Seasonal: Autumn

(In this section: General Autumn, Back to School, Halloween, Thanksgiving)

GENERAL

Simple Autumn vocabulary, ten spaces.

From Omazing Kids, free printables to go with popular fall books.

10 Autumn craft ideas, from The Dabbling Speechie.

Tons of activities from Scholastic to go with this fun fall story. See also my digital TinyTap activities below for my own interactive version. Omazing Kids also has printables - see "Fun Fall Activities" below.

Free online activity from CloudLearnersSLP. Also good for WH- questions.

BACK TO SCHOOL

From DLTK, lots of games, puzzles, book activities, crafts to download for free.

Updated for 2023, here are some free ELA activities and ice breakers from TpT.

From Scholastic, book lists, ways to organize a small room, and lots more ideas. Some things free, some not.

See the Story Theme Units page for lots of free activities for this story. See also a digital lesson on story elements in TinyTap.

Resources for ASHA members to share with families, co-workers, and others in the school setting. 

Interactive version of the freebie story from Reading AtoZ.

Free from Georgia Peach SLP on TpT. Fun supplement to EET program.

HALLOWEEN

15 fun ideas for games that can be easily adapted to speech therapy. From EducatorsTechnology.com. See the link in the article to their other Halloween resources.

Fun way to learn Halloween vocabulary. Easy to convert to a PowerPoint.

16 cards with different ghosts to show 10 feelings and 6 other describing words. Print double to use for memory game.

From BogglesWorldESL, 32 flashcards to print out showing Halloween characters in different places. Can be enlarged to 4 per page.

From SelectedReads.com, each book is summarized, with link to Amazon to purchase. (See if your library has it first!)

Official website for the story, including  free activities. Get more freebies from Sparklebox for this story. There is also a TinyTap activity for this.

Fun fantasy characters for ASL letters. From Rumpled Crow.

Theme unit for this story by Eve Bunting. See the Story Theme Units page.

Create your own jack-o-lantern online. From ABC Ya.

From Ed Tech guru Tony Vincent. Spin the wheels for random character, setting, and plot to create fun stories.

Awesome for teletherapy. Books, games, green screens, language activities, and more.

Art project with visual directions, and procedural writing activity. Takes about an hour for both together.

Free apps, books, worksheets, Google slide, templates, and more. From Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, 2022.

Guess the Halloween picture by seeing bits of the picture. This is a folder game. Use pumpkin for the cover.

Printable activity to sort Halloween pictures by beginning letter. Good start to learning to alphabetize words.

THANKSGIVING

Assorted vocabulary activities for the story by Eve Bunting, gr. 1&2. Crossword puzzle, word categories, context clues, and more.

Printable 6x6 picture puzzle. (See also the digital version in TinyTap.)

Free artic activity for /f/ in all positions. From SnuggleBugSpeech.

From EdHelper, many free activities for grades 1-7 in English, grades 1-6 in Spanish.

Lots of games, coloring pages, PreK activities, etc. Get them while they are free!

See TpT for my 26-page theme unit for this story, with tons of speech/language activities. (Sorry, not free.)

Printables for language arts, basic concepts, and lots more.

Free printable or digital (Google Slides) from ThemesTherapySLP.com

Online presentation from Scholastic with different points of view of the first Thanksgiving.

Visuals for no-cook treat project using bags of popcorn.

Write what you are thankful for on each feather.

Printable interactive booklet; prepositions/spatial concepts.

Free printable game from Sweet Tea & Sprinkles.

Check out this blog post by Peggy Reimers for links to fun Thanksgiving activities. Easy to adapt for sp/lang therapy.