TURN ONE FALL BOOK INTO MULTIPLE SPEECH THERAPY SESSIONS.
Love using children's books in speech therapy, but not the amount of planning it takes to figure out how one story can actually work for your entire caseload?
This The Leaf Thief speech therapy book companion was designed to help you pull meaningful speech and language targets directly from the story without starting your planning from scratch. Instead of reading the book and then searching for separate articulation, language, fluency, and social communication activities, you have story-connected targets ready to reference throughout your session.
Literacy-based speech therapy gives students a shared context for learning. The same characters, events, vocabulary, and illustrations can be revisited for different communication goals, making one book especially useful for mixed groups and repeated sessions. This companion helps you use that shared context intentionally while still individualizing what each student is working on.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Before, during, and after-reading ideas for using the story in speech therapy
Tips for getting more out of literacy-based therapy and repeated readings
Speech sound word lists organized by sound and word position when applicable
Phonological process word lists for fronting, backing, final consonant deletion, cluster reduction, stopping, gliding, velar assimilation, deaffrication, prevocalic voicing, and postvocalic devoicing
Fluency activities including smooth vs. bumpy speech identification, easy onset, light contacts, stretchy speech, pausing, conversation opportunities, and positive communication reminders
Pragmatic language prompts for character perspectives, problem solving, initiating communication, relevant questions, interpreting social situations, and perspective taking
Language targets for vocabulary, verbs, categories, describing words, basic concepts, functions, and word associations
Story grammar support
Compare and contrast prompts
Inferencing and sequencing opportunities
Who, what, where, when, and why questions
Use the sections that match the students sitting in front of you. One student can work on a speech sound while another answers comprehension questions, practices narrative language, or discusses a character's perspective, all while staying connected to the same story.
This is a great addition to fall speech therapy, autumn literacy activities, mixed speech therapy groups, book-based speech therapy, and literacy-based language intervention.
Please note: The book The Leaf Thief is not included. This is an independent educational companion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the author, illustrator, or publisher.
TURN ONE FALL BOOK INTO MULTIPLE SPEECH THERAPY SESSIONS.
Love using children's books in speech therapy, but not the amount of planning it takes to figure out how one story can actually work for your entire caseload?
This The Leaf Thief speech therapy book companion was designed to help you pull meaningful speech and language targets directly from the story without starting your planning from scratch. Instead of reading the book and then searching for separate articulation, language, fluency, and social communication activities, you have story-connected targets ready to reference throughout your session.
Literacy-based speech therapy gives students a shared context for learning. The same characters, events, vocabulary, and illustrations can be revisited for different communication goals, making one book especially useful for mixed groups and repeated sessions. This companion helps you use that shared context intentionally while still individualizing what each student is working on.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Before, during, and after-reading ideas for using the story in speech therapy
Tips for getting more out of literacy-based therapy and repeated readings
Speech sound word lists organized by sound and word position when applicable
Phonological process word lists for fronting, backing, final consonant deletion, cluster reduction, stopping, gliding, velar assimilation, deaffrication, prevocalic voicing, and postvocalic devoicing
Fluency activities including smooth vs. bumpy speech identification, easy onset, light contacts, stretchy speech, pausing, conversation opportunities, and positive communication reminders
Pragmatic language prompts for character perspectives, problem solving, initiating communication, relevant questions, interpreting social situations, and perspective taking
Language targets for vocabulary, verbs, categories, describing words, basic concepts, functions, and word associations
Story grammar support
Compare and contrast prompts
Inferencing and sequencing opportunities
Who, what, where, when, and why questions
Use the sections that match the students sitting in front of you. One student can work on a speech sound while another answers comprehension questions, practices narrative language, or discusses a character's perspective, all while staying connected to the same story.
This is a great addition to fall speech therapy, autumn literacy activities, mixed speech therapy groups, book-based speech therapy, and literacy-based language intervention.
Please note: The book The Leaf Thief is not included. This is an independent educational companion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the author, illustrator, or publisher.
