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using The Wide-Mouthed Frog in speech therapy
Frequent Speech Sounds:

/w/ initial
/m/ initial and medial
/fr/ initial
/g/ final
/fl/ initial
/z/ final
/d/ initial
/y/ initial
/s/ initial

Themes:

spring
summer
pond

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

The Wide-Mouthed Frog

By Keith Faulkner

From the Okefenokee Swamp comes a frog with a wide mouth that he just loves to use. He’s particularly interested in the eating habits of other creatures found in the great outdoors, from the blue-feathere bird to a furry brown mouse. Until one day, he meets a big green animal with lots of teeth who finds wide-mouthed frogs simply delicious.

This funny pop-up spring, pond, and summer book can be used in speech therapy to address sequencing and predicting. It is also great for describing with adjectives and verbs as well as for targeting /w/, /m/, /fr/, /g/, /fl/ and /z/ sounds! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using The Wide-Mouthed Frog in speech therapy below:

Key Teaching Concepts

Narrative Structure:

complete episode

Narrative Concepts:

vocabulary
sequencing
illustration study
predicting
adjectives
verbs (action)
verbs (present progressive)
text features

Sequencing:

order of animals that the frog greets (blue bird, brown mouse, green alligator
order of what the animals eat (fly, worms and slugs, seeds and berries, wide-mouthed frogs)

Vocabulary:

wide, wriggly, slugs, pointy, beak, furry, crunchy, seeds, berries, wriggling, alligator, sharp, delicious, gulp, pucker

Grammar:

adjectives
verbs (action)
verbs (present progressive)

Text Features:

change in text size
dialogue
repetitive text
ellipses
repetitive text

Predicting:

Who do you think he will ask next?
What do you think will happen when he sees the alligator?

If you are interested in using The Wide-Mouthed Frog and other pond- themed books in speech therapy, then check out these print-&-go cheat sheets. Perfect for when you don’t need a full book companion. 

If you are interested in seeing other spring and summer books to use in therapy, then check out the Seasonal Teaching Points Book List for a printable copy.