If you read this blog regularly, you’ve seen multiple posts about shared reading activities and the benefits of reading with children. (Like this one, and this one, and this one.
Books provide a context for vocabulary expansion, especially for words that aren’t encountered in daily living. For students with disabilities, who often do not get to experience the same activities and environments as their typical peers, books provide background knowledge for those contexts they may be missing out on.
Any given book can target multiple important communication skills in a therapeutic setting or at home. For busy SLPs who have to work with groups of students who are not all working on the same skill, books provide a way to target different skills with the same material.
For busy parents, reading time is a great way to get some relaxing together time with your child while building their language skills and love for reading.
For those looking for a time-wise shortcut to creative, language-building activities for a variety of books, take a look at these book companion resources I’ve created; each of which contains multiple activities and enough materials for multiple therapy sessions.
Amelia Bedelia’s First Day of School
No!
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
There Was an Old Pirate Who Swallowed a Fish
Big & Little, Happy & Sad, Quiet & Loud (Patricelli)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
There Was an Odd Princess Who Swallowed a Pea
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Clover
Have fun reading! It truly is the window to the world.
great post
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