The GIGANTIC Turnip Speech Companion with Boom Cards™ and Printable Worksheets

Updated January 2022 to include a link to FREE Boom Cards and Reading Assessment!

"Great activities for such a cute story!  My preschool language group students loved it!"

Use this product in 3 ways:

1. 37 PRINT and GO worksheets for in person learning, speech therapy, and home programs
2. TpT EASEL Activities and Assessments for online and distance learning
3. FREE BOOM CARD deck with sequencing activities

To be used with The Gigantic Turnip story by Aleksei Tolstoy. Which animal will help the old man and woman pull the gigantic turnip from the ground? Kids will be shocked by the outcome of this cumulative Russian tale.

Who: For Speech-Language Pathologists AND teachers working with students in preschool – 1st grade targeting:

✔ comprehension

✔ category

✔ function

✔ attributes

✔ rhyme

✔ initial sounds – m, b, n, p, k, g

✔ syllables

✔ spatial concepts

✔ prepositions

✔ sequencing

✔ following directions/receptive language

✔ understanding spatial, dimensional, and qualitative terms

What: Included are 6 phonological and language activities to be used with The Gigantic Turnip story by Aleksei Tolstoy. The book is not included. 

When: Use during Fall, Autumn, and during farm animal units.

Where and How: Use across multiple individual or small group speech sessions. Also great for home programs and RTI packets!

Activity DETAILS:

Activity 1: Comprehension Printable Worksheets, and Easel Assessment

Students answer questions and cause and effect statements about the story. Picture answers provide visual cues.

Activity 2: Phonological Printable Worksheets and Easel Activity

Students select the correct objects while practicing rhyme words, initial sounds, and syllables. Target pre-literacy skills of letter-sound knowledge with sounds/words that appear frequently in the book. Great for articulation as well!

Activity 3: Preposition Printable Worksheets and Easel Activity 

Students select the correct prepositions by answering the WH question “where”. Fill in the blank sentences and picture answers provide visual cues.

Activity 4: Sequencing Printable Worksheets, Easel Activity, and Boom Cards™

Students reorder the events in the pictures related to The Gigantic Turnip story. Then, they retell the story using the visuals. BONUS link to a BOOM CARD deck with multiple choice sequencing.

Activity 5: Vocabulary Printable Worksheets and Easel Activity

Students select items that match the category, function, or attribute. Picture answers provide visual cues.

Activity 6: Find & Color Printable Worksheet

Use this harvest and garden themed scene to aid in the understanding of the basic concepts of space, quality, and dimension (i.e. relational words). 

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