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Literacy-Based Speech Language Therapy Activities

But I already use storybooks with my students. How is

this different?

You are an educational professional who has probably used fiction and non-fiction books

throughout your career. In writing this book we tackled research in speech-language pathology,
education, and library science (see part 1) to assure that every minute of contact has a tremendous
impact. Some research findings really caught us by surprise but when we created intervention based

on that research, we saw huge growth.

Here are some examples:

You, like most educators, probably tell a story or read a book better than every grandmother on the

planet. But have you ever thought about how you organize pre- and post- reading activities? What if
I told you that I have used a single book for three weeks of speech therapy and didn’t even open the
book until the second week? What if I told you that I have a post-reading game-making routine that
the kids enjoy so much that they want to skip recess for it? More on this in Section 3.

If you serve children from diverse cultures, did you know that there are five narrative elements that
are shared by most cultures and another seven that differ between cultures? Focus on the five shared
elements first and watch a child’s story evolve. More on this in Section 2.

Yes, if you are reading this, you love books as much as we do. But did you know that the library
science folks classify children’s books into eight types? These eight narrative types give you the
power to turn on movies in the child’s brain so they can more easily replay (retell) the story with

exquisite detail. Check out Section 6 to learn about these eight predictable narrative types and how to
successfully create games.

Do you want to know what is truly unique about this book? It was written by people who:

1) have caseloads
2) are published researchers
3) serve bilingual children, and YOU CAN NEVER TEACH SOMEONE

4) work in low socio-economic SOMETHING THAT THEY DO NOT
neighborhoods. KNOW. YOU CAN ONLY BRING

Basically, this book was written by WHAT THEY DO KNOW TO A

people who are very similar to you. HIGHER LEVEL OF AWARENESS.
We demand evidence to back things
up. We work with large, diverse GALILEO GALILEI

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