading comprehension, and found that “students who were taught vocabulary outperformed… students who were exposed only to the target words in text,” even if they were exposed to the word several times. Vocabulary teaching strategies included :

determine the part of speech (e.g. noun vs. adjective)
analyze for morphological clues (e.g. “replacing un with not to figure out unclear means not clear ”)
look for context clues
and, if the above three methods were inadequate, look the word up

Their finding—that children with reading difficulties require explicit vocabulary instruction to make progress—has been supported by previous studies as well. Elleman, A.M., Steacy, L.M., Olinghouse, N.G., Compton, D.L. (2017). Examining Child and Word Characteristics in Vocabulary Learning of Struggling Readers. Scientific Studies of Reading . Advance online publication. doi:

“A systematic review examines how vocabulary instruction impacts reading comprehension. The authors looked at intervention outcomes from 36 studies of Pre-K through 12th grade children, with and without disabilities, some English language learners, and all subject to vocabulary intervention. The results guide us to:

Teach word meanings to support comprehension. Even just a little definition instruction was found to be helpful, compared to none at all.
… however, just being told the definition of a word isn’t enough . Students need to be actively engaged in thinking about the word meaning.
Studies easily find an impact on taught vocabulary . What we don’t know is if vocabulary intervention can broadly impact reading comprehension.
There also isn’t strong data to indicate that teaching a strategy (instead of specific words; e.g. using context clues) can broadly impact reading comprehension.” Wright, T.S., Cervetti, G. (2016). A systematic review of the research on vocabulary instruction that impacts text comprehension. Reading Research Quarterly . Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/rrq.163.

Strategies for Vocabulary Intervention in Speech Therapy:

Give a child-friendly definition. Dictionary definitions are NOT effective method for learning new word meaning. In fact, this strategy may result in students interpreting the wrong meaning . So, what does this look like in a typical speech session? As you are reading a picture book and come across new words, quickly provide a one or two word student-friendly definition. Use this for post-reading activities as well.
Increase depth of word meaning. Synonyms, Antonyms, and non-examples using the Frayer Model is an effective strategy for encouraging a deeper processing of word meaning.
Expand meaning to new contexts. Once a student-friendly definition is created, offer other examples of the use of that word. Also asking and answering additional questions related to that target word and offering additional examples and explanations are proven ways to build vocabulary depth of meaning. In speech sessions, this can be done through partner discussions or therapist-students discussions at the conversation level.
Semantic Mapping. Put the target word in a circle and brainstorm all the words related to it. Think of describing words, synonyms, or relationships to that word.
Context Clues. Find words in the story or passage that give clues to derive meaning.
Semantic Feature Analysis. Make a matrix chart with +/- and where related words are listed vertically and possible features are listed across the top.
Venn Diagrams of related concepts. Compare common characteristics of words.
Study roots and affixes.
Engage and expand the complexity of conversations. Specifically with preschoolers, this strategy is most effective! When the child speaks, recast to expose them to rare words. Expand their utterance and ask open-ended questions to encourage further conversation.

What words to select:

Select meaningful words. Don’t download random “grade level” lists. Look to the student’s curriculum for literature they are reading, math vocabulary, or other subject-related academic vocabulary.

Find high quality picture books and engage in dialogic reading (Interactive Storybook Reading). If you need example, look at the seasonal books I recommend and use in my language bookmarks . In each of those, I pull out rich vocabulary I feel is worth going deeper with as I read and during post-reading activities.

Use thematically or taxonomy-related words. Children learn words that fit into a category they already know.

Provide multiple exposures to the words. The goal is to improve the depth (how well its understood) of vocabulary knowledge not just the breath (how many words).

Finally, after you have chosen words your students need to work on, engage them in the activities mentioned above to deepen their vocabulary knowledge.

Taking Data on Vocabulary in Speech Therapy:

You can preview vocabulary words to see how well a student understands them. As I’m reading a passage or picture book to students, I will stop briefly and probe for understanding of word meaning. I make note of words they understand or not.

After your word study work, you can assess and take data on vocabulary:

their ability to use the word in a sentence
student-friendly definition

These are the strategies I use in my therapy sessions. What have you found to be successful?

Additional references: Hadley, E. B., Dickinson, D. K., Hirsch-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2018). , Ruston, H. & Schwanenflugel, P. (2010). , Dickinson, D. K., Nesbitt, K. T., Collins, M. F., Hadley, E. B., Newman, K., Riveria, B. L., …Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2019).

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41 Free Online Speech Therapy Activities

There are many online speech therapy activities that you can do with your student or child to help them develop their language skills.

These online games and exercises are perfect for the online slps doing teletherapy and will not only be fun for both of you, but they will also provide great benefits for your child’s speech pathology goals and help improve their speech delay!

Fun Games for Online Speech Therapy Activities

In this article, we’ll highlight 41 online resources – including PBS Kids interactive games, Boom Cards, and Pink Cat Games. We hope that these online tools will encourage children to learn about social skills, vocabulary words, communication skills, and more.

The following section is a list of educational games that are great for any speech language pathologist to use during their therapy services.

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Enjoy this list below of online speech therapy games to work on your student’s or child’s speech goals and make your speech therapy session even more fun this school year.

Online Speech Therapy Activities

1. pbs kids.

One of our favorite online resources for speech therapy is the PBS Kids website. This online destination has a variety of fun, interactive games that help children work on their language skills.

Some SLP favorites include: “ Curiou s George Pop the Bubble “, “ Meatball Launcher “, and “ Daniel Tiger Bath Time Helper “.

Do you have students who love to build things? Be sure to check out this list of games: “ Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Sandcastle “, “ Hero Elementary Treehouse Trouble “, “ Hamster Run “, “ Ready Jet Go, Builder “, “ Animal Home Builder “.

All of these games are perfect for children who are in the early intervention stage or those who have autism spectrum disorder. They are also great for helping to build vocabulary skills , story telling , feelings and life skills, such as empathy, respect for others, labeling feelings, as well as others!

2. Boom Learning

Another online resource that we love are Boom Cards.

This online program makes it easy to access educational games that can help your child work on auditory processing skills, receptive and expressive language development, articulation practice, and more!

This online resource is perfect for practicing speech sounds with articulation games, vocabulary words, social skills, and following directions – all of which are important for speech development.

If you’re on the hunt for barrier games be sure to check out Boom Learning then!

SLP favorite free downloads can be found in my list of 917+ free boom cards for speech therapy !

3. pink cat games.

If you’re looking for online resources that are specifically designed for younger children, we highly recommend checking out Pink Cat Games.

This online website has a variety of great games and activities that focus on different language skills, including vocabulary development, following directions and more.

Some of our favorites include: “ Build a Monster “, “ Smarty Pants Animal Race “, and “ Quiz Wheel Game “.

All of these online resources are perfect for children in early intervention or with autism spectrum disorder, as they help to build vocabulary skills, language comprehension abilities, following directions, social communication, and more!

4. Fun Brain

This website has many online activities and games that work on vocabulary, reading comprehension, memory skill development, etc.

These online games are perfect for children who have already developed some language skills, but still need to improve their vocabulary or reading comprehension abilities.

Some of our favorite things on this site are “ Reading “, “ Games “, Grammar Gorillas , Plural Girls to work on plurals , and Simon Sees .

5. Educational Games

If you’re looking for online resources that focus on educational games, we highly recommend checking out Educational Games.

This website has a variety of online activities and games that work on different academic skills, including math, science, grammar, etc.

This online website is perfect for younger children who are just starting to learn their letters and sounds. It has a variety of online games and activities that focus on teaching the alphabet, phonics skills, vocabulary words, etc.

Some of our favorite online speech therapy activities on ABCya! include: “ Make a Cupcake “, “ Make an Ice Cream “, “ Make a Cookie “, “ Make a Pizza “, “ Make a Gingerbread House “, “ Make a Robot “, and “ Let me Grow “.

These online resources are perfect for children who are just starting to learn their letters and sounds, as well as those who need extra practice with their phonics skills. They also work great with younger children in the early intervention stage!

More reinforcement games, such as Happy Clicks, the Game of Battleship, and an Interactive Mr. Potato Head can be found in my list of 21 Best Reinforcement Games for Speech Therapy !

7. Sesame Street Games

This website offers a variety of educational games for children ages two to five. The games are designed to help with skills such as letter recognition, counting, vocabulary, and more.

Here is a list of fan favorites: “ Cooking with Cookie “, “ Ready Set Grow “, “ Brush Those Teeth “, “ Dress up Time! “, and “ Cookie Monster’s Foodie Truck “.

There are several possibilities for targeting requesting, commenting and extending utterances.

8. Match the Memory Game

If you’re on the hunt for memory games then this online memory game is a great way to help your child work on their short-term memory abilities.

9. Baamboozle

This online website is fantastic since it offers pre-made games and activities created by other SLPs that you may utilize or develop your own free games.

Simply search the games using the search bar.

Some of our favorite online speech therapy activities on Baamboozle include games with target words: “ Speech Articulation S Sounds ” by lindseycav, “ Articulation of Two or More Syllables Words in GIF ” by Susan Tourdot, and the “ /ch/ Initial Articulation ” by MG.

These online resources are perfect for children who need extra practice with their vocabulary skills or articulation. They also work great with younger children in the early intervention stage!

10. Meddybemps

If you’re looking for online speech therapy activities, look no further than Meddybemps.

They have a great selection of interactive games and activities that are perfect for helping kids with language skills.

Their games are ideal for children with autism spectrum disorder, communication delays, or other speech-language needs.

11. Jeopardy Labs

Jeopardy Labs is a great online resource for speech therapy activities. The website includes interactive games and vocabulary games that are perfect for teletherapy sessions and helping children develop their language skills.

The interactive games on Jeopardy Labs are a great way to help younger children learn new concepts in a fun and engaging way. The games are also a great way to help improve communication skills.

12. Language Play Room

The language playroom is an online learning center for children to help them learn about language.

They have activities that cover a wide variety of concepts, including reading comprehension and phonemic awareness.

13. iSL Collective Video Lessons

If I had a top pick this website would be it! I personally love using videos to make therapy more fun and interactive.

The iSL Collective is a great online resource for speech-language pathologists.

The website includes a variety of video lessons that cover topics such as grammar skills, vocabulary development, body language, and more!

If you also love using more videos in your therapy to make learning more fun then be sure to check out my list of 31 Best Wordless Videos to Teach Problem Solving .

14. Owlie Boo

This website is really easy for parents and therapists to use.

It offers several excellent games for toddlers and reinforcement games, which are also great for practice.

Poki is a great website with activities that are fun and interactive, and the games can be used as reinforcement while your students work on their specific skills or areas of development.

Poki is a great resource for parents, family members, and therapists looking for fun and digital games to use during therapy sessions.

Some favorite board games include: “ Tic Tac Toe “, “ Connect Four “, and “ Snakes and Ladders “.

16. Toy Theater

It has several free interactive games that you can use with your students. They can play along with you if you share your screen and let the student control (Zoom).

If you’re looking for multiplayer be sure to check out the Goose game and Snakes and Ladders game at Toy Theater.

Some of our favorite online speech therapy activities on Toy Theater include “ Stack ” and the “ Classroom Timer “.

17. Room Recess

Room Recess is an educational website that offers educational games and activities for children.

The site is free, easy to use, and provides educational online resources for kids of all ages.

Room Recess has a large library of educational games for early learners from preschool through middle school including a math tab, reading tab, word tab, lab tab, extras tab, and themes tab.

18. Mystery Animal

The Google Mystery Animal is a 20-question quiz. It’s free and very entertaining for all ages and fun for a variety of goals.

Kahoot is a perfect website for high school students or older students and a great way to review material with a class or as a family.

It is an interactive quiz game that can be used for educational purposes. Kahoot offers many different types of games, including vocabulary and grammar exercises.

21. Cookie

This site has 13+ great language activities that help students build vocabulary in an engaging way.

22. Global Allied Health

This site is divided by goal area.

These online resources are perfect for teachers who have older children in the school-aged stage!

23. Highlights Kids

This website is jam-packed with secret pictures, making it ideal for vocabulary practice or as a fun reinforcement game.

The website is also a great resource for parents and family members who want to help their children with language development or those that are working on improving communication skills.

The types of activities available on Highlights Kids will keep children entertained while they learn at the same time!

There is something for everyone on this website. It is a great resource for parents and speech-language pathologists alike! Check it out today!

The website Quia.com is an educational website that allows you to create online lessons and quizzes for free. This can be a great resource for finding educational games and activities to supplement speech therapy sessions.

Quia offers a variety of different types of educational games and activities, including vocabulary games and interactive activities for younger children.

The website is easy to use and can be accessed from any computer or mobile device.

Here is a fun game for working on multiple meaning words !

25. Wheel of Names

The Wheel of Names is a fun game that is perfect for using it as a spinner.

For example, you can use it to choose who goes next. Or put vocabulary words in the boxes and then spin and have your student define their vocabulary words.

Another idea is to work on synonyms or antonyms. Place different words, such as big or tall in the spinner and then hit spin. The child then says the best synonym or antonym for that word.

27. Bou n cy Balls

This is a fun way to manage classroom noise or visualize music.

You can choose from a variety of themes that will help your students visualize the noise in the room!

28. Sheppard Software

This website has a great variety of educational games and activities for younger children.

Their website has hundreds of free, online, learning games for kids.

But anyone interested in online learning can use this site with access to activities in many subjects – (geography, math, animals, science, language arts, creative activities, health).

29. Mr. Nussbaum

Here is an educational website that features many free resources to help kids.

It offers dozens of interactive games designed to reinforce essential concepts taught in elementary years, and themes that make learning enjoyable.

30. Arcademics

Arcademics is a website that offers educational games for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.

There are over 50 games to choose from, and students can practice math, reading, science, social studies, and more.

The educational games are separated by grade level and subject, so students can easily find what they need.

31. Junior Brain Pop

One educational website that is great for speech therapy activities and games is Junior Brain Pop.

This website includes a variety of interactive games and videos that target a range of skills, including language. The games are all engaging and provide a fun way to work on important skills.

32. Splash Learn

Splash Learn has a variety of educational games to choose from that provide practice in vocabulary, phonology and grammar skills.

It also offers educational lesson plans and ideas, tips on how to use the site, FAQs and more!

33. Turtle Diary

This site offers a large, free collection of educational games and activities to help children learn. These tools can be helpful for speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, parents and teachers who are looking for ways to support language skills in young children.

The site includes many different types of educational games that will engage your child: vocabulary building games where kids match terms to definitions, interactive short stories that teach grammar and syntax, educational quizzes, math challenges and more.

One of the best features of Turtle Diary is that many of the games are designed for specific age groups. You can easily find activities tailored for preschool students, elementary students or older students. This is a great way to target your child’s specific educational needs.

35. Time for Kids

The website ‘Time for Kids’ is a great educational resource that provides articles and videos geared towards children of all ages.

Time for Kids is a great resource for educational activities, making it the perfect place to find digital resources for speech therapy.

It’s also a great way to keep younger children entertained and engaged while practicing their language skills.

Scroll down to the latest articles and stories for the free resources.

36. The Kidz Page

Here is another educational website that provides free educational games and activities for children.

There are hundreds of free kids games, puzzles, activities, fun coloring pages, clip art & more.

You are sure to find something on this site that will help reinforce what you’re teaching your students in the classroom.

37. Disney Now Games

Disney Now has a great selection of educational games for children.

The games are designed to help kids learn math, reading, and science skills.

There are also games devoted to social skills development.

38. Word Wall

A great way to help young children learn new words and their definitions is by using a word wall.

A word wall is a collection of words, usually posted in a designated area, with each word printed or written on a separate piece of paper or card. The definition of the word can also be included.

This is a great visual aid for children and can help them learn new words in a fun way. It is also a great resource for parents and family members who want to help their child with their language development.

39. Birthday Song

Does your child or student have a birthday coming up?

Then be sure to check out this website where you type your child or student’s name and you can sing the child happy birthday with their name!

40. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Their website also has a few articles of ideas for using online speech therapy ideas that might be worth checking out.

41. Book Trust

If you want your child or student to listen to a free book then be sure to check out this website where your child or student can watch and listen to the interactive children’s books and then play a game, such as the Jigsaw Puzzles , Coloring Pages , or Faces and Feelings .

Conclusion : Online Speech Therapy Activities

Here is a list of 41 online speech-language therapy activities and games to help your child work on their language skills!

