A Color of His Own Speech Companion with Boom™ Cards and Printable Activities

Now with a link to 2 FREE Boom™ Cards and Reading Comprehension Questions!

"Thank you for making fun materials for a fun book.  My students are loving them!  They were so easy to prep.  I appreciate the time you took to create it!"

Use this product in 3 ways:

1. 42 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 decks for sequencing and following directions activities

A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni is a wonderful story about animals, friendship, acceptance, colors, and chameleons to use in your speech therapy!

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

✔ comprehension

✔ category

✔ function

✔ attributes

✔ rhyme

✔ initial sounds – short e, p, g, k, t, l

✔ 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 A Color of His Own. The book is not included.

When: During spring/fall or when students are studying reptiles.

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 and Boom™ Cards

Students reorder the events in the winter scenes related to A Color of His Own story. Then, they retell the story using the visuals. BONUS link to a BOOM CARD deck with drag and drop sequencing features.

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 and Boom™ Cards

Use this forest themed scene to aid in the understanding of the basic concepts of space, quality, and dimension (i.e. relational words). Link to free Boom Card Deck included.

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