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Who doesn’t love free speech therapy Valentine’s Day activities that can help them get through the month? I know February can be bananas with progress reports and IEP meetings, so you can rest easy knowing you will have easy and engaging Valentine’s Day activities for your students! Today, I am sharing my three FAVE free speech therapy Valentine’s Day activities with you.
Use this free Valentine’s Day Mouth Loves _____ to pieces craft to cover ANY goal on your caseload. It is super low prep. You just need to print the mouth template and grab any colored construction paper.
You can have students write words that are related to their goals. Or, if you have students glue their target pictures to the craft.
Love using crafts? There are a LOT of great February crafts for speech therapy.
When it comes to serving our students with language goals, we want themed materials that can cover a lot of different language goals. Did you know that it takes children with language impairments up to 36 engagements with a word before they master it? That’s why it is super important for the word targets you chose. When you use a Valentine’s Day theme, you want to choose words related to the theme. Those words are more likely to appear in the Valentine’s Day books you read and the words being discussed in the classroom in February.
Use this free Valentine’s Day grammar and vocabulary activity set to cover the following goals on your caseload:
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If you love using vocabulary words related to your favorite seasonal themes, check out these themed grammar and vocabulary activities to pair with any seasonal book for your k-2 caseload!
If you are needing some ideas for themed verb lists for Valentine’s Day, here are some examples in the picture. You can use the EBP strategy of conversation recasting paired with explicitly explaining the grammar rule to teach different verb markers.
Are you struggling to motivate your older students to practice their language goals? Here is a speech therapy Valentine’s Day activity that makes them suddenly engaged with what you have going on. That’s when you introduce a challenge to them, and it changes everything.
Giving your students a challenge, it makes the activity about what they produce rather than what you are directing them to do in the session. So, you can search Valentine’s Day photos on Google Photos and use those with this lesson. Have students write sentences or short stories about the pictures. Give them a challenge card to have them try and include elements in their writing. After you give them some time to write sentences, you can give them points for the elements in the sentence. This allows time to discuss what the student did well with their vocabulary and grammar and how they can improve on the sentence. Grab this free Valentine’s Day language activity by clicking the pink button below.
Do you have a go-to Valentine’s Day activity you love to use with your students? Better yet, is it a free download? Or, something that you can access on YouTube? If you have something that your students LOVE, let me know in the comments. I am sure other SLPs would love to know what is working for your students.
