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One of my favorite book series to read with my students is the How to Catch series. These books are not only entertaining and engaging, but they also provide countless opportunities to target speech and language goals. Let's take a deeper look at How to Catch the Tooth Fairy and explore some speech and language concepts you can target while reading.
Wh-questions: Work on comprehension by targeting who, what, when, where, and why questions throughout the story. For example: "Who is the story about?, Who made a trap out of floss?, Where all did the tooth fairy go to collect teeth?" You can also encourage inferencing and prediction questions such as "Do you think the kids will catch the Tooth Fairy?, "If not, why do you think they won't catch her?"
Following directions: Use the illustrations to target following directions that include sequential, temporal, and spatial concepts. For example:
- First touch the toothbrush, next touch the alarm clock.
- Before touching the cotton candy, touch the tooth fairy.
- Point to the trap that is next to the bed.
Attributes: Target descriptive language by asking students to identify and describe objects from the story. Before expecting a response, provide a verbal prompts. For example, "The toothbrush is long, it has bristles, and we use it to clean our teeth." Providing a model helps students understand the types of attributes they can describe, such as size, shape, color, texture, function, and parts.
Sequencing: Build recall and narrative skills by having students sequence events from the story. (e.g., What happened first in the story?, What was the next trap the children made?, What happened after that?, What was the last trap in the story?) Students can also use transition words such as first, next, then, and last to retell the story.
Articulation: This book offers many opportunities to target speech sounds at the word, phrase, sentence, and reading levels. Students can practice target sounds by- naming pictures/objects from the story, creating phrases or sentences using target words, and reading portions of the story aloud. Reading sections of the story can provide opportunities to monitor speech sounds in a more natural, less structured context.
This book is filled with opportunities to utilize a fun story by targeting a multitude of different speech and language areas!
References:
Wallace, Adam (2016). How to Catch the Tooth Fairy, (A., Elkerton, Illus.) Soucebooks Wonderland.
-Va'Keria Miles, M.S., CCC-SLP
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One of my favorite book series to read with my students is the How to Catch series. These books are not only entertaining and engaging, but they also provide countless opportunities to target speech and language goals. Let's take a deeper look at How to Catch the Tooth Fairy and explore some speech and language concepts you can target while reading.
Wh-questions: Work on comprehension by targeting who, what, when, where, and why questions throughout the story. For example: "Who is the story about?, Who made a trap out of floss?, Where all did the tooth fairy go to collect teeth?" You can also encourage inferencing and prediction questions such as "Do you think the kids will catch the Tooth Fairy?, "If not, why do you think they won't catch her?"
Following directions: Use the illustrations to target following directions that include sequential, temporal, and spatial concepts. For example:
- First touch the toothbrush, next touch the alarm clock.
- Before touching the cotton candy, touch the tooth fairy.
- Point to the trap that is next to the bed.
Attributes: Target descriptive language by asking students to identify and describe objects from the story. Before expecting a response, provide a verbal prompts. For example, "The toothbrush is long, it has bristles, and we use it to clean our teeth." Providing a model helps students understand the types of attributes they can describe, such as size, shape, color, texture, function, and parts.
Sequencing: Build recall and narrative skills by having students sequence events from the story. (e.g., What happened first in the story?, What was the next trap the children made?, What happened after that?, What was the last trap in the story?) Students can also use transition words such as first, next, then, and last to retell the story.
Articulation: This book offers many opportunities to target speech sounds at the word, phrase, sentence, and reading levels. Students can practice target sounds by- naming pictures/objects from the story, creating phrases or sentences using target words, and reading portions of the story aloud. Reading sections of the story can provide opportunities to monitor speech sounds in a more natural, less structured context.
This book is filled with opportunities to utilize a fun story by targeting a multitude of different speech and language areas!
References:
Wallace, Adam (2016). How to Catch the Tooth Fairy, (A., Elkerton, Illus.) Soucebooks Wonderland.
-Va'Keria Miles, M.S., CCC-SLP
