Looking for a comprehensive Chrysanthemum Speech Therapy Book Companion that helps you reach your entire caseload using one engaging story? This literacy-based companion transforms Chrysanthemum into multiple meaningful speech therapy sessions by providing ready-to-use activities for articulation, phonological processes, receptive and expressive language, fluency, pragmatic language, vocabulary, narrative language, and story comprehension.
Instead of planning separate activities for every communication goal, this companion allows you to use one familiar children's book across multiple therapy sessions while still meeting each student's individualized needs. Whether you're following a literacy-based therapy approach, using my Speech Planning 101 framework, or simply looking for meaningful back-to-school speech therapy activities, this companion helps reduce planning time while increasing student engagement. Through repeated readings and purposeful discussion, students strengthen communication skills while exploring important themes like confidence, kindness, empathy, acceptance, and celebrating what makes each person unique.
This resource includes:Literacy Companion Guide
• Welcome to the Literacy Companion Series
• How to use the companion before, during, and after reading
• Literacy-based therapy strategies
• Tips for extending learning across multiple therapy sessions
• Suggestions for repeated readings and meaningful discussions
Speech Sound Companion
• School-themed speech sound word lists for:
P
B
T
D
K
G
F
V
CH
SH
J
H
L
L Blends
M
N
W
R
R Blends
Vocalic R
S
Z
S Blends
TH
• Initial, medial, and final word positions where appropriate
Phonological Process Companion
• Fronting
• Backing
• Final Consonant Deletion
• Cluster Reduction (S Blends)
• Cluster Reduction (L Blends)
• Cluster Reduction (R Blends)
• Stopping
• Gliding
• Velar Assimilation
• Deaffrication
• Prevocalic Voicing
• Postvocalic Voicing
Fluency Companion
• Smooth vs. Bumpy Speech identification
• Easy Onset practice
• Light Contact practice
• Stretchy Speech practice
• Pausing activities
• Conversation opportunities
• Positive communication reminders
Pragmatic Language Companion
• Greetings and introductions
• Problem solving
• Initiating communication
• Asking relevant questions
• Interpreting social situations
• Perspective taking
Language Companion
• Vocabulary
• Verbs
• Categories
• Basic Concepts
• Functions
• Story Grammar
• Word Associations
• Inferencing
• Sequencing
• WH Questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why)
Why SLPs love this resource:
• Turns one children's book into multiple engaging speech therapy sessions
• Makes literacy-based speech therapy simple to implement with minimal planning
• Eliminates the need to prepare separate activities for articulation, language, fluency, and pragmatic language
• Helps you confidently serve mixed groups with students working on different communication goals
• Reinforces important social-emotional themes like confidence, kindness, empathy, acceptance, and celebrating individuality while targeting speech and language goals
• Encourages meaningful conversations, vocabulary development, inferencing, sequencing, story comprehension, and narrative language through one engaging story
• Supports repeated readings, allowing students to build stronger comprehension, confidence, and communication skills across multiple therapy sessions
• Provides flexible activities that can easily be adapted for individual therapy, small groups, or classroom support
• Organizes a wide variety of communication targets into one easy-to-use companion
• Saves valuable planning time while giving you a resource you'll reach for year after year during back-to-school season
• Encourages students to make personal connections to the story, creating richer discussions and more meaningful language opportunities
This resource is perfect for:
• Literacy-based speech therapy
• Speech therapy book companions
• Chrysanthemum activities
• Back-to-school speech therapy
• School-based speech-language pathologists
• Preschool through elementary students
• Mixed speech-language groups
• Individual therapy
• Small group therapy
• Push-in therapy
• Pull-out therapy
• Articulation therapy
• Phonological process intervention
• Language intervention
• Fluency therapy
• Pragmatic language intervention
• Narrative language instruction
Chrysanthemum is much more than a back-to-school story. It opens the door to meaningful conversations about confidence, kindness, empathy, acceptance, and embracing what makes each of us unique. This comprehensive literacy companion helps you turn those conversations into purposeful speech and language intervention by providing engaging activities that support a wide variety of communication goals. Whether you're introducing the story for the first time or revisiting it throughout the week, you'll have a flexible resource that keeps students engaged, reduces planning time, and helps you make the most of every literacy-based speech therapy session.
