Episode 72: How to Teach Literacy using Story Based Instruction

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Today’s guest on the show is Laura Hackwell but you might know her as Miss Lulu Special Ed. 

Laura is a former middle school self contained special education teacher who has just recently moved into a coaching role for other special education teachers as a district life skills coordinator. She is passionate about helping special education teachers balance functional skills and academic instruction so they can maintain high expectations without getting overwhelmed trying to teach #allthethings.  She strongly believes that all students, including those with disabilities need to be able to access age-appropriate literature. This increases reading interest, reading skills, and the understanding of literacy components that are required by the state standards. Laura knows that when a child is reading well below their grade level peers, they do not always have the same opportunities to access literature. Story Based Literacy is an excellent way to provide students with disabilities access to state standards and grade level texts.

Today, Laura and I chat about story based literacy.

Listen in as we discuss:

• What story based literacy is
• Why it's beneficial for special education teachers to teach
• What skills are included
• What it looks like in a special education classroom
• How to implement it with student who have limited communication
• Ways to incorporate the paraprofessionals
• Examples of books to use

Laura shares more information about how she implemented SBL in her classroom. Check that out here.

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