Clarify tricky language skills with engaging, ready-to-use activities!
Saying One Thing, Meaning Another provides educators and therapists with a comprehensive collection of activities to help students understand ambiguous language. With 270 reproducible pages, this resource makes it easier to teach higher-level language skills such as idioms, multiple-meaning words, irony, and sarcasm in a structured, engaging way.
What makes this resource so effective?
Provides more than 270 pages of illustrated, reproducible activities.
Covers multiple meaning words, idioms, proverbs, irony, sarcasm, and polite requests.
Uses a cognitive approach to strengthen comprehension of ambiguous language.
Suitable for individuals with typical development, language learning disorders, hearing impairments, brain injury, and ESL students.
Why this learning approach works so well:
Builds higher-level language comprehension in a structured, accessible way.
Encourages students to think beyond literal meanings and make inferences.
Supports social communication growth by targeting humour, sarcasm, and indirect language.
Offers flexible activities that can be adapted to individual or group settings.
Who is Saying One Thing, Meaning Another helpful for?
This resource targets language comprehension and inference development in students in grades 4 to adult. Saying One Thing, Meaning Another is an educational resource for Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), special educators, teachers, and parents. Its versatility makes this resource great for various learning environments, including small or large groups in the classroom, in one-on-one speech therapy sessions, or at home.
Why Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), special educators, teachers, and parents love this resource:
It contains a wealth of information and activities!Â
The material helps students understand non-literal language, including indirect requests and sarcasm.
There are so many useful activities to address higher-level language tasks.Â
This is a great resource for anyone working with older kids on the autism spectrum. If gives tons of ways to talk to them about "hidden messages" and drawing inferences at the conversational level.Â
