I love to travel! I wish I did more of it—but sometimes other priorities win out! My bucket list includes plans to see a few destinations that I haven’t yet visited in our own beautiful country, as well as several European and Latin American hot spots! Traveling is a great experience for young children and teenagers. My students often travel with their families during holiday breaks and in the summer. I love when they share their stories and pictures and it inspired me to create a product that was travel-themed. Based on my student’s interest in seeing the world, I think it will be a big hit in the therapy room! So today I am introducing Language Advisor: A Trip Through the Emerald Isle! Check out what’s included and enter the giveaway below! You’ll have a chance to win your very own copy of this versatile product that covers so many language goals. And it’s a great way to address the St. Patty’s Day theme with your older kiddos without being too juvenile or babyish!
You’ve heard of Trip Advisor® , a tool that helps you plan your perfect trip. Well now there’s Language Advisor—a tool to help you practice better language while you navigate through various towns and cities in far off places!
What you’ll find in this packet:
Vocabulary Building in Belfast: an informative passage about Belfast, “Rate your Language Experience”—word rating scale for various words highlighted within the passage. Plus one blank rating scale, 18 game cards targeting the highlighted words in the passage with multiple choice questions related to the vocabulary.
Double Meanings in Dublin : an informative passage about Dublin featuring double meanings found within the passage, 24 total matching game cards—12 target words and 12 cards for determining which meaning best applies to the passage.
Good Listening in Galway: a detailed passage about Galway that includes 12 comprehension questions that are both direct and inferential in nature. Some questions are multiple choice and others are open-ended.
Compare & Contrast in Cork & Killarney: a passage that presents two locations and includes a Venn diagram for comparing them and a writing page for filling in sentences about each city.
Write your own limerick in Limerick: A checklist of items that are needed to create a limerick poem, sample limericks and line by line cues to help you create your poem , a final copy blank poem writing sheet .
Make your own Fact filled Guide of the Emerald Isle: A 6 page booklet plus cover page and directions page to fill in with facts learned about the various locations addressed throughout the packet. This is a great culminating activity for targeting comprehension of newly learned information .
As with so many of my products, I’ve included a Speech Snacks recipe card for Gaelic-Garlic Shamrock bread.
So here’s the giveaway! Enter before Sunday, March 9th at midnight and you will have some great new materials to use in your therapy sessions next week! May the Luck of the Irish be with you!!
These would be great for my upper elementary and middle school students with language goals!
My middle school students would benefit from the vocabulary and following directions activities. This is such an interesting way to address these skills!
I think my middle school students would love and benefit from the goals addressed in this packet!
I love this packet. I am imagining it engaging my secondary students and getting them interested in travel as well as learning at the same time. I too love to travel and aspire to travel to 50 countries in my lifetime (I am at 25) and I love to share that with my students.
Thanks for this fun idea!
What an amazing personal goal! Sounds like you are doing a great job of reaching it….and you’re making me jealous! Happy Travels!
This activity targets so many important areas! I love that it has that “Something for everyone” touch. I also think it’s nice to get students learning about different places outside of the city they live in (which is sometimes the case), as well as learning more about the country they live in and it’s culture by doing a St. Patrick’s Day themed activity. Thanks so much for making if a giveaway!
I am always looking for unique activities for my upper elementary and middle school students. This activity fits the bill nicely! Love your creativity!!
My upper grades would benefit because it will expand their knowledge of the world. They can’t think past their little town because they’ve never been many places.
Susan–that is so true for so many of our students! I hope this activity will inspire them to someday visit far away places and learn more about other cultures. In the meantime, I hope you find this a valuable and interesting way of working on language skills! Look for more installments of “Language Advisor” in the future! Good luck with the giveaway!
I love your materials for their versatility and focus on older students. I am always trying to find something trendy, relevant, and motivating for the big guys and your products fit the bill. I purchased your executive function themed packet at Christmas and used it to death!! My hope is to do the same with this one!!
Thank you for the wonderful feedback Annie. Glad the Christmas EF packet was so useful for you! More EF products coming…and more installments of Language Advisor! What country should we visit next???
My secondary studets are always interested in traceling, so this would be awesome to use with them to increase engaement and participation. Thanks for the giveaway!
This looks amazing. One of my goals for my older groups is to expose them to more cultures and places around the world as many of them have never been outside of our small town. This product would be a wonderful addition. I hope you continue to make more of these packets.
I love incorporating themes into speech. This packet looks awesome, because it targets so many different skills, and includes nonfiction texts. This would be an awesome resource to use with my older elementary students.
I work on figurative language often with my 3rd-5th grade students! I am always looking for new idioms and metaphors to teach my students! This looks fantastic!