Can you recall and retell a story you’ve heard?

Can you retell a past event in a way that makes sense?

Difficulty with these skills can cause problems for children and teens in academic work.

Plus, they can make it difficult for them to tell another person about something that has happened.

On this page, we’ll show you how to help a child with story recall and recalling past events.  We’ll touch on how our Sequencing and Retelling Curriculum can provide a structured approach to teaching these skills to children and teens.

A Structured Program for Teaching Story Recall and Recalling Past Events

Children with communication challenges often have trouble retelling past events.  This may make it hard for them to tell you about something that happened or communicate clearly about past events.

In order for a child to be able to retell past events, they first must be able to answer questions about past events.  This helps us to know if they can remember the details and bring them to mind.  Once we are sure the child can do that, then we need to teach them how to put the steps to common activities in order.  This shows us that they know how to form and use sequences.

Once the child has mastered these two previous skills, they are ready to learn how to retell past events with the details in the correct order. Here are the resources for teaching this skill.

1. Remembering a Single Picture

2. Answering Questions about a Book

3. Recalling Events from a Book

For more information about helping a child learn to sequence, click here!

4. Answering Questions about an Immediately Past Event

5. Recalling Events from an Immediately Past Event

6. Answering Questions about Further Past Events

7. Recalling Events from a Further Past Event

The Sequencing and Retelling Curriculum by Speech and Language Kids is a structured program that speech-language pathologists, SLPAs, parents, and teachers can follow to help children learn story recall and recalling past events.

The Curriculum is based on evidence-based practices and breaks down therapy into phases that gradually build up success over time.

Everything needed for therapy is included: skill progressions, tracking tools, therapy materials, training videos, support, and AI-powered material generators that will instantly generate additional practice materials tailored to a child’s interests and skill level.

A subscription to the SLK Curriculum also includes the Curriculums in other areas as well, such as language, social, fluency, etc.

A Structured Program for Teaching Story Recall and Recalling Past Events

Hi, I’m Carrie! I’m a speech-language pathologist from Columbia, Missouri, USA. I’ve worked with children and teenagers of all ages in schools, preschools, and even my own private practice. I love digging through the research on speech and language topics and breaking it down into step-by-step plans for my followers.

Connect with Me:

The post Story Recall and Recalling Past Events | Speech Therapy Activities appeared first on Speech And Language Kids.