Professional+Suggestions+for+Language

=**Professional Suggestions for Language** **Links**=

Figurative Language
[|Using Songs to Teach Figurative Language] [|Teaching Metaphors Page] [|FREE worksheets to assess figurative language] [|FREE! Lesson: Thirty Human Body Idioms] [|Similies and Metaphors Book by: Ann Heinrichs] [|Paint By Idioms Game] [|Idiom of the Week] [|Introduction to Proverbs (Grades 6-9)] [|Basic Figurative Language] [|Figuring Out Figurative Language With Help From Some Angry Birds] [|Figurative Language Posters! Freebies] [|Figurative Language Mini Unit] [|In a Pickle: And Other Funny Idioms By Marvin Terban] [|Lesson Plan Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms] [|FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “5 Figurative Language Posters”] [|Comics about Idioms] [|Figurative Language Game] F[|igurative Language Flash Cards---Beginning of a collection. These are similes and idioms] [|Figurative Language Reading Comprehension Practice Cards, Red Level (RL 2.0–3.5)] [|"Firework" by Katy Perry Song Lyrics Poetry Terms Figurative Language]

Social Skills
[|What's That Look on Your Face? All About Faces and Feelings--Book] [|Simply Social 7 at School Review] [|Using a Flip-Video Camera for teaching Social Skills] [|Books That Teach Empathy] [|Feelings Wheel] [|Teaching Social Skills Website] [|Social Groups for Teaching Social Skills] [|Starting a Conversation.] [|Social Stories and Visual Supports] [|Behavior Expectations] [|Social Skills for Young Children through Stories] [|"Emotional Check-In/Out" Worksheet] [|Book Review: Visual Techniques for Developing Social Skills: Activities and Lesson Plans for Teaching Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome] [|Free Social Stories] [|Visual Behaviour Supports] [|Social Problem Solving Pictures] D[|ownloadable Social Skills Cards] [|Pie chart visuals: Great social skills tool to help kids with ASD to talk MORE or LESS in groups or class] [|Manners Match It Up Worksheet-Freebie] [|SOCIAL SAM explores social routines and the thoughts and speech that underpin them] [|Games promoting eye contact (and other pragmatic language activities)] [|Everyday Life--older students] [|Great ideas to teach kids about personal space!] [|Problem solving!] [|Emotional Identification App--VolaFriends HD] [|"Joining a Conversation" 9th Planet autism social skills video] [|A more concrete way for students to understand friends] [|Emotion And Scenario Cards] [|Reporting vs. Tattling Poster] [|Awareness of relationships with others--Circle Program] [|Monster Fun! Teaching Manners and Expectations] [|FREE Friendship Cards: 24 Social Skill Prompts]

General
[|website with many therapy games, language and articulation both] Wisconsin photos to use for flashcards, vocabulary or discussion [|Wisonsin photos and other general photos]

Grammar
[|1 Product, 10 Ideas – Adjective Flower] [|Silly Sentences - Focusing on Adjectives.]
 * ===Adjectives===

[|Go Fish for Contractions] [|Cupcake Contractions] [|Grammar Dragon App] [|Grammar/verbal expression game: "That's Bologna"] [|Parts of Speech Flipbook] [|Roll, Say, Play: Adjective or Verb?] [|Parts of Speech FREEBIE {Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives}] [|Website with lots of interactive language games] [|Grammatical categories ordered from easiest to hardest to master] [|Go Fish for Irregular Plural Nouns] [|Let's Make it Plural] [|Pirate Plurals (Irregular Plurals)] [|Free Printable Fan: Prepositions] [|Teaching Prepositions (Positional Words) in Real Life ContextPs] [|Prepositions Flash Cards] [|Preposition Builder App] [|Positional Words Back Pack Hunt-FREE] [|Free! List of prepositions]
 * ===Contractions===
 * ===General===
 * ===Plurals===
 * ===Prepositions===

[|Pronoun/Noun Word Sort with Angry Birds] [|Photos to Elicit Action Verbs] [|Irregular Verbs Chat Board] [|Grammar Sandwiches--Irregular Verbs Game] [|Past Tense: Regular and Irregular Verb Sort] [|Free Verb Activities] [|English Irregular Verbs Bingo Cards] [|“Three Sounds of ‘ed’ Past Tense Verbs - Grammar Games and Lesson Plans”] [|Irregular Verb Activity] [|Tenses]
 * ===Pronouns===
 * ===Verbs===
 * ===Tenses===

Multiple Meanings
[|Our Multiple Meaning Book] [|Multiple Meaning Worksheet] [|Baseball Dictionary Skills Activities--Multiple Meanings] [|Multiple Meanings Freebies]

Sentence Structure
[|Complete Sentence or Fragment?] [|sentence formulation and pronunciation] [|help students improve their ability to construct grammatically correct sentences] [|Scrambled Egg Sentences Center] [|Crafting Sentences] [|Connect-a-Dot Sentences]

Vocabulary
[|Vocabulary Dice Game] [|Activities for Teaching Vocabulary--Vocabulary Absurdities Program] [|Test prep vocab...24 key terms (infer, compare, persuade, conclude...) I have who has, too!] [|Word Wizardry: Solving Words with Spells]