Pen Pal Project 2016-2017

I am thrilled to let you all know that the Pen Pal Project is back! I'm teaming up again with Kim from Activity Tailor to bring back the Pen Pal project for the third time!! Over the last two years, we have made hundreds of successful matches. I even sign my own students up and they look forward to receiving letters from their pen pals from all over the US (we've had Illinois, Florida, Minnesota). It was such a wonderful reading/writing activity for them. In addition, it can target so many of your student's goals (seriously, even artic!). Many of you have e-mailed me to ask when we'd start up again. Well, here's your chance!

Here’s how it works:

You will complete a sign-up for each match you need. A match might be a single student or might be a group that is matched with another group. Please do not request more than FIVE matches in any single category (by category, I mean same age range/disorder/severity). It is perfectly fine to request more matches as long as the disorders/age ranges differ. Note that a group match only counts as one match.

We match based on age ranges (even adults!), goal type (articulation, language, pragmatics, fluency) and severity. We do our very best to make appropriate matches for every student/group we receive a request for, but sometimes the numbers don’t work out perfectly. If this happens, we will let you know that we are “holding” a request until an appropriate match comes in. We had several post-sign-up requests that we were able to match in this way last year!

Try to send at least five letters to your matches by the end of the school year—May 15, 2017. To sign-up click here and please feel free to share with colleagues!

-Gabby