Welcome to Elevate Essentials!
This is your go-to spot for news and information on everything you need inside of SLP Elevate, updated throughout the month to keep you in the know! Come here anytime to stay up to date on what’s new - whether it’s the latest bonus resources, upcoming PD sessions, or key updates for Elevate members. Think of this page as your one-stop space to keep you connected, organized, and in the loop.
Winter Resources, at a Glance! ❄️
December can feel like a whirlwind, so we pulled together all the winter-friendly resources to keep your sessions meaningful, engaging, and totally doable.
Start on your My Resources page with these monthly Theme Units:
Dollars & Sense- Perfect for this time of year when students are chatting about money, gifts, spending, and saving. Packed with Life Skills activities, AAC supports, differentiated YouTube Cheat Sheets, and tons of real-world vocabulary.
Behind the Freeze: Winter - Straight-up winter fun with Describe the Picture scenes (hot cocoa, sledding, ice skating), Winter Mad Libs, and vocabulary/grammar/inferencing activities that sled into any session.
Gnomes- Fiction and nonfiction passages, tons of goal-friendly activities, and plenty of whimsy. Includes some optional Christmas-specific materials for those who would prefer to use them.
Then hop over to the Bonus Page for even more:
Building Background Knowledge: Holidays Around the World- A seasonally-fitting resource covering New Year’s Eve, Bodhi Day, Las Posadas, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, St. Nicholas Day, Hanukkah, Christmas, and more. Great for compare/contrast, vocabulary, and discussion.
New Year’s Resolution Worksheet - A reflective, goal-setting activity where students pick a “word of the year,” make predictions, and plan what they want to learn next - perfect for January carryover.
With these resources in your back pocket, your winter sessions will feel smoother, more engaging, and so much easier. You’ve got this! 💜
✨ My Caseload Concierge is Going Strong!
Since launching in September, My Caseload Concierge has already supported more than 100 member requests, and we love seeing how much it has helped simplify your planning.
If you’re new to it, My Caseload Concierge is our personalized support service inside SLP Elevate. It’s designed to help you quickly find the right materials for the specific students on your caseload. Whether you’re looking for resources for a particular goal, a tricky learner, a mixed group, or an age level you don’t usually work with, our team will pull together tailored suggestions based on what you tell us.
Just head to the main page of your Dashboard to submit a request. We’ll review the details you share and get back to you within 5 business days with curated resources pulled straight from the SLP Elevate library. It’s like having a planning partner, ready whenever you need one.
A quick note: Recommendations from My Caseload Concierge support your planning and do not replace your own clinical judgment. To keep the service fast for everyone, please limit requests to 2 per month.
December 2025 - Dollars & Sense
An engaging, real-world themed unit from SLP Elevate that helps students build essential money and financial literacy skills through meaningful language and communication activities. Learners explore concepts like earning, spending, saving, budgeting, needs vs. wants, and smart decision-making while strengthening critical speech and language targets such as vocabulary, comprehension, problem-solving, and social communication. Designed to support a wide range of learners, this theme makes abstract financial concepts concrete, practical, and fun, empowering students with skills they’ll use for life.
Life Skills
A social skills activity bundle. Includes building background knowledge, vocabulary cards, paystub anatomy and challenges, and problem-solution scenarios. Activities for using and understanding café menus, grocery store ads, salon packages.
Summarizing Instagram Posts
10 summarizing worksheets. Summarize the Instagram posts by finding the main idea and essential details.
Pick Your Item
Use this activity to make requests, answer questions, or practice money management skills. Includes 4 activity cards, picture communication boards for each activity, picture boards for requesting and answering questions, sentence starter strips, and money cards.
✨ New December Bonuses Are Here!
Get ready to level up your November sessions with 3 fresh bonus resources your students will actually get excited about! This month’s bonuses include:
Madlib: Winter Holidays
Let your students reflect on the past year and prepare for the new year. Includes Highlight & Blooper Reel, Three Things Check-In, Then-Now-Next, My Toolkit, and Same-Change-Try. Great for mixed groups!
Reflect & Predict: Journal Prompts
Crack open word learning with hands-on morphology fun! From root word hunts to morpheme puzzles and breakdown organizers, these activities make vocabulary, decoding, and word analysis easier and way more engaging.
Winter Language Lab: Idioms & Analogies
Figurative language is a great way to target vocabulary, semantics, and social skills. Use the anchor chart to teach about analogies and complete analogies using the worksheet or picture symbol version. Use the Idiom vs Literal cards to spark discussion and teach about idioms.
Madlibs Winter Holidays
Bonuses → Holidays
Reflect & Predict: Journal Prompts
Bonuses → Discussion Prompts
Winter Language Lab: Idioms & Analogies
Bonuses → Figurative Language
Up Next in SLP Elevate...
The coming few months are packed with exciting theme units that bring fresh ideas and student-approved fun. From new stories to ready to go activities, we’ve got tools that make therapy planning easier and sessions more memorable. Stay tuned - you won’t want to miss these!
January 2026
February 2026
March 2026
There’s always something exciting on the horizon! While we don’t have any live sessions scheduled right now, we’ve got fresh professional development opportunities coming to SLP Elevate in the new year - stay tuned for details on what’s ahead!
We’re also already dreaming up next year’s Speech Retreats (yes, plural 👀) - so you can look forward to more ways to connect, learn, and recharge in 2026.
In the meantime, don’t forget that your PD Hub is full of on-demand sessions you can watch anytime for PDH/CMH!
From Hallie's Desk -
Hey Elevate Friends,
It’s December - a month full of variable weather, buzzing energy, and yes, a little chaos (but we love it anyway, right?). 🎉
This month’s theme, Dollars & Sense, is perfect for December because it connects directly to what many students are already thinking about - saving, spending, and making smart choices during the holiday season. It’s a great way to bring real-world skills into your sessions, whether students are budgeting for gifts, planning ahead, or just exploring how money decisions impact everyday life. It’s perfect for ALL students, and especially fun for Life Skills. Plus, there’s nothing quite like that moment when a concept finally clicks and a student beams with pride! 💸
As SLPs, you do so much every day. So take a minute as the year comes to a close to celebrate the wins, find a little joy in the chaos, and remember that every connection, lesson, and small success matters - especially in this busy season.
Here’s to wrapping up the year with focus, fun, and maybe a few extra laughs along the way. 💜
With warmth,
Hallie