Bing Bang Boom, Welcome to the Superhero Speech Room!

I just finished a nice dinner with colleagues at Portabella-it's restaurant week in Madison,

Wisconsin and I am trying to enjoy every last bit of our short summer season in Wisconsin!  I have been decorating my speech room in a superhero theme for this coming school year and I'm pretty excited about it!!  I developed a package of superhero classroom decor and I can't wait for my students to see  it!  It's designed not only to be fun and inviting  but also to incorporate the "lingo" of educator effectiveness and common core standards.   Here's my welcome sign and student name tags up on my door:

Pow Bam Boom!
Welcome to the Speech  Room!
Here's my superhero speech ladder too to help students self-monitor their own progress.   Check  out  the finished product (ugh,  I need a new camera, I know)  below:

                                                                       

Here's how it works:   Each student with speech goals has a wooden clothespin with their name on it.  As they make progress with their speech sounds, they can move their clip AND I give  them  a ticket that reads "I moved up the speech ladder."  Here are the steps on the ladder, written in common-core  aligned "I can" statements:

I can say my sound. (bottom of ladder).
I can  say my sound with another sound.
I can say my sound in a word.
I can say my sound in 2-3  words.
I can say my sound in a sentence.
I can say my sound in a conversation.
I can say my sound everywhere I go!! (top of ladder).

It's going to be a fun  way  for  them  to self-monitor their own progress!  Here's a close-up of one of the steps:

I'm also using speech shields!  Educator effectiveness promotes students understanding the goal of classroom activities.  These are for students to write their  primary speech and language goal and perhaps color or decorate them.  Here's a sample of a finished speech shield:

When  writing "I can"  speech and language goals, I  keep it simple.  I think about using language my students  will understand-these are not  iep goals!  They are intended to help the student understand what they are working on in speech.    Here's some  examples;

I can follow directions.

I can use new  words.

I can talk  smoothly (fluency).

I can rhyme.

I can talk  in sentences.

When my  students can tell me their goals, I'll give  them  a  superhero ticket that states, "I  knew my speech and language goal!"

I hope I've given you some ideas for classroom decor and for incorporating  educator effectivenss and common core standards into it!  If you want to see more of the Superhero Speech classroom  decor,  click on this  link:  Superhero Speech Room

   The package also includes  speech certificates and speech room rules in the superhero theme.  If you purchase it, be sure to check out the preview page for easy assembly  directions and photographs!  Thanks,

Donna