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Familiar Sequence Stories

Familiar sequence stories are stories that are
organized by a recognizable theme such as days of the
week, months of the year, numbers, etc. Such as:

Today is Monday.

Familiar sequence stories are great
for therapy because:

 They use sequences that most children have been
exposed to, which helps comprehension of the
story by tying story events to prior knowledge.
 They provide a context for working on functional vocabulary skills if the child has not yet
learned those sequences (such as days of the week)..
 You can easily include the scaffolding strategy of cloze procedure (the therapist begins the
phrase and the child fills in the gap. Example: Therapist, “ Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday….” Child, “Thursday”).
 The rote and automatic production of many of these sequences is great for individuals with
fluency disorders and word retrieval difficulties.
 Familiar sequences provide many carryover opportunities far beyond the speech therapy
room, into daily life and the classroom.
 They include core vocabulary words to practice both language and articulation.

How to use Familiar Sequence Stories in Speech Therapy

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

The Hungry Caterpillar/La oruga muy hambrienta

by Eric Carle

Goal: English Spanish
Articulation /s/, /k/, /d/, final consonants /s/, /k/ and /g/, /r/ blends,
multisyllabic words, final consonants

Syntax Past tense structure. Singular vs. plural

Conjunctions Compound sentences conjoined with “but/pero,” “still/aún.”

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