We use the following books frequently to work on language skills. Next to each
book we have listed some of the skills we like to work on as we read them with
our clients.
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Maisy's Pop-Up Playhouse
Concepts: Categories, labeling objects, following directions, eliciting
sentences.
Our Suggestions: A must-have pop-up, portable playhouse! This book is
adorable and great for language. Practice pretend play as Maisy dresses, bathes
or showers, cooks and plays. Three sheets of pop-out accessories include
clothes, dishes, food, etc. which can be placed in the closets and cupboards.
Work on vocabulary by labeling objects, teach your child spatial orientation
and following directions (ie "Put the pie in the oven"). Teach your child
categories ("Where are Maisy's clothes?"). Encourage your child to talk about
what he/she is doing ("Maisy is eating").
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Baby! Talk!
Concepts: First words and First Concepts.
Our Suggestions: A wonderful book for first words. Practice concepts
like Uh-oh and Peek-a-boo in a way your child will love.
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Assorted books for the Bathtub
Concepts: Castle, jungle, and farm words.
Our Suggestions: Learn new words in the bathtub. Make different sounds
that correspond to each book as you read the story to your child during
bathtime.
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? & Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do
You Hear?
Concepts: Question structure, child prediction, simple rhyming, colors.
Our Suggestions: Read these books to your child and have your child
answer the “What” questions. See if your child can ask you the questions. These
are great stories for child prediction because of their sing-songy rhythm,
repetition, and rhyming. To practice child prediction, have your child fill in
the missing word: "Brown bear, brown bear, what do you ___?" Add simple
gestures for the words "you, see, I, me" so that your child can participate
even if they can't yet speak.
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Baby Danced the Polka
Concepts: Child prediction, rhyming.
Our Suggestions: This books is one of our favorites! It is wonderful for
child prediction because of its sing-songy rhythm, repetition, and rhyming.
Read aloud with child a few times and then allow child to fill in the rhyming
animal names ie. "It was naptime on the farm. The animals drifted off to sleep.
The barn was filled with yawning cows. And pigs and goats and ____" (Sheep).
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Corduroy
Concepts: Pronouns
Our Suggestions: Pronouns are words that stand for a name (I, you, he,
she, him, her, they, them). Try to stress pronouns in sentences to draw your
child’s attention to them. Encourage your child to repeat your sentence. ex. He
is a teddy bear. She wants Corduroy. They went home.
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The Runaway Bunny
Concepts: Pronouns
Our Suggestions: Pronouns are words that stand for a name (I, you, he,
she, him, her, they, them). Try to stress pronouns in sentences to draw your
child’s attention to them. Encourage your child to repeat your sentence. ex.
She is fishing. He is swimming. She is climbing. He is running away.
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Spot’s Birthday Party
Concepts: Prepositions
Our Suggestions: Prepositions are words that indicate location. Try to
stress prepositions in sentences to draw your child’s attention to them.
Encourage your child to say the prepositions as they encounter them in the
books. Praise “good talking.” In the following book, your child will have fun
finding the alligator under the carpet and the bear behind the curtain.
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I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Concepts: Past Tense, rhyming
Our Suggestions: Past tense is the “-ed” form or irregular past tenses
such as sat and ate. As your child learns the “-ed” form, he or she may begin
to say “eated” instead of “ate”. Don’t worry - this is normal. The “-ed” is
hard to hear. Try and stress this as you talk as well as the meaning of “-ed”.
Encourage your child to repeat your sentence. Praise “good talking”. ex. She
swallowed a fly.
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I Can't Said the Ant
Concepts: Rhyming
Our Suggestions: Read aloud with child a few times and then allow child
to fill in the rhyming words. Pause and look at your child when it is his turn
so that he knows you are waiting for him to "help you read".
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Big Red Barn
Concepts: Past Tense
Our Suggestions: Past tense is the “-ed” form or irregular past tenses
such as sat and ate. As your child learns the “-ed” form, he or she may begin
to say “eated” instead of “ate”. Don’t worry - this is normal. The “-ed” is
hard to hear. Try and stress this as you talk as well as the meaning of “-ed”.
Encourage your child to repeat your sentence. Praise “good talking”. ex. The
horses stomped in the hay. The bats flew away.
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Chicken Soup with Rice
Concepts: Counting, months of the year, holidays
Our Suggestions: Ask your child, “What happens in December?, When is
your Birthday?, and Name the months of the year."
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He Bear, She Bear
Concepts: Community workers, -ing, possessives, clothing with pronouns
Our Suggestions: Ask your child, “What is she doing?, Whose is that?"
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The Very Hungary Catapillar
Concepts: Counting, vocabulary
Our Suggestions: Make a chomping sound for the number of times the
catapillar eats through each fruit. After your child becomes familiar with the
story, allow your child fill in the blank as you read, "On Monday the
catepillar ate through one ____."
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Sticker Word Flashcards
Concepts: Vocabulary, Recepive and Expressive language, concepts,
Listening comprehension.
Our Suggestions: Children love this. Practice the words as you take off
the stickers. We like helping our clients make our own make believe stories.
Start a little book of white paper the say, "Once upon a time in a far off
land, there was a _____... " Allow your child to fill in the blank and add a
sticker to the page.
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Naming
Body
Parts
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Making
Choices
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Finger
Plays
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Nursery
Rhymes
and
Songs
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Past
Tense
Books
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Books
about
Opposites
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Questions
example:
What if?
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Same
and
Different
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Seasons
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Alphabet
and
Numbers
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Plurals
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Spatial
Concepts
and
Prepositions
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Negation
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Idioms
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Similes
and
Metaphors
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Antonyms
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Synonyms
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