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Help for Children with Language Delays

Oral Language Skill Instruction for
Small Group or 1:1 Intervention

Our 16-week program will explicitly teach each oral language skill in the Common Core Curriculum for one grade level. Can be administered by classroom teachers/staff as a Tier 2 intervention or in speech/language therapy as a Tier 3 intervention.

No Prep! No cutting, no laminating, and no bulky manipulatives to keep track of. Just print the student workbook and put it in a binder. That's all you need to do!

Confidently Teach Language Skills to Struggling Learners

Everything you need to help children get back on track with
Common Core aligned language skills

Who is this For?

Our program is for...

  • Program Coordinators

    Provide your buildings and districts with a streamlined way to identify children with language delays and move them through levels of support with evidence-based practices.

  • Classroom Teachers

    Use this program to help boost language skills for your struggling learners. This program will allow you to document Tier 2 supports being administered to those students who are behind.

  • Speech-Language Pathologists
    & Professionals

    Use this program as a foundation for your language therapy sessions. Our pre-made, no-prep lessons will make your therapy sessions simple and effective. Plus, we'll include training on how to modify these lessons to meet the needs of every student.

Catch Up in Speaking, Reading, and Writing

Pre-Made Lessons for Improving Underlying Language Skills

During the pandemic, children fell behind in their learning and many have not yet recovered from that learning deficit (source). However, schools and educators are struggling with staffing shortages and budget cuts that make it hard to help these students catch back up.

Language delays can impact a child's speaking, reading, and writing. When a child with a language delay is struggling in the classroom, it falls on the teachers and speech-language pathologists to help them catch up on those skills. But our educators and specialists are overworked as well and it's not always clear how to help these children.

Fortunately, there is now a program that will get these children back on track! Our language curriculum contains pre-made lessons and activities to explicitly teach all of the language skills for an entire grade level in just 16 weeks. That means that in one school year, a child can catch up on two grade levels worth of language skills.

What's Included:

    1. Training for Speech-Language Professionals

    2. Training for Educators and Aides

    3. Training for District Coordinators

    4. Training for Caregivers

    1. Kindergarten Program

    2. Need Other Grade Levels? (Discount Code Included!)

    1. Frequently Asked Questions - Written FAQs

    2. How to Email Someone a Checklist or Portion of the Program

    3. How to Use this Program Digitally (Teletherapy or on a Device)

    4. Work Directly with Carrie

    1. Free Recording: How to Set Up School-Wide Language Interventions

About this Program:

  • Kindergarten Oral Language Curriculum
  • 16 Lessons
  • PDF Format: Just Print and Go!

Close the Gap!

Pre-made language lessons to boost skills and help students catch up

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Discounts on Multiple Licenses

Ask Your School to Pay for This Program!

Ready to use this program with your entire school or district? We offer discounts on multiple licenses. Click the button below to download a handout that you can share with your administrator.

16 Lessons Per Grade Level

Each Lesson Targets...

  • One Specific Language Skill from the Common Core (Including Syntax & Grammar)

  • Following Directions

  • Asking and Answering Questions

  • Retelling Narratives or Information

  • Using the Target Skill in One of Three Conversational Tasks: Telling a Narrative, Giving Information, or Stating an Opinion

👀 Sneak Peek! 👀

Click play to watch a video walkthrough of the whole 3rd grade curriculum!

How it Works:

This program fits into a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework to improve language skills in struggling learners

  • Tier 1:
    Identification

    In Tier 1, children learn from the general education curriculum. If a child is struggling in Tier 1 with speaking, reading, or writing skills, the informal screeners in this program can identify which underlying language skills may be missing.

    If there are underlying language delays, that child moves on to Tier 2.

  • Tier 2:
    Small Group Intervention

    In Tier 2, a teacher, para, aide, or other educator will administer The Core Language Program to provide explicit instruction and additional practice for grade-appropriate language skills.

    Data is collected during the first 8 weeks of the program. If the child is not making sufficient progress in the program, they are then referred on to Tier 3.

