Reading - Fleming Intermediate School

Speech Homework 

Listed below are some speech-language activities that you and your child can use at home.  These activities will help to strengthen your child’s expressive and receptive language skills.  Have fun!! 

Activities: 

• Ask your child to compare objects to find the attributes they have in common.  Talk about how these similar things are different from one another. 
• List members of a category but include some that belong to other categories.  See if your child can pick out those that don’t belong.  Have him/her explain why. 
• Work on synonyms with your child.  While you are in the car, grocery shopping, eating dinner, etc., show your child a simple sentence and see if they can replace a word with its synonym (e.g., My friend was surprised.  Your child can replace surprised with amazed, shocked, stunned).  
• Help your child change the words in his/her favorite songs (synonyms, antonyms). 
• Re-title books or newspaper headlines using synonyms and antonyms. 
• Solve jokes and riddles and discuss why they are funny.  
• Read familiar books, poems, and rhymes.  As you read, replace words with their opposites. 
• Play games like Pictionary or Charades using multiple-meaning words.  Once a word is guessed, discuss other clues your child could have used to get them to come up with a different meaning of the word. 
• Watch a movie together.  At the end of the movie, have your child tell you in one sentence what the movie was about.  Have him/her write the sentence on a piece of paper.  Then have your child write the details from the movie to support his/her answer.  Do the details support the main idea? 
• Tell a story and ask questions about what was said. 
• Ask questions about a recently watched TV show.