Zooom! Wooeeee . . . ! “Make way!”The big city sure is a speedy, noisy place for a country truck like Blue. Everywhere Blue looks, he sees buses, police cars, taxis, vans, a street sweeper, and even the mayor’s limousine. With everyone pushing to be first, soon there’s a giant traffic jam! But even a wrangle-tangle is no match for Little Blue Truck, who comes to the rescue in true Blue style. Brimming with bright colors, sounds, and city energy, this adventure makes working together and taking turns more fun than ever.
This rhyming transportation/vehicles book can be used in speech therapy to address themes of kindness and patience. It is also great for noticing illustrations that add value and help with understanding. This book can be used for early childhood lessons, as well as elementary when using the hard book cover! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Little Blue Truck Leads the Way in speech therapy below:
Frequent Speech Sounds:
/bl/ blue
/tr/ truck
/s/ initial (city)
/b/ initial
/p/ final (beep)
/m/ initial
/v/ final (move)
Themes:
vehicles/transportation
kindness
patience
non-seasonal
Book Details:
Little Blue Truck Leads the Way
Key Teaching Concepts
complete episode
vocabulary
theme/message
sequencing
illustration study
figurative language
adjectives
text features
inferencing
phonological awareness
all the vehicles who told Little Blue Truck to move
towering, avenue, busy, mayor, tangle, pride, engine, advice, single file, follow, past, led
onomatopoeias (car and truck sounds)
adjectives
verbs (regular past tense)
verbs (linguistic verbs)
all caps
exclamation points
parentheses
animated text
rhyming
Why is Little Blue Truck so out of his comfort zone?
Where is he from?
How is the farm life different from the city life?
The city is “high” and “fast”- what else is the city?
Why is one at a time the way to go?
If you are interested in seeing other transportation books to use in therapy, then check out the Themed Key Teaching Points Book List for a printable copy.
