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Free Halloween language bookmarks

4 Halloween Books With Free Language Bookmarks

Halloween is such an exciting time. I love the fall season and getting in the holiday spirit in my speech room. If you follow this

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Recommended Articulation Books to work on R sounds

Articulation Road Map for R Sounds

I’ve stated countless times, give me ANY speech or language goal, and I can find a book to target it. Children’s books are GOLD for

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Activities For The First Day Of Speech Therapy

First Day activities in Speech Therapy Heading back to therapy and wondering what to do that very first day you have students? We all know

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No Prep Back To School Style

Confession, I HATE shopping for myself. I’m just so busy. As a mom running my kids everywhere and a speech therapist, I just don’t have

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Speech Therapy Articulation Toolbox

Hi, my name is Ashley, and I’m addicted to organization hacks! I’m going to show you how I quickly and easily made this craft storage

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Articulation Books for S sounds in speech therapy

Articulation Road Map for S and Z Sounds

Articulation Books for speech therapy are fairly easy to find. However, I like to find books with a heavy load of specific sounds. Even if

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book recommendations for speech therapy

Articulation Road Map for L Sounds

I  love using books when targeting speech sounds! Books add quality vocabulary, narratives and other useful literacy concepts to a child’s toolbox. Over the years,

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Free activities for the last day of school in speech therapy

5 Tips To End the School Year Successfully in Speech Therapy

End of the Year in Speech The end of school count down is ON!! This time of year is crazy busy. It seems like every day

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Speech Therapy organization for the end of the school year

How I Organize my Speech Therapy Materials

How To Organize Speech Therapy Materials To be honest, it took me several years to finally be happy with my organization of all my speech

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New Year’s Goals and Ideas For SLPs!

Are you ready for a new year in your speech room? Do you have personal goals? Things you want to accomplish with your speech students?

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Christmas Activities In Speech Therapy

Christmas is a hectic time of year. Here’s what I have planned for my speech room…grab freebies as my Christmas “gift” to you! First, make

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Pirate Day in Speech Therapy Activities

Ideas for Pirate Day in Speech Therapy Talk Like A Pirate Day is so fun! ARRRRR you ready? I’ve got a post FULL of fun

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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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