  • Tier 3:
    Special Education

    Those few children who don't make progress with Tier 2 supports will be referred on for a full special education evaluation.

    At this point, the speech-language pathologist or professional can continue to use The Core Language Program with additional modifications and differentiated instruction depending on the needs of each individual child.

That means...

  • Classroom teachers are better equipped to help students

  • Students get the help them need more quickly

  • Fewer students are referred to special education

Print and Go!

No prepping elaborate activities. Just print the student manual and the instructors manual and you're ready to go.

A Cycles Approach but for Language Skills

Target a new language skill per week and then cycle back around

I've been LOVING all of the progress my clients have been making with the Cycles Approach to Phonology. But that got me thinking...

Could we use a cycles-type approach to teaching language skills as well?

Instead of teaching each and every language skill a child needs, could we boost their language skills by targeting one language skill per week and then cycling back around to the skills they still need to practice?

That is the exact challenge I set for myself for this program. Each lesson is designed to teach one skill but to also build upon the teachings of previous lessons. In 16 weeks, you'll teach each language skill for an entire grade level of the Common Core. But within those lessons, you'll be building overall language skills as well, such as following directions, asking/answering questions, retelling, and creating narratives or providing information.

The real beauty comes though with the stacking of grade levels. For example, every grade level will have a lesson on telling narratives, but with each grade level, we increase the complexity slightly. That makes this program perfect for a cycles-type approach.

Once you complete the 16-week language curriculum with a student, you'll have the option to cycle that student back through the same curriculum again; or increase the difficulty level by running them through the curriculum for the next grade level.

In this way, we're able to boost a variety of language skills in a very structured manner. This allows us to improve a child's performance on language-based school tasks without having to take the time to explicitly teach every language skill all the way up through the conversational level.

What Skills are Included?

Click a grade to see the language targets for that grade level:

  • Kindergarten (THIS LEVEL!)

    Foundational Language Skills:

    1. Ask and Answer Questions (Download the Free Sample!)
    2. Understanding and Telling Narratives
    3. Understanding and Providing Information
    4. Understanding and Stating Opinions

    Syntax Skills:

    5. Using Frequently Occurring Nouns
    6. Forming Regular Plural Nouns
    7. Using Frequently Occurring Verbs
    8. Understanding and Using Question Words (Interrogatives)
    9. Using the Most Frequently Occurring Prepositions
    10. Producing and Expanding Complete Sentences

    Vocabulary Skills:

    11. Identifying New Meanings for Familiar Multiple-Meaning Words
    12. Using the Most Frequently Occurring Affixes (-s, -ed, re-, un-, etc.)
    13. Relating Common Words to their Opposites (Antonyms)
    14. Sorting Common Objects into Categories
    15. Distinguishing Shades of Meaning Between 2 Similar Verbs
    16. Identifying Real-World Connections Between Words and their Use

  • 1st Grade

    Foundational Language Skills:

    1. Ask and Answer Questions
    2. Understanding and Telling Narratives
    3. Understanding and Providing Information
    4. Understanding and Stating Opinions

    Syntax Skills:

    5. Using Common, Proper, and Possessive Nouns + Determiners (Articles, Demonstratives)
    6. Using Singular and Plural Nouns with Matching Verbs
    7. Using Personal Possessive and Indefinite Pronouns
    8. Using Past, Present, and Future Verbs
    9. Using Adjectives
    10. Using Conjunctions and Prepositions

    Vocabulary Skills:

    11. Using Context to Understand Unknown Words (Including Multiple Meaning Words and Feeling/Senses Words)
    12. Understanding and Using Affixes
    13. Understanding and Using Root Words and Inflectional Forms
    14. Sorting Words into Categories and Defining Words with Key Attributes
    15. Identifying Real-World Connections Between Words and their Use
    16. Distinguishing Shades of Meaning Between Similar Words

  • 2nd Grade

    Foundational Language Skills:

