Literacy Essentials for SLPs: Teaching Beginning Readers
Speech-Language Pathologists play a vital role in literacy development. This presentation explores the research on teaching beginning readers and how SLPs can apply it in practice. Video demos will provide practical, evidence-based strategies that target multiple skills. Whether you focus on literacy or integrate it into other sessions, you'll leave with actionable strategies to enhance your work.
Speaker
Brianna receives compensation as a professional development and coaching provider through SLP Literacy Corner. She also receives compensation for resources sold through the SLP Literacy Corner store on Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), and affiliate sales for Got It Learning. She receives royalties from sales of N is for Nom: An Amazing Alphabet book that she authored for Nomnivore Games Inc. She is receiving an honorarium to present her topic.
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Who this course is for
Every minute is written for working clinicians, educators, and families. You walk away with real-world tools to try with your next learner, not abstract theory.
Speech-Language Pathologists
Reading Specialists
Special Educators
AAC Teams
After this course
What you’ll walk away with.
You leave with concrete skills and frameworks you can apply in your next session, classroom, or family visit, not just ideas to think about later.
Earn your CEUs
Attend the full course and pass the post-session assessment at 80% or higher. Your 0.1 ASHA CEUs are reported to ASHA when you opt in on the assessment.
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You’ll be able to
List the components of speech, language, and literacy.
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You’ll be able to
Describe two practical, evidence-based activities, such word building and sound swapping, that support multiple literacy skills simultaneously.
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You’ll be able to
Describe one example of how to implement literacy-focused strategies into speech and language intervention (e.g., implement a word building activity when working on speech sound production).
The full 1 hour
Your learning path.
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Introduction
3 minutes - 2
The Speech-Language-Literacy Connection
7 minutes - 3
Teaching Beginning Readers
40 minutes - 4
An Effective Alphabet Book
5 minutes - 5
References + Closing
5 minutes
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