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speech and language teaching concepts for Bear Finds Eggs in speech therapy
Frequent Speech Sounds:

/air/ final
/gz/ final
/fr/ initial

Themes:

spring
Easter

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

Bear Finds Eggs

By Karma Wilson

Mama Meadowlark can’t find her eggs! Bear and his friends pitch in to help and search high and low. Each time they find an egg, they paint it with bright colors so they don’t lose it again and add it to Hare’s handy basket. Will they be able to return all the eggs to their mother?

This sweet spring and Easter-themed book can be used in speech therapy to address tier two vocabulary and variety of grammar concepts, such as adjectives and prepositional phrases. It is also great for noticing character expressions and for sequencing! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Bear Finds Eggs in speech therapy below:

Key Teaching Concepts

Narrative Structure:

complete episode

Narrative Concepts:

repetitive text
vocabulary
character analysis
sequencing
text features
predicting
adjectives
prepositional phrases
noun (regular plural)
verbs (third person singular)
phonological awareness

Sequencing:

order of places they find the lost eggs

Vocabulary:

glen, trail, lumbers, nooks, spy, nest, soon-to-be, speckled, nestled, hatch, wail, search, birch, peek, hallowed-out, stump, shore, quest, clover, lair

Character Analysis:

Bear is generous and excited for the baby birds to arrive. He is quick to offer help to others and demonstrates perseverance when things get difficult. Bear is kind and friendly.

Social/Emotional:

Bear and his friends are quick to others.

Grammar:

adjectives
prepositional phrases
noun (regular plural)
verbs (third person singular)

Text Features:

exclamation points
large text
ellipsis
repetitive text

Phonological Awareness:

rhyming

Predicting:

What do you think the bear spies?
Where do you think the eggs went?
Why do you think Owl points to a birch?
What do you think is in the hollowed out stump?

Check out our 13 minute podcast episode, Deep Dive into Using Bear Finds Eggs in Speech Therapy for more ideas!