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SLP planner for back to school in speech therapy

Creating Speech Therapy Lesson Plans for Themes

As a school-based SLP, I typically like to follow a curriculum-based approach to therapy. I like to tie my speech therapy lesson plans to the

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24 Inferencing Picture Books in Speech Therapy (Free SLP List!)

I’ve got a great list of 24 inferencing books for speech therapy to share with you, but first, can we talk about the students who

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/J/ Book List for Articulation Therapy

I created a picture book list inventory of my favorite /J/ sound books for articulation therapy. It’s a free download, so you can put more

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Spring Book Companions For Speech Therapy

Who is ready for springtime in your speech therapy sessions?!? There are so many awesome picture books out there about gardening, bunnies, birds nesting, bugs,

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Winter Book Companions For Speech Therapy

5 winter books for speech therapy Skiing, penguins, and snow, oh my! So many fun narrative themes to incorporate into our speech therapy activities during

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Christmas Book Companions for Speech Therapy

Merry Christmas! ‘Tis the season for Santa, decorating, caroling, giving, and serving! Do you have books you like to pull out for the Christmas season?

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Thanksgiving Book Companions for Speech Therapy

Do you have books that you like to pull out for the Thanksgiving season? Seasonal books are so fun and offer opportunities to target specific

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Articulation Road Map for TH, SH, CH, and J Sounds

I love implementing a literacy-based approach in my articulation therapy sessions. However, it is not always easy to identify books with a heavy load of

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Halloween Book Companions for Speech Therapy

Spiders, and monsters, and witches, OH MY!! This Halloween season, dive into some really sweet, spooky stories centered around kindness and friendship using my Halloween

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Fall Book Companions for Speech Therapy

There are so many great fall-themed books out there about the leaves changing color and falling to the ground. I chose 3 of them to

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Back to School Book Companions for Speech Therapy

Let’s start this year off right using literacy-based speech strategies in our therapy sessions! I have made this simple to use with your students in

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Valentine’s Day Book Companions For Speech Therapy

Love is in the air! Do you have books you like to pull out on Valentine’s Day? Seasonal books offer opportunities to target specific goals

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The Best Picture Books for Speech Therapy

Without a doubt, my passion is literacy-based speech therapy. I LOVE children’s picture books; they are an endless wealth for targeting articulation and language concepts.

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Language-based literacy intervention for SLPs.
Turn picture books into targeted therapy sessions.
Evidence-based strategies you can use tomorrow.

One of the easiest ways to increase the language d One of the easiest ways to increase the language demands of a read aloud is to change the questions you ask.

Who, what, where, and when questions have a place, especially for establishing understanding of the text. If every question stays at that level, students may never be asked to explain their thinking.

How and why questions encourage students to infer, connect ideas, explain relationships, and support their answers with evidence from the story.
Sequencing a story is a real skill. It builds temp Sequencing a story is a real skill. It builds temporal awareness and it gives you something measurable, especially with younger students or those with emerging language.
But it has a ceiling.
Students with DLD often show the biggest gaps in causal reasoning and character motivation, and those gaps won’t surface on a sequencing task. Narrative macrostructure, the parts that capture why events happen and how a character’s goal drives the story, is what predicts reading comprehension outcomes down the line.
The shift isn’t about abandoning sequencing. It’s about knowing when a student is ready for more and making sure the goals reflect that.
I am not telling you to toss your favorite books. I am not telling you to toss your favorite books. 😅The Old Lady series is engaging, kids love it, and it has a place in therapy. But if you are reaching for books that offer rich, deep language value, they are a limited tool because the structure really only gives children one opportunity to predict a confirmed outcome, and predicting and inferencing are not the same skill. Inferencing is a higher level language skill, and it deserves books that give children room to read between the lines, construct meaning from implied information, and sit with complexity. The question is not whether a book is fun or familiar. The question is whether it is actually doing the clinical work you need it to do.

📚Predicting: I Went Walking by Sue Williams, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, and Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kalan.
📚Inferencing: The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig, Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts, Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, and Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson.
📚Both: Enemy Pie by Derek Munson, Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, The Stray Dog by Marc Simont, and Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini
The Old Lady books have a place for sequencing and The Old Lady books have a place for sequencing and speech sound practice! But for language development, look for books with Tier 2 vocabulary, complex sentence structures, and clear story grammar so students are working with language they can actually learn and use across contexts. 🫶🏼👵🏼
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