Thanksgiving Parade Speech Therapy Busy Scene | WH Questions, Language, Articulation & MTSS
Need a Thanksgiving speech therapy activity that can work across multiple goals, mixed groups, MTSS, intervention, and carryover without planning a completely different activity for every student?
This Thanksgiving Parade Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one colorful seasonal visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, and phonological awareness 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 Thanksgiving parade scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
Students can explore the same 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 Thanksgiving rotations
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
Thanksgiving speech therapy activities
Fall speech therapy activities
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
This Thanksgiving speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful Thanksgiving parade busy scene
Short Thanksgiving parade 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 prompts
10 predicting and explaining prompts
10 functional social language prompts
10 phonological awareness activities
Articulation word bank using Thanksgiving, fall, and parade vocabulary
TWO FILE FORMATS INCLUDED
For added flexibility, you will receive:
The complete resource as a printable PDF
The Thanksgiving parade busy scene separately as a PNG file
Use the regular PDF scene during speech therapy sessions or small groups, or use the separate PNG to resize the visual 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
Thanksgiving and parade vocabulary
Categories
Describing
Object functions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequencing
Retelling
Narrative language
Higher-Level Language
Inferencing
Predicting
Explaining reasoning
Using visual clues
Making connections
Discussing possible outcomes
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
The parade theme creates natural opportunities to practice functional communication, including:
Politely asking for a better view
Giving a compliment
Asking for help
Responding when someone bumps into you
Communicating after missing a cue
Thanking a friend for help
Asking where to stand
Encouraging someone who feels nervous
Communicating with a teammate
Giving kind feedback to a performer
SPEECH + PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
The included sound activities provide opportunities for:
Beginning sound identification
Matching words with the same beginning sound
Syllable segmentation
Rhyming
Articulation practice using Thanksgiving and parade vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using words naturally connected to the scene.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Mixed groups do not have to mean multiple completely different activities.
Keep the Thanksgiving parade scene in front of everyone while one student answers a WH question, another describes an object, another makes an inference, another predicts what might happen next, 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 seasonal practice
As speech and language home practice
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the Thanksgiving Parade 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 Thanksgiving speech therapy activity, this parade busy scene gives you multiple ways to target communication goals without creating a separate activity for every student.
Thanksgiving Parade Speech Therapy Busy Scene | WH Questions, Language, Articulation & MTSS
Need a Thanksgiving speech therapy activity that can work across multiple goals, mixed groups, MTSS, intervention, and carryover without planning a completely different activity for every student?
This Thanksgiving Parade Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one colorful seasonal visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, and phonological awareness 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 Thanksgiving parade scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
Students can explore the same 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 Thanksgiving rotations
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
Thanksgiving speech therapy activities
Fall speech therapy activities
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
This Thanksgiving speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful Thanksgiving parade busy scene
Short Thanksgiving parade 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 prompts
10 predicting and explaining prompts
10 functional social language prompts
10 phonological awareness activities
Articulation word bank using Thanksgiving, fall, and parade vocabulary
TWO FILE FORMATS INCLUDED
For added flexibility, you will receive:
The complete resource as a printable PDF
The Thanksgiving parade busy scene separately as a PNG file
Use the regular PDF scene during speech therapy sessions or small groups, or use the separate PNG to resize the visual 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
Thanksgiving and parade vocabulary
Categories
Describing
Object functions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequencing
Retelling
Narrative language
Higher-Level Language
Inferencing
Predicting
Explaining reasoning
Using visual clues
Making connections
Discussing possible outcomes
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
The parade theme creates natural opportunities to practice functional communication, including:
Politely asking for a better view
Giving a compliment
Asking for help
Responding when someone bumps into you
Communicating after missing a cue
Thanking a friend for help
Asking where to stand
Encouraging someone who feels nervous
Communicating with a teammate
Giving kind feedback to a performer
SPEECH + PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
The included sound activities provide opportunities for:
Beginning sound identification
Matching words with the same beginning sound
Syllable segmentation
Rhyming
Articulation practice using Thanksgiving and parade vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using words naturally connected to the scene.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Mixed groups do not have to mean multiple completely different activities.
Keep the Thanksgiving parade scene in front of everyone while one student answers a WH question, another describes an object, another makes an inference, another predicts what might happen next, 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 seasonal practice
As speech and language home practice
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the Thanksgiving Parade 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 Thanksgiving speech therapy activity, this parade busy scene gives you multiple ways to target communication goals without creating a separate activity for every student.
