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If you are planning some themed therapy for the month of November, you can use a turkey-theme to cover a lot of goals. Traditionally, at a Thanksgiving meal, many families eat turkey as the main course, so you can discuss turkey as part of a meal. Whether you are in-person or doing teletherapy, you can use these Thanksgiving videos on YouTube to help frame your therapy sessions with engaging turkey-themed speech therapy lesson plans.
You can work on main idea and details about fun turkey facts using this video from Scishowkids. The videos aren’t too long in length, so you can use them in a 20-30 minute session. Plus, you can also work tier II vocabulary with this video.
Homeschool Pop also has two great videos sharing about turkey facts.
You can use these videos while filling out a graphic organizer for Turkey’s can, turkey’s are, and turkey’s have. If you need a graphic organizer to fill out about the turkey fact details for teletherapy, you can use the Kami Chrome Extension to add text boxes. Here is a YouTube video tutorial on how to add text boxes in Kami. You can put the graphic organizer on one side of the screen and the YouTube browser on the other side. Then, just screen share your entire screen. If you need a graphic organizer, this one is included in my Turkey Push-In Language Lesson Plan Guides.
If you love planning by themes for your Prek-5th grade caseload but don’t have the time or energy to find activities and materials, the Themed Therapy SLP membership is for you!
You can let someone else take lesson planning off your plate so you can focus on enjoying therapy with your students.
Between word lists, Google Slides, No Print resources, printables, book cheat sheets, and more, you will have engaging-themed therapy activities with less stress!
When you get the annual membership, you can access over 24 themed units including the Thanksgiving speech therapy activities unit for November.
I prefer to read the actual turkey books out loud to my students over using a YouTube book read aloud, but if I don’t own the turkey-themed picture book, I will use YouTube.
All you need to do is have the YouTube video on mute so that you can read the pages. I try to find a book read aloud that shows the pages clearly so that I can read the lines from the story. These Thanksgiving picture books talk about turkeys and you can easily see the pictures.
Other ways to use books are by screen sharing while projecting a book from Kindle Unlimited, Vooks, or using Epic.
If you are looking for a book that discusses Thanksgiving meals, this book Duck for Turkey Day by Jacqueline Jules is a great way to discuss that each family may pick a different type of meat or food item for their main course, but the reason for gathering as a family is the same. It showcases how a Vietnamese family gathers for Thanksgiving and that although families may eat different foods at Thanksgiving, they are all gathering to be thankful for family and friends.
If you work with younger students that need movement breaks in a session, you can use these fun turkey songs for your preschoolers and kindergarten students. When I do whole class lessons on the SMARTboard, I would often pull up one of these videos when kids were struggling to pay attention.
You can also work on verb actions, initiating requesting for the song, and discussing if they liked the song.
Some Thanksgiving songs you can even work on left or right and other basic concepts.
One way you can keep all your favorite videos organized is by adding them to a Google Slide or PowerPoint. I find that adding them to Google Slides are easier for sharing with educators or families. Once you add in all the video links, you can easily navigate to the ones you need for the lesson.
Once you have it organized, you can use it year after year with your groups. If you need all of these videos in an organized Google Slides presentation, grab my turkey push-in lesson plan guide. It comes with everything ready to go. You also get Google Slides included in the Thanksgiving unit in the Themed Therapy SLP membership (we provide Prek-1st, 2nd-3rd and 4th-5th Google Slides.)
You can see how you can organize your videos in the video below.
What turkey videos have you found to be helpful for your caseload? I would love to add them to my stash of materials! Share in the comments.
