One book. Multiple Goals. Less Planning.
Save time planning and target multiple speech and language goals with these favorite read-alouds!
Every Bluebird Speech book companion pairs a children’s book with targeted, no-print and printable speech therapy activities including comprehension questions, sequencing, prepositions, phonological awareness, and retell practice.
Why use story books?
Language & Vocabulary
A familiar story provides opportunities to model sentence structures and vocabulary repeatedly and expand on what a child says.
Narrative Language
With repeated readings, children can move from simply answering questions about a story to independently telling and creating their own stories.
Social Communication
Discussing what characters might be thinking, feeling, saying, or doing can help children explore social communication skills and connect them to their own experiences.
How to use book companions in speech therapy
A shared book gives you a natural context for language. And because the language is connected to a meaningful story, you can revisit the same concepts in different ways throughout therapy.
Read it.
Build background knowledge and comprehension.
Talk about it.
Model language, ask questions, and encourage meaningful conversation.
Play with it.
Use hands-on activities to practice the target skill.
Connect it.
Help students carry the language beyond the book and into everyday communication.