SPEECH

matching letters

Matching Objectives

Letters • Improving language skills

• Learning the alphabet

Materials
• Alphabet puzzles with big and small letters

How to Teach
Alphabet puzzles can be a great way to teach your child
about the letters of the alphabet.

Let them put together the big letter with its matching small
letter. This can help them recognize letters and learn the
relationship between an uppercase and a lowercase letter.

You can start teaching with a few letters only and then add
more as they start to master the other letters. To keep your
child more engaged with the activity, you can teach letters
that are personal to them such as the letters in their name.
 beginning sounds

Beginning Objectives

Sounds • Mimicking sounds

• Improving language skills

Materials
• Alphabet puzzles with illustrations

How to Teach
Once your child is familiar with letters and sounds, they can
make out the beginning letter sounds of words.

Start with continuous letter sounds, or sounds that you

can pronounce for a long time like M: /mmm/, or A: /aaa/.
Continuous letter sounds are easier to teach than stop letter
sounds. Stop letter sounds are sounds that you can only
pronounce for a short time like /t/ or /b/.

Prepare puzzles or any activity that uses letters with

matching images. You can point on the image and ask, “What
is this? It’s an Apple. A-A-Apple” and then repeat for the rest.

Continuous sounds: a, e, f, i, l, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, y, z.
Stop sounds: b, c, d, g, h, j, k, p, q, t, x.
 animal sounds

Animal Objectives

Sounds • Processing and mimicking sounds

• Improving language skills

Materials
• Animal stuffed toys or pictures of animals

How to Teach
As younger children tend to like animals, teaching animal
sounds instead of words can also be one way to engage them
wo in learning and help develop their speech skills.
wo oof
f! Use any item that represents animals like a stuffed toy,
figurine, or a photo. You can point to the animal and say,
“This is a dog. The dog goes woof woof. Can you repeat
woof woof?” This activity can also help them be familiar with
different animals and what they look like.
 learning vowels

Learning Objectives

Vowels • Improving language skills

Materials
• Alphabet flashcards

How to Teach
Let your child recognize vowel letters through the use of
visuals. Allowing them see what each vowel look like can help
them familiarize themselves with the vowels.

Using hand motions to follow the shape of vowels can also

help in creating more visuals for your child. You can test your
child by asking them to do the hand motions on their own
after you sound out or say words with vowels.

For example, you can “bed” and then shape their hand like a
letter “E,” or say “hop” and then have your child do the hand
motion for “O.”
 learning counting numbers

Learning Objectives

Counting Numbers • Improving language skills

Materials
• Activity books that teach numbers or flashcards

How to Teach
Activity books that allow students to write or trace numbers
with matching images or objects can help them to recognize
numbers. You can also use flashcards and play fun games
with your child like arranging the cards in order.
 counting household objects

Counting Objectives

Household Objects • Learning counting numbers

Materials
• Different items that can be found in your house

How to Teach
Making use of what is already at home can make it easier for
them to practice their counting skills. You can do different
games like gathering different items and asking them to
organize it from 1 to 10. This is also a great activity for them
to be familiar with the different objects that can be found in
your household.
 reading a story book

Reading a Objectives

Story Book • Increasing vocabulary

Materials
• Story Book

How to Teach
Readings books to your child is one of the best ways to help
improve their language skills. Reading a book over and over
again can help them be familiar with the words in the story.

Pick up any of their favorite book and read it to them slowly.

While reading, use your finger to trace under the words so
your child can follow the words as you are reading out loud.

Depending on your child’s language skills, you can also ask

questions while reading to keep them engaged and to also
familiarize them with the words in the story.

For example, you can ask, “Where is the girl?” “Can you point
to the cat?” You can also ask them questions about what is
happening in the story by using Yes/No, What, Where, How,
and When questions.
 naming animals

Naming Objectives

Animals • Increasing vocabulary

Materials
• Flashcards with images of animals

How to Teach
Flashcards can be the easiest way to teach what animals
look like.

If your child is still unfamiliar with animals, you can start with
flashcards that has both the name of the animal and the
image of the animal.

Once your child begins to master the names, you can start
using flashcards without the names and ask them to identify
the image of the animal. You can also do a matching type
activity where your child matches the flashcard with the
name of the animal to the image of the animal.
 naming household objects

Naming Different Objectives

Household Objects • Forming sentences

• Increasing vocabulary

Materials
• Different items that can be found in your house

How to Teach
Think of target objects that you want your child to know like
water, cup, plate, fork, slipper, etc. Go around the house and
point to these items so they know what it looks like and where
they can find them. Emphasize the name of the objects when
pointing them and ask them to repeat the name.

You can say, “This is the fan” or “This is a cup! What is this?”
and ask your child to respond. You can also put the cup back
and then ask “Where is the cup?” and let your child point
back to where the cup is.

