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June, 2006
Speech & Language Tip
of the Month
Interactive Reading for Language Goals
Reading
to your child is such a precious gift, and the
benefits are numerous. Children love reading time
because it is an opportunity to be close to you and
it encourages bonding. They also love to look at
pictures; so many books have such beautiful
illustrations. Reading books interactively with your
child can also help target language goals. Reading
interactively is more than just reading the words on
the page, it involves asking your child to point to
pictures (receptive labeling), asking your child to
name things (expressive labeling), asking questions
about what the characters are doing (action words,
phrasing, grammar…), predicting outcomes, talking
about feelings. The list can go on and on. I have
included a list of popular early childhood books
that I use in therapy to show you some of the goals
that can be targeted. I suggest starting with books
that your child is familiar with and start to “read
interactively”. Be creative the possibilities of
language goals are endless.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
(1994) – food vocabulary, quantity concepts
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That’s Not My Dinosaur by Fiona Watt (2002)
– negatives, quality concepts (textures),
pointing
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Where’s Spot by Eric Hill (2000) – animal
vocabulary, answering/asking “where” questions
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Where is Baby’s Belly Button by Karen Katz
(2000) – body parts vocabulary, clothing
vocabulary, answering/asking “where” questions
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Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton (1995)
– color vocabulary, clothing vocabulary, “what’s
wrong?”, humor, reasoning skills
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I Went Walking by Sue Williams (1989) –
animal vocabulary, 3-word phrasing, auxiliary
verb + -ing
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Animal Sounds by Aureleuo Battaglia (1981)
– animal vocabulary, animal sounds
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? By
Bill Martin Jr (1992) – animal vocabulary,
color vocabulary, auxiliary verb + -ing,
phrasing
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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? By
Bill Martin Jr. (1997) – animal vocabulary,
auxiliary verb + -ing, phrasing
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Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear by Nancy White
Carlstrom (1996) – clothing vocabulary, time
concepts (times of the day)
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From Head To Toe by Eric Carle (1999) –
body parts vocabulary, action words, phrasing,
pronoun “I”
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Five Silly Monkeys by Steve Haskamp (2003)
– number concepts, action words, prosody
Sincerely,
Meredith B. Sorokwasz M.A., CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist
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