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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The Biggest Apple Ever Book Companion
This apple themed book companion for the children's book The Biggest Apple Ever 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!
✨ 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
📚 118 pages of pre-reading, semantic, syntactic, narrative & pragmatic activities
🍎 Perfect for back-to-school, apple, fall themes and literacy-based speech therapy