These resources are a great way to use online technology and are perfect for children with autism spectrum disorder, communication delays, or other speech-language needs.

They are a great way to improve vocabulary skills, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, and more. Try out these online resources today!

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I work with a large population of middle/high school students and believe me, they love games just as much as the little kids do–maybe even more! I don’t make a habit of using games on a daily basis, but sometimes it can be challenging to motivate and engage an older student, and using games in therapy definitely helps get the job done. I make sure the game has a PURPOSE and focuses on the GOALS we are targeting. SLPs are so great at making a challenging task appear fun by disguising it in a game format! There are so many great games that target so many language goals so I know I am providing my students with a meaningful experience when we use games in our sessions! Sometimes we play by the game rules , but most of the time, I customize the game to the needs of my students and usually go “off script!” And here’s a way to get your older students to take the lead—give them the game and ask them to figure out the rules —you can give them the game rules booklet to read on their own or just give them the game WITHOUT ANY RULES and see what they come up with! You might be surprised by how creative they get with their own game rules and ideas for playing. I love board games for another reason— they are low-tech and focus on conversation, turn-taking, executive functioning, and all things language!

So here are my favorite go-to games that I use in my therapy room with my “big kids.”

#1. BUBBLE TALK

This board game asks players to match hilarious captions with funny pictures. Each player draws seven random caption cards. The judge for that round draws a picture card and players must quickly try to match the funniest caption they have to the picture. The player who makes the judge laugh the most wins that round.

* OPTIONAL IDEA: I give speech bubble sticky notes to my students to write what they think the person (or animal) in the scene might be thinking. It’s a great way to work on inferential thinking skills as well as humourous language!

#2. SMART MOUTH

I love this game for working on categorizing, vocabulary building, and parts of speech. The dealer rolls the die to determine the category for the game. There are 6 categories including adjectives, natural objects, man-made objects, verbs, famous people, and free play. The dealer reveals two letter tiles and everyone tries to come up with valid words that fit into that category! Players get 60 seconds to come up with as many words as possible! My kids get so competitive—this game keeps them engaged and teaches quick thinking as well. I’ve also customized this game to my student’s needs and focused on one or just a couple of categories. Once all tiles are gone, the player with the most tiles wins!

#3 FUNGLISH

I love this game simply for the 120 adjective tiles that are included. (I have used them separately for building descriptive sentences.) The goal of the game is to describe a word on the separate word cards provided. Once you have decided which adjectives best describes your word, the other players must guess what the original word was. This is a great game for focusing on attributes, categorization, and descriptors. The kids will never realize how much learning is going on while they play!

#4. SCRIBBLISH

Not only do my students like this game, but this was a favorite of my son when he was younger. He always requested it on “family game night.” I love so many of the Cranium games! This one requires a little creativity, but not a lot of artistic skill. In fact, the less artistic, the funnier the outcomes. The whole point of the game is to try and scribble something that resembles the ridiculous phrase on the card you start with (i.e. “I’m secretly a mermaid,” or “Look, I invented a Time Machine” ). Then you pass your drawing, and get someone else’s drawing and write a phrase for that (whatever it looks like, you just describe it). As SLP’s we basically already use this strategy when we teach our students new words. Drawing a word, phrase, sentence or idea helps them to recall, retain and understand—this game just takes it to another level by presenting phrases that naturally result in very funny outcomes.

#5. PICWITS!

This game is perfect for addressing inferencing skills! For this game, players try to match their picture cards with the judge’s caption card. Each player holds six cards with photos on them. One player draws a card with a caption that may say something like “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.” The other players will then select which of their six photos best fits that caption, or that they think the person holding the caption might choose. The player with the caption then selects their favorite, and the person who submitted that photo gets a point for winning that round. Picwits is a great way to make discussing inferences fun, interactive, and a bit competitive too—-and I have a lot of students who seem very motivated by some friendly competition!

