Frequent Speech Sounds:

/h/ initial
/v/ final
/y/ initial “you”
/s/ initial
/n/ final
/d/ initial
/kl/ medial

Themes:

pond
non-seasonal
counting

Book Details:

Diverse Characters: N/A

Age Recommendation: Early Childhood

Have You Seen My Duckling?

By Nancy Tafuri

Acclaimed author Nancy Tafuri hides the little duck somewhere on each page—have YOU seen it? This almost-wordless book is both a fun counting game and an exciting hidden-picture hunt for the youngest readers.

This fun repetitive pond book can be used in speech therapy to address sequencing, inferencing and predicting. It is also great for noticing illustrations and targeting /h/, /v/, /y/, /s/, /m/, /d/ and /kl/ sounds. Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Have You Seen My Duckling? in speech therapy below:

Key Teaching Concepts

Narrative Structure:

wordless

Narrative Concepts:

sequencing
illustration study
inferencing
predicting
repetitive text

Sequencing:

order of animals asked about the duckling

Text Features:

repetitive text

Inferencing:

How do the babies feel when she comes back?
How does she feel about the babies?
How do they feel about the missing duckling?
How do they feel at the end?
How do you know?

Predicting:

Who do you think that duck is to the babies?
Where do you think the mom is going?
Do you think the bird has seen the duckling?
Who do you think they will ask next?
Do you think they have seen the duckling?
Where do you think the duckling is?
Where do you think they will go when they find the duckling?

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

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