Book: The Three Billy Goats Gruff
This week in speech we are reading The Three Billy-Goats Gruff. Once again, we will be working on describing using the words big, medium, and small. We will use Braidy as part of our story and literacy time as we work on retelling the story including the character (WHO?), setting (WHERE?), feelings of characters, and action sequence (WHAT happened?). In addition, we will work on the spatial concepts ON and UNDER as we talk about WHERE the goats are and WHERE the troll is in our story. Suggested activities to complete with your child to incorporate both language enhancing strategies and articulation practice include:
1. Use these characters to retell the story of The Three Billy-Goats Gruff and to complete the sequencing activity. Ask, “Who crossed the bridge first? Second? Third?
2. Build a bridge with your child with Popsicle sticks. It does not need to be fancy, but a fun language enriching experience. Work on spatial concepts such as on, over, under, off when building your bridge. Once it is built, you can use it to retell the story.
3. Practice completing a pattern with vocabulary from our story. Practice labeling the pictures as you complete the pattern. Include describing words such as “Big goat, small goat.”
4. Retell the story using the masks provided. Print them out and pretend to be the characters in our story.
**Use these activities to practice articulation for target sounds and fluency skills. If your child says his/her target sound incorrectly, take the opportunity to repeat back what your child said and over emphasize the target sounds. Talk about how your child can HEAR the sounds produced and can LOOK in a mirror to watch their mouth produce the sounds. If your child has bumpy speech while completing an activity, practice with your child using smooth and slow, easy speech. Remind them to slow down when expressing their ideas to help increase fluent speech.
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Sarah Beckman M.Ed., CCC-SLP