    1. Ask and Answer Questions
    2. Understanding and Telling Narratives
    3. Understanding and Providing Information
    4. Understanding and Stating Opinions

    Syntax Skills:

    5. Using Collective Nouns and Irregular Plural Nouns
    6. Using Reflexive Pronouns
    7. Using Past Tense Verbs
    8. Using Adjectives and Adverbs
    9. Using Compound Sentences
    10. Understanding and Using Formal vs. Informal English

    Vocabulary Skills:

    11. Using Context to Guess at Unknown Words
    12. Understanding and Using Prefixes and Root Words
    13. Defining Words Using Glossaries and Dictionaries (Including Multiple Meaning Words)
    14. Using Compound Words
    15. Identifying Real-World Connections Between Words and their Use
    16. Distinguishing Shades of Meaning Between Closely Related Verbs and Adjectives

  • 3rd Grade

    Foundational Language Skills:

    1. Ask and Answer Questions
    2. Understanding and Telling Narratives
    3. Understanding and Providing Information
    4. Understanding and Stating Opinions

    Syntax Skills:

    5. Using Regular and Irregular Nouns and Abstract Nouns
    6. Using Regular and Irregular Verbs + Simple Verb Tenses
    7. Using Proper Subject/Verb and Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement
    8. Understanding and Using Possessives
    9. Using Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs
    10. Using Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions + Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences

    Vocabulary Skills:

    11. Using Sentence Level Context as a Clue to the Meaning of an Unknown Word or Phrase
    12. Using Affixes and Root Words
    13. Using Glossaries and Dictionaries to Define Words
    14. Understanding Literal vs. Non-literal Meanings
    15. Identifying Real-World Connections Between Words and their Use
    16. Distinguishing Shades of Meaning Between Similar Words

  • 4th Grade

    Foundational Language Skills:

    1. Ask and Answer Questions
    2. Understanding and Telling Narratives
    3. Understanding and Providing Information
    4. Understanding and Stating Opinions

    Syntax Skills:

    5. Using Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
    6. Using Progressive Verb Tenses
    7. Using Modal Auxiliaries
    8. Using Proper Order for Adjectives in a Sentence
    9. Using Prepositional Phrases
    10. Producing Complete Sentences and Recognizing Fragments/Run Ons

    Vocabulary Skills:

    11. Using Context to Figure out Unknown Words
    12. Understanding and Using Greek and Latin Affixes
    13. Using Reference Materials to Define Unknown Words
    14. Understanding and Using Similes and Metaphors
    15. Understanding and Using Idioms and Proverbs
    16. Understanding and Using Antonyms and Synonyms

  • 5th Grade

    Foundational Language Skills:

    1. Ask and Answer Questions
    2. Understanding and Telling Narratives
    3. Understanding and Providing Information
    4. Understanding and Stating Opinions

    Syntax Skills:

    5. Explaining the Function Conjunctions, Prepositions, Interjections
    6. Using Perfect Verb Tenses
    7. Using Verb Tense to Convey Times, Sequences, States, and Conditions
    8. Recognizing and Correcting Inappropriate Shifts in Verb Tense
    9. Using Correlative Conjunctions
    10. Expanding, Combining, and Reducing Sentences

    Vocabulary Skills:

    11. Using Context to Identify Word Meanings
    12. Understanding and Using Greek and Latin Affixes and Root Words
    13. Using Reference Materials to Identify Unknown Words
    14. Understanding and Using Similes and Metaphors
    15. Understanding and Using Idioms
    16. Understanding and Using Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homographs

👨🏾‍💻 How to Use via Teletherapy 👩🏻‍💻

Watch our video demo of how to use the Core Language Program during Teletherapy

Carrie Clark, CCC-SLP

Program Creator

Welcome! I am a speech-language pathologist based out of Missouri, United States of America. I work full time running the Speech and Language Kids website and our professional membership program at www.SLPSolution.com. In addition to that, I also see speech therapy clients in a local school district one day per week.

