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Story book (10-15 minutes)

Each unit includes two stories. These stories can be read to a large
group or a small group depending on the students’ a en onal,
behavioral, and cogni ve abili es. A story board is also included as
an accompaniment to each story. Story boards can be used to

increase a en on during story reading and also to encourage
par cipa on for students who are nonverbal. Story boards can also
be used to help students increase their mean length of u erance and/or improve syntac c
structures (Bolderson, Dosanjh, Milligan, Pring, & Chiat, 2011).

While reading the book, use scaﬀolding techniques to engage the student and check
understanding. Clinicians commonly use scaﬀolding techniques in order to help students learn
target skills. Speciﬁc scaﬀolding techniques are presented in the story-reading sec on. They

are eﬀec ve during pre- and post-reading ac vi es as well.

Comprehension Ques ons (5-10 minutes)

How can we assess comprehension? We ask ques ons. Each lesson
includes suggested ques ons complete with visual modiﬁca ons to

be asked a er each story. This allows us to use the visuals to assess

a student’s recep ve language skills. You may also choose not to
include visuals so that students are less likely to answer non-

verbally. This allows for assessment of expressive language skills,

such as the ability to formulate phrases or sentences appropriately, in addi on to recep ve

language skills. Again, we have inten onally provided materials that can be manipulated to

meet the student’s individual needs and allow speech therapists to target a number of
communica ve goals.

While si ng at a table in a small group, students can complete a worksheet with ques ons
about the story recently read. There are worksheets with mul ple choice answers and

worksheets that are open-ended. These worksheets are modiﬁed to meet the students’

linguis c needs. Use language scaﬀolding techniques to enhance language skills when

reviewing the answers to the ques ons. Allow students who have mastered a task to

demonstrate the task for their classmates.

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