speech and language teaching concepts for the house that jack built in speech therapy​
Frequent Speech Sounds:

/h/ initial
/s/ final
/j/ initial “Jack”
/l/ initial
/r/ initial and medial
/ch/ initial
/th/ voiced

Themes:

miscellaneous

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

The House that Jack Built

By J. P. Miller

This rollicking rhyme tells the story of a very important house—the house that Jack built—around which wacky things happen to animals and people alike! It’s a shining example of how one event can spawn a whole series of mishaps. Best of all, it’s fun to read aloud!

This classic cumulative book can be used in speech therapy to address motor speech planning with the repetitive text and cumulative text. It is also great for sequencing and for targeting regular past tense verbs! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using The House that Jack Built in speech therapy below: 

Key Teaching Concepts

Narrative Structure:

action sequence
cumulative text

Narrative Concepts:

repetitive text
verbs (regular past tense)
phonological awareness
sequencing

Sequencing:

order of animals and people encountered in the story

Vocabulary:

forlorn, crumpled, tossed, worried, morn, tattered, sowing

Grammar:

verbs (regular past tense)

Text Features:

repetitive text

Phonological Awareness:

rhyming