LANGUAGE CHEF| Fall| Language Skills| Cooking| Visual Recipes

Get ready for a FUN, FUNCTIONAL, MULTI-SENSORY, LANGUAGE-RICH learning experience! If you are looking for a change of pace from your current therapy and classroom materials, then you found the right place!

©Language Chef is a comprehensive, language-rich resource that uses FULL-COLOR photo visuals and recipes that have been tested in the kitchen and classroom.  Many of the recipes are inspired by the blog posts that I have written over the past 12 years (“Cooking Up Good Speech with a Side of Speech Snacks” www.speechsnacks.com)

The program is divided into

LEVEL 1 (no microwave required) and

LEVEL 2 (microwave required).

Each recipe includes a Lesson Plan Page which lists ingredients, kitchen tools, Learning Objectives, and Language Concepts to Target (recommended vocabulary and other language concepts to address while preparing the recipes.)  

**You can try out a FREE SAMPLE recipe HERE!!

AND MY BACK-TO-SCHOOL LANGUAGE CHEF PENCIL TREAT HERE!

Each recipe also includes a follow-up Language Extension Activity.  The therapist/teacher should use their discretion when deciding which of these activities is most suitable, based on the student’s ability levels and communication goals.

©Language Chef includes many supplemental materials to provide students with a comprehensive learning experience---

• “WH” Comprehension &  Conversation cards (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy), Executive Functioning checklists to address planning/organization skills necessary to complete a recipe,
• VISUAL support cards of the ingredients (noun cards) and cooking actions (verb cards), and
• graphic organizers for supporting written and verbal recipe recall/summarizing.
• portions of "Cooking Up Good Descriptions" semantic mapping food edition and kitchen tools edition and visual supports are included in this resource

©Language Chef also includes

• a student data collection form,
• a Note to Parents explaining the benefits of cooking in the academic setting with an attached student participation permission form, 
• a “Make and Take” recipe booklet to create and bring home for carryover purposes,
• and a personalized Language Chef hat, to use as a learning tool for helping your students VISUALIZE/use their “mind’s eye” when making the recipes.

Can't "cook" in the classroom? That's OK! The real-life colored photos can be used to sequence the steps, discuss and describe the photos, and recall the directions, plus the follow-up language extensions target SO MANY COMMUNICATION GOALS, so you can still use this program without using real food if that's not an option for you. Just send the recipes home for your students to share and prepare with their families.

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((©Language Chef recipes may contain ingredients that are new and unfamiliar to some students. Introducing children to new tastes and textures expands their exposure to and encourages interest in a variety of foods while instilling healthful choices.))

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THE RECIPES AND ACTIVITIES IN LANGUAGE CHEF?

Language Chef is a highly versatile program designed to be used with a wide range of ages and ability levels including:

•Special education

•Regular Education 

•Speech /Language therapy

•Life skills classes

•ASD Students (autism spectrum disorder) 

•Family/consumer science classes

•Homeschoolers

•Second language learners

WHAT COMMUNICATION SKILLS ARE ADDRESSED WHEN YOU COOK?

•SEQUENCING skills for the steps in a recipe (first, next, then last)

•FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS: this skill is naturally addressed as you complete steps in a recipe.

•VOCABULARY for exposure to names of ingredients and kitchen tools.

•DESCRIBING foods as you talk about taste, texture, smells, and appearance.

•ANSWERING WH QUESTIONS before, during, and after the food preparation process.

•CATEGORIZING by sorting the types of ingredients needed (i.e. dairy, meat, shape, size, color).

•LISTENING COMPREHENSION for recalling what is remembered about the recipe.

• PROBLEM-SOLVING by addressing critical thinking skills for issues and situations encountered throughout the recipe.

•EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING namely for time management, task initiation, persistence, and working memory, which are crucial for learning how to successfully start and complete a recipe.

•SOCIAL SKILLS for turn-taking, conversation skills, and etiquette while preparing the recipe with a group of peers and adults. 

•ARTICULATION SKILLS at the word, sentence, and conversation levels by targeting the words (foods, kitchen tools, etc.)  containing the student’s speech sound(s) throughout the recipe process.

•MATH CONCEPTS for measuring wet and dry ingredients, estimating the amounts of some ingredients, telling time for estimating the amount of time needed to complete recipes, and the number of servings (yield) produced from the recipe.

Thank you for your interest in Language Chef! (fall edition)

The WINTER EDITION and SPRING EDITION are also available!

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(((Follow my INSTAGRAM page for video demos and details about Language Chef! Use hashtags #languagechefs #speechsnacks #cookingupgoodspeech when sharing your posts and photos!)))

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Find out more information about the connection between COOKING and COMMUNICATION in my blog posts:

• COOKING UP GOOD SPEECH & LANGUAGE– FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

• COOKING UP GOOD SPEECH & LANGUAGE– FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

WORKING MEMORY

• COOKING UP GOOD SPEECH & LANGUAGE– FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 

CRITICAL THINKING

• COOKING UP GOOD SPEECH & LANGUAGE– FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 

SOCIAL & PRAGMATIC SKILLS

I'm looking forward to "Cooking Up Good Speech and Language" with you and your students! Rose

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