Assessment and intervention in literacy

Question 1

Along with formal standardized testing measures, what else can SLPs assess for literacy?

Answer 1

home literacy, print awareness, grapheme-phoneme correspondence, print motivation, phonological awareness, knowledge of the names of letters

Question 2

What are treatment activities to target phonological awareness in a child?

Answer 2

syllable awareness, rhyming, word awareness, and alliteration

Question 3

What are treatment activities to target phonemic awareness (i.e., hearing individual sounds in words) in a child?

Answer 3

isolating and blending sounds

Question 4

If a child exhibits print awareness, then it answers the following question:

Answer 4

Does the child show that they know the conventions of the written language?

Question 5

What are some ways you can assess whether an individual has print awareness?

Answer 5

while sharing a book with them, see if they find the cover and indicate which direction the flow of the print goes, see if they can identify different written language units, such as sentences, letters, and words, see if they can read common environmental words, see if they know the function of books

Question 6

What are some therapy ideas that address print awareness?

Answer 6

sequencing words appropriately to create grammatically correct sentences, identifying differences between letters and words, sequencing letters to spell important words, identifying certain words in print

Question 7

How can one assess letter knowledge?

Answer 7

Ask the child to label the letter shown to them.

Question 8

If a child exhibits letter knowledge, then it answers the following question:

Answer 8

Does the child understand and know the names of the orthographic symbols?

Question 9

What are some clinical (i.e., treatment) tasks that address letter knowledge?

Answer 9

alphabet puzzles, matching upper case letters to lower case letters; letter drawer with manipulatives; writing activities

Question 10

If a child exhibits grapheme-phoneme correspondence, then it answers the following question:

Answer 10

Can the child match sounds and symbols?

Question 11

How can an SLP assess grapheme-phoneme correspondence?

Answer 11

Ask the child to produce a sound that goes with a letter or names or points to the letter that goes with a particular sound;

Question 12

How can an SLP treat grapheme-phoneme correspondence?

Answer 12

make clear connections between sounds and its matching symbol; alphabet mats can be used; phonics can be related to it

Question 13

How can an SLP assess print motivation?

Answer 13

observe if the individual takes part in various literacy events and rate their involvement from no engagement to high engagement

Question 14

When assessing older children, look for

Answer 14

reading fluency, morphosyntactic awareness, and comprehension

Question 15

If a child experiences home literacy, then the following question is answered:

Answer 15

Does the child’s home environment promote literacy development?

Question 16

What is family literacy?

Answer 16

how a family engages with literary materials

Question 17

List 5 ways to practice family literacy

Answer 17

Cook together and read the recipes; write to each other every day; read everything; ask the child what they are reading

Question 18

What are 5 more ways to practice family literacy?

Answer 18

Create art projects together, play board games and word games together, write goals and wishes together, go to the library and bookstore together

Question 19

If a child has morphosyntactic awareness, then the following question has been answered:

Answer 19

Does the child understand that there are grammatical rules that dictate oral/written language?

Question 20

How would an SLP assess a person’s morphosyntactic awareness?

Answer 20

see if they can describe features of grammar or can correct agrammatically produced utterances