speech and language teaching concepts for Dream Snow in speech therapy​
Frequent Speech Sounds:

​/f/ initial
/ar/ medial
/sn/ initial
/er/ final

Themes:

Christmas
farm

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

Dream Snow

By Eric Carle

It’s December 24th, and the old farmer settles down for a winter’s nap, wondering how Christmas can come when there is no snow! In his dream he imagines a snowstorm covering him and his animals—named One, Two, Three, Four and Five—in a snowy blanket. But when the farmer awakens, he finds that it has really snowed outside, and now he remembers something! Putting on his red suit, he goes outside and places gifts under the tree for his animals, bringing holiday cheer to all.

This sweet Christmas book can be used in speech therapy to address vocabulary, prepositional phrases, and “wh” questions.  It is also great for targeting sounds such as /f/ and /s/ blends as well as sequencing. Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Dream Snow in speech therapy below: 

Key Teaching Concepts

Narrative Structure:

action sequence

Narrative Concepts:

setting
sequencing
vocabulary
adjectives
verbs (irregular past tense)
prepositional phrases
counting

Sequencing:

order of events
order of the snow covering the animals

Vocabulary:

farmer, dream, snowflakes, gently, covered, sack, unpacked, emptied

Figurative Language:

“white blanket” refers to the snow

Grammar:

verbs (irregular past tense)
nouns (regular plural)
adverbs
adjectives

Text Features:

italics
interactive flaps

Predicting:

Use the illustrations in the beginning to predict what animals are on his farm.
Who is under the snow?
What is the farmer going to do with the presents?

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