Tele-therapy Resources for High School Speech and Language

Last night, our district (the largest one in the US) announced a shutdown until April 20 (at the very least). We, like so many of you, are worried about our students and our own health and well-being during this scary time. We are awaiting information this week about how to teach our students remotely, but we are still unclear how everything is going to work. In the meantime, we know that there are plenty of SLPs looking for ways to continue providing some level of speech and language support to their students from a safe distance.

Extensive time off from school is bound to come with some drawbacks, therefore it is important to communicate with parents and provide our students some structure during this time. Regression is a concern for many of our students with speech and language disorders. We also want to reiterate to students that it is important to maintain some sort of schedule, so they don’t spend weeks caught in a Netflix and YouTube binge. Our executive function packet has a lot of great planners (daily and monthly), weekly schedules, and priority to-do lists that we are planning on passing along to students.

Here’s a great visual we adapted that outlines a great sample schedule if you’re in need of some structure!

We wanted to share a list of some products and resources that could be assigned to students to use while they are home. This list is a combination of some of our products and free online resources. We hope you find something useful and adaptable to fit your needs.

In addition, we are making our entire TpT store 20% off during this time.

We hope everyone stays healthy and safe.

Love,

The NYC Speechies

Resources from NYC Speechies

Stuck at home writing IEPs? Use our goal bank to help you with some goal writing.
Our Short Film Extension Packet would be great to assign your students to go along with any silent film. A simple YouTube search of Pixar or silent films will give you many different options. Your students can write answers to discussion questions, identify the literary elements found within the film, complete an Inferencing chart provided in the packet.
Have your students practice their annotating skills with our annotating packet. Our Annotation Packet focuses on teaching our students how to use annotation symbols to improve comprehension, recall information and react to a text. Opportunities for group work, guided practice and independent work are provided. All reading material has been carefully selected from books with varying lexile levels.
Our vocabulary strategies packet is great for students working on improving vocabulary skills. The packet includes a review of the ‘Types of Context Clues’ and practice defining and identifying the different types at both the sentence and paragraph level. These sentences and paragraphs are different from the ones in the first packet. This packet includes 30 sentences and 10 paragraphs. This packet also includes a newly generated Context Clue Bookmark, graphic organizers for tier 2 vocabulary words, and word analysis activities.
Use our What’s the Main Idea? graphic organizer to go along with any short film, book, article, and informational video.
Provide your students with an SAT word list like the one we found here and use our vocabulary journal to help them practice paraphrasing definitions, write sentences, and find synonyms and antonyms. Challenge your students to do one word per day while they are home.

Miscellaneous Online Resources

We found a list of 150+ education Netflix shows. There are so many great ones to choose from! Choose one per week for your students to watch and have them practice summary writing and active note taking. You can even create comprehension questions and make a worksheet to go along with the videos. This website sorted the videos by category which makes it even easier to navigate.
Newsela is offering FREE access to their site for the remainder of the school year. Definitely take advantage and assign your students articles, text sets, quizzes, and writing assignments. You can even create a “class” of your students and assign them all at once.
Vocabulary.com is also a great website to assign your students word lists. You can even create your own or choose from the many lists they have.
This vocabulary workshop website has TONS of high school level words with free activities, flashcards, hangman, matching, word searches, etc. Levels D-H is appropriate for high school.
Scholastic’s website has an entire “Remote Learning Resource” page that is separated by grade level. They have different activities for each day, with 5 days already posted. The website says it plans to add 15 more days of activities.
Here is a list of all the online websites offering FREE subscriptions during this time.

High School Resources

NYC DOE has produced a “Learn at Home” website full of resources by grade level. The high school page has resources separated by subject. The ELA section has 10 days worth of assignments. You could pick and choose what you like and want to assign different days to your students.
NYS Regents Examinations are all online and totally FREE. You can assign texts from the ELA regents, essays from the Global or US History regents, short answers from the Living Environment regents test. You can definitely get creative here.
Seniors who are going to college next year can work on their scholarship essays. Fastweb.com is a website where they can create a free account and will be matched to different scholarships. Urge your seniors to choose one scholarship, complete the application, and write the essay. You can have them use google docs or google classroom when writing the essays so you have the ability to make edits and help them revise from a distance.

Feel free to add any other resources or websites you’ve discovered in the comments section.