Caps for Sale is an excellent easy-to-read book that includes repetition, patterns, and colors, perfect for early readers. This tale of a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth, humor, and simplicity and also teaches children about problem and resolution.
This funny and simple book can be used in speech therapy to address initial /k/ and final /ps/ with its repetition of the word “caps.” It is also great for motor speech planning with its repetitive text, “Caps, caps for sale 50 cents a cap” and “you monkeys you! You must give me back my caps!” This book can also be used for inferencing and sequencing. Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business in speech therapy below: