Thursday, October 23, 2008

This Week's Highlights

Speech and language therapy students at Prairieview have been practicing their speech sounds and completing activities to develop vocabulary. Some of the fifth graders made a list of spooky verbs and adjectives to use writing a scary story. Next week many third, fourth, and fifth graders will play Halloween Bingo and monitor their speech while thinking of sentences with Halloween words.

Language therapy students at Lakeview are beginning to use the "Think Aloud" strategy to understand and discuss what they read. They are encouraged to ask questions about the text and increase abstract thinking skills. Next week they will write a response to Casey At The Bat,
which we read this week in group. Students working on articulation skills have been focused on monitoring their speech during conversation and small group activities.