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Whether you are seeing your students in person, providing teletherapy, or doing a little bit of both this summer, I have the BEST summer speech therapy YouTube videos to help you plan engaging lessons.When exploring summer fun, you can find reading passages about summer, weather concepts, going to the beach, ocean animals, and outdoor activities. Themed reading passages are a great way to work on tiered vocabulary, listening and reading comprehension, story grammar, sequencing, identifying the main idea, and recalling important details. Varying your supports and finding passages with your student’s speech sound are a plus! This will help you plan a great mixed group lesson for your students.
As always, www.readworks.org or www.getepic.com are excellent resources for finding books and passages to support your summer theme. Summer speech therapy videos are great tools to pair with the reading passages or as an alternative to a summer speech and language lesson plan that incorporates the reading passages altogether.
You can use summer-themed videos to help organize your therapy sessions with engaging content. In this blog post, I will share some of my favorite summer speech therapy YouTube videos for both in-person and teletherapy settings.
You can kick off your summer speech therapy lessons with this fun and engaging video about the sun and the seasons from Crash Course Kids. It features a catchy poem that helps build background knowledge about seasonal changes—perfect for introducing summer-themed concepts. Along with this video, there are 5 additional videos you can use throughout the month to target vocabulary and language skills. These short, informative clips work well for 20–30 minute summer speech therapy sessions, keeping your students engaged without overwhelming them.
This Scishow kids video is great for learning about the importance of sunscreen!
Simon’s Cat summer-themed videos are a fun and engaging way to target nonverbal social communication skills in your summer speech therapy sessions. I like using these short, animated clips to help students practice identifying facial expressions, body language, and emotions. We often pause the video to talk about how the animals might be feeling and why.
These summer videos also work great for practicing inferencing skills. Because they’re wordless, students must rely on visual context to make smart guesses—perfect for building critical thinking.
If you want ideas for how to use Simon’s Cat videos to target articulation, language, and social skills, visit my full Simon’s Cat speech therapy blog post.
To make planning even easier, grab my Simon’s Cat Summer Speech Therapy Cheat Sheets, which include no-prep articulation and language lessons designed specifically for these videos.
Shared storybook readings are a great at-home activity to support your students’ generalization of language concepts, especially during summer speech therapy. While reading a physical book is ideal, some families may not have access to a variety of themed books—especially with many libraries still operating with limited hours or access. In those cases, YouTube read-alouds are a perfect alternative.
These videos allow students to stay engaged in the story, learn about summer topics, and continue building language skills from home. For a true shared reading experience, encourage families to mute the video and read the pages aloud themselves. I try to select summer books for speech therapy that have clear visuals and text so families can easily follow along.
This is one of my favorite low-effort summer-themed speech therapy activities to share with caregivers, especially when working on vocabulary, WH-questions, and story retell goals.
We provide book companions and book cheat sheets for different summer themes such as summer, camping, beach, ice cream and water activities in the Themed Therapy SLP membership.
This is a great home carryover activity, but it can also be a great therapy lesson. Pause the read aloud and talk about what your student sees on the page. I also like to ask my students what they think will come next or how this story goes along with our summer theme.
Other ways to use books are by screen sharing while projecting a book from Kindle Unlimited, Vooks, or using Epic. If you’re looking for some more summer books ideas, check out my list of books for targeting summer vocabulary.
It’s summer and the perfect time to go outside and get moving! Use these fun, summer-themed songs to have a movement break with your students during your sessions. These songs are great to use for your whole group lessons as a warm-up or when you can see your kids are struggling to pay attention.
Use these songs and videos to target seasons, summer vocabulary, and basic concepts in a way that’s fun and engaging for your students. I like to also have my younger students work on requesting and imitation with these movement breaks.
Don’t forget to check out the Frozen song video (who doesn’t love Olaf?). Share in the comments what songs you like to use with your students.
If you want all these summer songs in one place as well as more of my faves, grab this free summer YouTube Google Slides by clicking the pink button.
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 is 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 summer-themed language lesson plan guides that have a Google Slides™ presentation included. It comes with everything ready to go.
You can see how you can organize your videos and activities in the video below.
What summer speech therapy YouTube videos have you found and included in your summer lessons? I would love to add them to my collection of materials! Share in the comments.
