Literacy resources

72 printable resources for Literacy: patient and caregiver education handouts, therapy materials, clinical references and evaluation tools for speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and physical therapists. Written and reviewed by practicing clinicians, ready to print, and included in a Therapy Insights membership.

Therapy Activity

Literacy Pack: One Duck Stuck

Print Resource — US Letter — 4 pages
PediatricSLPLiteracy
Can two fish, tails going swish, help? Will three moose, munching on spruce, be able to pull the unlucky duck out of the muck? Perfectly sized for small hands, this counting rhyme is a feast of sounds and numbers that will have young listeners scrambling to join the slippy, sloppy fun!
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Clinical Reference

Monthly Themes for Multiple Goals Across a Caseload

Print Resource — US Letter — 1 page
PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyAutismLanguage DevelopmentLiteracy
This resource helps guide the creation of meaningful themes/units for each month to enrich sessions and keep therapy activities novel for patients across a caseload.
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Therapy Activity

Decoding Skills for Reading

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
PediatricSLPLiteracy
Decoding is essential to establishing effective reading skills. This resource includes activities that utilize Orton-Gillingham methods to help your client develop their reading skills.
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Therapy Activity

Literacy Pack: The Wonky Donkey

Print Resource — US Letter — 4 pages
PediatricSLPLiteracy
This book activities pack targets literacy skills, including print motivation and awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, phonological awareness, and narrative skills.
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Promoting Literacy in Preschoolers

PediatricSLPLiteracy
Literacy is an area that many speech-language pathologists feel under-prepared to treat. Despite this, it falls squarely into our scope of practice. This course will outline five key components of early literacy and discuss early literacy skills for preschoolers. It will provide practical ways that foundational skills can be incorporated into speech and language sessions.
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Current Evidence on the Effects of Intensive Early Reading Interventions (2019)

PediatricSLPLiteracy
Search Methods: Because this meta-analysis was meant to update a previous study done by Wanzek (2007), all articles from that synthesis were used, in addition to conducting an online search to include articles from 2006-2015. Each included study had to pass inclusion criteria of: being done in English, being peer- reviewed, having participants in grades […]
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Therapy Activity

Springtime Short Stories

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
PediatricSLPExecutive FunctionLiteracy
Children with attention deficits, auditory processing issues, and speech/language disorders may need help improving reading comprehension and recalling details in text. Use the following springtime themed stories with questions to work on goals related to literacy development.
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Therapy Activity

Reading Comprehension Pack (Fall Theme)

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
PediatricSLPLiteracy
These reading passages and questions provide an opportunity for your student to practice skills and strategies related to comprehension, such as listening for details, identifying the main idea, and predicting. 
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Therapy Activity

Phonological Awareness Sound Cards: Vowels and Consonants

Print Resource — US Letter — 4 pages
PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentLiteracy
Teaching pre-literate patients and those with phonological awareness how to blend, segment, and differentiate between phonemes is challenging. This set of flashcards provides picture-based speech sound cards that are easily used to blend, segment, manipulate, and play with phonemes to build understanding and awareness.
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Therapy Activity

Book Activities Pack: Tacky the Penguin

Print Resource — US Letter — 4 pages
PediatricSLPLiteracy
Tacky is an odd bird. He likes to do splashy cannonballs and greet his companions with a loud “What’s happening?” In fact, he’s something of an eccentric, which wouldn’t be a problem if all the other penguins weren’t such…conformists.
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