Reddit mentions of Lauri Photo Language Cards - Actions

Alrighty!

1. Not sure if this would be more linguistics than what you're looking for, but the Appalachian dialect is thought to have evolved from Elizabethan English. Would explain why in literature, the stylized dialogue of 20th/21st century Appalachian characters often times looks very similar to Dickens street people dialogue. We also share some unique verb tenses and slang words with the Northern UK nowadays.
   
   
2. Not sure how young of an age group you work with, but this might be helpful for preschoolers.
   
   
3. When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. BONUS: You probably use that in your speech therapy to hear how your clients are forming words. It's also used by dialect coaches to train actors.

Since you'll have a range it'll be easiest to have one activity that you can adapt to all of your groups throughout the day - especially since you won't have a room.

Books are perfect for this. Look for short books with a repetitive phrase.

http://consonantlyspeaking.com/posts/2012/07/abcs-4-slps-b-is-for-books-lists-of-books-to-use-in-speech-language-therapy

I find that reading a short book (and throwing in WH questions throughout) and doing a group activity takes about half an hour. You could do pretend baking (I just bring in kitchen supplies from home) to work on sequencing and vocabulary. Having a "guess bag" of items from the story (you describe what it is and they guess, and then switch the roles).

Animal puppets are great (IKEA has great ones) because you can incorporate them into a lot of activities. You can grab a chair and everyone can practice prepositions and verbs etc.

For centers I did a lot of categorizing and describing activities. I did it by theme (there are a lot of themed calendars of tpt). I used a lot of laminated and cut out things for that. I put them all into a zipped envelope that stayed together in a binder. I just grabbed the envelope and away I went!

I also love these action cards http://www.amazon.com/Smethport-976-Actions-Language-Cards/dp/B0019VJEHO?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage

They were pretty cheap and I use them all the time.

I haven't used them - but you could look into story felt boards. They usually have them at the conventions. Could be portable and could work on a lot of activities and most of the time they go with a book.