Need a New Year’s speech therapy activity that can cover multiple goals without planning something different for every student, group, or intervention setting?
This New Year’s Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one engaging celebration visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, phonological awareness, 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 New Year’s scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
Students can use the same shared visual while you adjust the question, prompt, or level of support based on individual communication goals.
USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:
Tier 1 schoolwide speech and language support
Language Lane New Year’s rotations
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
New Year’s speech therapy activities
New Year’s Eve language activities
Winter speech therapy activities
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
This New Year’s speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful New Year’s celebration busy scene
Short New Year’s 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 New Year’s and celebration vocabulary
TWO FILE FORMATS INCLUDED
For added flexibility, you will receive:
The complete resource as a printable PDF
The New Year’s busy scene separately as a PNG file
Use the PDF during speech therapy sessions, interventions, or small groups, or use the separate PNG to resize the scene and 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
Expressive Language
New Year’s 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
Discussing possible outcomes
The included story, The Countdown Mix-Up!, follows a group preparing for a New Year’s countdown, accidentally celebrating early, correcting their mistake, and solving another problem at the end. This gives students natural opportunities for comprehension, sequencing, cause and effect, inferencing, and problem-solving.
FUNCTIONAL SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
The celebration theme creates natural opportunities to practice communication skills such as:
Asking to join an activity
Requesting to borrow something
Offering help
Apologizing after an accident
Communicating when something is too loud
Including someone who feels left out
Responding when a friend misses an activity
Commenting on something a friend shares
Participating in a group celebration
Using kind and supportive language
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 New Year’s vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using words naturally connected to the scene, including clock, confetti, party, pink, purple, noisemaker, star, streamer, twelve, blue, and more.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Mixed groups do not have to mean planning several completely different activities.
Keep the New Year’s busy scene in front of everyone while one student answers a WH question, another describes a party item, another makes a prediction, another works through a social situation, and another practices an articulation target.
The shared visual keeps the group participating together 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 New Year’s practice
As speech and language home practice
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the New Year’s 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 New Year’s speech therapy activity, this busy scene gives you multiple ways to target communication goals without creating a separate activity for every student.
Need a New Year’s speech therapy activity that can cover multiple goals without planning something different for every student, group, or intervention setting?
This New Year’s Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one engaging celebration visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, phonological awareness, 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 New Year’s scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
Students can use the same shared visual while you adjust the question, prompt, or level of support based on individual communication goals.
USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:
Tier 1 schoolwide speech and language support
Language Lane New Year’s rotations
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
New Year’s speech therapy activities
New Year’s Eve language activities
Winter speech therapy activities
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
This New Year’s speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful New Year’s celebration busy scene
Short New Year’s 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 New Year’s and celebration vocabulary
TWO FILE FORMATS INCLUDED
For added flexibility, you will receive:
The complete resource as a printable PDF
The New Year’s busy scene separately as a PNG file
Use the PDF during speech therapy sessions, interventions, or small groups, or use the separate PNG to resize the scene and 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
Expressive Language
New Year’s 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
Discussing possible outcomes
The included story, The Countdown Mix-Up!, follows a group preparing for a New Year’s countdown, accidentally celebrating early, correcting their mistake, and solving another problem at the end. This gives students natural opportunities for comprehension, sequencing, cause and effect, inferencing, and problem-solving.
FUNCTIONAL SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
The celebration theme creates natural opportunities to practice communication skills such as:
Asking to join an activity
Requesting to borrow something
Offering help
Apologizing after an accident
Communicating when something is too loud
Including someone who feels left out
Responding when a friend misses an activity
Commenting on something a friend shares
Participating in a group celebration
Using kind and supportive language
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 New Year’s vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using words naturally connected to the scene, including clock, confetti, party, pink, purple, noisemaker, star, streamer, twelve, blue, and more.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Mixed groups do not have to mean planning several completely different activities.
Keep the New Year’s busy scene in front of everyone while one student answers a WH question, another describes a party item, another makes a prediction, another works through a social situation, and another practices an articulation target.
The shared visual keeps the group participating together 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 New Year’s practice
As speech and language home practice
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the New Year’s 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 New Year’s speech therapy activity, this busy scene gives you multiple ways to target communication goals without creating a separate activity for every student.
