overwhlemed

This job can be overwhelming. I need to remember that being overwhelmed does not mean I am doing a bad job. 

bulletin boards

Bulletin boards can be an extra chore unless you use it to display student work. 

With this board, we imagined we were super heroes and drew ourselves as super heroes in a comic book panel. We cut that panel out and stapeled it to the bulletin board. We used our imaginations to take a picture in our head and put it on paper. And then we used attributes to describe our super hero. 

The kids seemed to really enjoy this activity and hopefully they were able to see that they were superheroes!

comic book reading activities

It's no secret that students with speech-language disorders may struggle with reading skills. We know all the theoretical reasons why but sometimes we struggle with the solutions. Between large caseloads and stacks of paperwork, sometimes our creativity suffers and we are left struggling for therapy activities.

Let me introduce you to the comic book:

Comic books have changed drastically in recent years. With the popularity of comic book movies, more universes have stories told in graphic novel format. More age-appropriate stories are being told through comic books.

Comic books offer stories with pictures... For our articulation kids, we can practice target sounds in sentences and conversation.

For our stutterers, we can practice "smooth" speech and other techniques to produce more fluent speech (as well as the confidence to speak).

For our language kids, we can work on defining words, retelling a story with good syntax and morphology and whatever else comes up!

And with this, students can gain strategies of mapping visual images with the words they read while enjoying a story without the pressure to read. 

So I have a new stack of comic books this week and we'll take some time to read them during speech therapy this week!

I'll let y'all know how we progress!