Back to School Speech Therapy Busy Scene | WH Questions, Language, Articulation & MTSS
Need one back-to-school speech therapy activity that can work across MTSS, intervention, therapy, mixed groups, and carryover?
This Back to School Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one engaging classroom visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, and classroom readiness skills. Use it as the back-to-school rotation in your Language Lane schoolwide Tier 1 system, during Tier 2 speech and language intervention, in speech therapy treatment sessions, with mixed groups, during classroom collaboration, or send selected activities home for additional practice.
One classroom scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
The shared visual makes it easy to change the question or task based on each student's goals without planning an entirely different activity for everyone in your group.
USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:
Tier 1 schoolwide speech and language support
Language Lane back-to-school rotation
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
Back-to-school speech therapy activities
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
This back-to-school speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful elementary classroom busy scene
Back-to-school story
10 story comprehension questions
10 Look + Think visual reasoning prompts
10 WH questions
10 yes/no questions
10 spatial concept questions
10 following directions
10 vocabulary and category prompts
10 function and describing prompts
10 compare and contrast questions
10 cause and effect questions
10 expected classroom choice prompts
10 “Needs a Fix” classroom problem-solving prompts
10 functional social language prompts
10 phonological awareness activities
Articulation word bank with school-themed target words
“What Would a Responsible Student Do?” classroom discussion page
TARGET MULTIPLE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE SKILLS
Receptive Language
WH questions
Yes/no questions
Following directions
Spatial concepts
Story comprehension
Identifying important visual details
Expressive Language
School vocabulary
Categories
Describing
Object functions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequencing
Retelling
Narrative language
Social Communication + Problem-Solving
Use the classroom scene to discuss:
Asking for help
Requesting materials
Taking conversational turns
Offering help
Giving kind responses
Classroom safety
Keeping materials organized
Making responsible choices
Identifying problems and possible solutions
Different appropriate ways to communicate needs
The classroom expectations activities are designed to encourage discussion rather than simply asking students to memorize classroom rules.
SPEECH + PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
The included sound activities provide opportunities for:
Beginning sound identification
Matching words with the same beginning sound
Syllable segmentation
Generating words with target beginning sounds
Articulation practice using school-related vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using familiar school supplies and classroom words.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Have students working on completely different goals?
Keep the same classroom busy scene in front of the group while one student answers a WH question, another follows a direction, another describes an item, another works through a social situation, and another practices an articulation target.
This makes it especially useful for school-based SLPs looking for back-to-school speech therapy activities for mixed groups without juggling several different materials at once.
USE IT FOR MTSS AND BEYOND
This resource was created as part of the Language Lane system, but the activities can also be used independently.
Use it:
On your Language Lane bulletin board for schoolwide Tier 1 communication support
During targeted Tier 2 speech and language intervention
In individual speech therapy
During small or mixed-group speech therapy sessions
During classroom collaboration
For speech and language generalization
For additional classroom practice
As speech and language home practice
CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS WITHOUT TURNING SPEECH INTO A BEHAVIOR LESSON
The additional classroom pages use the visual scene to encourage language, reasoning, and discussion around common back-to-school situations.
Students can talk through situations such as supplies left on the floor, a backpack blocking a walkway, asking for help, putting materials away, and identifying responsible choices.
These prompts create natural opportunities to practice explaining, problem-solving, inferencing, social language, and expressive language while also reviewing classroom routines at the beginning of the year.
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the Back to School Language Lane busy scene and matching speech and language activities.
The Language Lane Foundation, including the bulletin board setup, implementation guide, staff tools, and schoolwide Tier 1 framework, is sold separately.
Whether you are starting a schoolwide MTSS communication system or simply need a versatile back-to-school speech therapy activity, this classroom busy scene gives you multiple ways to target communication goals without adding more planning to your first weeks of school.
Back to School Speech Therapy Busy Scene | WH Questions, Language, Articulation & MTSS
Need one back-to-school speech therapy activity that can work across MTSS, intervention, therapy, mixed groups, and carryover?
This Back to School Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one engaging classroom visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, and classroom readiness skills. Use it as the back-to-school rotation in your Language Lane schoolwide Tier 1 system, during Tier 2 speech and language intervention, in speech therapy treatment sessions, with mixed groups, during classroom collaboration, or send selected activities home for additional practice.
One classroom scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
The shared visual makes it easy to change the question or task based on each student's goals without planning an entirely different activity for everyone in your group.
USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:
Tier 1 schoolwide speech and language support
Language Lane back-to-school rotation
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
Back-to-school speech therapy activities
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
This back-to-school speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful elementary classroom busy scene
Back-to-school story
10 story comprehension questions
10 Look + Think visual reasoning prompts
10 WH questions
10 yes/no questions
10 spatial concept questions
10 following directions
10 vocabulary and category prompts
10 function and describing prompts
10 compare and contrast questions
10 cause and effect questions
10 expected classroom choice prompts
10 “Needs a Fix” classroom problem-solving prompts
10 functional social language prompts
10 phonological awareness activities
Articulation word bank with school-themed target words
“What Would a Responsible Student Do?” classroom discussion page
TARGET MULTIPLE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE SKILLS
Receptive Language
WH questions
Yes/no questions
Following directions
Spatial concepts
Story comprehension
Identifying important visual details
Expressive Language
School vocabulary
Categories
Describing
Object functions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequencing
Retelling
Narrative language
Social Communication + Problem-Solving
Use the classroom scene to discuss:
Asking for help
Requesting materials
Taking conversational turns
Offering help
Giving kind responses
Classroom safety
Keeping materials organized
Making responsible choices
Identifying problems and possible solutions
Different appropriate ways to communicate needs
The classroom expectations activities are designed to encourage discussion rather than simply asking students to memorize classroom rules.
SPEECH + PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
The included sound activities provide opportunities for:
Beginning sound identification
Matching words with the same beginning sound
Syllable segmentation
Generating words with target beginning sounds
Articulation practice using school-related vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using familiar school supplies and classroom words.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Have students working on completely different goals?
Keep the same classroom busy scene in front of the group while one student answers a WH question, another follows a direction, another describes an item, another works through a social situation, and another practices an articulation target.
This makes it especially useful for school-based SLPs looking for back-to-school speech therapy activities for mixed groups without juggling several different materials at once.
USE IT FOR MTSS AND BEYOND
This resource was created as part of the Language Lane system, but the activities can also be used independently.
Use it:
On your Language Lane bulletin board for schoolwide Tier 1 communication support
During targeted Tier 2 speech and language intervention
In individual speech therapy
During small or mixed-group speech therapy sessions
During classroom collaboration
For speech and language generalization
For additional classroom practice
As speech and language home practice
CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS WITHOUT TURNING SPEECH INTO A BEHAVIOR LESSON
The additional classroom pages use the visual scene to encourage language, reasoning, and discussion around common back-to-school situations.
Students can talk through situations such as supplies left on the floor, a backpack blocking a walkway, asking for help, putting materials away, and identifying responsible choices.
These prompts create natural opportunities to practice explaining, problem-solving, inferencing, social language, and expressive language while also reviewing classroom routines at the beginning of the year.
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the Back to School Language Lane busy scene and matching speech and language activities.
The Language Lane Foundation, including the bulletin board setup, implementation guide, staff tools, and schoolwide Tier 1 framework, is sold separately.
Whether you are starting a schoolwide MTSS communication system or simply need a versatile back-to-school speech therapy activity, this classroom busy scene gives you multiple ways to target communication goals without adding more planning to your first weeks of school.
