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Literacy-Based Speech Language Therapy Activities

 Have teachers email you at the beginning of the week. You can send an automated email
each week and ask that they can just respond in the subject line. Shapes and colors,
Abraham Lincoln, etc.

SLP Confession

“I FIGURE OUT WHAT THE GRADE-LEVEL TEAMS’ PLANNING TIME
IS AND I SIT AND LISTEN. WITHIN A FEW MINUTES I KNOW WHAT

TOPICS THEY WILL BE COVERING AND WHAT BOOKS THEY WILL

BE USING. VOILA! I HAVE MY BOOKS FOR SPEECH THERAPY!”

 Ask as you pick up your students or when you are in the teacher lounge.
 Ask them to include you on emails if they submit their lesson plans each week.

2. Get buy‐in from parents
Our days are hectic enough and trying to reach out to all parents

continually is unfeasible. Yet, no one has a greater interest in
seeing children succeed than their parents. We can easily make a
cookie-cutter “Hi Parents” letter for each topic we address. It

looks like this:

Hi parents,

This week we read __________________________. Ask your child to talk about the story and/or
practice the following words.

We make these sheets once for each storybook and have them to give out for all the upcoming years.
The parents are going through their homework anyways. This way they stay informed and engaged.

3. Lean on your colleagues
Chances are you work with SLPs ranging in age from 24 to 60. Chances are you also have staffing or
in-service days that are used to focus on development.

Use the staff-development days, times, and colleagues that you already have, and create a place,
electronic or virtual, where everyone can add materials related to the most common storybooks that
you are using. You may be pleasantly surprised by the amount of content that your friends have
already collected from their favorite books. The tech-savvy staff members can set up online folders

organized by title for experienced SLPs to place their oodles of resources in.

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