In this Literacy Connect podcourse, we are joined by Brianna Guild, a private-practice SLP in Ontario and creator of SLP Literacy Corner, to dive into literacy essentials toolkit for SLPs.

Brianna explains reading models (Simple View of Reading, Scarborough’s Reading Rope, Active View of Reading), speech-to-print vs print-to-speech approaches, and notes limited comparative research on “best” programs or phonics scope and sequence.

She discusses SLP roles in literacy (direct intervention, indirect support, advocacy/education, research) and key instructional components (phonological/phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension), providing activity ideas such as phoneme isolation, “Say It, Move It, Spell It,” word building/sorts, reading with feeling, word ladders, Frayer models, and inference organizers, often using Pokémon-themed examples and resources like the Pokédex.