I've worked in early intervention, preschool, and k12 schools. I've also run my own private practice and worked in continuing education through my websites. I've spent hours digging through the research on what works and doesn't work in therapy. And I've also spent hours streamlining and simplifying my own practice to help me make the most out of my limited time as an SLP.

Now, I'm ready to help you do the same! I've poured everything I know into creating courses that help you learn the most effective and streamlined ways to support your clients And you'll know that everything I'm recommending is a strategy that I have used myself with great success. My courses will break down skills for you into step-by-step plans that you can implement in therapy right away. And I'll help you learn shortcuts and organization hacks that will save you time and energy and help you love what you do again. I can't wait to get started and show you how much better this job can be!

Carrie Clark, CCC-SLP

What's Included:

Progress Monitoring Tool

One screener per grade level (Kindergarten-5th Grade) to identify which language skills are present or missing. Classroom teachers mark how well the student is doing on the Common Core English/Language Arts skills. This is completed every 8 weeks throughout the program to monitor progress.

Download the Kindergarten Progress Monitoring Tool in the Free Preview
Language Skills Progress Monitoring Tool

Training Videos

Training videos for program administrators, speech-language professionals, educators, and caregivers. Each training video will help that person (or group of people) use this program to best serve the students involved.

Student Workbooks and Instruction Manuals

For each grade level, you'll find the digital files for the student workbook and the instruction manual. Each grade includes 16 lessons (one per week) that should take about 30 minutes per week to administer. Print off a workbook for each student in the program (choose from black & white or color). The interventionist will follow along in the instruction manual to complete the activities with the students.

Carry-over pages and homework are included for each lesson that can be sent home with caregivers and used in the classroom to ensure learning.

Download two Free Sample Lessons in the Free Preview
Language Curriculum for Speech/Language Therapy

MTSS Workshop Training Videos

FREE BONUS TRAINING!

Did you miss our week-long workshop on using Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports (MTSS) for oral language skills? Don't worry! As a free bonus, you'll get access to the recordings of this in-depth training for free! Four hours of continuing education plus a Q&A session recording. Learn more about how to set up and run an MTSS program for oral language skills in the schools.

Topics Include:
  • How to Set Up District/Building-Wide Screenings, Referrals, and Systems for Supporting Children with Language Delays
  • How to Improve Tier 1 (Classroom) and Tier 2 (Small Group) Educational Practices for Children with Language Delays
  • How to Provide Tier 3 (Special Education) Intervention for Children with Language Delays

Every Student Benefits from Every Lesson

Each lesson targets multiple language skills

What if a student only needs to work on a few language skills? Do I still use the whole program?

One of the hardest parts about working with children with language delays is knowing what to target in therapy or intervention. This program has been designed so that every lesson will help every student.

We've incorporated a variety of language skills into each lesson so that even if a child only has language deficits in a few areas, he will still benefit from every lesson.

Each lesson includes: following directions, asking and answering questions, using grammatically correct sentences, and telling/retelling one of the three discourse types: narrative, informational, opinion (we target one of these per lesson and rotate through).

And best of all, the lessons build upon each other. You may only target pronouns during one specific lesson, but you'll then get to practice those pronouns throughout the other lessons. Plus, the same language skills are targeted in each grade level but at a higher level. Students will benefit even more when they go through multiple grade levels of the program.

Purchase Kindergarten Level Program Now!

Purchase now to get instant access to the program in PDF format. Simply print and go!

We Accept Purchase Orders!

Discounts on Multiple Licenses

Ask Your School to Pay for This Program!

Ready to use this program with your entire school or district? We offer discounts on multiple licenses. Click the button below to download a handout that you can share with your administrator.

FAQ

  • How Frequently Should this Program Administered?

    This program is designed to be administered for 30 minutes weekly. This could be broken up into two shorter sessions or done all at once. Some children may benefit from repeating the 30-minute lesson twice weekly.

    Each grade level contains 16 weeks of lessons so that you can cover two grades worth of language skills in 1 school year.

