Present Notes:
On this episode of SLP Espresso Discuss, Hallie is warming up the speech room with one in all her favourite low-prep instruments: winter-themed YouTube movies. When you’re in search of methods to have interaction older college students with actions which can be motivating, free, and take the studying piece out of the equation, this one’s for you. She’s sharing 5 particular video suggestions, from the science of shivering to a heartwarming fiction story, that make focusing on predominant concept, inferencing, and vocabulary really feel like a breeze. Hallie additionally shares the best way to maximize one video throughout your whole caseload with 5 sensible ideas for managing combined teams, as a result of who has time to prep one million various things? It’s all about working smarter, not tougher, and constructing a speech room tradition the place college students really feel profitable and secure taking dangers.
- 5 winter video picks to maintain remedy seasonally enjoyable.
- Addressing predominant concept, summarizing, and W-H questions by way of visible storytelling.
- Using tier 2 phrases and goal sounds discovered instantly within the movies.
- 5 tricks to differentiate one exercise for quite a lot of objectives.
- Utilizing routines and luxury contracts to encourage scholar risk-taking.
- Avoiding burnout by planning one high-quality exercise in your complete caseload.
This is what we realized:
- Engagement beats boredom: Themed actions hold college students motivated and excited to take part.
- One video can do all of it: Differentiate on the fly to fulfill the wants of each scholar in a combined group.
- Strategic pausing is essential: Do not be afraid to cease or rewatch to examine for understanding.
- Peer studying is effective: College students profit from listening to one another work on completely different expertise.
- Effectivity prevents burnout: Counting on free, quick movies enables you to focus in your college students as a substitute of limitless prep.
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00:00:00 Hallie: Hey there, SLP associates. It’s Hallie right here, popping in with the very best information ever. My new guide, Secondary SLP Roadmap, is formally out there. When you’ve ever wished for a transparent, sensible information for working with center and highschool college students, that is it. It’s full of actual tales, ready-to-use methods and instruments you should utilize immediately. Seize your copy now, examine the hyperlink within the present notes or search Secondary SLP Roadmap on Amazon, after which after all, please do me a favor. When you find yourself studying it, snap an image and tag me on Instagram @speechtimefun. I like seeing the place you are diving in. The speech room, the sofa, ready in a health care provider’s ready room, all of the locations. All proper, prepared? Go seize your copy and let’s make secondary speech really feel doable and enjoyable.
00:00:58 Hallie: Welcome to SLP Espresso Discuss, the podcast designed completely for speech language pathologists who work with older college students, grades 4 by way of 12. I’m your host, Hallie Sherman, your SLP behind Speech Time Enjoyable, the Speech Retreat Convention, and the SLP Elevate Membership. And I am thrilled to deliver you conversations, methods, and insights that provides you with the jolt of inspiration that you simply want. Whether or not you are tuning in throughout your morning commute, on a break in between classes, and even throughout a well-deserved leisure time. I’m right here for you every week. Let’s do that SLPs.
00:01:39 Hallie: Hey, hey. And welcome to a different episode of SLP Espresso Discuss, the podcast for college SLPs doing huge work, particularly with these center and highschool college students. I’m your host, Hallie Sherman right here, and at the moment we’re gonna be warming up with screens. Sure, movies, however the good variety, the sort that builds language, considering, communication expertise, not simply passive watching.
00:02:04 Hallie: When you’ve been following me on Instagram or been a part of my world for a while, you realize that I like utilizing YouTube movies in my speech room. It permits me to not prep, not pay for something, and it’s very motivating. And it permits me to work on quite a lot of objectives whereas taking the studying piece out. If we’re at all times simply doing the identical issues over and over, our college students are gonna be bored and so they’re not gonna be motivated to work with us. So when my college students come into my speech room, they do not know what they’re gonna do, however they know they’re gonna have enjoyable and so they know they’re gonna achieve success as a result of that’s the tradition that I’ve developed in my speech room.
00:02:39 Hallie: So as a result of it’s winter, it’s chilly out, perhaps you are in Florida or Hawaii and also you’re tremendous fortunate, however you may be nonetheless utilizing a winter theme. So why not incorporate it into our speech room? Love an excellent theme, love a great way of motivating college students, particularly in the event that they’re speaking about snow days. You realize, if you cannot beat them, be part of them. So fortunate for us, there are such a lot of quick, participating movies on the market, fiction and nonfiction, that may assist us goal quite a lot of objectives, from predominant concept to social expertise or well-being seasonally enjoyable.
00:03:11 Hallie: So I am gonna share with you 5 movies that I like to make use of and share how you should utilize it for engaged on quite a lot of objectives and naturally, how one can deal with it with combined teams evenly. Okay, when you’ll be able to differentiate one exercise to focus on quite a lot of objectives, it makes combined teams significant, magical and actually, not so scary. Okay, I am gonna have all of the hyperlinks to all these movies within the present notes, so to not fear. Simply sit again, I do not want you feeling like you need to scramble, however actually, you’ll be able to at all times similar to Google YouTube with the movies that I am mentioning and you’ll simply discover them.
00:03:43 Hallie: Okay, so video primary is Thriller Science: Why Does It Get Chilly within the Winter? Now, Thriller [inaudible] has a bunch of movies on the market with the winter theme, however I believed this one was an excellent one to introduce the idea of chilly in winter and why not? Okay. And it is nice for engaged on informational language expertise, particularly in case your college students battle with that nonfiction texts. You’ll find these movies on YouTube. You do not even must have a thriller science login, however you will get one at no cost, so to not fear. However this video explains why winter is chilly and solutions some actual questions college students would possibly ask.
00:04:19 Hallie: So what can you’re employed on with this? You may work on predominant concept and summarizing. After college students watch, you’ll be able to ask the scholars what was the primary concept of the video or in a single sentence clarify why winter will get chilly. So, and I at all times love to show with fiction. It is who’s it about and what did they do? Nonfiction, what is the matter and what did we study? And there may be observe taking and listening for what is the theme of your entire factor. And you can even train them how utilizing the title or textual content options may help them with that.
00:04:45 Hallie: And you’ll work on W-H questions. Who, who’s speaking? What, what was the season? Why, why does it get chilly? How, how does the earth tilt have an effect on winter? You may work vocabulary phrases comparable to daylight, heat, soften, winter, evaluate. These are nice tier two vocabulary phrases you can, actually tier three phrases too, to work on context clues and getting the gist of what the entire thing is about and utilizing what they hear and phrases round it to determine what these phrases imply. Okay?
00:05:12 Hallie: However you can even work on social expertise. Have a dialog of like, would they wish to reside in a spot that will get chilly or not will get chilly? Do they just like the winter? Do they not just like the winter? You may work on articulation and browse a key of a few of these phrases that they are speaking about within the video and even simply winter associated phrases which have their articulation sound and so they can retell and do a few of these language duties, using their goal sound.
00:05:39 Hallie: Keep in mind, you realize, whether or not [inaudible] college students engaged on articulation whereas answering questions, your language college students may be your articulation fashions. You are able to do a lot with one video and work on quite a lot of objectives without delay. I am gonna go over ideas extra on the best way to make the most of these movies with combined teams on the finish, so to not fear.
00:05:59 Hallie: Video quantity two. So this one is Colossal Questions and it is Why Do We Shiver? After all, if in case you have your R college students, you bought the shivering, you are gonna be saying it loads, however you can even get this can be a nonfiction and also you’re gonna be engaged on numerous nonfiction vocabulary summarizing. You too can work on inferencing questions, observe taking, you are able to do all of the issues, you’ll be able to work on predicting what it is gonna be all about. And like even what occurs, why do you assume folks shiver earlier than you even learn it? After which afterwards, you’ll be able to work on predicting, you’ll be able to work on sequencing, trigger and impact, first you get chilly, you then shiver. There’s so many issues you are able to do with this video.
