This comprehensive speech-language therapy book companion for the children's story Cooler Than Lemonade was created with busy elementary SLPs in mind! Reduce time spent on planning have fun during your summer themed therapy sessions!
With 150 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
- 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
- Past tense verbs
- 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
Additional Materials:
- Articulation & literacy worksheets: k, f, l, sh
- Articulation word list: k, g, f, v, s, z, l, r, s blends, r blends, l blends, ch, sh, th
- 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
- One-page story cheat sheet
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Cooler Than Lemonade Book Companion
This book companion for the children's book Cooler Than Lemonade is the perfect printable resource for school speech language therapy sessions!
Perfect for elementary school SLPs, this literacy-based therapy resource is packed with fun, hands-on activities to target multiple language skills while keeping students engaged!
โจ Whatโs included:
๐๏ธ WH-questions activities to build comprehension
๐ Story grammar and retell tasks for narrative development
๐ฃ๏ธ Vocabulary & grammar exercises to support syntax and semantics
๐จ Interactive, hands-on activities to keep sessions engaging
๐ 150 pages of pre-reading, semantic, syntactic, narrative & pragmatic activities
๐ Perfect for summer theme + literacy-based speech therapy