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speech and language teaching concepts for the emperor's egg in speech therapy
Frequent Speech Sounds:

/ng/ medial
/g/ final
/p/ initial
/er/ final
/th/ medial

Themes:

winter
arctic
penguins

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

The Emperor’s Egg

By Martin Jenkins

Can you imagine spending the winter outdoors in Antarctica without anything to eat? That’s just what the male Emperor penguin does. While his mate is off swimming and catching loads of fish, he stands around in the freezing cold with an egg on his feet for two whole months, keeping it warm and waiting for it to hatch. Welcome to the story of the world’s most devoted dad!

This sweet, informative winter-themed book can be used in speech therapy to address vocabulary as well as text features. It is also great for predicting! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using The Emperor’s Egg in speech therapy below:

Key Teaching Concepts

Narrative Structure:

action sequence

Narrative Concepts:

text features
vocabulary
predicting

Vocabulary:

mate, lay, island, waddled, hatch, miserable, snuggle, shuffle, huddle, trundles, horizon, trumpeting, racket, pleased, call, sick

Text Features:

animated text
change in text size
ellipsis
parentheses
italics
exclamation points
facts

Inferencing:

Why do you think the mother penguin is eating as much as she can?

Predicting:

What do you think that shape is?
Why do you think the mother penguin went to the sea?
What do you think is inside of the egg?
How do you think the father penguin keeps the egg warm?
How do you think the father penguin feels about having to stay and keep the egg safe?
What do you think will happen when they get to a slippery slope?
What do you think is making the chipping sound?
How do you think he will feed the chick?
What do you think that dot is?
Now that the mother penguin is back, what do you think the father penguin will do?

If you are interested in seeing other winter books to use in therapy, then check out the Seasonal Teaching Points Book List for a printable copy.