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Pirate Speech Therapy Activity Ideas

Pirate Speech Therapy Activity

Pirate themed books, games, and activities for speech therapy and the classroom!

I don’t do a ton of themed therapy but I love a good pirate theme! September is a great month for this theme because September 19 is “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” every year! It’s fun to switch things up and have a theme once in a while to make things new and exciting for you and your students. You can dress up or make a quick treasure hunt with articulation cards around your room! 

One of my favorite ways to incorporate themes in therapy is with books! Check your library to see if they have a few pirate books for you to check out and use for the week or month.

PIRATE THEMED BOOKS

How I Became a Pirate

Are Pirates Polite?

The Pirate who Swallowed a Fish


Pirates Go to School

Night Pirates

I Wish I Had a Pirate Suit

The Pirates Next Door

Shiver Me Letters: Pirates ABC

Pirate Pete

PIRATE THEMED GAMES

Pop the Pirate – This is a popular and versatile toy that I use year-round! You play by putting swords in the slots and one of them will make the pirate pop out of the barrel. It is a great reinforcer during articulation drills or while targeting any goals. 

Pirate Talk – I love this game from Super Duper. Target expressive and receptive language goals: sentence repetition, answering questions, following directions, categorizing, inferencing, describing, and social skills. 

PIRATE THEMED RESOURCES

Grab these FREE pirate-themed open-ended reinforcers to use with any activity or goal in your sessions and classrooms!

This pirate language scene & corresponding activities target many expressive and receptive language goals, including Wh questions, following directions, verbs, prepositions, nouns and pronouns, formulating sentences, conversation starters. You can print and go or just open it on your device!

Pirate themed digital barrier game! This a self-checking, Boom Cards barrier game. Drag the correct items to the correct locations and check your answer!

pirate barrier games

Go on a pirate adventure while learning regular past tense verbs! This packet includes different activities to reach a variety of learning needs and generalization and teaches regular past tense verbs by verb ending.

Do you have other suggestions for pirate speech therapy activities in therapy? Leave a comment below!

 

 


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  1. Connie Arnold says

    September 29, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    Great list! Thanks for sharing I will include this to my TBR!

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Hi, I'm Allison! A speech & language resource author who loves the creative process of making therapy materials and clipart, as well as connecting with educators world wide. Learn more about me here! Read More…

Effective communication comes in all shapes and si Effective communication comes in all shapes and sizes! Verbal, written, gestures, sign language, an AAC device...

As educators we understand this but it’s also our responsibly to relay and explain this to caregivers!
“Children gesture before they begin to speak and “Children gesture before they begin to speak and continue gesturing throughout the language learning process...children’s early gestures not only precede, but also predict, the onset of a number of linguistic milestones–nouns, nominal constituents, simple and complex sentences. Gesturing may thus play a causal role in language learning, and could do so in two ways: (1) Gesturing gives children the opportunity to practice expressing ideas in a preverbal form. (2) A child’s gestures offer parents and other communication partners insight into the child’s linguistic level, thus giving the partners the opportunity to provide input tailored to that level.”

Goldin-Meadow, S. How gesture helps children learn language. (2014)

Some caregivers worry that we are giving up on verbal language when we begin using gestures or other non-verbal forms of communication.But gestures can be an amazing stepping stone to words. They seem to help the concept of communication click for a child...If I do this, then I get what I want/need! Have you found this to be the true?
SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY • I updated this graphic SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY • I updated this graphic with the newest research!

Note: These numbers are based on unfamiliar listeners in an unknown context. You will notice the dark blue is the milestone (when 95% of children at this intelligible) and the light blue is the average (when 50% of children are this intelligible.)

The snapshot on the left is a summary given by the researchers (Hustad, et al.) as a quick way to remember and recite this new information.

Find these updated intelligibility levels in the Free SLP Handouts!

The paid handouts were updated a while back with this new information and have a more detailed summary, including word-level intelligibility. If you own them, be sure to redownload!

Free Speech Therapy Handouts: bit.ly/FreeSLPHandouts
Speech-Language Development Handouts: bit.ly/SLPHandouts
Save this post! 📚 Some favorite books for soc Save this post! 📚 

Some favorite books for social emotional learning >> inferencing >> verbs >> negation

You can find more book round-ups by categories at: allisonfors.com/?=books
📣📣📣 Phoneme awareness is the ability to b 📣📣📣 Phoneme awareness is the ability to break down a word into the smallest unit or sound. This includes phoneme isolation, blending, segmenting, addition, deletion, and substitution.

It’s ESSENTIAL to work on these skills starting in Preschool and continuing to focus on them in Kindergarten and First Grade!

The Speech-Language Development Handouts break down what to target at each grade level + the phonological awareness steps with definitions and examples!

bit.ly/SLPHandouts
What can we expect from toddler attention span? ⏰ It’s easy to over-expect the amount of time a child can sit and attend to a structured activity. Do these numbers surprise you or are they what you’d expect?

Memory trick 💡 You can remember the number of minutes a child can attend is approximately twice the child’s age.

Note: Don’t forget to use developmental age.

Save this post + tag an educator or parent!

Gaertner et al. (2008) Focused Attention in Toddlers

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