Students will be instructed in how to make a meme to display their understanding and mastery of roots and affixes. For simplicity memes will be created using printer, paper, and pen/marker/pencil. Memes 

Hi! My name is Pili Lee and I am a Speech-Language Pathologist. Everyday, I work with students on practicing their speech or language skills. Overtime, when students are close to reaching mastery, we often shift to practicing in a more natural and unstructured setting to help them generalize their skills outside of speech therapy activities. Although there are many different things we can do, I recently learned about “genius hour” and especially love the idea of helping my students discover and learn more about things they are interested in or passionate about. When my students get to work on things they love and are excited about, not only does it keep them motivated to practice their speech and language skills, it also prepares them to communicate well when it comes time they get to share what they love and know about in everyday life. Image created by Pili Lee using Canva

This lesson plan was designed for speech-language pathologists working with small groups or 1:1 but can be adapted to classrooms. Feel free to adapt this lesson in any way that works for you.

A fun way to introduce tongue placement and discrimination for the /l/ sound.Thumbnail Image Credit: "Female professional help small kid with speech difficulties" by fizkes from Getty Images. Free for Canva for Education.