#6. BATTLESHIP

This one is an oldie but goodie and I consider it the ultimate in barrier games!!! And with so many boys on my caseload, it’s a big hit in my speech room! Battleship is great for addressing critical thinking skills, organization, reasoning, logic, and strategy. It’s also great for working on maintaining attention and turn-taking. As you can see, the number of target areas that you can address for this game are pretty endless! This game would also be great for sneaking in some articulation practice as students would be required to practice their sound, word, phrase, sentence in between turns. If you have a small group of 1-2 students, this game is ideal, but you can certainly form teams if there are larger numbers of students in a group. If you haven’t’ played this game growing up, the rules are simple. You must figure out the location of the opponent’s battleships by calling out coordinates on the grid. In turn, the other player is trying to figure out where your ships are hidden as well. The game can become lengthy so you may find yourself needing to pick up where you left off in your next session!

#7. APPLES TO APPLES

There are so many ways you can play this game. In the traditional directions, the judge picks a green apple card from the top of the stack, reads the word aloud, and places it face-up on the table. Players choose the red apple card from their hand that is best described by the word on the green apple card played by the judge. Players place these red apple cards face down on the table. The judge mixes the red apple cards so no one knows who played which card and then turns over each red apple card, reads it aloud, and selects the one he or she thinks is best described by the word on the green apple card. The player of the selected red apple card is awarded the green apple card played by the judge.

OPTIONAL IDEAS: I use the fantastic words on the green game cards to address vocabulary and sentence building, synonyms, antonyms. I use the red and green cards in combination by having students match green cards (these are mainly adjectives) that describe red cards (nouns). We also search for green cards that are opposite in meaning and discuss why. There are so many great variations, these are just a few. I always throw in a whiteboard and some cool dice when I play card games like this. They earn rolls for correct answers and/or good effort. Dice are a huge motivator with older students!

#8. Make-Your-Own File Folder Game

Sometimes you just have to start from scratch to gain your older student’s attention and interest. This file folder game has a lacrosse theme. My student loves lacrosse so he enjoyed designing this board and the rules, with some assistance. He picked his favorite teams and planned the layout. He was proud of his finished product, which made it so much easier for me to work on his language goals as he navigated the game board. Not only did we address specific language goals related to vocabulary and comprehension using his creation, but he (unknowingly) was also working on his executive functioning—by planning out the design, organizing the layout, maintaining attention, and perseverance.

#9. Cariboo

This game is a HOT commodity! If you are lucky enough to have a copy, you know how much your younger students love playing all the speech games (many can be found on Teacher Pay Teachers. But did you know the BIG KIDS love Cariboo too! And if you would like to know how you can address vocabulary building for older students with this game, check out this product in my TpT store! According to Beck et al. (Bringing Words to Life) “…students become interested and enthusiastic about words when instruction is rich and lively…” I think this game fits the bill when it comes to making learning new words fun and interesting!

Use this as your go-to vocabulary activity. Each month teach your students 15 new meaningful words that are directly related to timely and seasonal themes. You’ll only need to change the cards out once per month and can review them over and over all month long to be sure your students achieve mastery and are gaining a deeper understanding of the words. The game includes several strategy cards for learning new vocabulary as well as data collection sheets and student response sheets for sentence writing. I hope you enjoy Cariboo as much as my older students—remember, when it comes to fun and learning, they are just little kids in bigger bodies so through in a game into your therapy sessions every once in a while and it will go a long way!

July 20, 2013 at 11:32 am

All of these games sound great! Thanks for including the pictures of the adjective cards in Funglish. Now I have to get them!

July 21, 2013 at 11:36 pm

Thanks Kelly–I thought it would be a good idea to show everyone what the content of the games looked like—those adjective cards are great!

July 21, 2013 at 10:14 pm

I’m so glad you linked up with an ‘older list!’ I need to stock up on some of these!

Thanks for linking up!

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July 21, 2013 at 11:34 pm

You’re welcome Jenna! It was a fun list to create. There really are so many great games out there and creative ways to use them in therapy! Looking forward to your next linky party!

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Vocabulary Games For Toddlers

Throw away those flashcards and enjoy easy vocabulary games that build vocabulary naturally! They key here is YOU, the parent. Your child can’t learn vocabulary without you.

Below are my top 4 vocabulary games for all toddlers. At the end of this page, there is a crash course in vocabulary development. Don't skip it!

Reading is BY FAR the best “game” for vocabulary development.

