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12 FREE activities for Christmas in Speech Therapy

12 FREE Christmas Activities For Speech Therapy

FREE Christmas Activities for Speech Therapy I know your speech therapy room is always crazy in December. With your personal responsibilities for Christmas shopping and

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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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Using a green screen for distance learning teletherapy in Speech Therapy

Using A Green Screen In Speech Therapy

With many SLPs delivering services distantly, green screens have become really popular! My son has used one to create videos for school projects, so I

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Summer books for speech therapy

Summer Book Companions For Speech Therapy

Summer Themed books to use in Speech Therapy Popsicles, camping, beach time, and sharks! So many fun narrative themes to incorporate into our speech therapy

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Books To Diversify Your Speech Therapy Bookshelf

Books For Diverse Speech Therapy Bookshelves As Speech-Language Pathologist working with young children, we must be committed to having diverse bookshelves. ALL students deserve to

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Using nursery rhymes in speech therapy

Using Nursery Rhymes In Speech Therapy

As SLPs, we know there is extensive evidence that Phonological Awareness ability predicts reading and spelling success. One of the many ways we can facilitate

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Tips for using Boom Cards in Speech Therapy

How To Use BOOM CARDS in Speech Therapy

I’ve been creating and using Boom Cards in Speech Therapy for about 2 years. I personally don’t do teletherapy but use them for in-person therapy

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FREE articulation sound finder for children's picture books. This is a great speech therapy activity to send for homework and use during distant learning. articulation book activity

Free Articulation Sound Book Activity

In today’s world, distance learning pops up now and again. Speech therapists constantly seek excellent, engaging resources students can use at home. Working remotely with

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Amazing L Book List For Articulation Therapy

The Best /L/ Books for Articulation Selecting books to use in speech therapy can be time-consuming, and productivity is lost. I wanted to create an

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How To Implement Remote Digital Speech Teletherapy / Telepractice

How to implement remote, digital Speech Teletherapy / Telepractice With the recent school and clinic closings due to COVID-19, many SLPs are looking into the

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Using Cumulative Storybooks In Speech Therapy Successfully: 12 Fun Books

Use these Cumulative storybooks to practice different speech therapy skills in the classroom. The books’ repetitive nature helps kids grasp concepts and words during sessions.

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Speech Therapy Book Companions

Using Book Companions In Speech Therapy

  Using Book Companions in Speech Therapy After many, many requests, I have finally created book companions that address the deeper reading comprehension issues our

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

When a student’s retell is weak, the problem is no When a student’s retell is weak, the problem is not always story grammar. Sometimes the student understands the story but lacks the vocabulary needed to talk about it.

Mental state verbs help students explain characters’ thoughts, feelings, and motivations.

Examples:
• thought
• wondered
• realized

Without these words, character understanding stays hidden.

Causal language helps students connect events and explain relationships between them.

Examples:
• because
• so
• therefore

These words help move retells beyond a simple sequence of events.

Precise vocabulary makes retells more detailed and easier to understand.

Examples:
• enormous (instead of big)
• sprinted (instead of ran)
• exhausted (instead of tired)

Specific words create stronger narratives.

Before targeting retell structure alone, look at the language underneath it.

Do your students have the vocabulary to explain thoughts, connect events, and describe what happened with precision?

Sometimes improving vocabulary is what improves the retell.
Comment “inference” for my favorite books to targe Comment “inference” for my favorite books to target inferential comprehension. Move beyond retelling a story in perfect order. 👏
A child who says /r/ incorrectly is not automatica A child who says /r/ incorrectly is not automatically at risk for reading difficulties.

A child with weak underlying phonological skills might be.

Research has shown for decades that children with persistent speech sound disorders are at greater risk for reading and spelling difficulties, particularly when phonological awareness or language weaknesses are present.

This is why SLPs should be thinking beyond articulation accuracy alone.

The goal is not simply correct production.

The goal is helping children develop the sound based foundation that supports literacy.
We spend a lot of time planning activities, creati We spend a lot of time planning activities, creating extensions, and writing goals, but research has consistently shown that the quality of the text matters.

High quality books expose students to richer vocabulary, more complex sentence structures, stronger story grammar, and deeper ideas worth discussing.

When a book contains meaningful problems, character motivations, and opportunities for prediction and explanation, language intervention becomes more powerful.

A strong book gives you something to work with.

Before choosing your next read aloud, ask yourself:

• Does this book introduce vocabulary students are unlikely to hear in conversation?• Does it give students opportunities to explain why and how?• Does it encourage prediction, perspective taking, or inferencing?• Does it contain a meaningful problem worth discussing?

The right book can do more for language development than the most creative activity paired with the wrong text.
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