  • Can this Program Replace Classroom Instruction OR Speech/Language Therapy?

    This program is intended to be a supplement to the classroom instruction that is already happening in the general education curriculum. Targeting language skills once per week is not enough time to teach new concepts from start to finish. This should be administered in addition to the regular education instruction that is already happening.

    This program is also not intended to replace language therapy by a licensed speech-language pathologist (SLP), although it can be used by an SLP in therapy. If a child is able to learn language skills by going through this program with a teacher or aide, then that child simply needed additional practice on these skills and would not have needed a full referral to special education/speech-language pathology. If children are not making progress in the general education curriculum, referrals to speech-language pathology should be provided.

  • Is this Program to be Used with Groups or Individual Intervention?

    This program can be used for either! In a multi-tiered support system, we often see interventions used first in a small group setting with either the classroom teacher, instructional aide, or speech-language pathologist.

    If the child does not make progress in the small group setting, he/she may be more moved to individual intervention so that the program can be modified to meet his/her needs. This will likely be done by the speech-language pathologist or professional.

  • How can this Program be Customized to Meet the Needs of an Individual Child?

    When a child is struggling with language skills in the regular classroom, this program can be administered "as is" in small groups or in 1:1 intervention. However, if the child does not make progress with this approach, a speech-language pathologist will be best suited to modify and adapt this program to meet that child's needs.

    Some of the ways a speech-language pathologist may modify this program include:

    • Intensity/Frequency: Some children may require multiple sessions per week on the same lesson to make progress
    • Setting/Structure: Some children may require a 1:1 setting in a quiet environment to make progress
    • Additional Instruction: Some children may require additional instruction on certain aspects of the program (such as answering questions) before being able to make progress with the rest of the program
  • How can you Add Students to Groups Mid-Year

    Not every child will be identified with a language delay at the same time. This program is designed so that a student could drop into a group mid-year and still be able to make progress in the program.

    Each lesson targets a specific language concept but will also include asking and answering questions, following directions, retelling stories/information, and conversational skills. Since these skills are being addressed every week, students can join the group whenever they are referred or identified.

    At the end of the 16-week intervention, if the student hasn't mastered all of the language skills (due to joining halfway through), they can repeat that grade level with the next group to go through it.

  • How Can I Get Additional Support?

    If you need additional help getting your school or district set up to use this program, Carrie Clark offers educational consulting as well. Carrie will help you set up programs and systems to support children with language delays from start to finish.

    For more information about consulting with Carrie, email [email protected]

  • Where can I purchase the other grade levels?

    Click here to purchase other grade levels of this program

  • Do I Need to Purchase Multiple Licenses to Use this for my Whole School?

    In order to simplify ordering, we ask that you purchase one program/license per speech-language pathologist or professional that will be administering the program.

    That means, if you would like to use this program for your whole school and you have two speech-language professionals on staff, you would purchase two licenses. This would allow you to use this program for any student in the school who needs it. You will still be allowed to have classroom teachers or instructional aides use the program to work with the child, you will simply pay based on how many SLPs will be administering the program.

    To purchase multiple licenses with a discount, please email us at [email protected] and let us know how many licenses you would like to purchase. We also accept purchase orders.

    If ordering through purchase order, please include the name and email address of the person who will receive the digital copy of the program.

  • Can this Program be Used Via Teletherapy?

    Yes!! We have a full video walkthrough on how to use the program for teletherapy inside our free preview. Access the free preview here!

    You can pull this PDF up on your screen and never have to print it out! To use the program for teletherapy, open the PDF on your computer and then share your screen. There should be an "annotate" feature on your video conferencing or teletherapy software. This will allow you to draw/write on your screen to help the student fill in the blanks.

    Watch our teletherapy walkthrough below 👇🏿

👨🏾‍💻 How to Use via Teletherapy 👩🏻‍💻

Watch our video demo of how to use the Core Language Program during Teletherapy

👀 Sneak Peek! 👀

Click play to watch a video walkthrough of the whole 3rd grade curriculum!