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Is this book in your ocean themed collection yet?

Is this book in your ocean themed collection yet? I *finally* checked it out this summer and I’ve been using it with almost everyone!

This book works great for…

⭐️sp and sw blends (repeated lines “I spy” and “Swim away”)

⭐️long a sound (“way” is repeated on every page) and I used “hey!” instead of “hello!” on each page

⭐️ Bilabials: I seem to always have 1-2 kids these last few years working on bilabials! “Me” is on every page, and you can use “bye” instead of “see ya later” on each page, too. The last page has tons of bilabials! (up up up, deep, mama (x3), me)

⭐️initial /d/ if you have a backer (down and deep are repeated on each page)

⭐️CV words “hi” and “me” (and “bye” if you use that instead of see ya later

⭐️Core words: down, in, I, see, look, me, go (when I pair with a sensory bin, I also use “like” “get” and “out”

⭐️Repetitive Lines: Makes it more engaging when the kids can chime in and “read” it with you!

⭐️Verbs: I love a book that has actions to act out on each page! Movement always helps keep my kids’ attention in sessions and especially at circle time in a bigger group!

⭐️Describing the ocean animals

⭐️Comparing and Contrasting ocean animals

Literacy based therapy is the easiest way to structure therapy sessions- centering it around a book always sparks ideas for play activities to use with and after the book to work on goals, too!

A Camping Spree with Mr Magee is always one of my

Imagine using one book to plan out several play ba

Imagine using one book to plan out several play based therapy sessions to target your goals… yes please! ✅

As promised… several different play expansion ideas to go with “The Little Ice Cream Truck” book!

“The Little…” vehicle books are QUICKLY becoming one of my favorite book series because of all the play activities you can pair with them, the sing-song tunes, and the representation of different skin tones and physical abilities. ❤️

Tell me if you’re using this book this summer, too!

Take a peek inside my ice cream themed bin! 🍦

Take a peek inside my ice cream themed bin! 🍦

Between these toys, the books I’ve used, and a few extra people/animal toys to pair with the specific books, I was able to stretch this theme *easily* across 2 weeks. The kids all loved it!

Story props are a great way to increase engagement during book reading, and using props is a research-based strategy, too, for aiding in comprehension. Win-win!

Tell me below 👇🏼 what your favorite ice cream toy or book is!

We’ve been playing with allll the bug and garden

If you’re looking to add some diversity to your

If you’re looking to add some diversity to your bookshelf with May’s garden + bug themes, check out these 4 garden books featuring black or Hispanic characters!

1- “Plants Feed Me” - Short and simple text to explain where fruits and veggies come from and the different parts of the plants we eat.

Kids work together to take care of the garden (pick, water, dig, plant, etc.. great for verbs!) No main character, but features kids who are Black, white and Hispanic.

2- Lola Plants a Garden: Lola wants to plant a flower garden. Her mom helps her through the planning steps. Lola reads books about gardens, chooses her favorite flowers, makes a list, buys seeds, then plants them. She waits and waits, then finally her plants grow!

This book lends itself to activities that target sequencing, gardening verbs, and object functions. Lola makes a flower book while she waits for her real ones, so art supplies AND gardening tools are depicted in this book— perfect for object function targets!

3- Miguel’s Community Farm: Great book for comparing/contrasting!Miguel is looking for sunflowers, so the book starts off describing all the features of a sunflower.

On each page, Miguel sees a plant that shares a feature of a sunflower and wonders if he’s found them. However, the book then describes one way the plants are different, too (Sunflowers have yellow petals. Artichokes have petals, too (similarity), but they’re green, not yellow (difference).

Miguel has 2 dads, who aren’t a prominent part of the book but are part of the 1st and last page illustrations. The last page also depicts a garden party with Miguel’s friends, who are of varying ethnic backgrounds and physical abilities.

4- Amara’s Farm: Same author/illustrator as Miguel’s Community Garden (featuring the same friends at the end!), and another compare/contrast book in the same format.

Amara is searching for pumpkins on the farm, but this could fit into a Spring garden theme since it compares/contrasts produce. There’s also a lot of bugs in the illustrations, making it easy to fit into a bug and garden combo theme, too!

Did you find any new books to check out? If you did, share w/ another SLP/teacher friend!

Sharing a super easy sensory bin the kids helped m

Sharing a super easy sensory bin the kids helped me make for our sessions last week! We used it with an Earth Day book but it’s perfect for all of your upcoming garden themes, too!

Building the sensory bin with me was a great way for my pre verbal kids to work on motor imitation, and the shredded paper stays together in clumps so it was easy to pull it out all at once to then get the beans underneath when I was cleaning it up. Made it easy to take apart and rebuild this sensory bin over and over!

My grandpa actually used to do gardening work for people after he retired. He gave me a plant after we moved to our first house and told me it would always remind me of him bc it would long outlive him. He underestimated my ability to kill even the heartiest of plants and was appalled when he found out it died 😂😅

Do you have a green thumb 👍🏻 or do plants not stand a chance 🚫 at your house like me?

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