174: Literacy-Based Therapy Bootcamp: How to Pick a Book

The SLP Now Podcast

As an SLP, our job is to focus on the language underpinnings: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. That's what we do best, and it’s how we help our students build the skills and strategies that they need to be successful beyond the classroom.

Literacy-based therapy offers a great framework to support the development of language underpinnings, and at SLP Now, we like to talk about one that was developed by Dr. Ukrainetz.

Her framework for literacy-based therapy includes five steps: pre-story knowledge activation, reading the book, post-story comprehension, focused skill activities, and creating a parallel story.

Using this framework, you can target almost any goal — but it’s really important to be strategic when you’re selecting a text, especially if you want to create a whole month of therapy plans using just one book! That’s why today’s episode is about how to choose the right book for literacy-based therapy.

In the episode, Marisha talks about:

• Criteria to select texts that can be used in a functional and therapeutic way
• The best length of book to use
• What happened when she didn’t follow these criteria
• Targeting multiple goals with one book
• When to use an expository text versus narrative structure
• What to do if the text you’ve selected doesn’t have appropriate targets
• Aligning texts with the curriculum

SHOW NOTES

Full show notes at slpnow.com/174