tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33757295793871919162024-03-14T02:30:49.782-07:00Mrs. Ludwig's Speech RoomUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375729579387191916.post-44503731889838566282016-08-24T08:07:00.001-07:002023-08-06T12:02:59.124-07:00Motherhood Hiatus<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi friends and followers of Mrs Ludwig's Speech and Language Room! This post is long overdue and I am <i>finally</i> feeling moved to put up a new post to explain the radio silence over here on the blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rewind a little over 2 years (my time has flown!): My husband finished a program and took a job in a new city, which for me, meant a bittersweet goodbye to the school and all the speech-language kiddos I had worked with for the past 4 years. We loaded up a U-haul and started a new adventure in a new locale. A few months later, our family was blessed was the addition of a beautiful baby girl...and life has never been the same!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">New job. New city. New baby.....no blogging. I've been a stay-at-home mama with an SLP license for the last 20-or-so months. It was a happy adjustment but definitely one that required me to take a step back and realize that being an SLP is not a defining characteristic of what makes me....me. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I still get inspired to create and write but most of my time has been dedicated to figuring out life with a little one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, that sometimes involves auditory bombardment with the place-voice-manner chart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, that means we spend lots and lots of times reading, talking about the pictures in our books, and pointing out rhyming words (current reads: Fancy Nancy and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And yes, that means that our recent discovery of kinetic sand made me think of all the ways it could be incorporated into a therapy session.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So yes, life is good. And yes, I'm still active in the SLP world. I've completed some pretty awesome online conferences through ASHA. The Social Communication Conference last fall and the Speech Sound Disorder Conference, which I just wrapped up two weeks ago, were both amazing. With a little one at home, it's been a great way to clock CEUs while learning from the leading experts in the field. I highly recommend!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now that we're all caught up, I'll share our newest news. We are so blessed to be expecting a new little one in a short 3 weeks, so life is not about to slow down. It just keeps getting better and better!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So stay tuned because I'll be back online...at some point! In the meantime, my TpT store is still actively managed so you can find me there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thanks for reading and best wishes to all of your own speech-language-literacy rooms!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mrs. Ludwig</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375729579387191916.post-20508720646233058622014-01-20T13:54:00.002-08:002014-01-21T04:34:33.902-08:00Snowman Ornaments<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A quick rewind to the week before winter break to document our snowman lightbulb ornaments! I found this cute project after a Google search for "ornaments to make with kids"…or something like that and then gave it a little speech-language twist for use in MLS&LR.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our ornaments ended up being a 2-day project. The f</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">irst day was the glittering and painting. The s</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">econd day was the glueing arms and tying twine. Both days involved a spoken and then written narrative for some nice expressive language practice.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375729579387191916.post-56321145486496764432014-01-08T15:54:00.003-08:002014-01-20T14:09:29.359-08:00Happy 2014!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy New Year, friends!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have SO much to write about as I have been remiss when it comes to my blog updates. Where to start, where to start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, November was full of conferences. First up was the Adolescent Language & Literacy conference online. I watched a bunch of online presentations from the comfort of our couch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next up was ASHA in Chicago with my mom. I don't think I've mentioned on here that my mom is also an SLP! Fun fact! ASHA could take up a few posts in itself (I'll get to those when I get to those), but I gained a ton of professional development and great information/ideas to take back to my speech & language room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then we moved right on in to December! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The last few weeks of the holidays with my kiddos was eventful with these cute lightbulb ornaments: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And some nice procedural narratives and written language tasks that targeted lots of goals:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I drew the principal's name, so this is what she got:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My Secret Santa was amazing. I got a few gift cards to Target and Einsteins (favorite places), goldfish and granola bars (favorite snacks), a cute little bag, and some ornaments for our Christmas tree. Secret Santa was a success!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And in other news, Mr. Ludwig and I saw the real Santa! ;) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And celebrated the holidays with our family and friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And that brings us to…2014!