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Literacy-Based Speech Language Therapy Activities
5. Literacy Based Intervention
Templates
The following pages contain blank versions of graphic organizers, explanations, and examples for
how to successfully use templates for literacy-based intervention. It is important that we take a
moment and explain really how simplistic this is. Those of us who are successful with literacy-based
intervention, those of us that boost academic productivity, are not doing something other-worldly.
Quite the opposite. We have copies of a small number of highly-impactful templates that can be
used with any book. My car trunk and my workbag are no longer packed with junk. Some days yes.
But most of the 36 weeks that I am working in the schools, I am carrying one book, a handful of
materials, and binder of blank templates.
You work with children who have impairments, or at the very least, are not functioning at the
same level as their peers.
You have two choices:
1) Teach them how to tell a story or talk about a specific topic.
2) Teach them a structure on which they can talk about anything or tell any
story…independently...when you are not there.
Not much of a choice, is it?
Especially not if you work in Special Education. What SPECIAL Education means to me is that a
child learns in a way that is different than most of his peers. His brain has different priorities and is
organized in different ways in which GENERAL education is not set up to support. You know this
to be true because he is on your caseload with a report saying that General Education isn’t fully
supporting his needs.
Therefore, the topic that you teach can change as much as you want. But the process, the way in
which the child accesses the topic, HAS TO REMAIN THE SAME.
Use these templates for a while and a child will begin to understand what is expected of him. He will
gain the internal mental structure that he will hang his communication on.
Are you ready? Let’s start with two quick goal charts and then we are going to deep dive into the
two templates that are the cornerstone for our success.
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