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There are over 56,000 FREEBIES with keyword language and selecting "free" on Teachers Pay Teachers
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Diagnosis of language disorders
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The Rice/Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Impairment (Rice/Wexler) is an individually administered clinical tool that can be used for the identification, diagnosis, screening, and follow-up evaluation of grammatical deficits in young children, ages 3 through 8 years, who speak Standard American English (SAE).
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The Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI) is norm-referenced narrative assessment instrument for collecting language information from children aged 4 to 9 through storytelling, by Phyllis Schneider, Rita Vis Dube', and Denyse Hayward. Contains several stories without words. Norms from a sample of 377 children are included for a number of analyses, including story information, referring expressions, and standard language analyses such as number of different words, Mean Length of Communication Unit, and Subordination Index.
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Communication Matrix is "an assessment tool designed to pinpoint exactly how an individual is communicating and to provide a framework for determining logical communication goals." First published in 1990 and revised in 1996 and 2004 by Dr. Charity Rowland of Oregon Health & Science University, "t was designed primarily for speech-language pathologists and educators to use to document the expressive communication skills of children who have severe or multiple disabilities, including children with sensory, motor and cognitive impairments."
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Perkilou's Percentages Guide
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Common Core Teacher Rating Scales for Language Evaluations from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
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General Language Sites
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CRAM is a free site with many prepared online flashcards in many categories with the option to create your own. Check especially Education (lower grades, phonetics!, vocabulary, medical terminology, etc.)
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Targeted Word Lists for Speech Therapy Practice for language, from HomeSpeechHome.com
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I Love Languages - amazing site with links to information about all the world languages. Check English, Sign Language, Spanish, etc. for many language-related activities!
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word/language games - created on QUIA by Tracy Gefroh Boyd
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sequencing games - created on QUIA by Tracy Gefroh Boyd
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Excellent resource guides for classroom teachers of children with special needs, including hard of hearing and deaf students, Understanding the Needs of the FAS/E Student, children with autism, ADHD, children with special learning disabilities, etc. from the British Columbia Ministry of Education, Skills and Training.
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MES English - free printable for teachers of young learners.
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Figurative language
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A Gold Mine of Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Worksheets has over 50 sample phonics and phonemic awareness worksheets.
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Language therapy ideas
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Additional child language therapy ideas
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A Guide to
Learning Disabilities for the ESL Classroom Practitioner
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Language Activities
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The Educator's Reference Desk Language Arts Lesson Plans contain many ideas.
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Sight Words is a treasure trove of "free resources to teach you child to read" Activities included are for Phonemic Awareness and Sight words flash cards activities.
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Working on vocabulary
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The Internet Picture Dictionary - in several languages! Can make flashcards or use online activities.
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World of Words vocabulary games by Lonn Swanson
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Online version of Twenty Questions
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Akinator - twenty questions to guess a famous character
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Vocabulary University
has many activities such as Fill-in-the-Blanks, Definition Matching, Synonym & Antonym Encounter, Word Find and Crossword for older children and adults.
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Crickler - a new type of crossword puzzle that gears itself to your level.
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Various printables from Materials Exchange.
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There are a variety of types of Hangman available online.
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Quia's Online Autumn Hangman - an easy version, available in "Flash" or "html" version.
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Hangman Games for ESL Students - has many subject choices in both CGI (older) and Flash (newer) versions.
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SuperKids hangman includes idioms, SAT vocabulary words, TV shows from different decades, U.S. Presidents, State Capitals, and much more!
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Playaholics in English or Norwegian has three levels of difficulty and an interesting selection of topics, including "frequently misspelled words."
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The Problem Site The vocabulary is not easy! My first word was "approximating."
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Bill's Games Hangman allows choice of topic, number of guesses, and a happy face or growing plant as the "hangman." The clinician can even enter a word for the client to "discover." This one rates 4 stars!
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Grey Olltwit's Hangman (for PC) includes a variety of categories.
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Collective nouns and a whole lot more
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SpellaRoo.
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The Merriam-Webster
site - go to the menu for many vocabulary treasures.
