This little board book introduces young children to the story of how the words to our national anthem, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ came to be written, when Francis Scott Key witnessed a battle in the war of 1812 and memorialized it in a moving poem. In addition, toddlers will learn basic ‘flag manners.’
This simple patriotic/America book can be used in speech therapy to address events leading up to the creation of the Star-Spangled Banner. It is also great for targeting vocabulary and /fl/ and /air/ sounds! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner in speech therapy below: