When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with “terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth, and terrible jaws.” But will Mouse’s frightful description be enough to scare off his foes? After all, there’s no such thing as a gruffalo . . . is there?
This clever and comical picture book can be used in speech therapy to address inferencing and sequencing. It is also great for targeting /gr/, /f/, and /l/ with high frequency of “Gruffalo.” noticing character expressions and for targeting comparing and contrasting as well as for describing! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using The Gruffalo in speech therapy below:
