
30. This or That: Using How to Catch an Elf and Mooseltoe in Speech Therapy
11/28/23 • 14 min
During the holiday seasons, it’s natural and a fun way to engage students by incorporating holiday-themed books in your speech therapy sessions. But just because they’re engaging and a cute story, doesn’t necessarily mean they’d make a good fit in your therapy sessions. So to help you out, we’re discussing our process for selecting books with two Christmas-themed books. In our this or that Christmas edition, we’re comparing How to Catch an Elf and Mooseltoe.
Resources Mentioned:
- This or That Free Notes Download
- How to Catch an Elf by Adam Wallace
- Mooseltoe by Margie Palatini
- Episode 29, Our Favorite Christmas Books in Speech Therapy
- Christmas Activities for Speech Therapy
- Book Companions for Speech Therapy - Christmas
- Key Teaching Points
- Book Search - Christmas
- Follow us on Instagram @literacybasedspeechtherapy.
- Write your review on Apple Podcasts!
For the full book list and resources, head to the show notes: https://sweetsouthernspeech.com/podcast/this-or-that-christmas-edition
During the holiday seasons, it’s natural and a fun way to engage students by incorporating holiday-themed books in your speech therapy sessions. But just because they’re engaging and a cute story, doesn’t necessarily mean they’d make a good fit in your therapy sessions. So to help you out, we’re discussing our process for selecting books with two Christmas-themed books. In our this or that Christmas edition, we’re comparing How to Catch an Elf and Mooseltoe.
Resources Mentioned:
- This or That Free Notes Download
- How to Catch an Elf by Adam Wallace
- Mooseltoe by Margie Palatini
- Episode 29, Our Favorite Christmas Books in Speech Therapy
- Christmas Activities for Speech Therapy
- Book Companions for Speech Therapy - Christmas
- Key Teaching Points
- Book Search - Christmas
- Follow us on Instagram @literacybasedspeechtherapy.
- Write your review on Apple Podcasts!
For the full book list and resources, head to the show notes: https://sweetsouthernspeech.com/podcast/this-or-that-christmas-edition
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29. Our Favorite Christmas Books in Speech Therapy
It’s the most wonderful time of the year...to read amazing Christmas books! The holidays, especially Christmas, can be a happy and magical time for kids, so it’s nice to create those same feelings during your speech therapy sessions. With so many fantastic Christmas-themed books to choose from, it was hard to narrow it down to just our top 10. So in today’s episode, we’re sharing our favorite Christmas books and how to use them with your students.
Resources Mentioned:
- Favorite Christmas Books Free Notes
- Book Companions - Christmas
- Key Teaching Points
- Book Search - Christmas
- Follow us on Instagram @literacybasedspeechtherapy.
- Write your review on Apple Podcasts!
For the full book list and resources, head to the show notes: https://sweetsouthernspeech.com/podcast/favorite-christmas-books
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31. Deep Dive: Using Olive the Other Reindeer in Speech Therapy
There are so many wonderful and engaging Christmas themed books out there, but that doesn’t mean they’re best to be used in speech therapy sessions. During our deep dive episodes, we like to take listeners behind the scenes on our process for how we go through books to use during our sessions. We aim to select books that check as many boxes on our key teaching points as possible, along with complete episodes. So in today’s deep dive, we’re discussing all aspects of the book Olive, the Other Reindeer.
Resources Mentioned:
- Deep Dive Free Notes
- Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh
- Book Search - Olive, the Other Reindeer
- Follow us on Instagram @literacybasedspeechtherapy.
- Write your review on Apple Podcasts!
For the full book list and resources, head to the show notes: https://sweetsouthernspeech.com/podcast/olive-the-other-reindeer
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