Speech and Language Screener for Elementary Students

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Speech and Language Screener for Grades 1-5 This digital resource can assist educators in screening students in grades 1 through 5 for potential speech and language issues. The file contains checklists and fillable assessment forms that allow teachers to evaluate students' speech and language development levels. This can be useful for both in-person and remote screening during hybrid or virtual learning. Teachers can administer assessments to individual students, small groups, or the whole class. The resources help pinpoint students who may benefit from referral to a speech-language pathologist for further evaluation. Using these practical screening tools, educators can identify speech and language needs early and ensure students get helpful interventions.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Teaching tips

Administer the sentence-repetition task first since it requires the least setup, then move into the more open-ended conversation prompts.
For grades 1-2, have the accompanying picture-sequence page ready before starting the retelling task.
Use the observation checklist at the end to record qualitative impressions (vocal quality, fluency, intelligibility) immediately after the session while details are fresh.

Skills covered

Speech and language screening — a clinician elicits and observes a student's articulation, fluency, and language use through structured and conversational tasks.
Narrative retelling assessment — grades 1-2 students retell a picture-sequence story and answer reasoning questions to demonstrate sequencing and inferencing.
Sentence-formation assessment — grades 3-5 students produce original sentences using given target words.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Why does the screener use different tasks for grades 1-2 versus grades 3-5 within the same one-page form?

The grades 1-2 section uses a picture-sequence retelling task suited to earlier narrative skills, while the grades 3-5 section shifts to more abstract comparison and sentence-formation tasks, letting one form scale its expectations to the developmental stage of the student being screened.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

speech-language screening
articulation
language sampling

Topics

Speech Therapy Oral Communication

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