00:06:36 Hallie: Okay, video quantity three, oh my God, my favourite one. That is my fiction one for you, Lily and the Snowman. Get your tissues out. It’s a video a few lady and her snowman that involves life and so they have this complete stunning friendship. Critically, you are gonna cry. However this story is ideal for narrative language. You may work on story grammar, character setting, drawback answer, character traits, social language. You may make predictions, perspective taking. How does Lily really feel when the snowman melts?
00:07:05 Hallie: WH questions, who’s Lily? The place does the story happen? What does Lily need? You may make inferences. Why do you assume Lily places a snowman within the fridge? So many issues on that one. Okay. And naturally, your articulation college students, have them retell the scenes with their goal sounds, have them act out the snowman half whereas practising their sounds. There’s so many issues you’ll be able to work on with this video. Oh my God, you are going to love that one. When you have not watched that one but and accomplished it together with your college students, OMG. Okay.
00:07:36 Hallie: Video quantity 4 is a TED-Ed video, The Science of Snowflakes. And it talks about why snowflakes are distinctive, six-sided and interesting. And it is nice for advanced language. It is nice in your college students which can be into science, into the climate, into obsessive about snow, all these issues. You may work on vocabulary comparable to crystal, distinctive, vapor, construction, evaluate. You may work on inferencing. Why aren’t any two snowflakes the identical? You may work on summarizing. Why college students… you’ll be able to have them summarize what they realized about snowflakes and the way no two snowflakes are the identical.
00:08:10 Hallie: Once more, with the articulation college students, in the event that they’re engaged on snowflake, evaluate, all of the various things, okay? Vapor, there’s tons of R phrases in there. Have them do these language expertise with bombarding of the articulation, okay? You may make paper snowflakes and have them evaluate and distinction their snowflakes that they make for those who’re engaged on social expertise. There’s so many issues that you are able to do.
00:08:33 Hallie: Okay, so my final one is Does Being Chilly Make You Sick. Since it’s, you realize, in wintertime, ailments, sicknesses, it is a huge matter of dialog and it is one thing good in your college students to study and hygiene and washing palms and advantages of opening up the home windows and all that enjoyable stuff. However you’ll be able to work on, after all, that is one other non-fiction one, so you’ll be able to work on, you realize, a evaluating and contrasting, wintertime versus summertime. You may work on predicting, you’ll be able to work on making inferences, summarizing, vocabulary. There’s so many issues you’ll be able to work on. And naturally, it is all about considering otherwise about utilizing one exercise with as many teams and objectives as potential.
00:09:14 Hallie: Okay. Suggestions for utilizing these movies with combined teams. Okay, I do know that combined teams can really feel like we’re juggling sizzling cocoa with out spilling. This is how one can maximize one video with as many teams and objectives as humanly potential. Okay, one factor is you’ll be able to pre-watch with goal. Give college students a watching activity relying on their objective. So earlier than you do the exercise and watch the video, remind college students what every of them are there to work on. Perhaps having your college students which can be engaged on articulation, remind them they’re gonna be listening for sure sounds. Your language college students may be listening for vocabulary, you will be giving them a graphic organizer to notice take. Perhaps for those who’re social expertise college students, remind them that they are gonna be in search of physique language and issues like that.
00:09:58 Hallie: Tip quantity two, pause and immediate. Do not be afraid to pause the video. Do not be afraid to rewatch the video and discuss what did we study? What do you assume occurred right here? Inform me in your personal phrases, asking completely different college students completely different inquiries to immediate them to finish their graphic organizers, to speak concerning the ability they’re individually engaged on.
00:10:19 Hallie: Tip quantity three is having completely different response choices. It is okay in the event that they’re all doing a unique activity whereas utilizing the identical video. So perhaps a scholar is utilizing a sentence starter. Perhaps one other scholar is utilizing a graphic organizer. Perhaps one other scholar has a visible assist reminding them of nonverbal, broad language, no matter it’s, that is okay if all of them have one thing completely different in entrance of them.
00:10:40 Hallie: Tip quantity 4, be okay with college students taking turns. That does not imply you are working individually with the scholars within the group. That simply means they’re all collaborating and being referred to as on. It is similar to the classroom. A classroom trainer is not working one-on-one in the event that they’re calling on the scholars. Being okay with college students listening to their friends as a result of all of them may gain advantage one, from listening to that everybody’s engaged on one thing otherwise. However two, that they’ll all profit from the abilities that every of them are engaged on. So it’s okay in the event that they’re… they shouldn’t be doing one thing else when you are working with a scholar. They need to all be listening, collaborating, and being engaged whilst you’re asking a fellow peer a query.
00:11:21 Hallie: That stated, tip quantity 5 is to be sure you have that tradition and routine in your room that college students really feel secure to make errors and to take dangers that they don’t seem to be gonna be embarrassed from their friends. That’s the reason we’ve got a consolation contract inside SLP Elevate as a result of I would like you to have the ability to have that dialog with the scholars about what’s the tradition of the speech room and the way they need to act once you’re working with one other scholar within the group and the way they could really feel in these conditions, okay?
00:11:49 Hallie: So these are just a few tips about the best way to work on varied objectives without delay. I’m all about planning, working smarter, not tougher. Not planning one million completely different actions for the million completely different teams and objectives that you’ve. That’s the way you burn out. Okay, so I hope you try these movies. Like I stated, I’ve hyperlinks within the present notes, however you can even Google, seek for all these free on YouTube. And numerous these movies are like three to 5 minutes lengthy, play it greater than as soon as, you’ll be able to simply work on a number of completely different objectives and expertise. And it is nearly eliciting that dialog and dealing on these comprehension expertise with out studying, takes the studying piece out.
00:12:28 Hallie: And pleasant reminder, in case you are battling working with combined teams and need extra concepts like this, do not forget that inside SLP Elevate membership, you get entry to graphic organizers, visible aids, articles that make working with combined teams a lot simpler. And for those who love utilizing movies inside SLP Elevate, each month you get three to 4 video cheat sheets, plus you get entry, I’ve on TPT my cheat sheets for brief movies and issues like that. I’ve so many sources for utilizing movies, as a result of I actually do like it a lot. However it’s all about greater than something, it is about the best way to work with combined teams. That is extra necessary than something, okay?
00:13:06 Hallie: So I am all about saving you time and letting you be that SLP who can simply present up and be the very best SLP you’ll be able to and never really feel so… for those who’re feeling overwhelmed and frazzled, it is gonna be actually laborious to deal with the scholars in entrance of you, okay? So hopefully you’ll be able to strive these actions out. Let me know what you assume. I’m right here for you. And as at all times, I’ve my joke of the week, okay? Why do snowmen by no means argue? As a result of they at all times hold their cool. All proper, that is it for this episode of SLP Espresso Discuss. Keep cozy, keep impressed, and naturally, keep out of hassle.
00:13:46 Hallie: Thanks a lot for tuning in to a different episode of SLP Espresso Discuss. It means the world to me that you simply’re tuning in every week and getting the jolt of inspiration you want. You’ll find all the hyperlinks and data talked about on this episode at my web site, speechtimefun.com. Do not forget to observe the present so you do not miss any future episodes. And whilst you’re there, it might imply the world to me for those who would take just a few seconds and depart me an trustworthy evaluate. See you subsequent week with one other episode filled with enjoyable and inspiration from one SLP to a different. Have enjoyable guys!
00:14:27 Hallie: Hey there, SLP associates. It’s Hallie right here, popping in with the very best information ever. My new guide, Secondary SLP Roadmap is formally out there. When you’ve ever wished for a transparent, sensible information for working with center and highschool college students, that is it. It’s full of actual tales, prepared to make use of methods and instruments you should utilize immediately. Seize your copy now, examine the hyperlink within the present notes or search Secondary SLP Roadmap on Amazon. After which after all, please do me a favor. When you find yourself studying it, snap an image and tag me on Instagram @speechtimefun. I like seeing the place you are diving in. The speech room, the sofa, ready in a health care provider’s ready room, all of the locations. All proper, prepared? Go seize your copy and let’s make secondary speech really feel doable and enjoyable.
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