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Literacy-Based Speech Language Therapy Activities

3. How to Use Storybooks in Speech-Language Intervention

There is no shortage of books and printables for speech therapy. Research any storybook online and
the internet will serve up an infinite number of cute and probably applicable activities. We present
nationally on literacy-based intervention and the questions always boil to: “How do I do this well?”

That is what this section is about.

After reading this section, you will be able to take any activity including your favorite storybook and
design therapy that lasts for several weeks. We provide pre-, during, and post-reading explanations

and activities to assist in making your literacy-based intervention applicable to all age groups and
disorder classes. We discuss scaffolding techniques to continually raise the bar on your students’
progress, introduce brain-based strategies to keep them highly motivated and engaged, and tackle

how to involve teachers and parents in the progress you are making.

4. Assessing What to Work on, Choosing Goals, and Taking
Data

This section gives us the tools to know exactly what to work on and the means to strategically tie our
therapy to communication goals and requirements of the curriculum. We will walk step-by-step

through a child’s story to see what is present and what is missing. We show how to write concrete,
measurable goals and introduce you to an online goal bank where the work has already been done for
you in Spanish and English. We then provide specific curriculum-aligned objectives (e.g. Common

Core, TEKS in Texas) related to literacy-based intervention and tips for how to collect data along the
way!

5. Literacy-Based Intervention Templates

We provide dozens of templates with examples of how they can be implemented in your therapy
today. All activities found in this book are designed to be:

 Easily reproducible
 Used individually or in groups

 Applicable to almost any book
 Used on a variety of goals simultaneously

 Built around communication objectives and aligned to the curriculum

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