Looking for a comprehensive Chrysanthemum Speech Therapy Book Companion that helps you reach your entire caseload using one engaging story? This literacy-based companion transforms Chrysanthemum into multiple meaningful speech therapy sessions by providing ready-to-use activities for articulation, phonological processes, receptive and expressive language, fluency, pragmatic language, vocabulary, narrative language, and story comprehension.
Instead of planning separate activities for every communication goal, this companion allows you to use one familiar children's book across multiple therapy sessions while still meeting each student's individualized needs. Whether you're following a literacy-based therapy approach, using my Speech Planning 101 framework, or simply looking for meaningful back-to-school speech therapy activities, this companion helps reduce planning time while increasing student engagement. Through repeated readings and purposeful discussion, students strengthen communication skills while exploring important themes like confidence, kindness, empathy, acceptance, and celebrating what makes each person unique.
This resource includes:Literacy Companion Guide
• Welcome to the Literacy Companion Series
• How to use the companion before, during, and after reading
• Literacy-based therapy strategies
• Tips for extending learning across multiple therapy sessions
• Suggestions for repeated readings and meaningful discussions
Speech Sound Companion
• School-themed speech sound word lists for:
P
B
T
D
K
G
F
V
CH
SH
J
H
L
L Blends
M
N
W
R
R Blends
Vocalic R
S
Z
S Blends
TH
• Initial, medial, and final word positions where appropriate
Phonological Process Companion
• Fronting
• Backing
• Final Consonant Deletion
• Cluster Reduction (S Blends)
• Cluster Reduction (L Blends)
• Cluster Reduction (R Blends)
• Stopping
• Gliding
• Velar Assimilation
• Deaffrication
• Prevocalic Voicing
• Postvocalic Voicing
Fluency Companion
• Smooth vs. Bumpy Speech identification
• Easy Onset practice
• Light Contact practice
• Stretchy Speech practice
• Pausing activities
• Conversation opportunities
• Positive communication reminders
Pragmatic Language Companion
• Greetings and introductions
• Problem solving
• Initiating communication
• Asking relevant questions
• Interpreting social situations
• Perspective taking
Language Companion
• Vocabulary
• Verbs
• Categories
• Basic Concepts
• Functions
• Story Grammar
• Word Associations
• Inferencing
• Sequencing
• WH Questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why)
Why SLPs love this resource:
• Turns one children's book into multiple engaging speech therapy sessions
• Makes literacy-based speech therapy simple to implement with minimal planning
• Eliminates the need to prepare separate activities for articulation, language, fluency, and pragmatic language
• Helps you confidently serve mixed groups with students working on different communication goals
• Reinforces important social-emotional themes like confidence, kindness, empathy, acceptance, and celebrating individuality while targeting speech and language goals
• Encourages meaningful conversations, vocabulary development, inferencing, sequencing, story comprehension, and narrative language through one engaging story
• Supports repeated readings, allowing students to build stronger comprehension, confidence, and communication skills across multiple therapy sessions
• Provides flexible activities that can easily be adapted for individual therapy, small groups, or classroom support
• Organizes a wide variety of communication targets into one easy-to-use companion
• Saves valuable planning time while giving you a resource you'll reach for year after year during back-to-school season
• Encourages students to make personal connections to the story, creating richer discussions and more meaningful language opportunities
This resource is perfect for:
• Literacy-based speech therapy
• Speech therapy book companions
• Chrysanthemum activities
• Back-to-school speech therapy
• School-based speech-language pathologists
• Preschool through elementary students
• Mixed speech-language groups
• Individual therapy
• Small group therapy
• Push-in therapy
• Pull-out therapy
• Articulation therapy
• Phonological process intervention
• Language intervention
• Fluency therapy
• Pragmatic language intervention
• Narrative language instruction
Chrysanthemum is much more than a back-to-school story. It opens the door to meaningful conversations about confidence, kindness, empathy, acceptance, and embracing what makes each of us unique. This comprehensive literacy companion helps you turn those conversations into purposeful speech and language intervention by providing engaging activities that support a wide variety of communication goals. Whether you're introducing the story for the first time or revisiting it throughout the week, you'll have a flexible resource that keeps students engaged, reduces planning time, and helps you make the most of every literacy-based speech therapy session.
