We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to catch a big one. Will you come too? Join a father and his four young children as they cross a field of tall, wavy grass, wade through a deep, cold river, struggle through swampy mud, find their way through a big, dark forest, fight through a whirling snowstorm, and enter finally enter a narrow, gloomy cave. What will they find there? You’ll have to read on to find out!
This fun repetitive forest book can be used in speech therapy to target /w/, /ear/, /ng/, /g/, /b/, /air/, /k/, /ch/, /t/, /thr/ and /s/ blend sounds! It is also great for describing and for targeting vocabulary and sequencing! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using We’re Going On a Bear Hunt in speech therapy below:
Frequent Speech Sounds:
/g/ initial
/k/ initial
/w/ initial
/b/ initial
/thr/ initial
/sk/ initial
/sw/ initial
/spl/ initial
/skw/ initial
/st/ initial
/sn/ initial
/ear/ final
/ng/ final
/air/ final
/ch/ final
/er/ final
Themes:
forest
non-seasonal
Book Details:
We’re Going On a Bear Hunt
Key Teaching Concepts
action sequence
vocabulary
sequencing
illustration study
predicting
adjectives
prepositional phrases
negation
contractions
repetitive text
order of obstacles they have to go through on their bear hunt
through, grass, deep, river, thick, mud, dark, forest, swirl, whirl, narrow, gloomy, cave
onomatopoeias
adjectives
prepositional phrases
negation
contractions
repetitive text
exclamation marks
How do you think they feel going through each obstacle?
How do they feel when they see the bear?
Where do you think they will go to find a bear?
What do you think will be the next obstacle?
How do you think they will get across?
What do you think they see in the cave?
What will they do next?