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Everyday tools for increasing expression.

I love to incorporate fun hands-on activities into my service time with students.  This is tricky at the middle level, but there are usually creative ways to approach descriptive language with materials that are cheap and easy to find.  

Smelly Markers! 
 I could just eat the orange marker with its tangy candy smell.  These great tangibles are a fun tool to work on describing.  At level one, I have students get creative with naming the color (below).  Students provide a descriptive statement of the marker's scent for Level two (above).   


Paint Swatches:  
From fresh cut grass to sage leaves, your students will love acting as painting color pros.  Students can name the color and expand expressive language by describing the color in oral and written forms.  


See how your students can become jelly bean connoisseurs on my
 Tasty Expression post.   

Use these ideas for data points throughout the year!  

Now tell me: What's your favorite color, scent, or flavor?  

You may also like my new Expanding Expression Tool Companion Bundle pack.  A year of describing activities with data tracking forms.  

Froggy Facebook Frenzy of FREEBIES!!! Sept 7-8

Hop along our Facebook Frenzy and collect 18 products to make a HUGE book companion! The products range from young to older students and include activities for an array of speech and language goal areas.  
Click on the map to download the "linkable" Google Doc frenzy map!

If you like my best-seller- Taking Perspective, you'll want to make sure to grab this freebie book companion activity on my SLPrunner FB page
Also be sure to print the cover page and table of contents HERE! 

PS- Make sure to take advantage of this frenzy as it may be the last one! An upcoming FB platform policy change will limit giveaways.   

S…Peachy Feedback Linky August!

Don't you just love Nicole's new graphic for the S…Peachy Feedback Linky Party!!!   This is the linky where we reward those who take the time to provide feedback on our products.  August has been a month full of feedback and I had a hard time choosing a winner.  
Terri Drushell, I really appreciate your kind feedback for my new EET Companion-Warm Fuzzy Product.   Please choose a product from my store and my best to you in your new job this year.  Email me at: jenng12slp@gmail.com  

Head on back to Allison's Speech Peeps for more great feedback and to see if you too are a winner this month!  

TpT Shining Stars Linky Party!

Mark your calendars for August 20th because TeacherspayTeachers is having a 1-day BTS Boost Sale!  These big sales happen once in a blue moon!  Most TpT Sellers put their stores on sale; plus you can use a special code to take an additional 10% off materials!
   
I'm so excited to host my first linky party!  I got the idea behind-the-scenes when I asked other SLP bloggers/sellers to share with me their favorite products.  It was fun to see whether or not personal favorites were best-sellers and also how difficult it was for many to name favorites.  Like the other specialists, I work hard to make all of my products shine.  However, these three stars are original materials that I'm particularly proud of.  
I remember my grad school professor describing the prosody of voice as a roller coaster.  It just flowed to use the carnival theme for this intonation and prosody product. Vocal Coaster helps students use their voice for: Prosody, Emotion, Melody, Punctuation, and Word Stress which may also be tied in with Reader's Voice.  You can hear the laughter down the hall when we all experiment with our voices and bringing in my daughter's cotton candy maker makes it extra fun!  

I had this idea before I began TPT and it took me about a year to put it together.   I wanted to grab the interest of my older students to capture a lot of language goals in this fun 60's themed product.   Included is a ton of figurative language,  perspective-taking, feelings, and inferences. I recently updated this product by adding data tracking pages.   So many middle-level crafts may be tied in with this product as well!

This back-to-school/fall themed product was a lot of work to put together, but I feel really satisfied with the results.  It can be used in its b/w printable form as a cut-and- paste activity or made into a book with Velcro strips for sequencing.  I leveled this activity to cover a wide range of learners. 
    
Here are a few of my favorite go-to materials made by my SLPeeps:  

Speech Room News- Yellow Brick Road Social Skills
An amazingly comprehensive social skills product which can be paired with video clips from this classic movie.  Like all of Jenna's materials, this one is easy to use and assemble and includes many extras such as parent letters and a reference poster. 

Another excellent product for working on social language.  These adorable creatures target an array pragmatic language and perspective-taking skills. 

This is one of my go-to materials!  The important skills of inferencing and deductive reasoning are targeted through fun riddles.   The number of categories and almost 100 stimulus cards with beautiful graphics makes this a product to use over and over again. 

My SLPrunner store will be 28% off including already reduced bundles!  Don't forget to use the code: BOOST when you check out!  Happy shopping!!!

1,000 followers GIVEAWAY!


My Teacherspayteachers store has reached a Thousand Followers!!!   I'm feeling the love and want to give back with some special treats!  

I asked my Facebook Fans which bundle they would like to see up for giveaway and the overwhelming response was My Year of Calendar Activities for Language BUNDLE!   This smart group of specialists know that they'll be set for the year with this language bundle.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Because I'm feeling a bit like a Grammy Winner, I would like to also giveaway a full sheet of these Glam Jamberry Nail wraps.  This Metallic Fade wrap can be dressed up or worn on your first day back-to-school.  My middle school girls absolutely love seeing what wraps I'll have on next!













a Rafflecopter giveaway


The giveaway runs from August 8th-14!
A HUGE thank you to all of you!!!


BIG SALE!!!!



Wow, prednisone and coffee will sure get ya moving!  An interesting post about my first ENT nasal endoscopy at a later date.  

So, like I was saying, I've been very productive the last two days and have a couple very cool products for you just in time for the big sale!!!! 

Fall Figurative Language is loaded with idioms, multiple meaning words, personification activities, similes and metaphors.  Each printable is provided in color or black & white and data tracking forms are included to keep baseline and progress data!  All activities are CC Aligned!  

I'm really excited to bring you these adorable little warm fuzzies!  They are lost and need your students to get them home in this fun EET Companion game.  Beware, the cold prickly is going to do whatever he can to get in the way.  Data and writing pages are also in this Expanding Expression Companion Product.  

Also be sure to check out my September Language Activities which can be viewed here in this $-Saving Bundle!  There is a FREEBIE sample of each page of the bundle in the preview of this product.  

Enjoy the Sale and remember to use the code BTS14 for 28% off everything, INCLUDING already reduced bundles!




What's in Your Cart- Linky Party (with code!)

I can't believe the Back To School Sale is happening all ready.  Thanks Jenna from The Speech Room News for putting on another awesome linky party! 

 I'm scrambling to get my cart together but KNOW that I really want the following products!  

I've had Natalie Snyder's upper level progress tool in my cart and this is the perfect time to buy it as I'll have all of my baseline data collected within the first month of school. 

Rose is so talented at Speechsnacks!  Our school is doing a lot of work in executive functioning this year and I'm sure to be prepared with this great back-to-school product!

And speaking of prepared, I think this planning pack by The Rachel (The Queen's Speech) is going to be so helpful, especially since it's fully editable!  

I'm super excited to get my hands on Nicole's Common Core Cans. I love this concept of quick and easy practice of important skills. 

You may be interested in my very NEW Fall Figurative Language Packet to get your students back in the critical thinking game.  It is CC aligned for grades 3-6 learning levels.  This means that I will be using it with many of my 7/8 learners who struggle with higher level language functions. 


Or- be set for the entire school year with my Year Full of Calendar Activities for Language.  This is my product that I go to at the beginning of each month and I love seeing student growth in their understanding of spatial/temporal concepts as well as executive skills and life skill knowledge.  The bundle is an EXTRA 28% off of the already reduced bundle price!!!!!!!!

Be sure to use the code: BTS14 for a total of 28% off everything at SLPrunner.  This includes all of my already reduced bundles 
(lots of back-to-school shopping).  

Head back to the Jenna's Linky Party for some more great tips.  

Thanks for visiting my blog and Happy Shopping!