Planning literacy-based speech therapy doesn't have to mean planning a different activity for every student on your caseload. This If You Take a Mouse to School Speech Therapy Book Companion is designed to help you turn one engaging children's book into multiple meaningful speech therapy sessions while targeting articulation, phonological processes, receptive and expressive language, fluency, pragmatic language, and literacy skills all within the same resource.
Whether you're following a literacy-based therapy approach, looking for meaningful back-to-school speech therapy activities, or simply want to spend less time planning, this companion provides a variety of ready-to-use materials that make it easy to differentiate instruction for mixed groups while keeping every student engaged. Instead of searching for multiple resources to target different goals, you'll have everything organized in one comprehensive companion that can be used across multiple therapy sessions.
This resource includes:
• How to use the Literacy Companion
• Tips for getting the most out of literacy-based speech therapy
• Speech sound Back To School word lists for:
Initial position
Medial position
Final position
R blends
L blends
S blends
Vocalic R
• Phonological process Back To School word lists for:
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 Back To School Companion featuring:
Smooth vs. Bumpy Speech identification
Easy Onset practice
Light Contact practice
Pausing practice
Conversation opportunities
Positive communication reminders
• Pragmatic Language Back To School Companion featuring:
Greetings and introductions
Problem solving
Initiating communication
Asking relevant questions
Interpreting social situations
Perspective taking
• Language If You Take A Mouse To School Specific Companion featuring:
Vocabulary
Verbs
Categories
Describing words
Basic concepts
Functions
Story grammar
Compare and contrast
Word associations
Inferencing
Sequencing
WH questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why)
Why SLPs love this resource:
• Turns one children's book into multiple speech therapy sessions
• Eliminates the need to plan separate activities for every communication goal
• Makes literacy-based speech therapy easy to implement, even with mixed groups
• Helps you target articulation, language, fluency, pragmatics, and phonological processes using one familiar story
• Supports differentiated instruction by providing activities for a variety of speech and language goals
• Encourages meaningful conversations, story retell, vocabulary development, and language expansion through an engaging read aloud
• Reduces planning time while giving you flexible activities that can be used across multiple therapy sessions
• Perfect for individual therapy, small groups, and mixed speech-language groups
• Organizes everything in one easy-to-use companion so you can focus more on therapy and less on planning
This resource is ideal for:
• Literacy-based speech therapy
• Speech therapy book companions
• Back-to-school speech therapy activities
• Mixed speech-language groups
• School-based speech-language pathologists
• Preschool through elementary students
• Individual therapy
• Small group intervention
• Push-in and pull-out speech therapy
• Language intervention
• Articulation therapy
• Phonological process intervention
• Fluency therapy
• Pragmatic language therapy
Children's books create some of the most meaningful speech therapy sessions because they naturally encourage vocabulary development, comprehension, storytelling, conversation, and personal connections. This companion helps you make the most of If You Take a Mouse to School by providing a complete collection of speech and language activities that support a wide variety of communication goals while keeping planning simple. Whether you use the entire companion across multiple sessions or select activities that best fit your students' needs, you'll have a flexible, reusable resource that will become a staple in your literacy-based speech therapy toolbox.
Planning literacy-based speech therapy doesn't have to mean planning a different activity for every student on your caseload. This If You Take a Mouse to School Speech Therapy Book Companion is designed to help you turn one engaging children's book into multiple meaningful speech therapy sessions while targeting articulation, phonological processes, receptive and expressive language, fluency, pragmatic language, and literacy skills all within the same resource.
Whether you're following a literacy-based therapy approach, looking for meaningful back-to-school speech therapy activities, or simply want to spend less time planning, this companion provides a variety of ready-to-use materials that make it easy to differentiate instruction for mixed groups while keeping every student engaged. Instead of searching for multiple resources to target different goals, you'll have everything organized in one comprehensive companion that can be used across multiple therapy sessions.
This resource includes:
• How to use the Literacy Companion
• Tips for getting the most out of literacy-based speech therapy
• Speech sound Back To School word lists for:
Initial position
Medial position
Final position
R blends
L blends
S blends
Vocalic R
• Phonological process Back To School word lists for:
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 Back To School Companion featuring:
Smooth vs. Bumpy Speech identification
Easy Onset practice
Light Contact practice
Pausing practice
Conversation opportunities
Positive communication reminders
• Pragmatic Language Back To School Companion featuring:
Greetings and introductions
Problem solving
Initiating communication
Asking relevant questions
Interpreting social situations
Perspective taking
• Language If You Take A Mouse To School Specific Companion featuring:
Vocabulary
Verbs
Categories
Describing words
Basic concepts
Functions
Story grammar
Compare and contrast
Word associations
Inferencing
Sequencing
WH questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why)
Why SLPs love this resource:
• Turns one children's book into multiple speech therapy sessions
• Eliminates the need to plan separate activities for every communication goal
• Makes literacy-based speech therapy easy to implement, even with mixed groups
• Helps you target articulation, language, fluency, pragmatics, and phonological processes using one familiar story
• Supports differentiated instruction by providing activities for a variety of speech and language goals
• Encourages meaningful conversations, story retell, vocabulary development, and language expansion through an engaging read aloud
• Reduces planning time while giving you flexible activities that can be used across multiple therapy sessions
• Perfect for individual therapy, small groups, and mixed speech-language groups
• Organizes everything in one easy-to-use companion so you can focus more on therapy and less on planning
This resource is ideal for:
• Literacy-based speech therapy
• Speech therapy book companions
• Back-to-school speech therapy activities
• Mixed speech-language groups
• School-based speech-language pathologists
• Preschool through elementary students
• Individual therapy
• Small group intervention
• Push-in and pull-out speech therapy
• Language intervention
• Articulation therapy
• Phonological process intervention
• Fluency therapy
• Pragmatic language therapy
Children's books create some of the most meaningful speech therapy sessions because they naturally encourage vocabulary development, comprehension, storytelling, conversation, and personal connections. This companion helps you make the most of If You Take a Mouse to School by providing a complete collection of speech and language activities that support a wide variety of communication goals while keeping planning simple. Whether you use the entire companion across multiple sessions or select activities that best fit your students' needs, you'll have a flexible, reusable resource that will become a staple in your literacy-based speech therapy toolbox.