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Word Turtle provides a list of words which it will then hide in a puzzle in different levels of difficulty. You can play it on the computer or print it out on paper.
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Vocabulary University
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Learning Chocolate provides free vocabulary learning material
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Action pictures - here and here - run off of sticker-backed paper to put on activity calendar, use as reinforcement, make flashcards, etc.
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Word Finder - activity to figure out scrambled words
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Fun English Games has many good activities including
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knoword provides the definition and first letter, you guess the word. Timed.
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lexipedia interesting web of definitions of words
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Test your vocabulary How many words do you know?
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English Vocabulary Games
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Working on Morphology/Syntax
Spanish Materials
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General Information and Material
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Enchanted Learning's Spanish - information, quizzes, worksheets, and printouts and a Spanish-to-English picture dictionary.
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Teachers Pay Teachers many free materials. Use the keyword "Spanish" to find flashcards and PowerPoints for vocabulary and grammar, and a document with basic greetings, introductions, and questions/responses for working on pragmatics.
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Study Spanish has Spanish tutorials on pronunciation, grammar (including online verb drills), vocabulary, and idioms.
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Jill Kerper Mora's instructional modules includes strategies for teaching concepts and vocabulary, a sequence of phonics instruction, guided story construction, and more.
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Colorin Colorado - a extensive bilingual site in Spanish and English. Includes pre-reading skills.
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Assessment Materials
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Spanish Phrasing Book for SLPs [PDF, 85.4MB], by Dorothy Miranda Esckelson and Adulfa Aguirre Morales, provides SLPs "with language to use with their Spanish-speaking students and their families" related to articulation/phonology, hearing, language, stuttering, and voice disorders.
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Communication Matrix - "an assessment tool designed to pinpoint exactly how an individual is communicating and to provide a framework for determining logical communication goals," available in several languages, including Spanish.
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Treatment/Informational Materials
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The Literacy Center - activities for early childhood development and literacy lessons in English, Spanish, German, and French.
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iSLCOLLECTIVE - printable ESL worksheets by teachers for teachers in several languages, including English and Spanish. Choose the level, skill, material type, or focus (grammar or vocabulary).
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Online Libraries
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Story Place has a preschool and elementary children's digital library in Spanish (also in English).
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Cody's Cuentos produces free podcasts of classic fairytales and children's poems translated into Spanish and read by a professional storyteller.
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Biblioteca Digital Internacional para Niños is the Spanish-language section of The International Children's Digital Library of outstanding children's books from around the world.
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Vocabulary
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Grammar
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Additional materials
English as a Second Language
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There are 22,000 FREEBIES with keyword ESL and selecting "free" on Teachers Pay Teachers
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Other Language Materials - primarily designed for Teaching English as a Second Language, but easily adapted for children with language-learning disorders and adults who are re-learning language following a stroke.
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Terry the Terrible Teacher is an ESL site with many activities for higher-functioning language issues.
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Match between picture and written word
- be patient - loads slowly
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English Exercises has MANY activities, including
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Classroom Games and Activities includes samples of Flashcards and worksheets and more potential therapy activities.
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What American Accent Do You Have?
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Speech Accent Archive examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph.
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Lanternfish is a treasure chest of materials
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Daniel Kies Modern English Grammar - a hypertext book
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ESL Handouts - free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts, for English language and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and instructors to use in the classroom or other teaching environment.
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Interesting Things for ESL Students contains word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, and
proverbs. Be sure to check the flashcards here and here
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Dave's ESL Cafe has a collection of language materials. Check under Resources
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1-language.com is comprehensive ESL Site including forums, realtime chat, grammar, writing, interactive quizzes and games, flashcards, phonics, streaming audio materials, world news, TOEIC modules, helplines, multi-lingual content, and much more.
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Breaking News English - Ready-to-use EFL/ESL Lesson Plans & Podcast
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Helpful sites to work on pronunciation and accent reduction
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iSLCOLLECTIVE - free, printable ESL worksheets by teachers for teachers in several languages including English and Spanish
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Help Teaching has free English language worksheets as well as a free online test creation tool allowing custom worksheets to be created from a library of over 130,000 questions
