This comprehensive speech-language therapy book companion for the children's story Sneezy the Snowman was created with busy elementary SLPs in mind! Reduce time spent on planning have fun during your winter themed therapy sessions!
With 175 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:
- Making predictions
- Pre-story discussion questions
- Semantic maps
- Knowledge activation worksheets
- Coloring worksheets
- Sorting activity
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:
- WH questions task cards
- Story grammar questions
Focused Skill Activities:
- Vocabulary words & task cards with real pictures
- Words with multiple meanings
- Prefix re- and suffix -ed
- Synonyms & antonyms
- Categories, sorting mats
- Describing - group, looks like, action, location, parts, what else
- Spatial concepts - on, under, next to, in front, behind
- Compare & contrast
- Combining sentences with conjunctions
- Conjunctions but, and, so, after
- Would you rather writing prompts with conjunction "because"
- Independent & dependent clauses
- Compound sentences + coordinating conjunctions
- Complex sentences + subordinating conjunctions
- Past tense verbs
- Pronouns
- Sequencing
- Describing main character, setting, initiating event
- Story grammar
- Story retell with pictography
- Story retell - beginning, middle, end with story grammar
- Summarizing - somebody, wanted, but, so, then
- Feelings
Parallel Story Creation:
- Graphic organizers
- Differentiated levels
Additional Materials:
- Articulation & literacy worksheets: f, k, 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 snowman 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!
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