The provided source materials describe a variety of free digital resources, often referred to as "freebies," designed for use in speech therapy sessions. These materials are primarily created by individual speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and educators and distributed through platforms such as Teachers Pay Teachers, personal blogs, and Pinterest. The resources focus on themes relevant to rainy days, spring weather, and seasonal holidays, targeting specific speech sounds, language skills, and articulation goals.
Articulation Resources
Several freebies target articulation, which involves the production of specific speech sounds. These activities often utilize thematic visuals, such as raindrops or spring scenes, to engage students.
- Rainy Day /R/ Articulation: Created by Carrie Manchester, this activity is designed to work on the /r/ sound in initial, medial, and final positions. It includes blank raindrops that can be used to target other sounds or language skills.
- Easter Egg Hunt Articulation: Developed by Twin Speech Language and Literacy, this Easter-themed board game targets the /r/ sound. It also includes a "feed the bunny" reinforcer page and a color-and-say worksheet.
- Articulation Dot Art FREEBIE for Earth Day: Mia McDaniel offers this activity for practicing /r/ and /r/ blends. It can be used with dot markers, bingo chips, or crayons.
- Winter or Spring? P, B, T Articulation Edition: Let’s Talk Speech Therapy provides a game to help students decide if it is still winter or spring while practicing /p/, /b/, and /t/ sounds. The resource includes 24 cards and a board game.
- No Print Spring Speech Therapy FREEBIE: Speech Tea offers a digitally friendly resource targeting the /sh/ sound.
- No Prep Articulation Coloring Pages: Carly Fowler provides coloring pages for the "sh," "ch," and "th" sounds.
- Articulation Lists for "The Day It Rained Hearts": Lindsey Karol created an activity that accompanies the book by Felicia Bond.
- Snowy Speech Articulation Packet: Heather PorterPhonology offers a weather-themed activity.
- 50 and 100 Trial Coloring Pages: These seasonal coloring sheets allow students to practice speech sound production. Themes include Snowy Winter Day, Valentine's Day, President's Day, March Madness Basketball, Rainy Spring Day, and Earth Day.
- Spring Themed Articulation: A print-and-go resource targeting common speech sounds in initial and final positions or blends, suitable for Pre-K to 2nd grade.
Language and Phonological Awareness Activities
Beyond articulation, the sources list resources for broader language development, including pronoun identification, describing skills, and phonological awareness.
- Pronoun Identification: Several freebies focus on teaching pronouns.
- It’s Raining Pronouns!: Speech Land Fun offers an interactive game for identifying pronouns.
- Easter Pronoun Activity: Kelley Dolling created an activity suitable for independent centers.
- Easter Pronouns Freebie: Sweet Peas and Pigtails provides smash mats for pronoun practice.
- Camping Kids Pronouns Smash Mats & Coloring Sheets: Also by Sweet Peas and Pigtails, this highly rated set introduces pronouns.
- Bunny Pronouns-FREEBIE: Speech Chick Therapy uses character bunnies in worksheets to teach pronouns.
- Describing and Comparing:
- Spring Compare & Contrast: Jenn Alcorn uses an umbrella theme to compare and contrast spring activities.
- Spring Attribute Cards: A free resource for describing skills.
- Phonological Awareness:
- Compound Words Flip Cards: Jackie G offers an activity for practicing blending and segmenting words.
- Virtual Word Bag: SUN: Empower Learning Center provides a game to explore word family relationships.
- Snowy Phonological Awareness {FREEBIE}: Kristine Lamb created a board game prompting students to combine two words into one.
- Sentence Building:
- Distance Learning Spring Color, Trace and Write a Sentence Free Worksheets: CreativeCOTA LLC offers an interactive activity to build sentences.
Reinforcement Games
Reinforcement games are used to motivate students during drilling activities. The following weather-themed games are available for free.
- Snow Day Penguins Reinforcement Game: Speech Therapy with Courtney Gragg offers an engaging drill game with a penguin and winter theme.
- Spin A Snowman Reinforcement Game: Big Hair Speech Therapy provides a highly rated game that can be used for articulation, language, or math activities.
- Build a Frog & Friends – Rainy Day Rewards for Group Therapy: Tech ‘n Talk SLPs created an engaging reinforcement activity for drilling articulation or language activities.
- Free Fireplace Fun Game: A general reinforcement game.
- Rainy Day Synonyms: Simply Speech offers a craft that goes along with the book "The Day It Rained."
Craft and No-Print Activities
Some resources involve hands-on crafts or digital formats suitable for distance learning.
- Rainy Day Speech Therapy Craft Activity: Described on Teachers Pay Teachers, this activity involves creating an umbrella and rain drops craft while practicing speech and language targets. It includes 65 pages of articulation targets (all sounds in all word positions) and 8 pages of language targets (regular and irregular verbs).
- No Print Spring Speech Therapy FREEBIE: A digital resource for the /sh/ sound.
- Distance Learning Spring Color, Trace and Write a Sentence Free Worksheets: Interactive digital worksheets.