Speech Spies

Our school-wide theme this year is Mission: POSSIBLE!  It is derived from Ron Clark's book entitled "The End of Molasses Classes."  The basic premise is that there are many things that we wish we could do with our students, but many of them are just impossible.  Ron Clark challenges us to think about what is POSSIBLE.  It was a very motivating and thought-provoking book.  As public school SLP's, I am sure that many of us have felt it is impossible to do our job.  Well, I have new motivation and inspiration!

I love themes!  I love to plan parties, plan units around narratives and holidays.  So, naturally, I jumped on board the "spy" theme.  In my speech room, we are going to be Speech Spies!  Each student is going to receive a "mission" that will have their own individual "target" on it.  Each student will write their own "target" on their sheet, with my help, of course.  Their target may be to produce the /s/ sound in all positions at the sentence level, or to produce /r/ in a 5 minute conversation with 3 errors or less, or be able to state categories, synonyms, antonyms, etc...  Their mission is to obtain their target with at least 80% accuracy by November 16, 2012.  This date was chosen because it is the last day of the first trimester - just before progress reports are sent out!  Handy, huh!?  Our school is set up on the trimester system, so we will do this three times during the year.  These missions will be displayed, in secret envelopes, on a bulletin board in my room.  Hopefully, this will help them remember what they are working on.  :)

I hope you enjoy these, as much as I enjoyed making them.  :) 
Speech Spy Target Sheet

Speech Spy Bulletin BoardSpeech Spies Header
Agent Mission Envelope
We are going to put our "missions" in individual envelopes addressed to each student, or "agent."  They will stay in the file folder until we assess their mission in November.   I just downloaded the Mission Impossible font and printed out envelopes.
Agent Envelope  These are the folders that the mission envelopes will be placed in.  Agency No.1 is first grade, and so on.
Spy Agency Folders
Agency Folders