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speech and language teaching concepts for Five Little Chicks in speech therapy​ ​
Frequent Speech Sounds:

/p/ initial and final
/ch/ initial
/k/ final
/l/ initial and final

Themes:

farm

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

Five Little Chicks

By Nancy Tafuri

With squirms and squeals, five chicks scratch around the farmyard to find their breakfast. One by one, the chicks stumble upon the most unusual snacks–from a fuzzy butterfly to a shiny trout in the farm pond. Fortunately, Mama Hen is right there to point them back in the right direction. Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Nancy Tafuri matches a bouncing, rhyming text and simple counting lesson to warm, sunny illustrations, making this a perfect book for any mama and her brood. Sweet and springy illustrations will delight readers as the text counts from one to five little chicks.

This cute repetitive farm book can be used in speech therapy to address sequencing, adjectives and sounds including: /p/, /ch/, /k/ and /l/! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Five Little Chicks in speech therapy below:

Key Teaching Concepts

Narrative Structure:

action sequence

Narrative Concepts:

sequencing​
inferencing​
predicting​
adjectives​
phonological awareness​
repetitive text​
counting

Sequencing:

number of chicks and order of what they found

Grammar:

adjectives

Text Features:

repetitive text

Phonological Awareness:

rhyming

Inferencing:

Why do you think the chicks had a squirm, shrug, sigh, worry, and pout?
Why is mama wise?

Predicting:

What do you think they will find to eat?

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