Expanding Utterances – Sentence Formulation Activities for Speech Therapy

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.

This is a digital download in PDF format. No physical item will be sent.