19. Our Favorite Pirate Picture Books in Speech Therapy

09/12/23 • 19 min

Working with elementary students, you get an opportunity to read picture books in your sessions that have fun themes and engage students. In another round of our favorites episodes, we’ve selected a fun category of pirate themed books to use during your literacy-based speech therapy sessions. This entertaining theme has a lot of great books that we share to help work on literacy skills with your students.

With so many pirate themed books, how do you choose which ones to use with your students? Well, we’ve done the work for you! We break down all of the literacy and speech language skills each book displays and how best to utilize them in your sessions. These 9 pirate themed picture books have unique components to them that help your students with their speech language goals in a fun way.

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Show Notes: https://sweetsouthernspeech.com/podcast/pirate-themed-books

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Resources Mentioned:

Show Notes: https://sweetsouthernspeech.com/podcast/pirate-themed-books

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18. Deep Dive: Using Officer Buckle and Gloria in Speech Therapy

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If you’re looking for a picture book that has all the important literacy and language skills that also has a few challenging aspects for students, this is your book! Officer Buckle and Gloria is an engaging picture book to use during your literacy-based speech therapy sessions. With so many books to choose from, we often get asked why we choose certain books. If you have the same question, we’re doing a deep dive into Officer Buckle and Gloria to explain why it’s helpful for your students.

When we do deep dive episodes, we like to share basic information about the picture book and the high frequency words and sounds your students can practice with. We really enjoy this book for the theme and message it displays, the use of practicing character analysis skills, and how the illustrations are a critical component to the story.

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Show Notes: https://sweetsouthernspeech.com/podcast/officer-buckle-and-gloria

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20. How to Assess Narrative Language in Speech Therapy

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We’ve focused a lot of this podcast on the best books to read with your students that help develop their speech language skills. By now you know we whole-heartedly believe in a literacy-based speech approach for your sessions which also means that we believe in narrative language assessments. When you assess narrative language with your students, it helps you identify academic successes and communication deficits, which we’re going to dive into during this episode.

There’s an abundance of research that supports being able to assess narrative language in students. Not only does it clarify possible weaknesses in social pragmatic language, but it also bridges the gap between oral and written language. But more than just the research, we discuss the various aspects and components you’re looking for when you give this assessment, and then ultimately ways you would assess narrative language with your students. No matter if your assessments are provided by your district or yourself, make sure that narrative assessments are on your list!

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Show Notes: https://sweetsouthernspeech.com/podcast/assess-narrative-language