Celebrate the month of April with themes that include bugs, Easter, Earth Day, and changing weather. Themed activities keep kids engaged throughout the year and motivate them to improve their daily skills. These April speech therapy lesson plans will make teaching in the spring a breeze!
I’ve compiled some fun spring-themed resources to make your April speech therapy lesson plans easier for your students. Just rearrange for Easter as needed each year. The varying activities will make speech therapy sessions a ton of fun.
Grab the free download to print the April therapy plans at the bottom of this post.
Table of Contents
Week 1: Easter Eggs
Easter typically falls in April. This month, celebrate Easter, eggs, and bunnies during speech therapy!
BOOKS
Click, Clack, Peep!: This baby duck will not sleep and keeps the whole farm awake. How can the farmer get him to sleep so the farm can rest?
Pete the Cat: The Big Easter Adventure: Follow Pete as he experiences spring, Easter, and beautiful eggs with his friends.
Bear Finds Eggs: Everyone deserves to enjoy an Easter egg hunt, including Bear! Watch as he and his friends hunt for pretty eggs!
ARTICULATION
Easter Dice & Dot: Make speech therapy fun in the Spring with these print and digital Spring and Easter articulation and language activities! Your students will love dotting eggs with these Dice and Dot Spring and Easter speech therapy activities!
Easter Egg Craft: This is a fantastic Easter egg craft to decorate your bulletin board in the spring!
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Easter Dice & Dot: Use dotters or daubers to dot the eggs as kids practice their language and articulation skills.
No Prep Language- Easter and Spring: Use these plans to work on plural and possessive pronouns, WH questions, synonyms, antonyms, verbs, homonyms, homophones, and more.
Spring Narrative Notes: These notes include 9 different books, perfect for working on language and articulation skills during April speech therapy lesson plans.
Week 2: Bugs
In the spring, we often see more bugs crawling, flying, and inching around. These fun books and activities are a great addition to April speech therapy lesson plans.
BOOKS
The Honeybee: Watch a tiny honeybee emerge and start their job in the hive. Are they strong enough to fly, and what will they do?
The Very Quiet Cricket: When a tiny cricket is born, they are greeted by an enormous cricket that chirps. Tiny cricket can’t chirp back … yet!
Hank’s Big Day: The Story of a Bug: Hank the pill bug has a busy day, including munching a leaf and playing with a little girl.
The Very Impatient Caterpillar: This little caterpillar is just learning about his transformation process and he cannot wait!
ARTICULATION
Bugs Dice & Dot: Use these adorable bugs to track articulation during April speech therapy.
LANGUAGE
Bugs Dice & Dot: The dotting activity is perfect for language and articulation!
Spring Narrative Notes: Use the nine books in this pack to practice speech therapy skills! They are tons of fun and include lots of spring themes.
Bug Narrative Notes: Use these seven books about bugs to work on language skills with your students.
Week 3: Bugs and Birds
Not only do we see bugs out and about, but we see birds taking flight! Learn about growing creatures in the wild during April speech therapy lesson plans.
BOOKS
This is the Nest That Robin Built: Robin and her friends collect materials for her nest, which she knits and weaves together just in time to lay her eggs.
Snail Crossing: Snail spies cabbage, and nothing will stop them! They race to get to it, dodging cars and all sorts of danger!
ARTICULATION
Spring Dice & Dot: Roll a dice and dot the words as students practice their skills. Once they fill out the whole chart, have them do another or complete the same one again.
Articulation 100 Trials (snails): These snails help students track their articulation practice! They are the perfect theme for April speech therapy lesson plans.
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Bug Narrative Notes: Use these notes to efficiently work on spring articulation without overthinking the plans!
Spring Dice & Dot: Use the dice and dot activity to work on both language and articulation!
Week 4: Earth Day
Earth Day is at the end of the month, so celebrate taking care of our earth with fun plans that motivate students.
BOOKS
Harlem Grown: Learn about a garden started in an abandoned lot in New York City! This amazing garden has motivated many people over time.
Hey, Little Ant: Would you stop and listen if a small ant started talking to you before you stepped on them? This is a fun way to take a different perspective!
ARTICULATION
Earth Day Match & Say: Make speech therapy fun on Earth Day with these print and digital Earth Day articulation and language activities! These no-prep speech therapy activities are great for mixed group therapy during Earth Day and cover various articulation and language goals.
Articulation 50 Trials (Earth): Use Earth Day to track articulation during April speech therapy lesson plans.
Read & Review- Spring Books Companion: Too Many Carrots, Pete The Cat, Bear Wants More… These spring book companions for speech therapy are the perfect resources for speech therapists to help their students meet narrative and language goals during spring.
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Earth Day Match & Say: Use this activity to work on both speech and articulation skills!
Earth Day Lap Book: This Earth Day craft is a perfect way to work on vocabulary, sequencing, and Earth Day writing. Set up is quick and easy; you only need a file folder to create the lapbook.
Read & Review: Spring Book Companion: This resource includes six book companions and six complete lesson plans to match.
Spring Narrative Notes: If you love using books to teach speech therapy concepts, this resource is perfect!
Week 5: Weather
This is the perfect time of year to learn about weather and changes in the seasons! In your April speech therapy lesson plans, talk about rain, storms, and warmer weather with the kids.
BOOKS
Splat the Cat: The Rain is a Pain: Splay just got a new pair of roller skates and can’t wait to use them, but it just started raining!
Move Over, Rover: Rover has a nice cozy doghouse, but now some creatures want to join him to stay dry in the rain!
Bruce’s Big Storm: There’s a big storm, and Bruce has to make room for woodland creatures to stay dry! Who will join him, and will they run out of space?
ARTICULATION
Spring Match & Say: This spring activity is a great resource to have on hand for March, April, and May! Use it repeatedly to reinforce skills.
Quick-Play Spring: These are spring articulation games for sounds R, S, L, TH, SH and more. These speech therapy activities are quick to grab and go, with 18 words on every game.
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Spring Match & Say: Use these mats for articulation and language all month long.
Rainbow Craft: These easy-to-prepare and high-repetition crafts decorate bulletin boards and help kids with their speech skills.
Weather Narrative Notes: Add these notes to your April speech therapy lesson plans as you discuss weather and all things spring.
Check out these podcast episodes to choose which books are best for your speech therapy sessions.
PODCAST: Our Favorite Spring Picture Books for Speech Therapy
PODCAST: Deep Dive into Using Bear Finds Eggs in Speech Therapy
PODCAST: Our Favorite Bug-Themed Picture Books in Speech Therapy
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If you want to see next month’s calendar for May, check it out HERE. Editable templates are also available in my TpT store.
