Looking for engaging narrative activities for speech therapy? This book companion resource is designed for busy SLPs who want no-prep, ready-to-use materials that make targeting sequencing, summarizing, story grammar, and story retell simple and fun.
With 24 different children’s book activities, you’ll have flexible options to pair with your favorite read-alouds in therapy. Students stay engaged with cut-and-paste worksheets and make-and-take activities they can proudly bring home to share with families. Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary speech and language therapy sessions, this resource will help you build stronger narrative skills while cutting down on planning time.
Activities Included For Each Book:
1. Sequencing
- Half-page take home activity
- Sequence and retell the story using transition words first, next, then, finally, last
2. Summarizing
- Half-page take home activity
- Summarize the story using somebody, wanted, but, so, then framework
3. Story Grammar
- Full-page take home activity
- Identify story grammar: main character, setting, initiating event, feelings, plan, action, solution, ending
- Includes a prompt at the bottom of the worksheet to encourage families to ask the student about the activity they completed
4. Story Retell
- Full-page take home activity
- Retell the beginning, middle, and end of the story using story grammar
- Includes a prompt at the bottom of the worksheet to encourage families to ask the student about the activity they completed
24 Books Included:
- We Don’t Eat Our Classmates
- The Name Jar
- The Leaf Thief
- Squirrel Me Timbers
- Gustavo the Shy Ghost
- The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
- The Hallo-wiener
- No Turkey For Thanksgiving
- A Bold Pumpkin Plan
- The Biggest Snowman Ever
- Bear Stays Up For Christmas
- How to Catch a Yeti
- Bear Can't Sleep
- Charlotte the Scientist Finds a Cure
- The Biggest Valentine Ever
- Bear Wants More
- Dozens of Doughnuts
- Rocket Says Clean Up
- The Great Garden Escape
- A Camping Spree With Mr. Magee
- The Dinosaur that Pooped a Planet
- Jabari Jumps
- Sammy the Seasick Pirate
- Klyde the Kraken Wants a Friend
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Narrative Activities Bundle 2
Pair these narrative activities with 24 popular children’s books and read-alouds to bring stories to life in your speech therapy sessions! These no-prep, print-and-go worksheets make it easy to target:
📚 Sequencing the story
📝 Summarizing with “Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then”
✨ Story grammar (character, setting, problem, solution, ending)
🎯 Story retell using visuals and prompts
✂️ Cut-and-paste + make-and-take activities students can share at home