This comprehensive speech-language therapy book companion was designed with busy elementary SLPs in mind to make planning your apple or fall themed therapy sessions engaging and effective!
Featuring 180 pages of activities for WH-questions, story grammar, retell, vocabulary, grammar, and more, this resource supports a literacy-based therapy approach while keeping students engaged through meaningful, hands-on practice.
Whether youโre targeting comprehension, syntax, semantics, or narrative language, this book companion has everything you need!
Pre-reading Activities:
- Graphic organizers
- Making predictions
- Pre-story discussion questions
- Know, Want to Know, Learn graphic organizer
Shared Reading Visuals & Prompts:
- Story map (color and B&W)
- Story visuals (great for vocab support, making shared reading interactive, sensory bins, etc.)
- Prepositions visual (color and B&W)
- Story grammar prompts
- Hypothetical statement examples/ideas
Post-story Comprehension Questions:
- Yes and no questions task cards
- WH questions task cards
- Story grammar questions
Focused Skill Activities:
- Vocabulary worksheets & task cards with real pictures
- Synonyms & antonyms
- Categories
- Parts of an apple
- Describing - group, looks like, action, location, parts, what else
- Big & small basic concepts play dough mats
- Spatial concepts - on, under, next to, in front, behind
- Compare & contrast
- Combining sentences with conjunctions
- Conjunctions before, after, so, and, but
- Would you rather writing prompts with conjunction "because"
- Past tense verbs
- Sequencing
- Story grammar
- Story retell - beginning, middle, end with story grammar
- Summarizing - somebody, wanted, but, so, then
- Problem solving with real pictures
- Drawing inferences & making predictions
- Feelings
Parallel Story Creation:
- Graphic organizers
- Differentiated levels
Additional Materials:
- Articulation & literacy worksheets: f, l, r sounds
- Articulation word list: k, g, f, v, s, z, l, r, s blends, r blends, l blends, ch, sh, voiceless th
- Feed the goat activity with sentence strips
- Written expression prompt
- Dot it out worksheets
- Open-ended themed smash mats
- Vocabulary journal worksheet
- Open-ended picture scene: great for pairing with mini objects and/or to target WH questions, describing, prepositions, etc.
- Describing visuals
- Story grammar visuals & anchor chart
- Story cheat sheets - story grammar, wh questions, swbst summary, vocabulary words, and more!
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