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Literacy Based Speech Therapy Choosing the Best Books

Selecting The BEST Books For Speech Therapy

The Best Books For Speech Therapy When implementing a literacy-based approach to your sessions, it’s important to know what goals you are targeting when selecting

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Using mini erasers in speech therapy

6 Ways To Use Mini Erasers In Speech Therapy

Using mini erasers in Speech: Like many of you, I’m a bit obsessed with the mini erasers found at Target, Five Below, and Party City.

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6 Engaging Back To School Books For Speech Therapy

As the new school year kicks off, finding the right resources to support our students’ communication goals can set a strong foundation for months to

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FREE language goals to use with summer picture books in speech therapy

6 Summer Books For Speech Therapy That Kids Will Love

Looking for the perfect summer books to make your speech therapy sessions more engaging? Summer books for speech therapy are a fantastic way to bring

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Ideas for SLPs for organization and storage with mini photo boxes - perfect for mini objects

Ways To Use Photo Storage Boxes In Speech Therapy

Ways SLPs can use photo storage boxes Organizing and storing all our speech therapy materials and resources can sometimes be tricky. I am loving the

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Spring Books for Speech and Language

8 Spring Books For Speech Therapy

Spring Books In Speech Therapy I have some great spring themed books and wanted to share how I use them with my speech students. I

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Spring Target Dollar Spot ideas for speech therapy

Using Target Dollar Spot Items In Speech Therapy: Spring

Spring Speech Therapy: Target Dollar Spot Finds The Target Dollar Spot is my jam. I think they are onto us. They know teachers and SLPs

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free valentine's day language bookmarks

Valentine’s Day Books For Speech Therapy

Valentine’s Day is a GREAT opportunity to target those social language concepts (kindness, humility, giving, etc). As always picture books are a part of nearly

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Winter Books for speech and language

Winter Books For Speech and Language

Arctic animals, snowmen, and hibernation are great winter themes to focus on in speech. I love working on language concepts with a literacy-based speech approach.

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Free template for "how to" writing

Teaching Procedural “How To” Writing

How-To Writing How SLPs Can Help With Writing Often classroom teachers ask me to help students with sequencing activities; specifically how to help them with

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Free Valentine's Day Speech Therapy activities

Activities For Valentine’s Day in Speech Therapy

Valentine’s Day Speech Therapy Activities! I love Valentine’s Day in speech! It’s the perfect holiday to integrate many of our therapy goals such as social

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The best Christmas books to use in Speech Therapy

My 8 Favorite Christmas Books For Speech Therapy

Christmas books for Speech Therapy Merry Christmas everyone!! You know how much I love using children’s books for building vocabulary and language skills in my

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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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