Literacy-Based Speech and Language Therapy Activities: Successfully Use Storybooks to Reduce Planning Time, Easily Work in Groups, and Target Multiple Communication and Academic Goals

This book is great. I started using it at the beginning of the school year. It has evidence based therapy that is easy to use. The kids are really learning and processing with their language goals. I love it.

This book is an essential part of a Speech-Language Pathologist’s toolbox! It is so well written and easy to use. It is definitely used frequently in my practice!

This book was very helpful when trying out a more literacy-based approach to speech therapy.

I just wanted to share with everyone my success with the resources in this book. I have just started using the strategies and recommendations for the past two weeks. My kiddos have made amazing drawings while just introducing the topic of the book I chose and I have gotten so much more language from them than in the past. The recommendations for data collection are also excellent. I have to be honest and say that it has been hard to adjust because in the back of my head, I can hear my grad school professors saying “TAKE DATA, TAKE DATA”. I often focus a lot on the data piece instead of the teaching piece. I don’t feel like grad school programs teach how to balance data and teaching or explain that data can be taken every few sessions. This has been the second week I have used the same book with my kiddos and we haven’t even read it yet. First session we just talked about vocabulary and did some brain based learning games. Second session, my kiddos were able to define or give examples of the meaning of the words from the previous session. Thank you so much for such an amazing resource!

This book was just okay for me. It had great bilingual resources/ideas but I have been getting more out of the book by Teresa Ukrainetz called “Contextualized Language Instruction”.

Free downloads, ready-made templates and lessons, and reproducibles- oh my! Throw in a few graphic organizers and now you’re really speaking my language. I found Prath & Palafox’s Literacy-Based Speech and Language Activities to be engaging and easy to navigate. It even has tabs to divide the book into sections (I think this should be mandatory for all books for SLPs!). As someone who has been doing literacy-based therapy for years, I appreciate how much of a time saver this book is. In addition to providing activities to target during book reading interventions, the book also has information for planning, pre-reading, and post-reading. It also has specific goals/targets in both English and Spanish that align with K-12 curriculum (CCSS & TEKS). It is refreshing to read a book that puts research into practice and still keeps in mind the real-life struggles of managing a large, heterogeneous caseload. There are so many practical activities that you can use now without a lot of prep and they even include modifications for meeting the needs of special populations so that the activities can be used with everyone on your caseload.I loved the anecdotes, fun language, and visually-friendly formatting used throughout this book. It was a quick and easy read with resources that I will use for years to come!

Every SLP working with students should have this book. I can't begin to cover all that is packed into the incredibly valuable resource. I've seen a lot of SLPs and their SLP-Assistants use books in therapy. However, I see too many read books and ask questions. That's it. It's a quick comprehension check and not therapy. This book teaches you how to use literature in therapy and provides details, examples, templates, etc., to do it successfully. There are lists of suggested books by grade level, templates in English and Spanish, story grammar visuals in English and Spanish and how to address articulation skills through literacy. My favorite aspect is the photos of actual work samples from real therapy sessions to help you see how to use these resources in your sessions.

Maybe if your a teacher you can appreciate it more.