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How to Use Storybooks in Speech Language Intervention

In Summary: Here are some quick tips for effectively running
your speech therapy sessions.

Thirty minutes can be the fastest time interval if you have planned for it or the slowest if you didn't
have time to put a speech therapy session together effectively. In the first few weeks of school for

example, we have not established our routine and you can bet that the students haven't either. Rely
heavily on the library, book discovery, and a keen, concise schedule to get all of your groups
humming along and achieving classroom objectives as they go.

Book Discovery: Expressive Language (7 minutes)
Place a large number of books on a topic around the table. Encourage

students to freely pick any book, look through it, comment, trade, and show
friends what they see. Tell them they have 2 minutes and at the end let
them choose one book that you look through (non-fiction) or read

(fiction). This gives you an idea as to how familiar they are with the topic.

Speech Therapy Session Activity Set‐up: Receptive Language (8 minutes)

Empower and challenge students by having them set up for the
activity. Explain what they will be doing, show an example, and then ask
for helpers to gather crayons, paper, glue, etc. Increase the level of

difficulty in each speech therapy session by including numbers, an
instruction, an order to the instruction, and descriptions of the materials.

Speech Therapy Session Activity: Expressive Language (18-20 minutes)
Hone in on specific communication goals by working together and then
targeting individual student’s goals while the others are finishing minor

tasks. Rely heavily on successful students to demonstrate to friends how to
say a sound, follow instructions, or complete a task.

Post‐Activity Review (clean up, homework): Receptive Language (8 minutes)
Ask the initial helpers to gather and return the materials they
brought. Have each student stand, present his work, say something about

it, and carry it to their backpack, folder, or cubbie. Reward a student for
returning a signed parent letter to encourage communication and
interaction with the family.

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