3 FREE Speech Therapy Valentine’s Day Activities
Planning themed therapy activities for your caseload can be kinda hard because we treat so many different goals and needs! Plus, we have limited time to plan and it feels like a rare commodity if we work for a district that actually gives us a material spending budget. So, we often have to fork out our own money to find quality speech therapy materials for our caseload. Today, I am sharing three free speech therapy Valentine’s day activities that you can use with mixed groups!
Easy Mixed Group Craft for Valentine’s Day
Use this 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. In my TPT store, there is the Any Craft Companion Speech and Language Resource that has picture target words for this craft.
If you need more craft ideas to use during the month of February, check out this blog post.
Speech Therapy Valentine’s Day Verbs and Vocabulary Activities
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.
How to Use Valentine’s Day Vocabulary
Use this free Valentine’s Day grammar and vocabulary activity set to cover the following goals on your caseload:
- -Pronouns
- -Verb tense
- -Present Progressive Verb Marker
- -Describing nouns by attributes
- -Answering wh-questions about Valentine’s Day-themed nouns
- -Building MLU
Hit the pink button below to get all the activities mentioned in this blog post.
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!
List of Valentine’s Day Verbs to Use in Speech Therapy
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. To learn more about the conversational recasting strategy, check out this blog post.
Valentine’s Day Grammar Worksheet Activity
Are you struggling with keeping your older students motivated to practice their language goals? 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.
What Free Speech Therapy Valentine’s Day Activities Have You Found Helpful for Your Students?
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.
