Upon first glance, one might be thinking, “Colors, counting, and graphing… completely unrelated to speech and language goals.  How do I target my students’ goals doing THIS?”  Well, I’m glad you asked! Here are a few different areas of preschool speech and language skills you can target in an activity like this:<\/p>\n

1.  MLU<\/b>
This activity would easily lend itself to structured sentence building.  Working on combining two words together? My turn, your turn, my roll, I roll, you roll, blue hat, red hat, etc….  Three word combos? “I got blue” “I have red” “More yellow hats” “Two blue hats” “My turn roll” etc… <\/p>\n

2.  Basic Concepts<\/b>
Preschool math involves learning about quantitative concepts<\/u>, and many of my students have goals for basic concept knowledge.  With graphing, you can work on concepts like more\/less\/most<\/u> (Which column has more? Which one has less, blue or red?  Which one has the most boxes colored in?) as well as full\/empty\/no\/none<\/u> (Are there any columns that are full? Any that are empty\/that have none\/that have no boxes colored?).  I also targeted spatial concepts<\/u> like “Color the box that’s above\/on top of <\/u> the yellow one you already colored”  or “The red column is next to<\/u> the yellow column.”  Throw in some size concepts<\/u> such as long\/tall\/short columns<\/u> and make comparisons, too!<\/p>\n

3.  Pronouns<\/b>
If you have a student in the group working on pronouns, have them practice using “he” and “she” to tell you what their peers just rolled “He rolled a blue” “She rolled red” etc… and even “I” if they are using “me” instead of “I” (I had a kiddo on my caseload where we worked on using “I” for two school years.  His teacher would model it\/recast it with emphasis when he made an error, as did I, the classroom paraprofessionals, and his other therapists.  We all <\/i><\/b>did the happy dance this Spring when he finally started using it in conversation!)<\/p>\n

4.  Articulation<\/b>
I generally do pull-out therapy with my artic\/phono kids, but try to do a little in-class support when I can, in a natural environment like the classroom.  With this activity, I can work with my artic students on initial \/f\/ (four, five), initial \/t\/ (my turn, two), initial \/m\/ (me, my turn), and \/p, b\/ sounds for colors like “pink” “purple” and “blue.”<\/p>\n

Speech and language skills can be worked on just about anywhere, at any time!  How do you target communication goals in math or other seemingly unrelated lessons?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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