Rhyme follows rhyme as layer after layer of winter clothing (“bunchy and hot, wrinkled a lot, stiff in the knee, and too big for me!”) is first put on and then taken off to the relief of the child bundled inside. Clever rebuses and jaunty illustrations make The Jacket I Wear in the Snow especially fun for prereaders and new readers.
This classic winter book can be used in speech therapy to address grammar including: adjectives, verbs (actions), and verbs (regular past tense). It is also great for sequencing and targeting sounds such as /th/ initial, /j/ initial, /sn/, and /air/! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using The Jacket I Wear in the Snow in speech therapy below: