Is your speech room Shark Week ready?
Shark week is a perfect time to pull out all of the shark week activities for speech therapy however I have noticed that these shark activities are popular all year round. Kids just love sharks and they are a great theme for summer speech activities or any time of year. Let’s take a look at some speech therapy activities for Shark Week. They can add some ocean fun to your speech sessions. This post has Boom Cards™, some books and some free printable resources. I even have free Boom Card decks!
Shark Week Boom Cards
You know I have to start with Boom Cards because they are my favorite!
My Feed The Shark Boom Card series gets rave reviews and it is perfect for shark week.
The bundle has 16 Feed the Shark Boom Card resources. Bundles are a great deal because they are discounted at 20% off and any decks added to the bundle after your purchase become yours for free.
Shark Week Books
Shark in the Park! by Nick Sharratt- This adorable book features Timothy Pope looking around the park with his telescope and thinking that he sees sharks all around. This book is great for targeting final /k/ sound, initial /t/ sound, /sh/ sound and /ar/ sound. You could also target part to whole because the shark fin always turns out to be a part of something else that is not a shark.
There Was an Old Mermaid who Swallowed a Shark by Lucille Colandro- Everyone loves the Old Lady books. The repetitive text is perfect for language learning. Waiting to see what she will swallow next keeps the kids engaged.
My digital Boom Card book companion for There Was an Old Mermaid Who Swallowed a Shark is here.
This has a drag and drop story retell, present and past tense verbs, yes/no questions, part to whole activities, and rhyming words all with an ocean theme.
Clark the Shark by Bruce Hale- This is a fun shark-themed book that promotes discussion of following school rules, sharing, and keeping a calm body.
These books are available on Amazon, your local library, Half Price Books or you can look up free read-alouds of books on YouTube.
Fishing Game
A magnetic fishing pole is always a winner. I have made one of these myself before with a dowel rod and some string. Hot glue a magnet on the end of the string. Now attach a paper clip to your articulation cards or other stimulus cards so you can “catch” the card and practice your speech and language.
Shark Popper
A shark popper can give your student a data collection tool to count the number of times they used their good speech. They can make a goal to pop every bubble on the shark.
Free Shark Week Activities
One reason I love digital speech resources is because they are so versatile. They can be combined with games and printed resources. I started out using Boom Cards in my speech room with my iPad and wifi. I regularly used them together with open ended games and printable activities. Why not have the best of both worlds?
Check out these free activities for shark week for speech therapy.
The free PDF download includes a printable color and black and white version of the game. Plus a link to a free Boom Card version of the game. You will need to provide your own dice or spinners for either version. And the printable version will need some playing pieces. Mini erasers would work well for this.
Teletherapists can use a split screen to play two Boom Card decks at once. Directions for split screen for a PC are in this blog post by my teletherapy friend Stacy Crouse. Directions for Mac users are in this blog post by another teletherapy friend Angela at The Speech Serenade. If you want to learn more about teletherapy be sure to check out their blogs. You will thank me later.
Free Shark Week Boom Cards
If you would like to try a free sample of Feed the Shark Boom Cards I have two free decks. One targets rhyming words and the other targets articulation for medial /k/.
I hope this collection of shark activities makes your speech therapy planning easier and fun!
Want more Shark Week ideas for speech therapy?
This blog post from Speech Sprouts has great ideas for preschool shark activities in speech therapy.
Editor’s note (This post was originally written in July of 2021. It was updated in August of 2023.)
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