Spanish Verb Activity for Speech Therapy + Free Worksheet
After moving cities and not doing speech therapy for almost 2 months (!!), I’m finally getting back into the groove and seeing kids again. These last few weeks have been fun and full of prep as I get to know my caseload and their goals.
If you’re looking for a simple Spanish verb activity for speech therapy, this is one I’ve been loving lately. It’s easy to prep, easy to send home, and gives us lots of opportunities to practice verbs in a meaningful way.
Why Verbs Matter in Speech Therapy
Verbs are so important. They help us direct movement, tell what’s happening, and talk about what we do throughout the day. And when kids are making that jump from using single words to phrases, we have to make sure we are practicing verbs… because you really can’t make a sentence without one!
I wanted to do a send-home activity and a carryover practice activity and made an Habla Verbos extension activity to FREELY share with you.
What You Need for This Activity
This activity is super simple and comes with two sheets of paper. To use it, you’ll want:
the free worksheet
Habla Verbos(optional, but helpful!)
highlighter markers, crayons, or colored pencils
scissors
glue
If you don’t haveHabla Verbos, that’s totally okay — it is not required to complete the activity. But it is a great way to jumpstart drill practice and help generate relevant verbs for kiddos.
I also like using highlighter markers instead of regular markers because sometimes my students are not the best at coloring, and I still want them (and their parents) to be able to clearly see the picture when they’re practicing at home.
How I Use This Spanish Verb Activity in Therapy
Step 1: Label the Verbs
On the first page, students look at 9 different daily verbs and label each one.
Step 2: Match the Verb Cards
Then I have them look through their pile of Habla Verbos picture cards to find the matching verb card for each image.
Once we find the matching card, we place it on the mat and practice using the correct ending.
Step 3: Practice the Verb Ending
In my session, we used present tense since we were talking about actions we do every day. This made it a really natural way to target Spanish verb endings while keeping the activity functional and familiar.
Pilar wants to try using the same activity in the afternoon so she can target past tense verbs and talk about what the student did that day, which I think is such a fun extension of the same idea.
The student writes the verb ending (just one letter!) at the bottom of each picture on their worksheet.
I preferred finding all the verbs and writing the endings before we did any coloring. This helped keep the focus on identifying the ending pattern first. Then, once that part was done, we went back through the pictures, colored them, and talked about them a little more.
How We Build Sentences with Verbs
One of my favorite parts of this activity is how naturally it opens the door to phrase and sentence building.
For example, if the verb was meter and we all wrote “yo meto”, then we would stop and think about what we each put away every day.
For me, it was:
“Yo meto mi almuerzo en la mochila.”
For another student, it was:
“Yo meto mi cuaderno en mi mochila.”
This gave us more opportunities to build sentences while also providing models and prompting for that present tense yo-form.
That’s one of the reasons I like this activity so much for Spanish speech therapy — it gives students lots of repetition with high-frequency verbs while still feeling meaningful and connected to their real routines.
Turning It Into a Daily Routine Mini-Book
After we color everything, I take that sheet and cut it apart.
Then I have the kids tell me about their daily routines, and we sequence the pictures together. Not all 9 verbs may fit into each child’s routine, but usually about 5–6 of them do.
Once we’ve sequenced them, we glue them into a mini-book (see sheet 2 of download, and click here if you need a mini-book refresher), and now we have a little daily routine story to practice and take home.
I also like having the kids come stand next to me one at a time and present their finished work to the group. I can give extra prompting if needed, and everyone is already clued in because we’ve had so much practice with that yo-form verb target. They have lots of practice before taking it home to present to their family.
Download the Free Spanish Verb Worksheet
If you’re looking for an easy Spanish speech therapy activity to target verbs, phrase building, and home carryover, I hope this one is helpful.
You can download the free worksheet here, and if you want to make prep even easier, I’ve also linked Habla Verbos and the highlighters I used in this post.
