Description: Target the processing skills that underpin steady, consistent language development. This systematic progression of tasks focuses on word relationships, prosody, and language organization. Outcomes -Understand and use abstract language -Interpret and effectively use prosody -Develop language-based reasoning These lessons individually and as a group, teach children to manipulate increasingly complex units of language. Each one-page activity has a clear, measurable goal and a performance grid for easy measurement, identification of error patterns, and quick documentation of progress. The lessons are grouped into three skill areas: Word Relationships -Associations—recognize and explain associations; generate associated words -Comparisons—identify and explain similarities and differences -Synonyms —identify, generate, and compare synonyms -Antonyms—recognize and generate antonyms -Multiple-Meaning Words—identify, explain, and define multiple-meaning words -Similes—identify similar characteristics, identify items by characteristics, complete and generate similes Prosodic Interpretation -Emotions—recognize and infer emotions and identify emotional intonation -Sentence Intonation—recognize intonation, infer sentence meaning from intonation, use intonation appropriately -Stress and Rhythm—discriminate syllable and word stress and rhythm, interpret changes in stress and rhythm Language Organization -Convergent Naming—identify objects from clues, discriminate and identify categories, identify commonalities among objects D-ivergent Naming—name category members by function, parts, and attributes; complete analogies -Feature Description—describe objects by attributes, parts, and function; generate effective clues about objects

Author: WINGET, Kerry

Publisher: Linguisystems

Grade: Age 6 - 12

Format: SOFTCOVER