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speech and language teaching concepts for Is Your Mama a Llama? in speech therapy
Frequent Speech Sounds:

/m/ initial and medial
/l/ initial
/n/ initial
/fr/ initial

Themes:

animals
family

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

Is Your Mama a Llama?

By Deborah Guarino

In this favorite, whimsical rhyming riddles help Lloyd the baby llama guess what kind of animal everyone’s mama really is. But it’s his friend Llyn the llama that finally leads Lloyd to the answer he most longs to hear. Is your mama a llama?

This sweet animal-themed book can be used in speech therapy to address rhyming and engage readers with its repetitive text. It is also great for targeting comparing and contrasting.  Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Is Your Mama a Llama? in speech therapy below:

Key Teaching Concepts

Narrative Structure:

descriptive sequence

Narrative Concepts:

vocabulary
verbs (linguistic)
predicting
illustration study
compare/contrast
repetitive text
negation
phonological awareness
sequencing

Sequencing:

order of animals that llama talked to to find his mama

Vocabulary:

politely, grazes, whiskers, true, cave, herd

Character Analysis:

Llama learns the differences in each animal when he searches all over for his mama.

Grammar:

verbs (linguistic)
negation

Text Features:

repetitive text
ellipsis
exclamation points
large text

Phonological Awareness:

rhyming

Inferencing:

How do you know from the illustrations, that certain animals are not the llama’s mama?
How are the animals the same or different than llama?

Predicting:

What animal do you think it is?