Need a Groundhog Day speech therapy activity that can cover multiple goals without planning something different for every student, group, or intervention setting?
This Groundhog Day Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one engaging seasonal visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, phonological awareness, weather vocabulary, predicting, 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 Groundhog Day scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
With one side showing sunny, warmer weather and the other showing snowy, colder weather, this scene also creates natural opportunities to compare seasons, discuss weather clues, make predictions, and explain reasoning.
USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:
Tier 1 schoolwide speech and language support
Language Lane Groundhog Day rotations
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
Groundhog Day speech therapy activities
February speech therapy activities
Winter and spring language activities
Weather vocabulary and predicting
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
This Groundhog Day speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful Groundhog Day busy scene
Sunny and snowy weather contrast within the visual
Short Groundhog 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 Groundhog Day, winter, spring, and weather vocabulary
The activities specifically incorporate concepts such as weather, predicting, warm-weather clues, cold-weather clues, seasons, nature, winter clothing, burrows, butterflies, snow, and flowers.
TWO FILE FORMATS INCLUDED
For added flexibility, you will receive:
The complete resource as a printable PDF
The Groundhog Day busy scene separately as a PNG file
Use the PDF during speech therapy sessions, intervention groups, classroom practice, or home practice. The separate PNG allows you 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 weather and seasonal vocabulary
Expressive Language
Groundhog Day vocabulary
Winter and spring vocabulary
Weather concepts
Categories
Describing
Object functions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequencing
Retelling
Narrative language
HIGHER-LEVEL LANGUAGE + PREDICTING
This scene is especially useful for targeting:
Inferencing
Predicting
Explaining reasoning
Identifying visual clues
Comparing two environments
Cause and effect
Making connections between weather and seasons
Supporting an answer with evidence from a picture
Students can compare the warm and cold sides of the scene, explain which clues suggest each type of weather, and predict which side the groundhog may explore first.
FUNCTIONAL SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
The included social language and problem-solving activities provide opportunities to practice:
Requesting a turn
Saying thank you
Giving compliments
Disagreeing respectfully
Offering support
Helping a friend
Asking to join an activity
Sharing materials
Discussing different opinions
Participating when group members make different predictions
Students are encouraged to communicate their own ideas while also recognizing that different people may make different predictions or prefer different types of weather.
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 seasonal vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using words naturally connected to the scene, including groundhog, grass, girl, butterfly, burrow, flower, snow, scarf, mitten, sunshine, snowball, spring, and more.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Mixed groups do not have to mean planning several completely different activities.
Keep the Groundhog Day busy scene in front of everyone while one student answers a WH question, another compares the two sides of the picture, another makes a weather prediction, another works through a social 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 Groundhog Day or February practice
As speech and language home practice
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the Groundhog 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 Groundhog Day speech therapy activity, this busy scene gives you multiple ways to target speech and language while naturally incorporating weather, seasons, predicting, and compare and contrast into your sessions.
Need a Groundhog Day speech therapy activity that can cover multiple goals without planning something different for every student, group, or intervention setting?
This Groundhog Day Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one engaging seasonal visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, phonological awareness, weather vocabulary, predicting, 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 Groundhog Day scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
With one side showing sunny, warmer weather and the other showing snowy, colder weather, this scene also creates natural opportunities to compare seasons, discuss weather clues, make predictions, and explain reasoning.
USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:
Tier 1 schoolwide speech and language support
Language Lane Groundhog Day rotations
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
Groundhog Day speech therapy activities
February speech therapy activities
Winter and spring language activities
Weather vocabulary and predicting
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
This Groundhog Day speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful Groundhog Day busy scene
Sunny and snowy weather contrast within the visual
Short Groundhog 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 Groundhog Day, winter, spring, and weather vocabulary
The activities specifically incorporate concepts such as weather, predicting, warm-weather clues, cold-weather clues, seasons, nature, winter clothing, burrows, butterflies, snow, and flowers.
TWO FILE FORMATS INCLUDED
For added flexibility, you will receive:
The complete resource as a printable PDF
The Groundhog Day busy scene separately as a PNG file
Use the PDF during speech therapy sessions, intervention groups, classroom practice, or home practice. The separate PNG allows you 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 weather and seasonal vocabulary
Expressive Language
Groundhog Day vocabulary
Winter and spring vocabulary
Weather concepts
Categories
Describing
Object functions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequencing
Retelling
Narrative language
HIGHER-LEVEL LANGUAGE + PREDICTING
This scene is especially useful for targeting:
Inferencing
Predicting
Explaining reasoning
Identifying visual clues
Comparing two environments
Cause and effect
Making connections between weather and seasons
Supporting an answer with evidence from a picture
Students can compare the warm and cold sides of the scene, explain which clues suggest each type of weather, and predict which side the groundhog may explore first.
FUNCTIONAL SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
The included social language and problem-solving activities provide opportunities to practice:
Requesting a turn
Saying thank you
Giving compliments
Disagreeing respectfully
Offering support
Helping a friend
Asking to join an activity
Sharing materials
Discussing different opinions
Participating when group members make different predictions
Students are encouraged to communicate their own ideas while also recognizing that different people may make different predictions or prefer different types of weather.
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 seasonal vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using words naturally connected to the scene, including groundhog, grass, girl, butterfly, burrow, flower, snow, scarf, mitten, sunshine, snowball, spring, and more.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Mixed groups do not have to mean planning several completely different activities.
Keep the Groundhog Day busy scene in front of everyone while one student answers a WH question, another compares the two sides of the picture, another makes a weather prediction, another works through a social 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 Groundhog Day or February practice
As speech and language home practice
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the Groundhog 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 Groundhog Day speech therapy activity, this busy scene gives you multiple ways to target speech and language while naturally incorporating weather, seasons, predicting, and compare and contrast into your sessions.
