Turkey Goes to School Book Companion

This comprehensive speech-language therapy book companion was designed with busy elementary SLPs in mind to make planning your first sessions of the school year simple and effective.

Featuring 120 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, 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)

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

• Parts of a turkey

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

• Big & small basic concepts play dough mats

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

• Compare & contrast

• Past tense verbs

• Sequencing

• Story grammar

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

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

• Problem solving 

Parallel Story Creation:

• Graphic organizers 

• Differentiated levels

Additional Materials:

• Written expression prompt

• 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

• Story grammar anchor chart

• Literacy-based therapy planning worksheet

• One-page cheat sheet

• Blank one-page articulation sheet

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