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pirate
“Ten little pirates…looking for adventure, happy as can be.” What will happen on their adventure?
This cute pirate book can be used in speech therapy to address phonological awareness with its rhythmic text. It is also great for sequencing the events throughout the story. Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Ten Little Pirates in speech therapy below:
complete episode
vocabulary
sequencing
illustration study
verbs (present progressive)
text features
repetitive text
phonological awareness
counting
counting down the pirates and the events that take place
adventure, treasure, albatross, mate, hurricane, fix, man-o’-war, cannon, bobbing, mermaid, wondering, water spout
onomatopoeias
verbs (present progressive)
change in font size
exclamation points
question marks
ellipsis
repetitive text
rhyming
If you are interested in seeing other pirate-themed books to use in therapy, then check out the Themed Narrative Key Teaching Points Book List for a printable copy.
