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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 speech therapy sessions.
Finally feel confident using books in therapy

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!
Obviously it’s nice to know they liked the book BU Obviously it’s nice to know they liked the book BUT. As you’re reading, think about where you want the conversation to go. Start with questions that confirm understanding, then guide students toward explaining why events happened, describing characters’ thoughts and feelings, using new vocabulary, and connecting ideas across the story.
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