Kids will love watching Tiptoe Joe lead a group of his animal friends on an adventure. Joe instructs his buddies to be as quiet as possible. They tiptoe—as well as they can on their hooves, claws, and furry feet—through a field, across a fallen log leading over a stream, through the woods, and up a hill. When they arrive at Joe’s, he shows them something very special. It’s his brand-new baby bear cubs, fast asleep!
This adorable repetitive, rhyming forest book can be used in speech therapy to target forest animals and sequencing. It is also great for making predictions! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Tiptoe Joe in speech therapy below:
Frequent Speech Sounds:
/k/ initial
/m/ initial and final
/th/ medial and final
/sh/ initial
/s/ initial
/kr/ medial
/n/ initial
/t/ initial and medial
Themes:
forest
non-seasonal
Book Details:
Diverse Characters: N/A
Age Recommendation: Early Childhood, Elementary
Tiptoe Joe
By Ginger Foglesong Gibson
Key Teaching Concepts
Narrative Structure:
action sequence
Narrative Concepts:
sequencing
illustration study
figurative language
predicting
phonological awareness
repetitive text
Sequencing:
order of animals Joe gets to follow him
Vocabulary:
tiptoe, donkey, rabbit, turkey, moose, owl, beaver
Figurative Language:
onomatopeias (clop, thump, flap, thud, swish, slap)
Text Features:
repetitive text
capitals
enlarged text for emphasis
Phonological Awareness:
rhyming
Inferencing:
Why do you think they have to be quiet?
Predicting:
What do you think he wants them to see?
What animal do you think he will get next?