Children’s books are full of pictures with a variety of new words (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs).

However, how you read to your child is critical. Just reading a story straight from the book isn’t the best strategy. You MUST interact while reading. The technical term is called “shared reading.”

Click here for more information on how to read to your child.

2. Playhouse, farm, school, store

Playing with a playhouse, farm, school, store, or kitchen is a great way to:

introduce new, functional vocabulary words
show how words relate to each other
practice social skills

Farm Example: If you are playing with a farm, you can introduce new animals to your child and talk about how the toys are “farm animals,” not pets. You can talk about where farm animals live, sleep, and eat.

Your child will learn:

Names of animals
Verbs such as eat, sleep, walk, run
Which animals go together,
Where they live
How they are similar and different. Click here for more information on key aspects of vocabulary.

3. 20 Questions

The classic game “20 Questions” is a WONDERFUL language game for older toddlers up to adults! It incorporates categories, descriptions, and associations.

If your child is just starting to talk, don’t write this game off yet. Here me out.

How to play 20 Questions:

One person thinks of an object and the other person has to guess what it is by asking yes/no questions.
If you want to be strict, you only have 20 guesses/questions.
Don’t use yes/no questions. Yes/no questions are “dead end” questions.
For younger children, allow them to ask.... What color is it? Where do you see it? etc...

ANOTHER TWIST:

Give 20 hints about the mystery object to your child.
I like this one for younger toddlers.

4. Treasure Hunt

This is one of the more exciting vocabulary games. Go on a treasure hunt!

How To Play :

Hide things around the house amd have your child find them.
Give only descriptive clues.
For example, if you hide something under the couch say “the treasure is under something we can sit on. It is big and fluffy.”
The purpose is to indirectly teach your child about “description.” See below for more information.

Importance of Vocabulary

Vocabulary or more accurately “word knowledge” is the foundation for all communication. It the basis for expressive language (speaking), receptive language (understanding spoken information), reading, and writing abilities!!!

Word knowledge is about understanding the whole concept of a word and how a word relates to other words. Many children with language delays have incomplete word knowledge.

Being able to point to a dog in a picture doesn’t mean your child necessarily knows what a dog is.

For children under 5 years of age, it is important to know:

Category - What group does it belong to?
Function - What does it do?
Association - What goes with it?
Description - What does it look like?

Complete definition of a dog:

A dog is an animal (category)
It barks, runs, eats (function)
It is furry, hairy, big or small (description)
Leash, food bowl, bone goes with it (association)

Need vocabulary games for a child OLDER than 5?

For children over 5 years of age, check out vocabulary games for adolescents.

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Visualizations of the last full-scale skyscrapers in Moscow ’s new International Business Center (“Moscow City”) have been revealed. Designed by an international team made up of HOK (USA), FXFOWLE (USA) and SPEECH (Russia), the two “Neva Towers” will provide additional residential and office space to the skyscraper district, which includes many of Europe’s tallest structures, including Europe’s tallest building, Federation Tower (sometimes called Vostok Tower); and one of the world’s tallest twisting buildings, Evolution Tower .

Located on a triangular site in the northwest of Moscow City, the two rectangular towers rise from a 4-story podium, arranged to create an open plaza and green space surrounding the buildings that will be free from future development. The landscaped space will serve as the entry point to the towers, as well as to the aboveground and underground retail galleria and parking deck.

Program types will be split between the two skyscrapers – the taller of the two buildings will reach a height of 338 meters and will contain 77 floors of residential units, while the shorter tower will provide 63 floors broken up between office and apartment levels. In total, the project will add 1,210 new apartment units.

As they rise, the towers retain a classic form that gradually steps back to a fully glazed top tier to give the structure a visual lightness and provide the penthouse apartments with panoramic views of the city.

“The tower configuration is expressly laconic: the shape of the flat high-rise buildings is modified by slight shifts of the central parts forming a sort of a core of the towers, which is enveloped on both sides by three tiers tapering upwards,” explain development group Renaissance Development.

“The facades of both towers are decorated with pylons getting narrower from the bottom up. Such design imparts a special appeal to the structure, being both effectively up-to-date and recalling the legendary specimens of the 20th century high-rise construction.”

The project has been estimated to be completed by 2019.

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