When a large pumpkin gets away from its young owner, Marla, an amusing and lighthearted pursuit ensues. As it rolls down country roads, through a farm’s haystacks, past a milkman and his cart, over a stone bridge, through a city’s bistro, and past a butcher shop, readers will enjoy as each subsequent person joins in the young girl’s chase after the runaway, rollaway pumpkin, making for a silly procession that gets even sillier when the group encounters a marching parade. A pleasing ending has the ever-growing group enjoying a cauldron of pumpkin soup.
This stunning alternative to Halloween and pumpkins book can be used in speech therapy to target predicting. This book is also great for sequencing and discussing a clever ending, as well as targeting /p/, /d/, /er/, /y/, /lz, /f/, and /r/ sounds! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using The Roll-Away Pumpkin in speech therapy below:
Frequent Speech Sounds:
/p/ initial and medial
/d/ initial
/er/ final
/r/ initial
/f/ medial
/y/ initial (yells)
/lz/ final
/sh/ initial
Themes:
pumpkins
Halloween alternative
Book Details:
The Roll-Away Pumpkin
Key Teaching Concepts
complete episode
problem solving
sequencing
predicting
text features
repetitive text
order of people and places the pumpkin passes
order of people that try to help catch the pumpkin
bold text for emphasis
moving text
dialogue
repetitive text
Where do you think the pumpkin will roll off to?
Who do you think will go after it with her next?
What do you think Maria will do with the pumpkin?
What do you think she will do next time she has a big pumpkin?
Maria Little’s giant pumpkin is rolling away! Join in as various townspeople try to help. In the end, Maria catches the pumpkin and uses it to feed all of the townspeople.
If you are interested in seeing other Halloween Alternative books to use in therapy, then check out the Seasonal Teaching Points Book List for a printable copy.
If you are interested in seeing other pumpkins books to use in therapy, then check out the Themed Key Teaching Points Book List for a printable copy.
