Tuesday, February 24, 2015

What's In Your Cart? {Linky Party}

It's that time again--time for another sale!!  My wish list has been growing and growing, and I just couldn't wait much longer for another sale!  This Teachers Pay Teachers sale will be February 25th (Wednesday).  Be sure to use the code HEROES at checkout to save up to 28%!



Jenna over at Speech Room News is hosting another linky party for this sale!



One of the newest items in my store is my Tall Tales Unit.  It's a fun unit that your older students will love!

Get it here!
You can check out the rest of my store here!

Now for my wishlist:

Articulation Grab-N-Grow Books

Phonology Progress Monitoring Tool

Story in a Can

Daily Language Book

I'm also looking at some clipart!   I'm sure I will go back for more several times!

What's in your cart?

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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Chicken Soup for the SLP Soul Blog Hop

Welcome to your next stop on the Chicken Soup for the SLP Soul Blog Hop!  I'm so glad you're here!  I hope you've been enjoying all of the stories so far. 


I want to tell you a story from this fall.  This is my first year as speech pathologist (I just graduated from graduate school in May).  I've been busy learning the tricks of the trade, and one of those is learning how to get students motivated.  I've also had to learn various strategies for writing, such as the Step-Up to Writing method.  One of my students has a goal for writing a 4-6 sentence paragraph with an introduction, conclusion, and at least three details. Well around Thanksgiving time, I wanted this student to write about what he did over the break.  I figured it would be a fairly easy prompt for him, especially since he loves food and Thanksgiving is all about food.  I gave him the outline, and he quickly wrote an introduction and four details.  He needed some prompting for the conclusion sentence, but he was able to create one.  When he began transferring it to a paragraph format, he began adding more details with minimum cueing from me.  In the end, he had an 11 sentence paragraph.  I had promised him some Cheese-Its, so he wrote it for me.  It was a breakthrough moment for him because he had never written anything that long before and had never written a narrative.  I immediately called his mother to brag about him a little bit.  It was in that moment that I realized how important it is to call parents to share positive stories (and not just the negative ones). 

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Check out these amazing prizes that you can win by participating in this hop!


You have a chance to win these prizes when you add all of the secret numbers together and enter the sum on the last blog!  Here's mine:

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