Therabee 2 – Answering & Understanding More Questions
Following the popular Stage 1 program, Stage 2 continues with the development of question types. These include, Why? Why shouldn’t? What’s silly? How? When? What if?. Numerous visual prompts are provided to aid the answering of each question type. Suggested answers are also included to model to the child.
The program contains over 100 questions! The activities are reproducible, relevant to children’s experiences and easy to follow. The activities are suitable for school age children and the program is useful for developing written responses to these question types, with written response sheets included.
Published 2005, 66 A4 Pages, Spiral Binding,
TheraBee 3 – Hive of Activities
This new publication in the series is full of fun language activities for children and adults with receptive and expressive language difficulties. Areas of focus include: vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar, auditory processing, sentence formulation, following directions, comprehension and word association.
The program is appropriate for working with individuals or in a group situation
All the activities are reproducible, easy to follow and contain vocabulary relevant to children’s experiences. The activities are suitable for developing both oral and written language. All activities contain clear instructions which make them useful for home practise. The activities are also useful for language integration programs.
Published 2005, 88 A4 Pages, Spiral Binding
TheraBee 4 – Buzzing Grammar Activities
This language program is devised to develop children’s understanding and use of grammar. The activities can be used for both infants and primary school age children. The program may be used to develop written grammar with opportunity to record responses. The tasks will also prove useful for developing grammar in children with ESL difficulties.
The following grammatical structures are targeted in the activities: present progressive – ing; personal pronouns – he, she, it, they; objective pronouns – him, her; subjective pronouns – himself, herself; possessive pronouns – his, hers; copula verbs – is, are; auxillary verbs – is, are, was, were; verbs – has, have, had; verbs – does, do, did; articles –a, the; regular past tense – ed; irregular past tense; regular plurals - +s, +es; irregular plurals; comparatives and superlatives; noun derivations; adjective derivations; third person regular - +s; verb contractions.
All activities are reproducible and suitable for individual and group instruction.
Published June 2005, 70 Pages, A4 Spiral Bound
TheraBee 5 – Follow Bee
Receptive language and short-term auditory memory skills are the main focus in this program. Comprehension is targeted through practical and pen/paper activities. Clear instructions are outlined in each activity, in addition to any extra materials that may be required, such as pen, paper, and common objects.
Each instruction is targeted at single and multiple step levels. Activity sheets are supplied for all tasks that require drawing, colouring or cutting. Sheets can be reproduced for individual or group instruction.
The following directions are targeted: 1 / 2 / 3 step instructions, conditional, temporal, sequential /positional, coordinated, directional, complex / detailed, pen / paper tasks, “real’ situational directions that can be completed in ant setting, i.e. classroom, home, or outside.
Vocabulary is also targeted in each activity, building the student’s ability to understand the content of the directions, in addition to following them. Activities can be used as whole class activities.
Published June 2005, 70 Pages, A4 Spiral Bound
TheraBee 6 – Another Busy Hive of Activities
This publication is a follow-on to “Ther-a-Bee” Hive of Activities. This program contains numerous receptive and expressive language activities for use with children from infants to later primary. It caters for a range of language levels within each task.
Language skills targeted include question types such as who?, what?, which?, how?, and many others. Additional skills developed through tasks include: sequencing, vocabulary /semantics, word association and categorization, semantic relationships, divergent naming, auditory memory, describing, definitions, sentence construction, generating questions, and time / temporal concepts.
Activities can be photocopied and used for individuals or group settings. Clear instructions are set out at the beginning of each activity so tasks are appropriate for home practise.
Published June 2005, 70 Pages, A4 Spiral Bound
TheraBee 7 – Talk to Bee
Activities to Develop Articulation & Sound Production Skills
The program focuses on developing articulation and speech production skills. The activities are useful for children with varying degrees of sound production difficulties. The program includes teaching notes as well as practical activities to use with individuals or in a group setting.
There are activities included for each consonant at a variety of levels. Explanation of tasks makes the program suitable for parents and teachers.
Published 2005, 70 A4 Pages, Spiral Bound
TheraBee 8 – Bee Social
Activities to Develop Social Skills in Children
“Bee Social” focuses on developing social skills in school aged children. Specific situations that affect daily living skills are targeted. Situations include: home, school, daily activities, and friends. This publication aims to improve pragmatic skills through role playing and discussion of these situations (pictures to generate discussion accompany the activities).
Skills targeted include: requesting, politeness, asking questions, requesting help, topic maintenance, solving problems, initiating conversation topics, feelings, appropriate behaviour, routine behaviour and friendship interactions.
Published 2005, 70 A4 Pages, Spiral Bound
TheraBee 9 – Listen to Bee
Developing Auditory Processing and Receptive Skills
Listen to Bee focuses on developing auditory processing and short term memory skills. The program includes graded story-question tasks where the student is read a story and asked questions based on the information heard. Short term recall tasks are also included.
Skills targeted include: inferencing, auditory memory, getting the main idea, sequencing, recalling facts, interpreting mood, reading between the lines and predicting. The program will be useful for students with receptive language difficulties, auditory processing weaknesses, poor short term memory, poor pragmatic skills and memory retrieval/access problems.
The program includes practical activities as well as teacher notes to aid improving the student’s skills throughout the program.
Published 2005, 70 A4 Pages, Spiral Bound
TheraBee 10 - Vocab Bee
Aims to develop vocabulary skills. Activities are based on a story and cover synonyms, idioms, antonyms, definitions, word association, sentence construction and naming.
Published Late 2006, Spiralbound
TheraBee 11 - Fix Bee
Aims to develop editing skills for written language. Covers spelling, grammar use and punctuation. Activities gradually increase in difficulty. Tasks provided at the sentence level. Answers provided for each task.
Published Late 2006, Spiralbound
TheraBee 12 - Help Bee
Aims to develop problem solving skills through a range of question types. Questions target inferencing, predicting, sequencing, negative questions and determining causality. Questions are based on a picture prompt.
Published Late 2006, Spiralbound
Therabee 13 - Following Lengthy and Detailed Disections
Aims to further develop the ability to understand and follow longer more complex directions.
A variety of concepts are targeted at a range of levels. Useful for upper primary and high school students. Progression from TheraBee 5.
2011, 70 A4 pages, spiral bound