This activity can also be inserted along with daily tasks or

routine such as meal time.
 building sentences with legos

Building Sentences Objectives

with Legos • Forming sentences

Materials
• Legos/Building blocks
• Masking tape
• Permanent marker

How to Teach
Teaching how to form sentences with blocks can be a fun
way to mix play with learning! Write down a word on the
masking tape and then tape it over a block.

You can color coordinate your blocks by writing action words

on all red blocks, nouns or any person, place, thing on all
yellow blocks, pronouns (“I,” “she,” “he,” “they,” “we,” “it” “you,”
etc) on green blocks, adjectives or describing words (“big,”
“small,” “long,” “short,” “happy,” “sad,” etc) on blue blocks and
linking verbs (“is,” “to,” “are,” “was,” “were,” “am,” “been,” etc)
on orange blocks.

You can let them arrange the blocks side by side to form one
sentence, or you can put spaces in the middle and ask them
to fill it with the correct word/block.
 spelling with legos

Spelling Objectives

with Legos • Spelling and writing

• Increasing vocabulary

Materials
• Legos/Building blocks
• Masking tape
• Permanent marker

How to Teach
Teaching how to spell words with blocks can be a fun way to
mix play with learning!

Write down a letter on the masking tape and then tape it

over the smaller blocks. On a longer block, write down the
word you want your child to spell. Ask you child to follow the
spelling by putting the smaller single-letter blocks on top of
the bigger block.
 singing about body parts

Singing About Objectives

Body Parts • Increasing vocabulary

Materials
• Music
• Videos

How to Teach
In this activity, you can either play a song or play a video with
music. There are a lot of nursery rhymes that talks about
different parts of the body. Some examples are “If You’re
Happy and You Know It,” “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes,”
“Hokey Pokey,” and some Filipino ones are “Sampung Mga
Daliri” and “Paa, Tuhod, Balikat, Ulo.”

To help your child identify each body part, you can

emphasize the word while pointing to the body part or when
doing the dance.

You can also sing the song and then let your child complete
the next lyrics. For example, you can sing “If you’re happy
and you know it clap your…” and then let your child say the
following parts.
BEHAVIOR
 books and feelings

Books Objectives

and Feelings • Learning about emotions

• Increasing vocabulary

Materials
• Story Book with Pictures

How to Teach
Readings books to your child is one of the best ways to help
improve their language skills. The illustration or images in the
books can help your child in recognizing what emotions or
feelings are.

Pick up any of their favorite book and read it to them slowly.

While reading, emphasize on the feelings of the characters
in the story. You can point out why the character is feeling
happy, sad, or angry. You can also ask questions while
reading to keep your child engaged. For example, you can
ask them, “What does her face look like? Does she look
happy or sad?”
 matching/sorting emotions game

Matching/Sorting Objectives

Emotions Game • Learning about emotions

• Increasing vocabulary

Materials
• Worksheets/Activity Books/Flashcards

How to Teach
Using any worksheet, activity books, or flashcards that have
images or illustrations of emotions like sad, angry, happy,
scared, and matching words, you can teach how emotions
look like and what we call them.

Let your child choose an emotion and ask them to sort or

match it with its name. Use this activity to increase your
child’s knowledge and vocabulary on what different emotions
they can feel or encounter.
 guess the emotion ₍charades₎

Guess the Emotion Objectives

(Charades) • Learning about emotions

• Increasing vocabulary

Materials
• Flashcards

How to Teach
Playing a game like charades can be a fun way to teach
emotions! Using flashcards as reference, you can act out
the emotions and let your child answer which behavior your
expression is making. You can start by saying, “I am feeling…”
and act out the emotion then let your child respond.

If your child has already mastered labeling what emotions

look like, you can describe the emotion instead without
saying the actual word. For example, to describe a happy
emotion you can say, “This is how you feel when you eat your
favorite snack.”
 "
mirror mirror..." game

"Mirror, Mirror... Objectives

What Do I see?" Game • Learning about emotions

• Increasing vocabulary

Materials
• Hand mirror or aall mirror

How to Teach
Letting your child see firsthand what kind of faces or
expressions are associated with emotions can make it easier
for them to recognize what they look like. Using a hand mirror
or a wall mirror, play a “Mirror, Mirror… what do I see?” game.

In this game, you say “Mirror, Mirror… what do I see?” and

then make an expression with your face. After which, label
the expression you just made. For example, you can start by
“Mirror, Mirror… what do I see?,” then do a crying face and
say “I see a sad face.” Once your child is familiar with the
game, let your child do the same and then both of you can do
alternating turns.
 coloring time

Coloring Objectives

Time • Improving attention span

Materials
• Coloring Book
• Crayons
• Bond Paper

How to Teach
Coloring, painting, drawing, or any arts and crafts related
activities are helpful in nurturing and developing children’s
creative sides.

Allowing them to express themselves creatively without

any restrictions can also be helpful in reducing anxiety and
stress. Coloring or drawing activities also helps in improving
their attention span and concentration.

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 playing ball

Playing Objectives

Ball • Improving shared attention

Materials
• Toy ball

How to Teach
Using play to do activities that your child already finds
interesting can be one way to help improve shared or joint
attention. Rolling or throwing a ball is one activity you can do
with your child.

While playing, make sure to emphasize key words (in this

case, it can be “ball”) to help your child keep their focus. For
example, you can say “Roll the ball,” or “Kick the ball.”
 playing with puzzles

Playing with Objectives

Puzzles • Improving attention span

Materials
• Puzzles

How to Teach
Puzzles are another way to help improve concentration
or attention span. If your child is only beginning to play
with puzzles, you can start off with an almost completed
puzzle. Then, ask your child to put in the last piece and
then gradually increase the number of pieces he puts in by
themselves.

Activities with definitive goals like puzzles are better so your

child can witness when the activity is completed or finished,
compared to open-ended activities like jumping or swinging
where your child can play for how many times.
 tracing shapes

Tracing Objectives

Shapes • Improving attention span

Materials
• Worksheets/Activity Books

How to Teach
While tracing shapes is also a good activity so your child can
practice their writing skills, it can also be one way to help
improve their attention span and concentration.

Use any worksheets or activity books that include activities

like tracing shapes, letters, or other images. You can also
make some of your own by using just a bond paper and
colored pens.
 practicing how to take turns

Practicing How Objectives

to Take Turns • Improving social skills

Materials
• Toys

How to Teach
Teaching your child how to ask for their turn and practicing
the skill is one way to improve their social skills and
maintaining interaction with others.

Before practicing the skill, your child should know how they
can ask for their turn. They can do this by saying “My turn,”
or “Can I be next?” You can change the phrase depending on
the level of language your child is able to use.

After your child knows how to ask for their turn, you can
practice the skill. You can do this by using a toy and tell your
child to ask for their turn to play with the toy. This activity can
be done with other people as well so your child can do the
skill with others.
 greetings and introductions

Greetings and Objectives

Introductions • Improving social skills

How to Teach
Teaching your child how to greet others or introduce
themselves is another way to build social skills.

Depending on their language skills, teach them to practice

greetings like “Hello,” “Hi,” “I’m ,” “Hello I’m ,”
or “My name is .” Let them practice the skill to other
people as well like their sister, brother, or Lolo and Lola.
 mirroring activity

Mirroring Objectives

Activity • Improving direction following skills

How to Teach
Imitation and direction following skills can also be improved
through play. Tell your child that they are like a mirror and to
copy your movements. You can say, “Copy me!” or “Do this”
and then proceed with an action.

You can also have another adult to assist and participate

in the activity. The other adult will help your child to copy
the actions by moving or guiding their arms or hands. Once
your child is able to follow the instructions, let them do the
mirroring activity on their own without assistance from the
other adult.
 mindful breathing and meditation

Mindful Breathing Objectives

and Meditation • Controlling emotions/aggression

How to Teach
For children with challenging behavior, teaching them about
mindfulness can help control their aggression and regulate
their emotions. Doing this activity can benefit not only your
child, but you as the caregiver as well since it can help reduce
anxiety or stress.

To start with the activity, ask your child to close their eyes
and have them focus on their breathing. Let them put their
hands on their stomach so they can feel the movement of
their body as they breathe in and out. You can repeat as
many cycles as you need, or follow a guided meditation video
online.
SELF-HELP
 learning how to dress up

Learning How to Objectives

Dress Up • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Clothes
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 washing the dishes

Washing the Objectives

Dishes • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Dishes
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 wiping the table

Wiping Objectives

the Table • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Rag
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 hand washing

Hand Objectives

Washing • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Soap and water
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 folding clothes

Folding Objectives

Clothes • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Clothes
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 taking a shower/bath

Taking A Objectives

Shower/Bath • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Soap and shampoo
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 potty training

Potty Objectives

Training • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 learning how to use utensils

Learning How Objectives

to Use Utensils • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Fork, spoon, and plate
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 putting on shoes

Putting on Objectives

Shoes • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Shoes
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 sweeping and mopping the floor

Sweeping and Objectives

Mopping the Floor • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Broom, dustpan, and mop
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 setting up the dining table

Setting Up Objectives

The Dining Table • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Plates and utensils
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.
 brushing teeth

Brushing Objectives

Teeth • Improving self-help skills

Materials
• Toothbrush and toothpaste
• Behavior task analysis

How to Teach
Teaching self-help skills is the best opportunity to start
creating a behavior task analysis like the one you have
learned from the module.

Break down each activity into smaller steps or parts, then

apply the other strategies you’ve read while teaching the skill.

Before teaching, make sure to assess the current skills your

child has right now then start workin on the parts you think
they need improvement in.