6-8 year-olds Archives - Page 9 of 41

Take The Language Play Outside This Summer

| 10 and up, 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Last week I drove down the street and watched kids make up games of catch through hula hoops, ride their mini cars to fill up with gas, and take off...

Auditory Discrimination Lessons in Articulation Therapy

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Articulation

Soon after I get into articulation therapy with a child and they can make their error sound correctly, I find myself playing little games to improve...

What Constitutes A Good Language Toy?

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Language

I'm constantly teaching parents and toy manufacturers what constitutes a good language toy. I demonstrate good and bad options and today I want to...

Great Apps For Speech Therapy: Rainbow Sentences by Mobile Education Store

| 10 and up, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Apps, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

I want to share my latest experience with another outstanding app from Mobile Education Store, "Rainbow Sentences," designed to help students create...

Alphabet Anatomy: Meet The Capital Letters Teaches Kids The Alphabet

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Language, Reading, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Learning the alphabet, all 26 letters, can be daunting. Some pick it up quickly through repeated exposure to educational TV shows, DVD's, books, and...

Wordless Picture Books Can Teach More Language

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Books, Elementary School Age, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Last week research came out from the University of Waterloo finding that children hear more complex language from parents when they read a storybook...

My First Day, Comparing What Animals Do On Day One

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Books, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, Uncategorized

I was in an annual review yesterday for a first grader that I work with and his teacher was saying that next year they will be talking about...

Fun Art Projects for Screen-Free Week

| 6-8 year-olds, Toys

I have discovered some wonderful art projects that kids have loved called Artzooka! Crazy name, I know, but that just shows how creative they are...

Lesson Plans for Screen-Free Week: Pretend, Play, Talk

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Games, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, Toys

Turn off the TV? Set aside the iPad? Give up video games? That’s just what millions of people will be doing April 29-May 5 as they turn off screens...