Deep Dive into Using The Golden Acorn in Speech Therapy – Episode 69

With fall just around the corner, we know many teachers and SLPs are eager to bring in some fall-themed books into their classrooms and therapy sessions. However, not every fall-themed book is going to give you the content you need to work on a student’s specific goals. That’s why during our deep dive episodes, we like to select books that are fun and engaging while also having relevant speech and language goals and key concepts to use with your students. So, during this episode, we’re doing a deep dive into The Golden Acorn by Katie Hudson and sharing why we’re pulling this book off our shelf.

With so many fun and interactive fall books, why would you want to choose The Golden Acorn to use during your speech therapy sessions? We’re breaking down all the reasons, which include the book being a complete episode, social-emotional concepts, character analysis, sequencing of events, and a variety of speech sounds. Having a positive and uplifting theme and message is a major reason why we’re choosing this book, and we also discuss how this book’s message ties into character growth. We believe this is so important as it relates to a student’s understanding of the book and real life. There’s so much this book has to offer students, so we hope after our deep dive into The Golden Acorn, it will become a part of your classroom library and speech therapy sessions to come!

Topics Discussed:

• The background behind our deep dive episodes and the kinds of concepts and speech and language goals you’ll get from them
• A list of key concepts as reasons for why we’re pulling The Golden Acorn off our shelf and using it during speech therapy sessions
• Why the theme/message and character analysis are two important concepts that are highlighted in this book
• Examples from the text to show students a variety of key concepts, along with discussion questions to ask your students