This comprehensive speech-language therapy book companion that you can pair with the children's story We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins was created with busy elementary SLPs in mind! Reduce time spent on planning have fun during your winter themed therapy sessions!
With 211 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:
Making predictions
Pre-story discussion questions
Semantic maps
Knowledge activation worksheets
Sorting activity
A good classmate 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 un- 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 and, so
Would you rather writing prompts with conjunction "because"
Independent & dependent clauses
Compound sentences + coordinating conjunctions
Complex sentences + subordinating conjunctions
Past tense verbs
Pronouns
Plurals
Sequencing
Story grammar
Story retell with pictures, pictography, and beginning/middle/end
Summarizing - somebody, wanted, but, so, then
Feelings
Drawing inferences & making predictions
Parallel Story Creation:
Graphic organizers
Differentiated levels
Additional Materials:
Articulation & literacy worksheets: f, l, 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 dinosaur 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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