Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I am chomping at the bit for the time off. We have one more week of school and for the first time in five years, we will have the entire week off for Thanksgiving. Do you? Is this usual for your school district? Or do you work up until the day before Thanksgiving and then have Thanksgiving and the day after off?
Either way, we still have a few days of crunch time therapy before enjoying a little relaxation time off. Are you still in need of some little “reinforcements” with a Thanksgiving theme? Here are five great apps that I found that can be used to target speech and language goals and act as a Thanksgiving week reinforcement.
THANKSGIVING EBOOK (Mr. Turkey, where are you?) by Visual Works: This is a very basic ebook introducing Thanksgiving characters (Pilgrim, turkey, Native American, leaf, etc..) and is a simple way to work on answering basic who, what, and where questions. The great part is that you can also personalize the story for your student. The designer of this app also has similar ebooks for other holidays too. If you go to their website, you can also download a pdf version of this story.
HAND TURKEY App by Jay Ayres: This is a multi-touch app. It is great when working on cause-effect, making requests, and following directions. My little one loved playing with it and I heard a lot of giggling happening so I am excited to see how my kiddos at work like it. Student places their hand on the tablet screen and the app will make a turkey using their hand. Students can name their turkey and decorate it.
WORD SEARCH THANKSGIVING by Astraware: I love this one! I’m pretty sure my older students will love it too. When you start the game it creates a lit of words associated with Autumn and Thanksgiving. Tap it again, and a huge word search with the same words comes up for the students to locate the words. This app is great for targeting articulation (especially if students are at a mixed position level with their sound), definitions, and grammar (using a word in a grammatically correct sentence or identifying the part of speech). THANKSGIVING GAMES for KIDS by Maria Dolores Garcia Ferre: This app features multiple games such as simon says (with Thanksgiving foods), identifying pictures that are not the same, word search, memory, building words by moving letters in place, etc.. This is just a great app to reinforce completion of speech tasks.
THANKSGIVING PUZZLES by Scott Adelman Apps Inc: These puzzles are very simple and cute (9 pieces). I have the free version and it provides you with four puzzles. You have the option to buy more and if you do purchase you are able to change the number of puzzle pieces too. Personally, I found the free version more than meets my needs for reinforcement. Once the student puts all the pieces together a cute little animation takes place.
The opinions expressed here are my own and I have not received any compensation for sharing this information. All websites and tablet applications that are mentioned in this blog are done so as potential tools to encourage and assist in the development of speech and language skills.
Do you have any suggestions for free Thanksgiving apps that can be used in therapy?
Do you have any suggestions for free Thanksgiving apps that can be used in therapy?
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