What strategies make Read It Once Again effective for helping young children develop receptive and expressive language?

Use popular children’s literature for the basis of units (31 Level 1 units available).

• To improve expressive language by building and repeating a vocabulary of familiar words and phrases found in each story.
• Units consistently provide and repeat the basic foundational skills through activities addressed in each Level 1 unit. Click here to view our list of 20 Foundational Speech and Language Skills.
• Creatively provide the flexibility to choose or adapt activities to meet the individual needs of each student.
• Designed to be effective in a variety of settings, such as early home intervention, private clinical practices, and in a classroom environment.
• Makes it is easy to provide push-in services that coordinate with common language goals in a classroom setting.
• Allows occupational, physical and speech therapists to co-treat using the language, themes, and appropriate goals found within the storybook.
• Use a curriculum that is research based with proven results.  Take a few minutes to review the research results.

Listen to what Alexis Hanna, Therapy Director and a speech pathologist , says about the Read It Once Again Curriculum.

Learn more about using Read It Once Again with children who have cognitive or language delays.

Read It Once Again curriculum strategies are especially effective for children with language delays.  Rhyme, rhythm, and repetition have proven to be extremely successful in helping children gain receptive and expressive language skills. Stories are consistently repeated along with appropriate activities focusing on language and foundational skills.

Repeating stories with familiar language and foundational concepts in a predictable and systematic format help create and strengthen neural pathways that are necessary to carry messages to the brain.  When the brain has the opportunity to retain and organize the information carried along the neural pathways, children are more inspired to initiate, repeat and expand expressive language.

Our Level 1 activities reinforce basic foundational concepts and are consistently offered throughout every unit, in the domains of:

• Speech and Language
• Cognitive
• Gross and Fine Motor
• Daily Living
• Socialization

What is included in each Level 1 Unit?   Click here to learn about our Level 1 units and our strategies to ensure that there is an intentional, extended focus on the most basic skills necessary for future academic success.

Read It Once Again ensures that your child will be constantly immersed in a language-rich environment.

Notice that the storybook titles are not listed in alphabetical order.  They are listed according to the number of nouns and verbs found within each story.  Verbs are more difficult for young children who are just beginning to acquire receptive and expressive language, so the books with the least number of verbs are listed at the top of the list.  After identifying the number of nouns and verbs, the next set of boxes contain the most common skills that are addressed within the story.  If you are working with young or nonverbal children, we suggest choosing stories and units found on the top of the matrix.

You will also want to consider the storybooks highlighted in yellow.  The text in these stories offers rhymes and contains short phrases that are consistently repeated throughout the story.  This type of writing promotes a style of reading that engages the child and helps to increase attention span, while at the same time encouraging them to experiment with their own expressive speech.

We suggest using Level 1 units for young children first entering the program to ensure that your children have solidly mastered the most basic foundational skills.  Click here for more information about how to choose “Which Units are Right for My Students.”  Read It Once Again offers units for 31 different storybook titles.  This ensures teachers will have a three year rotation of units so that children who stay with your program for three years do not need to repeat a story or unit.

Read It Once Again suggests units found in our money saving Digital Package #1: Easy Reader/Early Intervention or Digital Package #3: Rhyme, Rhythm and Repetition.  These two packages contain storybooks with limited amount of text or have words and phrases that are repeated.

All of our digital package deals offer you 9 units for the price of 8.  

Read It Once Again Level 2 units concentrate on a higher level of foundational skills.  Click here to see our Level 2 Speech and Language Foundational Skills.

Our Level 2 units combined with our Level 1 units ensure that young children will have a solid knowledge of foundational skills and be prepared for success in the kindergarten setting.  Level 2 units can also help children in older elementary grades who are missing basic concepts that are necessary for higher academic learning.

Our Level 2 units reinforce basic foundational concepts and are consistently offered throughout every unit, and focus on:

• Phonemic Awareness
• Higher Math Skills
• Science
• Creative Writing
• Social Studies

Level 2 units provide higher level learning activities.  Combining our original Level 1 units with our Level 2 units will provide a complete curriculum of skills and activities that will prepare children for kindergarten.

Please feel free to call our toll-free number at 1-877-470-5156.  Our website contains ten FREE training modules that will answer questions about our units and help you implement them most effectively with your students.  Learn all about the Read It Once Again program and all the tools you will need to effectively implement the curriculum and assessment.

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Read It Once Again

161 Sunset Drive
Inman, SC 29349

www.readitonceagain.com

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