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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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SPEECH THERAPY BOOK COMPANIONS

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 speech therapy sessions.
Finally feel confident using books in therapy

Comment “pencil” and I’ll send you the link for th Comment “pencil” and I’ll send you the link for this craft template to use with Dice and Dot! ✏️Perfect for your back to school bulletin boards and functional room decor.
Most reading difficulties don’t begin in fourth gr Most reading difficulties don’t begin in fourth grade.

They begin years earlier, before reading instruction becomes more complex.

Hall and Moats (1999), summarizing findings from NICHD research, wrote that it can take four times as much assistance to improve a child’s reading skills when intervention is delayed until fourth grade rather than beginning in kindergarten.

By fourth grade, many struggling readers are working to improve while also trying to catch up on vocabulary, fluency, language comprehension, and years of missed reading experience.

This is one reason early intervention matters.

For SLPs, strengthening oral language, phonological awareness, vocabulary, syntax, and narrative skills is more than supporting communication. These skills provide the foundation children need for successful reading.
The books you choose matter, even for your “speech The books you choose matter, even for your “speech only” students. Up to 75% of our kids with speech sound disorders also have weaknesses in the language skills that support reading comprehension.
Every articulation session is an opportunity to build the language skills that support reading. A well chosen picture book gives you repeated practice with /sh/ while also strengthening story grammar, vocabulary, inferencing, retell, and comprehension, all within the same activity.

Share this with an SLP friend who loves books too! And don’t forget to check out the others in this series. What speech sound should I feature next?
If you’ve ever said, “What’s another word for that If you’ve ever said, “What’s another word for that?” during a screening... this one’s for you.
Every time a student says “bunny” instead of “rabbit,” I lose a little bit of screening time. 😅
It’s one of my biggest frustrations with articulation screeners.
So when I created my own screener, I intentionally chose words that reduce alternate responses, so you can spend less time prompting and more time listening to what really matters: the student’s speech.
Because a speech sound screener should make your job easier. Not create more work.
Comment “screener” and I’ll send you the link!
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