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The Core Language Program
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!
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!
Speech and Language Kids Hub
Membership Program with Courses and Materials
All of the support you need to help children with communication challenges! Our membership includes training videos, no-prep therapy materials, and courses to show you exactly how to teach a variety of communication skills and then give you the materials you need to do just that. Plus, you can ask questions and get support in our community.
To learn more about the SLK Hub, click here
To learn more about the SLK Hub, click here
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.
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:
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Access to The Speech and Language Kids Hub
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Program Overview
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How to Use this Website
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Free Sample Lessons and Checklist
FREE PREVIEW
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Training for Speech-Language Professionals
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Training for Educators and Aides
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Training for District Coordinators
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Training for Caregivers
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Kindergarten Program
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1st Grade Program
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2nd Grade Program
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3rd Grade Program
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4th Grade Program
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5th Grade Program
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Frequently Asked Questions - Written FAQs
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How to Email Someone a Checklist or Portion of the Program
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How to Use this Program Digitally (Teletherapy or on a Device)
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Work Directly with Carrie
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Free Recording: How to Set Up School-Wide Language Interventions
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About this Program:
- SLK Hub Membership
- The Core Language Program K-5th (Digital Format)
- Support from Carrie and the Community
Close the Gap!
Pre-made language lessons to boost skills and help students catch up
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.
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.
Or, purchase grade levels individually:
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KINDERGARTEN Core Language Program
(KINDERGARTEN LEVEL ONLY) Pre-made lessons and workbooks for teaching language skills to children with language delays. Can be administered by classroom teachers, aides, or speech-language pathologists.
$99
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1ST GRADE Core Language Program
(1ST GRADE LEVEL ONLY) Pre-made lessons and workbooks for teaching language skills to children with language delays. Can be administered by classroom teachers, aides, or speech-language pathologists.
$99
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2ND GRADE Core Language Program
(2ND GRADE LEVEL ONLY) Pre-made lessons and workbooks for teaching language skills to children with language delays. Can be administered by classroom teachers, aides, or speech-language pathologists.
$99
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3rd GRADE Core Language Program
(3rd GRADE LEVEL ONLY) Pre-made lessons and workbooks for teaching language skills to children with language delays. Can be administered by classroom teachers, aides, or speech-language pathologists.
$99
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4th GRADE Core Language Program
(4th GRADE LEVEL ONLY) Pre-made lessons and workbooks for teaching language skills to children with language delays. Can be administered by classroom teachers, aides, or speech-language pathologists.
$99
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5th GRADE Core Language Program
(5th GRADE LEVEL ONLY) Pre-made lessons and workbooks for teaching language skills to children with language delays. Can be administered by classroom teachers, aides, or speech-language pathologists.
$99
16 Lessons Per Grade Level
Each Lesson Targets...
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One Specific Language Skill from the Common Core (Including Syntax & Grammar)
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Following Directions
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Asking and Answering Questions
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Retelling Narratives or Information
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Using the Target Skill in One of Three Conversational Tasks: Telling a Narrative, Giving Information, or Stating an Opinion
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Classroom teachers are better equipped to help students
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Students get the help them need more quickly
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Fewer students are referred to special education
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.
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:
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Kindergarten
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
Carrie Clark, CCC-SLP
Program Creator
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
[email protected]
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
Download the Kindergarten Progress Monitoring Tool in the Free Preview
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
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
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:
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Can I Purchase just one Grade Level?
Yes! Click here to purchase other grade levels of this program
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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.
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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 👇🏿