Reading Comprehension - Vivien Thomas (Black History Month)
by TikTalk Speech © 2026
Price: $2.99 USD
Subjects: specialed,socialstudies
Grades: 4,5,6,7
Description
This Reading Comprehension Boom Card deck highlights the story of Vivien Thomas and is designed to align with the theme of Black History Month while supporting meaningful literacy growth. Created by a Speech-Language Pathologist, this resource is ideal for students in grades 4–6 and is especially supportive for students with language learning disabilities (LLD) and those who benefit from explicit language instruction. The deck targets phonological processing skills, including syllable awareness and root analysis, along with inference questions, detail questions, and visualizing prompts to strengthen comprehension. Pre-teaching vocabulary and phonological processing before reading helps students build stronger decoding, word recognition, and overall understanding of the text, making this approach especially valuable for therapy groups and intervention settings. This resource works well in speech sessions, literacy support blocks, small groups, or as a classroom extension during Black History Month, providing both skill development and meaningful historical content in one engaging deck.