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Literacy-Based Speech Language Therapy Activities

Chain or Circular Stories

A Circular or Chain Story is a story that begins and
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ends in the same place, such as Where the Wild
Things Are or If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

Chain or circular stories are great
for therapy because: school store

 Many have a great macrostructure of beginning,
middle, and end, which helps us teach
home
sequencing.
 They contain the “typical” macrostructure
elements such as characters, setting (time and place), problem, solution, initiating event,

character intentions and desires, and moral.
 The end of the story comes around full circle, which gives a great opportunity to work on
story organization/structure, and making predictions on how a story might end.

 Many have some sort of cause and effect or problem and solution that can be discussed.

 They can be adapted across age/grade levels to work at the cognitive level of the student(s).

How to use Chain or Circular or Stories in Speech Therapy

Here is one of our favorite chain or circular stories and examples
of how we use it in therapy to target a variety of goals:

Where the Wild Things Are/Donde Viven Los Monstruos

by Maurice Sendak.

Goal: English Spanish
Articulation /r/, /s/ blends, /th/ /r/ blends, /s/ blends, Final

consonants (/s/ and /n/)

Syntax Past tense sentence structure (ex. Past tense structure (e.g. puso,
Wore, grew, sailed, etc.) dijo, nació, creció, etc.)-

Noun/verb agreement-
singular vs. plural

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