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">aka the 2014-2015 IEP date range. That will take some getting used to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1) We learned about bats by reading a few books from <a href="http://www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/book/?id=127" target="_blank">Reading A to Z</a>, a resource I love!! I also pulled a passage from No Glamour Reading Comprehension book, which has a nice passage about "Batty Facts" for some of my lower level readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">We read the text and also glued retelling picture cues in the blank spaces above the text.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4) We decorated some little mini pumpkins as reinforcers for various activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5) And last but not least, we dressed up in costumes this past Friday at school. I always rack my brain every year trying to come up with a good costume. Two years ago I was Waldo and last year I went with a pumpkin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year I finally made the decision</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Thursday evening to be the Hungry Caterpillar, so I made a last minute stop at Michaels and Target to gather a few supplies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thankfully, I had Mr. Ludwig to help me quickly sew a few t-shirts together….and add a few strips of yellow Duck Tape to help the finished project come together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Phew, it's been a busy last couple weeks. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hope you all had nice Halloweens with you kiddos! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And now on to November and the holiday season….</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">here we go!</span></div>
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<span face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The project started on a weekend before the kids came back to school in August. Mr. Ludwig and I brought in the paint, paintbrushes, water buckets, and few hanging lanterns, and we spent our Saturday sprucing up Mrs. Ludwig's Speech & Language Room.</span><br />
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><i>There's Mr. Ludwig! Couldn't have done this project without him. </i></span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><i>See that window? Mr. Ludwig is allergic to bees</i></span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. </i></div>
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<i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We had a few visitors fly on in, and I mustered up the courage:</i></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">If you compare the above and below photos, you'll notice I got rid of my milk crate bookshelves and upgraded to two 9-cubby bookshelves from Target. One of my kids noticed and told me, "Oh, you got rid of your junky bookshelf!" Ha, aannnnnnd we might be working on social skills...but hey, you know what....I think she's right. :)</span><br />
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">It was a weekend paint project and then the additional accessories took a few extra evenings to finish (e.g. the corkboard squares covered in fabric above my desk and the curtain in the window).</span><br />
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Also a quick tip: I did some research on the 'net to figure out the best way to hang things up on cinderblock walls....hot glue! I tried it and it worked great!</span><br />
<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Was it worth it? Yes, definitely! I figure that I spend over half of my waking hours in this room. It's good for all of us and we are loving our new home away from home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Things are getting creepy in Mrs. Ludwig's Speech & Language Room with spooky spiders! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I do admit, I HATE spiders (just ask my husband), but these little guys turned out pretty cute. The legs, bodies, and heads were all cut out and ready to glue together...and ready to target lots of different goals!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A quick definition lesson identifying the spider's category and attributes was drawn on the board. When I initially asked for the definition of a spider, one of my kiddos said ...</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"a spider is something that eats you"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here we have Synonym Spider. The younger kids</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> had to find pre-printed synonym matches, use markers to color matching words the same color, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">& then paste the pairs on different legs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I pulled these pictures from a TpT product I found <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Describe-a-Spider-with-a-Bubble-Map-159156" target="_blank">here</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And last but not least Synonyms Spider v2.0 (for the older kids). The kids picked a word (e.g. funny, spooky, scary) and looked up synonyms in the thesaurus. I spy lots of base words and suffixes, too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also read a few books about spiders from ReadingAtoZ (a resource I LOVE!) </span><a href="http://www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/book/?id=1853" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">The Spider's Web</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="http://www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/book/?id=1703" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Tarantulas</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">. And worked on various language goals with those!