Expanding Utterances – Sentence Formulation

Help support young children by expanding utterances and using early subject + verb, verb + object, and subject + verb + object phrases with these engaging animal-themed Speech Therapy materials.

⭐This resource is perfect for:

• Using in Early Intervention and preschool therapy sessions.
• Supporting young children to expand their utterances and use early subject + verb, verb + object, and subject + verb + object phrases.
• Using all year round or alongside any animal-themed activities, such as farm, zoo, pets, etc.
• Using in Early Intervention coaching sessions- share the caregiver-friendly handouts with families to support carryover at home.
• Using with individual students and in small group sessions.

⭐ Targets included:

Support your students to increase their mean length of utterances and use subject + verb phrases, verb + object phrases, and subject + verb + object phrases with these engaging early language activities.

This resource focuses on animals doing various actions– the animals are the subjects in each picture in this resource.

There are 9 animals included- sheep, chick, cat, dog, bear, pig, cow, mouse, and horse.

There are 7 verbs included in this resource- sit, walk, read, eat, sleep, jump, paint.

There are a 8 other objects included, that the animals are interacting with in the pictures- fish, bone, cheese, worm, carrot, grass, book, and picture.

⭐ This resource includes:

Information for therapists

Evidence-based language strategies plus references

Early phrases monitoring form

Handout- Building phrases at home

Handout- Building phrases with verbs

Handout- Play-based ideas

Handout- Routine-based ideas

Instructions & ideas for the sentence strips and visuals

Sentence frames (SV, VO, and SVO, with and without grammatical components)

Visuals- clipart

Visuals- Smarty SymbolsTM

Eleven fun ideas for using the stimulus cards

Stimulus cards- multiple options available- color and black and white clipart, real photos, with and without labels.

Interactive book instructions & ideas

20 Interactive Books- SV, VO, and SVO phrase structures.

Dough mats with SV, VO, and SVO phrase structures.

Feeding mouths with SV, VO, and SVO phrase structures.

⭐ Be sure to check out the preview for a look at some of the materials included.

Please note, this is Set One. I intend to create other resources for expanding utterances that target other nouns, verbs, objects, and other phrase structures. Be sure to click the green star and follow my store to be kept up to date with new releases.