Bad Apple Book Companion

This comprehensive speech-language therapy book companion for the children's story Bad Apple was created with busy elementary SLPs in mind! Reduce time spent on planning have fun during your apple or fall themed therapy sessions!

Featuring 160 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 you’re 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)

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

Parallel Story Creation:

• Graphic organizers 

• Differentiated levels

Additional Materials:

• Articulation & literacy worksheets: f, l, s sounds

• Articulation word list: k, g, f, v, s, z, l, r, s blends, r blends, l blends, ch, sh, voiceless th

• Feed the worm 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!

📩 Have a question?

Reach out anytime: hello@speechieadventures.com