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can find it in my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Stuttering-Toolbox-Fluency-Strategies-911372" target="_blank">TpT store here</a>, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I use the toolbox as a visual when I teach fluency strategies to my students. We aren't curing stuttering, but we are giving them a toolbox full of strategies that they can learn to use and apply to improve their fluency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we learn a strategy, we add the tool to the box. At the beginning of each session, we choose a tool (or a combination of tools) that we are going to focus on for the day. The tool sits in front of them and serves as a nice visual reminder of what we're working on during activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To give the kids ownership of their toolbox and express their fluency style, they can choose a toolbox in red, green, purple, pink, blue, or yellow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are several strategies out there to target fluency. The strategies I included in the packet are some of the most commonly used across many different intervention programs (Healey & Scott, 1995).</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">The strategies included and described in this toolbox are:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">easy onsets & easy beginnings </span><i>(same strategy just different lingo)</i></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Healey, C. & Scott, L. (1995). Strategies for Treating Elementary School-Age Children Who Stutter: And Integrative Approach. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 26, 151-161.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just wrote about my new discbound notebook system, which you can read about <a href="http://mrsludwigspeechroom.blogspot.com/2013/08/happy-new-year-2013-2014-discbound.html" target="_blank">here</a>! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And here is the follow up post with the sheets I created to put in my new book: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">#4) <b>My Calendar:</b> monthly calendar printed double-sided on 8 1/2 x 11 in. sheets of paper:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">#5) I<b>EP at a Glance Sheets: </b>these don't actually go in my binder, but I'm including them here anyway! They were passed out to teachers at the beginning of the year as overviews of IEPs. It was described as being "not as scary" as the ones that we usually print out that our IEP system generates. I'll count that as a compliment. Ha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can download my IEP at a glance sheet for FREE <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B395W6s5hvuDeFF4bGx2cGR6YkU/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can purchase and download ALL of the forms & calendar pages in my TpT store <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/2013-2014-School-Calendar-and-Speech-Therapy-Forms-861962" target="_blank">here</a>!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Or if you just like the forms and don't need a new calendar you can buy the forms <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/2013-2013-Speech-Language-Therapy-Forms-865397" target="_blank">here</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hope your school year is still off to a great start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's 2013-2014 and I'm refreshed, recharged and ready to tackle another year. I've worked on several organizational materials to set myself up for a successful year....but FIRST...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm using a new organizational system this year! I discovered <a href="http://www.staples.com/Martha-Stewart-Home-Office-with-Avery-Discbound-Notebook-Black-Textured-9-1/product-nr_946036?cmArea=SC1:CG1234:CL142104" target="_blank">Martha Stewart's discbound notebooks</a> this summer and bought in big time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The best way to describe them is as a "notebook/binder hybrid". Flat like a notebook and built like a binder. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's a totally customizable system. You can buy different parts and create your own binder to fit your own needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">On the inside front cover is a big pocket & a few</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"> smaller pockets </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">(mine has an article to read from our principal & some sticky notes)</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A row of discs holds everything together. The binder comes with small discs, which can hold ~60 sheets, so I bought the <a href="http://www.staples.com/Martha-Stewart-Home-Office-with-Avery-Discbound-Expansion-Discs-12-Pack-1/product_946030?externalize=certona" target="_blank">expansion discs</a>, which will hold up to 150 sheets:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Martha's line also includes pre-punched </span><a href="http://www.staples.com/Discbound-Accessories/cat_CL168593" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">accessory pages</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> (</span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">e.g. calendars, taskpads</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) that fit in as needed. I went ahead and bought the </span><span id="goog_2085819663" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">special hole-puncher</span><span id="goog_2085819664" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> so I could make my own pages.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And then you just push the pages right into place! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I made my own calendar & inserted a small sheet between the current month as a task pad. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">For now, it's just a yellow, 1/2 sheet of paper. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eventually, my plan is to design something </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">a little nicer. But, hey it works just fine for now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I will admit, the startup was a little pricey. The hole punch was the biggest investment ($40), b</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">ut I'm convinced it will be a long-term solution to my organizational needs. It's the system you can just keep using over and over!