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speech and language teaching concepts for Pancakes For Breakfast in speech therapy
Frequent Speech Sounds:

/p/ initial (pancakes)
/k/ initial and medial (cat, breakfast)
/br/ initial (breakfast)
/f/ medial (breakfast)
/st/ final (breakfast)
/ks/ final (pancakes)
/t/ final (cat)
/d/ initial (dog)
/g/ final (dog)
/l/ initial or /gr/ initial (lady or grandmother)

 
Themes:

wordless
cooking/baking
non-seasonal
perseverance
Book Details:
Diverse Characters: N/A
Age Recommendation: Early Childhood, Elementary
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Pancakes For Breakfast

By Tomie DePoala

Missing ingredients and mischievous pets create one humorous complication after another for a little old lady determined to make pancakes for breakfast in this larger-sized, color-enhanced edition of Tomie dePaola’s wordless picture book classic. 

This silly wordless and cooking/baking book can be used in speech therapy to target sequencing. It is also great for noticing character expressions, predicting and for targeting mental state verbs as well as for /p/, /k/, /br/, /f/, and /st/ sounds! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Pancakes For Breakfast in speech therapy below: 

Key Teaching Concepts

Narrative Structure:

complete episode
Narrative Concepts:

problem solving
sequencing
illustration study
inferencing
predicting
verbs (action)
Sequencing:

order of items needed/steps to make pancakes
order of events leading to eating somewhere else
Vocabulary:

chicken, cow, flour, eggs, churn, butter, maple, syrup, sap, succeed
Character Analysis:

The lady tries her best to not let inconveniences bring her down and works through each problem she encounters.
Grammar:

verbs (mental state)
verbs (action)
Text Features:

thought bubbles
Inferencing:

Notice character facial expressions and body language.

Why did she think about pancakes flying away?
Why does the picture say “If at first you don’t succeed, try again”?
Predicting:

Look at the first page. Where do you think she lives?
Who do you think the woman is?
Who are those people in the picture?
What does she want for breakfast?
What do you think she needs to make pancakes?
Notice the empty egg bowl. Where do you think she will go to get more eggs?
What is she missing now?
Where will she go to get the milk?
How do you think she will make butter with the milk?
Where do you think she will go to get syrup from?
What do you think she will do when she gets back from the neighbors?
Where do you think she is going now?
Who do you think these people are?
Problem Solving:

The lady runs into issues making pancakes when she realizes that she is out of items and needs to go get more. She also has to problem solve when things don’t go her way at the end.

Check out our 18 minute podcast episode, Our Favorite Wordless Picture Books in Speech Therapy: Part One for more ideas on Pancakes for Breakfast and other wordless-themed books! 

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