Need an Earth Day speech therapy activity that can cover multiple goals without planning something different for every student, group, or intervention setting?
This Earth Day Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one engaging spring visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, phonological awareness, inferencing, problem-solving, and higher-level language skills.
Use it as a seasonal 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 Earth Day scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
The visual includes children planting a tree, recycling, riding a bicycle, exploring nature, and participating in Earth-friendly activities, giving you tons of opportunities to target communication skills through one shared context.
USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:
Tier 1 schoolwide speech and language support
Language Lane Earth Day rotations
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
Earth Day speech therapy activities
April speech therapy activities
Spring speech and language activities
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
This Earth Day speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful Earth Day busy scene
Short Earth Day 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 inferencing and predicting prompts
10 problem-solving situations
10 functional social language prompts
10 phonological awareness activities
Articulation word bank using Earth Day, nature, spring, and environmental vocabulary
TWO FILE FORMATS INCLUDED
For added flexibility, you will receive:
The complete resource as a printable PDF
The Earth Day busy scene separately as a PNG file
Use the PDF during speech therapy sessions, intervention groups, classroom practice, or home practice. Use the separate PNG to resize the scene or have it printed at poster size for a larger Language Lane, hallway, classroom, or bulletin board display.
TARGET MULTIPLE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE SKILLS
Receptive Language
WH questions
Yes/no questions
Following directions
Spatial concepts
Story comprehension
Identifying visual details
Understanding Earth Day and environmental vocabulary
Expressive Language
Earth Day vocabulary
Spring vocabulary
Categories
Describing
Object functions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequencing
Retelling
Narrative language
Higher-Level Language
Inferencing
Predicting
Problem-solving
Explaining reasoning
Using visual clues
Cause and effect
Discussing possible outcomes
The vocabulary and language activities naturally incorporate concepts such as recycling, environment, plants, transportation, gardens, saplings, Earth-friendly actions, and caring for the environment.
FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM-SOLVING + SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
The Earth Day theme gives students opportunities to practice language around real-life situations such as:
Asking for a turn
Thanking someone for helping
Alerting a group to a problem
Asking for clarification
Asking to join an activity
Responding positively to someone’s idea
Supporting a nervous friend
Asking an adult for help
Apologizing after an accident
Encouraging a group
Students also work through problems involving recycling, litter, sharing tools, caring for plants, bicycle safety, and making respectful choices around nature.
SPEECH + PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
The included sound activities provide opportunities for:
Beginning sound identification
Final sound identification
Matching words with the same beginning sound
Syllable segmentation
Rhyming
Articulation practice using Earth Day vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using words naturally connected to the scene, including bike, bin, blue, tree, trowel, worm, recycle, flower, grass, plant, sky, bright, friend, and more.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Mixed groups do not have to mean planning several different activities.
Keep the Earth Day busy scene in front of everyone while one student answers a WH question, another describes an item, another explains an Earth-friendly action, another works through a problem-solving situation, and another practices an articulation target.
The shared visual keeps students participating in the same activity while allowing you to individualize each student’s speech or language goal.
USE IT FOR MTSS AND BEYOND
This resource was created as part of the Language Lane system, but it can also be used independently throughout your speech and language program.
Use it:
On your Language Lane bulletin board for schoolwide Tier 1 communication support
During targeted Tier 2 speech and language intervention
During individual speech therapy
In small or mixed speech therapy groups
During classroom collaboration
For speech and language generalization
For extra Earth Day or spring practice
As speech and language home practice
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the Earth Day 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 building a schoolwide MTSS communication system or simply need a versatile Earth Day speech therapy activity, this busy scene gives you multiple ways to target communication goals while naturally incorporating recycling, nature, environmental vocabulary, problem-solving, and Earth-friendly choices.
Need an Earth Day speech therapy activity that can cover multiple goals without planning something different for every student, group, or intervention setting?
This Earth Day Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one engaging spring visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, phonological awareness, inferencing, problem-solving, and higher-level language skills.
Use it as a seasonal 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 Earth Day scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
The visual includes children planting a tree, recycling, riding a bicycle, exploring nature, and participating in Earth-friendly activities, giving you tons of opportunities to target communication skills through one shared context.
USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:
Tier 1 schoolwide speech and language support
Language Lane Earth Day rotations
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
Earth Day speech therapy activities
April speech therapy activities
Spring speech and language activities
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
This Earth Day speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful Earth Day busy scene
Short Earth Day 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 inferencing and predicting prompts
10 problem-solving situations
10 functional social language prompts
10 phonological awareness activities
Articulation word bank using Earth Day, nature, spring, and environmental vocabulary
TWO FILE FORMATS INCLUDED
For added flexibility, you will receive:
The complete resource as a printable PDF
The Earth Day busy scene separately as a PNG file
Use the PDF during speech therapy sessions, intervention groups, classroom practice, or home practice. Use the separate PNG to resize the scene or have it printed at poster size for a larger Language Lane, hallway, classroom, or bulletin board display.
TARGET MULTIPLE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE SKILLS
Receptive Language
WH questions
Yes/no questions
Following directions
Spatial concepts
Story comprehension
Identifying visual details
Understanding Earth Day and environmental vocabulary
Expressive Language
Earth Day vocabulary
Spring vocabulary
Categories
Describing
Object functions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequencing
Retelling
Narrative language
Higher-Level Language
Inferencing
Predicting
Problem-solving
Explaining reasoning
Using visual clues
Cause and effect
Discussing possible outcomes
The vocabulary and language activities naturally incorporate concepts such as recycling, environment, plants, transportation, gardens, saplings, Earth-friendly actions, and caring for the environment.
FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM-SOLVING + SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
The Earth Day theme gives students opportunities to practice language around real-life situations such as:
Asking for a turn
Thanking someone for helping
Alerting a group to a problem
Asking for clarification
Asking to join an activity
Responding positively to someone’s idea
Supporting a nervous friend
Asking an adult for help
Apologizing after an accident
Encouraging a group
Students also work through problems involving recycling, litter, sharing tools, caring for plants, bicycle safety, and making respectful choices around nature.
SPEECH + PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
The included sound activities provide opportunities for:
Beginning sound identification
Final sound identification
Matching words with the same beginning sound
Syllable segmentation
Rhyming
Articulation practice using Earth Day vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using words naturally connected to the scene, including bike, bin, blue, tree, trowel, worm, recycle, flower, grass, plant, sky, bright, friend, and more.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Mixed groups do not have to mean planning several different activities.
Keep the Earth Day busy scene in front of everyone while one student answers a WH question, another describes an item, another explains an Earth-friendly action, another works through a problem-solving situation, and another practices an articulation target.
The shared visual keeps students participating in the same activity while allowing you to individualize each student’s speech or language goal.
USE IT FOR MTSS AND BEYOND
This resource was created as part of the Language Lane system, but it can also be used independently throughout your speech and language program.
Use it:
On your Language Lane bulletin board for schoolwide Tier 1 communication support
During targeted Tier 2 speech and language intervention
During individual speech therapy
In small or mixed speech therapy groups
During classroom collaboration
For speech and language generalization
For extra Earth Day or spring practice
As speech and language home practice
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the Earth Day 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 building a schoolwide MTSS communication system or simply need a versatile Earth Day speech therapy activity, this busy scene gives you multiple ways to target communication goals while naturally incorporating recycling, nature, environmental vocabulary, problem-solving, and Earth-friendly choices.
