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:
- Cooler Than Lemonade
- How the Crayons Saved the School
- Apple Trouble
- Squirrel Me Timbers
- Monster Trouble
- Little Taco Truck
- No Turkey for Thanksgiving
- Turkey Claus
- Polar Bear Island
- Turkey's Valentine Surprise
- Plantzilla
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- Mary Had a Little Plan
- The Dinosaur Who Discovered Hamburgers
- 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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Book Companion Bundle #2
This bundle includes 15 book companions for popular children's books!
Perfect for elementary school SLPs, this literacy-based therapy bundle is packed with fun, hands-on activities to target multiple language skills while keeping students engaged all year long!
✨ What’s included:
🖍️ WH-questions activities to build comprehension
📖 Story grammar and retell tasks for narrative development
🗣️ Vocabulary & grammar exercises to support syntax and semantics
🎨 Interactive, hands-on activities to keep sessions engaging
📚 1800+ pages of pre-reading, semantic, syntactic, narrative & pragmatic activities
🍎 Perfect for literacy-based speech therapy sessions all year long