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Literacy-Based Speech Language Therapy Activities

Movie: Remember, favorite movies are a great way to work in literacy skills. With the internet, you
can also find visuals from the movie to work on different language goals (e.g., sequencing,

describing). You can also have the students create different versions of their favorite movie, have
them add a character, create a different ending, or retell the movie in a different location.

Middle School Literacy-Based Intervention - Focus on

Non-Fiction

Middle school has really high expectations when it comes
to a student comprehending what they are learning and
answering questions.

Students need to extrapolate meaning from text to make
predictions, identify critical features of a problem (who's
involved, how it's solved, dangerous or not) and identify
critical features of an interaction (who, relationship, positive

or negative).

The problem is that many of our middle school students
with impairments are still lacking the foundational abilities

to answer questions that would normally be acquired in elementary school. Secondly, core
comprehension skills were primarily taught through fictional stories, while middle school content is
built around non-fiction.

How do we bridge this gap and intervene with appropriate

grade‐level materials?

Non-fiction Literacy-Based Intervention

Storybooks have long been used as educational tools. They provide a structure for teaching concepts
while keeping the student engaged and interested. Story structure additionally assists in retention and

retrieval of classroom concepts due to familiarity with stories, repetition, and formulaic patterns. The
benefits of literacy-based intervention can be transferred over to non-fiction by making the following
modifications.

Step 1: Use Non‐fiction but continue to paint a vivid story
One way to dramatically cut down on your therapy planning is to have your students bring their

homework to your group. This can be math-word problems or pretty much anything from language

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