A baby bird goes in search of his mother in this hilarious Beginner Book edited by Dr. Seuss. When a mother bird’s egg starts to jump, she hurries off to make sure she has something for her little one to eat. But as soon as she’s gone, out pops the baby bird. He immediately sets off to find his mother, but not knowing what she looks like makes it a challenge. The little hatchling is determined to find his mother, even after meeting a kitten, a hen, a dog, and a Snort. The timeless message of the bond between mother and child make P. D. Eastman’s Are You My Mother? a treasured classic.
This cute repetitive book can be used in speech therapy to target predicting. It is also great for sequencing, targeting negation and for targeting /m/, /th/, /er/ and /ar/ sounds! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Are You My Mother? in speech therapy below:
Frequent Speech Sounds:
/m/ initial
/th/ medial
/er/ final
/ar/ initial
Themes:
non-seasonal
Book Details:
Are You My Mother?
Key Teaching Concepts
complete episode
sequencing
predicting
prepositional phrases
negation (not)
repetitive text
order of people and things baby bird asks if they are his mother
kitten, hen, dog, cow, boat, snort
verbs (regular past tense)
prepositional phrases
negation (not)
repetitive text
dialogue
question marks
capitals
Why couldn’t the bird fly?
How will he know who his mother is?
How does he feel after asking the cow?
Why did he start to run?
How does baby bird feel on the tractor?
How do they feel at the end?
Where do you think mother bird will go?
What do you think will happen to the egg?
What do you think baby bird will do when he doesn’t see his mother?
What do you think will happen when he tries to get out of the nest?
Who do you think he will ask next?
Do you think he will find his mother?
What do you think will happen when he asks the tractor?
What could happen when the tractor goes up?