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Difficulties with ‘word finding’ – the feeling when a child knows and understands a particular word but has problems retrieving it – it’s a feeling that many people recognise… “It’s on the tip of my tongue”
This pack of word-finding activities is highly visual and offers a range of fun and engaging activities designed to improve semantic and phonological processing skills, and includes strategies to assist word retrieval.
Clear instructions and sample ‘scripts’ are included making the pack suitable for parents, speech and language professionals, teachers and support staff to use.
Word-finding difficulties in children often occur in the wider context of a diagnosis of a developmental language disorder (DLD). It can lead to an ongoing impairment which has a significant impact on everyday communication. This pack of word-finding activities is highly visual and offers a range of fun and engaging activities designed to improve semantic and phonological processing skills, and includes strategies to assist word retrieval.
Based on an original idea by Sarah Parkin, this pack’s highly visual approach to vocabulary retrieval and storage was devised by Highly Specialist SLT Helen Rippon and is designed to improve semantic and phonological processing skills.
Clear instructions and sample ‘scripts’ to make the pack useful for parents, Speech and Language professionals, teachers and support staff alike.
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 programme which can be followed from beginning to end, but can also be followed in any order, as suitable for the specific needs of pupils.
The activities in this pack are wide-ranging,
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
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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