These themed book companions are perfect printable resources for contextualized speech language therapy sessions! These literacy-based therapy book companions include activities targeting wh questions, story grammar and retell, semantic & syntactic language, and more with your elementary caseload.

15 Companions Included:

1. Cooler Than Lemonade

2. How the Crayons Saved the School

3. Apple Trouble

4. Squirrel Me Timbers

5. Monster Trouble

6. Little Taco Truck

7. No Turkey for Thanksgiving

8. Turkey Claus

9. Polar Bear Island

10. Turkey's Valentine Surprise

11. Plantzilla

12. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

13. Mary Had a Little Plan

14. The Dinosaur Who Discovered Hamburgers

15. Pirate’s Perfect Pet

Type of Activities You'll Find in Each Companion: 

Pre-Story Knowledge Activation: 

• Making predictions 

• Pre-story discussion questions

• Know, wonder, learn graphic organizer

• Semantic maps

• Knowledge activation worksheets

Shared Storybook Reading:

• Story map 

• Story visuals (great for vocab support, making shared reading interactive, sensory bins, etc.)

• Prepositions visuals

• Story grammar prompts

• Hypothetical statement examples/ideas

Post-Story Comprehension Check: 

• Yes and no questions 

• WH questions

• Story grammar questions

Focused Skill Activities: 

• Vocabulary worksheets & task cards with real pictures 

• Words with multiple meanings

• Prefixes & suffixes 

• Synonyms & antonyms 

• Categories, sorting mats

• Associations

• Describing - group, looks like, action, location, parts, what else

• Describing main character

• Big & small basic concepts play dough mats

• Spatial concepts 

• Compare & contrast

• Combining sentences & conjunctions

• Conjunctions before & after, and, but, so, or

• Past tense verbs

• Plural nouns

• Would you rather writing prompts with conjunction support

• 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

Bonus Materials:

• Articulation & literacy worksheets: for frequently occurring sounds in the text

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

• Written expression prompt(s)

• 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

• One-page story cheat sheet

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