/t/ initial and medial
/er/ medial
/l/ final
summer
counting
It’s a peaceful day at the pond as ten timid turtles bask in the sun. But wait! A bullfrog leaps, a rabbit rustles, deer appear, a chickadee chirps, and the turtles dive one by one into the water. Splash!
This fun counting and rhyming summer book can be used in speech therapy to address predicting, describing, and sequencing. It is also great for /t/, /er/, and /l/ sounds! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Turtle Splash! in speech therapy below:
action sequence
vocabulary
sequencing
illustration study
predicting
adjectives
verbs (present progressive)
verbs (third person singular)
verbs (regular past tense)
phonological awareness
order of animals that come by and turtles that go to bed
timid, lounging, startled, care, scampers, beside, shore, mallard, idle, polliwogs, drowsy, flutters, beneath, lonely
adjectives
verbs (present progressive)
verbs (third person singular)
verbs (regular past tense)
rhyming
What do you think is going to happen next?
How many turtles do you think there will be next?
What do you think will they do in the water?
If you are interested in seeing other summer books to use in therapy, then check out the Narrative Teaching Points Book List for a printable copy.
