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Spring has sprung! And we have everything you need to plan a blooming awesome speech AND language therapy session. Check out some of our favorite spring themed books that pair perfectly with our spring speech articulation crafts. These combos are no brainers for your mixed speech and language goal groups. So keep reading and you will be all set for the rest of the spring season!
Also Read: Spring Speech Therapy Activities With Themed Book Companions: Part 2
Buzzing Bees
First up, we have all things BEES! We love the book Please Please The Bees by Gerald Kelley. This sweet story is all about a bear that takes his honey for granted when the local bees go on strike. The bear makes changes to improve quality of life for the hard working bees so all are happy. Great book for targeting perspective taking and discussing what it means to be a part of a community.
Check out Rashida Jones reading this buzzing story below!
To go along with the bear and bees, we have a Spring Buzzing Bees Speech Articulation Craft to target every sound in every position. Have your students color and cut out their bees while practicing their target sound. When gluing each bee on or around the hive, have students produce their target words again! Such a simple spring themed craft.
Butterfly Garden
Spread your wings and fly while listening to Gotta Go Gotta Go by Sam Swope and making a beautiful butterfly garden speech craft. This story is such a cute story about a caterpillar’s journey to warmer weather to become a butterfly. Perfect book to target sequencing and cause and effect.
Check out the link below to listen to this story today!
After listening to a butterfly themed book, have your speech articulation students color and cut their very own butterflies. Then decorate the butterfly garden for a fun and easy take home craft to continuing practicing their target sounds for speech homework. This Spring Butterfly Garden Speech Articulation Craft will quickly become one of your spring activity favorites!
Flying Kites
Let’s go fly a kite! Or at least listen to a fun story about a pesky kite that gets stuck in a tree! For your language students, read aloud Stuck! by Oliver Jeffers to target noun identification, describing, and spatial prepositions.
Check out the link to listen to the story below!
We have the perfect speech craft to go along with a spring kite theme. Check out our Spring Flying Kites Speech Articulation Craft to target all sounds in every position. There is even a blank page to fill in with any additional target sounds you may have. Students can color, cut, and glue on their kites to make a fun spring scene.
Bird’s Nest
Tweet, tweet! The robins are out and about here in the Midwest. So naturally we have a story called Nesting by Henry Cole to discuss all things spring! Students will learn all about a mother robin’s preparation for her spring babies. You will be able to target a variety of WH plus how questions while reading this story aloud.
Check out the link to the story below to listen to this story!
Have your speech students bust out their robin’s egg blue to complete this Spring Bird Nest Speech Articulation Craft. Once they have completed the craft while practicing their target sounds, you can decorate your speech bulletin boards for spring. Or have your students take home their finished products for more at home practice.
Planting Seeds
One of my favorite books during the spring is The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. I remember reading this story as a little kid and loving the illustrations. And of course, you have to cheer on the littlest seed! This book is helpful when targeting sequencing, predicting, and inferencing during your language sessions.
Check out the link to the story below to listen to this story!
Next up, your speech students can practice their sounds while planting their own seeds. While these seeds may not be the smallest, they do containing s-blends, l-blends, and r-blends making for a very productive speech session. Be sure to grab our Spring Planting Seeds Speech Articulation Craft to go along with one of our favorite spring books!
Watering Flowers
Our last book and craft pairing is all about the colorful spring flowers. Another popular spring themed book is by Lois Ehlert called Planting a Rainbow. So many beautiful illustrations to help target describing, color identification, adjective + noun phrases, and so much more. This book is definitely one to add to your spring book collection if you don’t already have it!
Check out the link below to hear a read aloud of this story!
We have another great craft to go along with the spring flower garden theme as well. Check out our Spring Watering Flowers Speech Articulation Craft to help target mixed position sounds as well as phonological processes. Your speech students can color their flowers like the illustrations in the book or use their imagination! These completed crafts will leave you with another pretty option for your speech bulletin board too!
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We hope you found the perfect combo for your upcoming spring themed speech and language mixed goal sessions. Plan to try on of the above spring speech craft and book duos? Be sure to let us know in the comments below or on Instagram. We would love to hear from you!
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