Looking for a fun, low-prep speech therapy game to pair with If You Take a Mouse to School? Pack Mouse's Backpacktransforms your read aloud into an engaging, hands-on game where students practice their speech and language goals while racing to collect school supplies and fill their backpack.
Instead of planning separate activities for articulation, language, fluency, and pragmatic language, this interactive game allows your entire group to participate together while you easily target each student's individualized goals. Simply have students complete a speech or language task before collecting a school supply. The first student to fill their backpack wins! This game encourages repeated practice, meaningful conversations, and high engagement, making it a resource you'll reach for year after year during back-to-school season.
This resource includes:
• "Pack Mouse's Backpack" speech and language game
• Easy-to-follow game overview
• Step-by-step game directions
• Printable game spinner
• Printable school supply game pieces
• Multiple colorful backpack game boards
• Black-and-white backpack game boards for coloring
• Language Companion featuring:
Describing
Compare and Contrast
Inferencing
Personal Connections
Associations
Story Recall
Sequencing
Predicting
WH Questions
Vocabulary
• Speech Sound Companion with target word lists for:
P
B
T
D
K
G
F
V
S
Z
SH
CH
J
H
W
M
N
L
L Blends
R
R Blends
Vocalic R
S Blends
Voiceless TH
Voiced TH
• Fluency Companion featuring:
Smooth vs. Bumpy Speech Identification
Easy Onsets
Light Contacts
Pausing
• Pragmatic Language Companion featuring:
What Would Mouse Say?
School Problem Solving
Communication Repair
Why SLPs love this resource:
• Turns one read aloud into an interactive speech therapy game your students will ask to play again
• Makes speech and language practice feel like play instead of drill work
• Keeps every student actively engaged throughout the entire session
• Easily adapts to articulation, language, fluency, and pragmatic language goals using the same game
• Perfect for mixed speech-language groups with students working on different communication goals
• Encourages repeated practice while maintaining student motivation
• Provides opportunities for story retell, vocabulary development, comprehension, and meaningful conversations connected to the book
• Flexible enough for preschool through elementary students by adjusting prompts to meet student needs
• Includes colorful and black-and-white game boards for added versatility
• Low-prep resource that can be printed, laminated, and reused year after year
• Helps reduce planning time by giving you one engaging activity that works across multiple therapy sessions
This resource is perfect for:
• Speech therapy games
• Back-to-school speech therapy activities
• Literacy-based speech therapy
• If You Take a Mouse to School book companions
• School-based speech-language pathologists
• Preschool through elementary students
• Individual therapy
• Small group speech therapy
• Mixed speech-language groups
• Articulation therapy
• Language intervention
• Fluency therapy
• Pragmatic language therapy
• Push-in and pull-out speech therapy
Keeping an entire speech therapy group engaged can be challenging, especially when every student has different communication goals. Pack Mouse's Backpack makes it easy by combining the excitement of a game with purposeful speech and language practice. Students stay motivated as they race to collect school supplies and fill their backpacks, while you seamlessly target individualized goals using one interactive activity. Pair it with If You Take a Mouse to Schoolfor a literacy-based therapy session that encourages participation, meaningful conversations, and repeated practice, all while spending less time planning and more time connecting with your students.
Looking for a fun, low-prep speech therapy game to pair with If You Take a Mouse to School? Pack Mouse's Backpacktransforms your read aloud into an engaging, hands-on game where students practice their speech and language goals while racing to collect school supplies and fill their backpack.
Instead of planning separate activities for articulation, language, fluency, and pragmatic language, this interactive game allows your entire group to participate together while you easily target each student's individualized goals. Simply have students complete a speech or language task before collecting a school supply. The first student to fill their backpack wins! This game encourages repeated practice, meaningful conversations, and high engagement, making it a resource you'll reach for year after year during back-to-school season.
This resource includes:
• "Pack Mouse's Backpack" speech and language game
• Easy-to-follow game overview
• Step-by-step game directions
• Printable game spinner
• Printable school supply game pieces
• Multiple colorful backpack game boards
• Black-and-white backpack game boards for coloring
• Language Companion featuring:
Describing
Compare and Contrast
Inferencing
Personal Connections
Associations
Story Recall
Sequencing
Predicting
WH Questions
Vocabulary
• Speech Sound Companion with target word lists for:
P
B
T
D
K
G
F
V
S
Z
SH
CH
J
H
W
M
N
L
L Blends
R
R Blends
Vocalic R
S Blends
Voiceless TH
Voiced TH
• Fluency Companion featuring:
Smooth vs. Bumpy Speech Identification
Easy Onsets
Light Contacts
Pausing
• Pragmatic Language Companion featuring:
What Would Mouse Say?
School Problem Solving
Communication Repair
Why SLPs love this resource:
• Turns one read aloud into an interactive speech therapy game your students will ask to play again
• Makes speech and language practice feel like play instead of drill work
• Keeps every student actively engaged throughout the entire session
• Easily adapts to articulation, language, fluency, and pragmatic language goals using the same game
• Perfect for mixed speech-language groups with students working on different communication goals
• Encourages repeated practice while maintaining student motivation
• Provides opportunities for story retell, vocabulary development, comprehension, and meaningful conversations connected to the book
• Flexible enough for preschool through elementary students by adjusting prompts to meet student needs
• Includes colorful and black-and-white game boards for added versatility
• Low-prep resource that can be printed, laminated, and reused year after year
• Helps reduce planning time by giving you one engaging activity that works across multiple therapy sessions
This resource is perfect for:
• Speech therapy games
• Back-to-school speech therapy activities
• Literacy-based speech therapy
• If You Take a Mouse to School book companions
• School-based speech-language pathologists
• Preschool through elementary students
• Individual therapy
• Small group speech therapy
• Mixed speech-language groups
• Articulation therapy
• Language intervention
• Fluency therapy
• Pragmatic language therapy
• Push-in and pull-out speech therapy
Keeping an entire speech therapy group engaged can be challenging, especially when every student has different communication goals. Pack Mouse's Backpack makes it easy by combining the excitement of a game with purposeful speech and language practice. Students stay motivated as they race to collect school supplies and fill their backpacks, while you seamlessly target individualized goals using one interactive activity. Pair it with If You Take a Mouse to Schoolfor a literacy-based therapy session that encourages participation, meaningful conversations, and repeated practice, all while spending less time planning and more time connecting with your students.
