Imagine starring in commercials and traveling in your own campaign bus! Or seeing your face on bumper stickers and T-shirts! If you ran for president, you would get to do these and other fun things, but you would also have to do a lot of hard work. You would study the nation’s problems, tell the American people about your platform, select a running mate, and debate your opponents on live television. Finally, in November, Election Day would arrive. You would keep your fingers crossed and wait for the results―will you be the next president of the United States?
This informative patriotic/America book can be used in speech therapy to address social/emotional issues like going after what you believe in. It is also great for noticing illustrations and for targeting vocabulary as well as for /pr/, /z/, /r/, /k/ and /p/ sounds! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using If I Ran For President in speech therapy below: