One Thanksgiving theme, SO many speech and language targets!
Bring the excitement of the Thanksgiving Day Parade into your speech room with this low-prep speech and language companion! Whether you're reading Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet, watching clips from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, or building your very own 3-D parade, this resource makes it easy to target multiple goals while keeping students engaged.
The best part? You don't have to complete the craft, read the book, or watch the parade to use the speech and language activities! Mix and match the activities to fit your students' goals, your schedule, and the materials you already have.
Two 20-Minute Lesson Plans: Ready-to-use lesson outlines for Balloons Over Broadway and Thanksgiving parade viewing.
Articulation Practice: Parade-themed word lists organized by speech sound and word position.
Phonological Awareness of Sound Patterns: Practice words organized by phonological processes, including fronting, stopping, cluster reduction, and more.
Language Activities: Vocabulary, grammar, categories, describing, basic concepts, word associations, sequencing, inferencing, WH questions, and more!
Fluency Activities: Conversation prompts, communication confidence, and optional speech strategies.
Social Communication: Perspective-taking, problem-solving, asking questions, and engaging in conversations.
AAC Supports: Core vocabulary, functional communication examples, and modeling opportunities.
Design Your Own Parade Balloon: A creative worksheet targeting describing, sentence formulation, and explaining ideas.
Parade Sequencing Worksheet: Practice sequencing and retelling using parade footage or the included scene.
3-D Thanksgiving Parade Craft: Printable city street, parade characters, balloons, and floats for students to color, cut, and assemble.
1. Pair It With a Book!
Read Balloons Over Broadway and explore Tony Sarg's inventions, creativity, and problem-solving while targeting speech and language goals.
2. Watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade!
Use short clips from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to practice describing, predicting, comparing, sequencing, and answering questions.
3. Create Your Own Speech Parade!
Let students color and assemble their own 3-D parade scene! Work on individualized goals as students choose characters, arrange their floats, follow directions, and describe their creations.
Every activity is designed with flexibility in mind. Choose the targets that fit your students, use the included lesson plans when you need structure, or grab a few prompts for a quick session.
One theme. Multiple goals. Less planning. More time for speech!
One Thanksgiving theme, SO many speech and language targets!
Bring the excitement of the Thanksgiving Day Parade into your speech room with this low-prep speech and language companion! Whether you're reading Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet, watching clips from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, or building your very own 3-D parade, this resource makes it easy to target multiple goals while keeping students engaged.
The best part? You don't have to complete the craft, read the book, or watch the parade to use the speech and language activities! Mix and match the activities to fit your students' goals, your schedule, and the materials you already have.
Two 20-Minute Lesson Plans: Ready-to-use lesson outlines for Balloons Over Broadway and Thanksgiving parade viewing.
Articulation Practice: Parade-themed word lists organized by speech sound and word position.
Phonological Awareness of Sound Patterns: Practice words organized by phonological processes, including fronting, stopping, cluster reduction, and more.
Language Activities: Vocabulary, grammar, categories, describing, basic concepts, word associations, sequencing, inferencing, WH questions, and more!
Fluency Activities: Conversation prompts, communication confidence, and optional speech strategies.
Social Communication: Perspective-taking, problem-solving, asking questions, and engaging in conversations.
AAC Supports: Core vocabulary, functional communication examples, and modeling opportunities.
Design Your Own Parade Balloon: A creative worksheet targeting describing, sentence formulation, and explaining ideas.
Parade Sequencing Worksheet: Practice sequencing and retelling using parade footage or the included scene.
3-D Thanksgiving Parade Craft: Printable city street, parade characters, balloons, and floats for students to color, cut, and assemble.
1. Pair It With a Book!
Read Balloons Over Broadway and explore Tony Sarg's inventions, creativity, and problem-solving while targeting speech and language goals.
2. Watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade!
Use short clips from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to practice describing, predicting, comparing, sequencing, and answering questions.
3. Create Your Own Speech Parade!
Let students color and assemble their own 3-D parade scene! Work on individualized goals as students choose characters, arrange their floats, follow directions, and describe their creations.
Every activity is designed with flexibility in mind. Choose the targets that fit your students, use the included lesson plans when you need structure, or grab a few prompts for a quick session.
One theme. Multiple goals. Less planning. More time for speech!
