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speech and language teaching concepts for An Extraordinary Egg in speech therapy​ ​
Frequent Speech Sounds:

/j/ initial
/s/ medial
/k/ medial
/fr/ initial
/g/ final

Themes:

pond
non-seasonal

Book Details:
Diverse Characters: N/A
Age Recommendation: Early Childhood, Elementary

An Extraordinary Egg

By Leo Lionni

It’s an extraordinary day on Pebble Island for three frogs when one of them discovers a beautiful white egg. They’ve never seen a chicken egg before, but they’re sure that’s what this must be. So when the egg hatches and out crawls a long green, scaly creature, they naturally call it . . . a chicken! From award winning-artist Leo Lionni, here’s a hilarious case of mistaken identity that children are sure to delight in.

This silly pond book can be used in speech therapy to address vocabulary, inferencing, describing and predicting. It is also great for targeting /j/, /s/, /k/, /fr/ and /g/ sounds. Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using An Extraordinary Egg in speech therapy below:

Key Teaching Concepts

Narrative Structure:

complete episode

Narrative Concepts:

vocabulary
inferencing
predicting
adjectives
verbs (mental state)
verbs (linguistic)

Vocabulary:

wonder, ordinary, extraordinary, impressed, mound, decided, inlet, triumphantly,  amazement, creature, raspy, commotion, frightened, rescue, inseparable, monument

Grammar:

adjectives
verbs (mental state)
verbs (linguistic)

Inferencing:

How did Jessica feel about the items she found?
How did Marilyn and August feel about them?
Why do you think Jessica likes finding pebbles?
Why will they react differently to this pebble?
Why has Jessica never heard of chickens?
How did the frogs feel when the egg hatched?
Why is the “chicken” a god swimmer?
Why was the “chicken” the one that went into the water when there was commotion?
How did Jessica feel when she was saved?
Why was Jessica so attached to the “chicken”?
Why did they laugh about the “chicken” being called “alligator”?

Predicting:

What do you think Jessica could find on Pebble Island?
What do you think Jessica will find when she goes off again?
How do you think she will get the pebble home?
What do you think Marilyn and August will say about this pebble?
What kind of egg do you think it is?
What do you think will happen to the egg?
What do you think the commotion is?
Who do you think is causing the commotion?
What do you think the “chicken” will do when there is commotion?
Where do you think the mom is?
What do you think the most extraordinary creature is?

If you are interested in seeing other pond books to use in therapy, then check out the Themed Key Teaching Points Book List for a printable copy.