Apple Theme Speech Therapy: "Apple Farmer Annie" Book Companion and Lesson Plans

Make planning your "Apples" theme a breeze with a variety of easy-to-implement activities, lesson plans, toy/game lists, and parent handouts for your preschool speech therapy caseload using this book companion for "Apple Farmer Annie."

Read below to see what's included and how these materials will help you plan apple-themed therapy in no time!

• Book Targets "At a Glance" Outline:
  • list of the language skills you can target with just the book itself
  • target speech sound word list, organized by phoneme, of words that occur throughout the story

• Lesson Plans: Save yourself hours sifting through blogs, TPT, social media, etc... to get enough therapy ideas for your weekly theme. 6 pages of activities are listed in this download for all kinds of preschool goals, making planning a breeze! Print it out and have your plans set for at least a week!

• Toy/Game Suggestions for Play-Based Therapy: Themed toy/game suggestions, including links and potential speech/language goals to target with each toy/game

• EASY Parent Communication: Hate the feeling when parents say they don't know what their child is working on in therapy? Keep parents in the loop with these handouts that give play activities for home and an overview of how skills are being targeted in therapy with this theme.

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• Story character + prop printables for the story, "Apple Farmer Annie" Use the story props to act out the book as you read, to recreate the story.

• Thematic Vocabulary:
  • Story Vocabulary: Color + B/W smash mats/coloring mats
  • Apple Bingo: Learn apple-related vocabulary (apple parts, apple food/drink, cooking items)
  • Apple Life Cycle No Print Book: Introduce apple life cycle vocabulary, apple picking, and a farmer’s market with REAL photos. Project onto the board in a preschool classroom or use on an iPad.
  • Apple Life Cycle Dough Mat: Create each stage of an apple life cycle with play dough

• Pronoun + Verb Smash Mats: Target pronouns and verbs from the story/related to apple activities.

• WH Question Mats: 15 "What" questions, 12 "Where" questions, 5 "Who" questions. Leave whole for no prep or cut apart for sensory bins. 2 visual choices for each answer are included on each card.

• Basic Concepts:
  • Dough Mats: 6 mats. Target concepts "big" "small" "tall" "short" "many" and "few." Great for pushing in to the classroom during fine motor times and math groups!
  • Sorting by size/color sensory bin: Unload the apples from Annie's truck and sort them into baskets according to size and/or color.

• Category Sorting: Kitchen items; Sort utensils, dishes, and food/drink by category according to where you would find them (e.g. refrigerator, utensil drawer, or cupboard/cabinet)

• Object Function Sensory Bin: 10 objects relating to apples/cooking/baking

• Cooking Activity: Blender Applesauce
  • Visual recipe steps
  • Sequencing pictures for retell
  • Visual supports for requesting

• Describing Mat: 6 objects relating to apples/cooking/baking. Place a card on the mat and use the visuals to describe various aspects of the item.

• Dot Marker pages: 2 pages (1 color, 1 black and white)

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More Apple-Themed Therapy:

• Apple Phonology (Cycles-based)

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I love helping other SLPs instill a love of shared book-reading with their students by creating visually appealing interactive pieces and related extension activities that have kids engaged and excited to read and act out a story!