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here's the link to the notebooks: <a href="http://www.staples.com/Martha-Stewart-Home-Office-with-Avery-Discbound-Notebook-Black-Textured-9-1/product-nr_946036?cmArea=SC1:CG1234:CL142104" target="_blank">Book</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And the tabs: <a href="http://www.staples.com/Martha-Stewart-Home-Office-with-Avery-Discbound-Notebook-Dividers-Classic-8-Tab/product_946017" target="_blank">Divide</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And some other accessories: <a href="http://www.staples.com/Discbound-Accessories/cat_CL168593" target="_blank">Accessorize</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And the hole punch: <a href="http://www.staples.com/M-by-Staples-Arc-System-Desktop-Punch-8-Sheet-Capacity/product_324688" target="_blank">Punch</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So there you have it! My organizational solution for the 2013-2014 school year and beyond.</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375729579387191916.post-52841405750982356892013-07-15T14:11:00.002-07:002013-07-15T14:27:56.100-07:00Vocabulary Instruction: a presentation for teachers<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">After I presented to our staff on language impairment (You can find that presentation </span><a href="http://mrsludwigspeechroom.blogspot.com/2013/07/pd-presentation-pt-1-language-impairment.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">HERE!</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">), I had a teacher come find me with a cool vocabulary dictionary to share. She told me that I could present it to our staff if I thought it was a good resource. I suggested that we present it together (collaboration, yes!) and used it as an opportunity to provide more professional development to our teachers on the topic of vocabulary, an area that lots of our language kids work on in speech-language therapy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And then I talked about the relationship between vocabulary and reading comprehension, which is a big struggle for a lot of language-impaired kids. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...which would mean you're essentially reading this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now given that, can you answer main idea/detail or inference questions about it? Probably not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The authors note that conventional wisdom teaches us that we learn vocabulary from context. Before entering school, kids learn from an <i><u>oral</u></i> context. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once kids get to school, there is a shift in focus to acquiring words from <u><i>written text</i></u>. T</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">here are several state and common core standards based on using context-clues to learn words.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Use various dictionaries: unabridged, learner </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">p.s. As I've written this, I just found a post that was written by Jenn over at Crazy Speech World about how she collaborated with a teacher to create student-friendly definitions based on Beck, McKeown, & Kucan's work. Love it! Check it out<a href="http://crazyspeechworld.blogspot.com/2013/07/things-i-love-bringing-words-to-life.html" target="_blank"> HERE!</a> :)</span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In my experiences, the teachers are pretty good at collaborating on the speech impairment IEPs; however, when it comes to <i>language impairment</i>, I have often been faced with a perceived "what in the world are you talking about?" conversation when explaining the language IEPs to teachers at the beginning of each school year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the very end of my presentation, I explained the scheduling model I was planning to use for the year, the 3:1 service delivery model...which is a whole post in itself.</span></div>
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I've been on summer break since the second week of June....and it is wonderful! It was another crazy school year and this break has been an excellent opportunity to refresh, relax, and recharge!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>and just bought a few of these:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...and I've also been busy going to the farmer's market, planting an urban garden, organizing the <span style="text-align: center;">Ludwig home, reading about finance, and working on my cooking skills! </span></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but they are SO easy! Recipe <a href="http://www.annies-eats.com/2010/03/01/the-perfect-burger-bun/" target="_blank">HERE!</a></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">And 4th of July is upon us! We got to celebrate the 30th of June with some fireworks at a friend's house and are looking forward to celebrating the long weekend with my husband's family starting Wednesday!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Summer breaks are the best! I think we deserve them because I really believe we complete 12 months of work in only 9! Hope you are all enjoying sweet summertime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've been working on lots of new projects, but just haven't had time to blog about them. First thing I'm going to share is a cool new magnetic sentence formulation/grammar resource I just bought. My </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">husband and I were shopping in a pretty cool toy store for my niece's birthday, when I came across this:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The kit has tons of magnetic words: nouns, verbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and even morphological endings! I can already think of a million ways to use them, and I think the kids will like them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The words will stick to any magnetic surface, including the tin they come in! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I spy some nominative and possessive pronouns:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And I've got them all ziplocked and labeled to use with my kiddos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's for sale on Amazon, too. You can check it out here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Poetry-Kids-Dave-Kapell/dp/1890560022" target="_blank">Magnetic Poetry Kid</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And 'tis the season for keeping track of a few different brackets! Our school does a pool and these are Mrs. Ludwig's picks. A few busts, but still a long way to go! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here they are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Can you believe it's the middle of March?! The time is flying! Here's a quick post about what's been happening in Mrs. Ludwig's Speech Room as March has been rolling along:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.superduperinc.com/products/view.aspx?stid=102#.UUD8GKUptWg" target="_blank">Chipper Chat</a> is always a fan favorite in Mrs. Ludwig's Speech Room. The open-ended boards can be used in so many ways! And I love to use the versatile chipper chat pieces and magnetic "magic" wands in my other activities too!</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Awhile back, I had the Ah-Ha! moment that the Chipper Chat pieces fit <i>perfectly</i> on the <a href="http://www.dltk-kids.com/type/bingo_daubers.htm" target="_blank">Bingo Dauber Art boards </a>at DLTK Kids. There are so many options for different seasons and holidays.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We used the B&W version so we could color them. We spent one speech session coloring/cutting out boards while taking turns saying sounds. (Mrs. Ludwig's Rule: When it's your turn, freeze and put that crayon down!) And during the next speech time, we played our game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When it's game time, we take turns rolling a die and whatever number is rolled is the number of speech sounds that need to be said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">And in other news...we had a visit from Lucky the Leprechaun! He came to visit two of my scholars who stay after school for speech on Tuesdays. He left them this note:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a side note: Apparently way too many of my kids have seen a movie about a scary <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107387/" target="_blank">leprechaun</a> (I had to look up a quick movie clip to get up to speed and he <i>is</i> pretty scary! Ha), so I had to explain that Lucky is a very different and very friendly leprechaun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And as I've been typing, it turns out my husband stole all my kids' gold for tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The month of St. Patrick's Day and March Madness. I'll be cheering for the Indiana Hoosiers in the NCAA tourney, so I thought it was time to share my Hoosier spirit with a banner change! And also time to share a few more shamrocks - one for sale and one for free!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First up is Shamrock Categories, which is available for purchase in my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Shamrock-Categories" target="_blank">TpT store</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.5a: </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Targets: pets, colors, seasons, punctuation marks, furniture, letters, insects, writing utensils, things you can read, clothing, and flowers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had a group last Monday work on the Shamrock Categories activity and then they filled out this recording sheet today. I was excited how well they recalled the items we had gone over the week before!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">And our versatile activity for articulation, language, and fluency: the lovely love elephant. You can find the template <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B395W6s5hvuDb0NCWHktbFNhUG8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And then we started using shaving cream (lots of shaving cream) in Mrs. Ludwig's speech room! I had seen the shaving cream snowmen floating around on Pinterest, so we got some shaving cream and glue and made our own! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And then shaving cream became our motivating white board. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used it for phonological awareness: draw 4 boxes and make them tap each box as they segmented CCVC words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">....and now Happy February! I've been working hard on some new materials for Valentine's Day to use in Mrs. Ludwig's Speech Room. Here's a sneak peek:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">....and some more! Check back for the full post very soon!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">**update 12/11/2012**....but then it turned out that I actually stole The Grinch. Unfortunately, I was just informed the Grinch is trademarked. That means no more love for The Grinch this Christmas and no more Grinch for sale in my TpT store. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy December, blog friends! A quick post to introduce my new Speech & Language Holiday Pack. Check out the images & check out my TpT store to download it for free! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>(this was about all of the city I actually saw)</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And since it's almost Thanksgiving, one more turkey for you! When thinking what she was thankful for, a cute kindergartner pulled out a Fruit Rollup from her pocket and copied the letters exactly (even the O!, we'll work on the S...). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Results: Later-acquired words were found to have better phonological generalization than early-acquired words. Also, the study provided more evidence that the late-8 sounds showed greater gains compared to middle-8 sounds. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gierut, J. A., & Morrisette, M. L. (2012).<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~sndlrng/papers/Gierut%20Morrisette%202012.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"> </a>Age-of-word-acqui</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sition effects in treatment of children with phonological delays. Applied Psycholinguistics, 33, 121-144. NIHMSID: 353839</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Following directions activities (e.g. "Draw a square under a circle"). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hangman to target question syntax,</span></div>
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