Spring break word finding dialog

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Oh, my goodness!  I forgot my #1 tenet about working on word retrieval – plan ahead!  I forgot to post my dialog about spring break.  Because I’m so delayed in posting this, I am using my “post-spring break” version of the dialog. Let’s just pretend I did it on purpose, so you can also target irregular past tense verbs.  They are often tricky for our word-finders.

Use this to review concepts with your students, to help them with awareness, or simply to have fun!  I challenge the kids to explain which of their strategies could help out the “word finder” in the dialog.  I like to modify this and add details for each child.  In fact, the “Eiffel Tower” substitution (see below) was an error one of my fourth graders made when discussing an upcoming trip to Chicago with her family. She loved having it included in the script.  This dialog is relevant for suburban Chicago kids who travel into the city.  Change it to fit the spring break spot most appropriate for your speech kids.

Let the kids  use digital counters and “click” for each word finding error they notice.

 

Student 1:  What did you do for spring break?

Student 2:  Nothing. It was boring.  We stayed home.

Student 1:  We did, too.  It seems like everyone else went somewhere warm and sunny.

Student 2:  Yeah. I can’t believe we only went into um…um…Shhh…Chicago.

Student 1:  What did you do?

Student 2:  We took the thingie into u….u…Union Station.

Student 1:  The thingie?

Student 2:  The train.

Student 1:  That’s cool.  I love to watch all the trucks; I mean trains. What did you do next?

Student 2:  My mom wanted to take one of those whatchamacallits to the museum.

Student 1:  A whatchamacallit?

Student 2:  You know, a taxi.

Student 1:  We usually walk part way and then take the bus.  That way, we can walk by the really tall, tall skyscraper.

The one that used to be called the Eiffel Tower.

Student 2:  The Eiffel Tower?  That’s in Paris! What’s the name of that doo-hickie?  I never remember what it’s called.

Oh, yeah, the Willis Tower.  We took the esca….elevator to the place you can see straight below to the street.

Student 1:  Yeah, that’s really awesome.  It think it’s called the s-s-s-s-sky deck.

Student 2:  I wanted to go, but my sis- I mean, my brother, always gets scared.

Student 1:  Did you go to the place with all the fish?

Student 2:  You mean the plantatarium?

Student 1:  The plantatarium?  I think you mean the planetarium.  But, no, that the place with all the stars.  I mean the

place with the fish and the whales.   The really big fish tank.

Student 2:  That’s the water, the ocean, them, um…aquarium.  My mom calls it the oceanarium. What a cool idea!  I

love to go there!

Student 1:  Me, too.  But I get really hungry walking around looking at all the sea animals.

Student 2:  My mom promised we could get pizza afterward at that place you write on the walls.

Student 1:  Write on the walls?  Really?  Don’t you get in trouble?

Student 2:  No, they even give you crayons, I mean markers.  Teen-agers always write their boyfriend’s or girlfriend’s

names.  It’s called something like jeans…Gino’s East!

Student 1:  Gino’s East?  We’ve been there!  I love their pizza.  It sounds like you had a great time!

Student 2:  Maybe a spring break in Florida, I mean Chicago, wasn’t so bad after all.

 

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