The Biggest Apple Ever Book Companion

This comprehensive speech-language therapy book companion for the children's story The Biggest Apple Ever was created with busy elementary SLPs in mind! Reduce time spent on planning have fun during your apple or fall themed therapy sessions!

Featuring 118 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 you’re 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, Wonder, Learn graphic organizer

Shared Reading Visuals & Prompts:

• Story map (color and B&W)

• Prepositions visual (color and B&W)

Post-story Comprehension Questions:

• Yes and no questions 

• WH questions 

• Story grammar questions

Focused Skill Activities:

• Vocabulary worksheets & task cards with real pictures 

• Synonyms & antonyms 

• Categories, sorting mats

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

• Describing main character

• Large & small basic concepts play dough mats

• Spatial concepts - on, under, next to, in front, behind

• Compare & contrast

• Combining sentences with conjunctions

• Past tense verbs

• Sequencing

• Story grammar

• Story retell - beginning, middle, end with story grammar

• Summarizing - somebody, wanted, but, so, then

• Problem solving 

• Drawing inferences & making predictions with real pictures

Parallel Story Creation:

• Graphic organizers 

• Differentiated levels

Additional Materials:

• 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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