Are you trying to find Easter books to use in your speech therapy sessions that are fun and engaging? I’m a huge advocate for using books in speech therapy sessions because you can target so many different language and speech goals. I’ll share a few of my favorite ways to target some goals below, but first, let’s look at the books that you can use during Easter!
1) How to Catch the Easter Bunny
The How to Catch Series is always a hit in my speech therapy sessions. You can use this book to work on sequencing, inferencing, or problem solving. You can always use this to do a writing activity with your kids on how they would try to catch the Easter bunny.
2) Happy Easter, Mouse
This is a short but cute book that you can read with any of your kids that are working on colors or prepositions! A quick activity that you can do is take different colored Easter eggs and have your kids place them in different locations you tell them.
3) There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick
There Was an Old Lady Series is another hit in my speech room. All of the books in this series are great to work on sequencing, repetition, and rhyming words.
4) The Night Before Easter
This is another great series to use in your sessions. It can be used to target inferencing, rhyming, and sequencing. You can also use this to target WH- questions.
5) Happy Easter, Little Critter
This is a great book to work on WH- questions along with many of your articulation goals because of all the sounds in the story. It talks about going on an Easter egg hunt so you can read the book and then do your own egg hunt if the space is available for a fun movement activity.
What goals can you target when you use books in your speech therapy sessions?
I enjoy using books in my speech therapy sessions because I can target multiple goals making them a great resource for any mixed speech and language groups that I have. I can target articulation goals and even different language goals like WH- questions, inferencing, and sequencing. The language goals are pretty self-explanatory when it comes to reading books. You can read the books and ask questions during or after and then also have them take parts of the book and put them in the order that they happened.
With my articulation kids, I will use words from the book that have their sound in them to practice. I will either scan the book beforehand and write down a few words that I see for the speech goals that I have written, or I will have the kids write them down as they listen to the story. After the story is done, you can have them practice the words while the other kids are working on their goals as well.
Let me know down in the comments what your favorite book for Easter is! Just an FYI, you can always pull up book readings on YouTube if you don’t own the physical books. There isn’t any need to go out and buy them if you don’t have to, although I always love to have a copy on hand. š
Enjoy!
