This clever send-up of every child’s biggest challenge — being patient! — is a STEM-friendly, laugh-out-loud comedy about metamorphosis. Ross Burach’s hilarious, tongue-in-cheek exploration of metamorphosis will make you flutter with glee, while also providing real facts about how caterpillars transform into butterflies.
This quirky spring book can be used in speech therapy to address social/emotional issues like patience, self-talk, and self-doubt. It is also great for noticing character expressions, using varying tones of voice, targeting predicting, as well as /er/ and /fl/ sounds! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using The Very Impatient Caterpillar in speech therapy below: