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.

 This speech therapy lesson focuses on building a personal narrative of something that is special about the student themselves, in order to help students build expressive language skills and vocabulary skills, as well as create a personal digital storytelling video to showcase to others. Students will complete a digital story using their school chromebook devices. The face-to-face instructions/lesson of vocabulary and sentence starter examples will take two 25-minute speech therapy sessions. The students will be given time to work on their projects during a third and fourth 25-minute speech therapy session. An additional session will be reserved for students to share their projects in a small group. This lesson plan is designed for middle school to high school grade levels. 

Students in speech-language therapy will create a collage using Pages on the iPad, specifically using text, photos, shapes, and create a page reflecting the targeted speech sound(s) they are working on in speech therapy. (Utah Core State Standards for Early Learning ELA 1.1).The preview image was obtained from A Vagen, the author of this lesson plan, and is avaliable for use with this Lesson Plan. 

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.