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Perfect for children who know what they want to say, but struggle to find the right word when speaking. This colourful pack is designed to help children who have word finding’ or ‘word retrieval’ difficulties – the feeling when a child knows and understands a particular word but has problems retrieving or recalling it – it’s a feeling that many people recognise… “It’s on the tip of my tongue”
This highly visual word finding activities pack offers a range of fun, engaging speech and language activities designed to improve:
Clear instructions and sample ‘scripts’ are included making the pack suitable for parents supporting speech and language at home, speech and language professionals, and teachers and support staff to use (KS1, KS2, SEN).
For more information see below:
Word-finding difficulties (word retrieval difficulties) in children often occur in the wider context of a diagnosis such as Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). These difficulties can lead to an ongoing impairment that has a significant impact on everyday communication, speaking, and expressive language skills. This highly visual word-finding activities pack offers a range of fun, engaging speech and language therapy activities designed to improve:
It also includes practical strategies to support children who struggle to find the right words when speaking, helping them to access, store, and retrieve vocabulary more easily.
Based on an original idea by Sarah Parkin, this pack’s highly visual approach to vocabulary retrieval and storage was developed by Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Helen Rippon, and is specifically designed to support children with word finding and expressive language difficulties.
Clear instructions and sample ‘scripts’ are included, making the pack easy to use for:
Although the pack is designed for children with word-finding difficulties, the activities in this resource can also be used with pupils with poorly developed vocabulary levels with no specific language disorder. It has been designed as a structured speech and language intervention programme that can be followed from beginning to end, or used flexibly to suit the individual needs of each child.
The activities in this pack are wide-ranging, practical, and engaging, supporting children to build stronger connections to words through repeated practice and visual support.
To see other resources written by Sarah Parkin see Time for Sounds Nursery and Reception.
What does Word Finding include?
This pack is a large resource and contains a wealth of activities, including quizzes, “silly sentences”, odd one out and barrier games. Session 1 provides an Introduction to Word Finding including the messy cupboard activity and the jigsaw pieces and word wheel. The following seven individual session plans each provides 3 activities to support elements of the word wheel (eg What does it do? What group does it belong to? Feels like/looks like).
Age: 4-7 years (Early Years/KS1)
Format: PDF file, 124 pages, 2 pages of introductory text, 8 detailed session plans and full instructions (each with 3 or 4 activities and suggestions for extension exercises), 47 pages of colourful illustrations for games and activities, 51 pages of repeat black and white illustrations included for the economy of printing.
Snippet: Upgrade your account to send specially selected extracts of this resource, via our website, to parents and carers for homework exercises. The snippets for this resource include a fun ‘jigsaw pieces’ activity to help children practice word retrieval. ‘If we can’t think of the word, we can use the clues on these special jigsaw pieces to help us find the word we want to use’.
3 to 5 years, 5 to 7 years
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