February Books and Activities for Therapy

Do you use books in your therapy sessions? Books provide all the language learning you need for any session and are a wonderful way to learn functional and relevant seasonal vocabulary. Here are some of my favorite books to use for the month of February and my top targets for each. 

Book Recommendations & Top Targets 

Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright

• S-clusters, sequencing, inferencing, winter vocabulary.

Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner

• Wh- questions, inferencing, winter and occupation vocabulary.

Just Snow Already by Howard McWilliam

• Present progressive verbs/actions, pronouns, emotions/feelings (frustration, waiting, enjoying the moment).

Where is Baby’s Valentine? by Karen Katz

• WH- questions (who, what, where).

Happy Valentine’s Day Mouse by Laura Numeroff 

• Valentine’s concepts/vocabulary, WH-questions (who, what, where), sequencing (how to make a Valentine), describing skills (similarities/differences between Valentines), inferencing.

Little Blue Truck's Valentine by Alice Schertle

• Vocabulary (farm animals), animal sounds, describing (similarities/differences between Valentines).

Valentine’s Themed Therapy Activities 

Dot Sticker Heart 

This simple and easy dot-sticker activity is great for targeting articulation and phonological skills. You can have your child/client practice multiple sounds repetitions while also decorating a festive heart for Valentine’s Day. 

Mini Hearts Sensory Bin 

This simple sensory activity can be used to target articulation and phonological skills, as well as language skills. Simply attach your target cards to the face of each bucket and have your child engage in drill practice. Spruce it up and add mini candy hearts or erasers to drop in the buckets per each trial.

If you are looking to target language skills with younger children, this is a great activity for following directions such as first, next, last, or practicing sequencing skills. For example, have a three-step sequence of pictures and have your child put the pictures in order while placing them in or on the respective buckets. For toddlers/preschoolers, out of the mouthing phase, work on modeling verbs through play (scoop, fill, dump, pour) and basic concepts such as empty/full, first, middle, last.

I hope you enjoyed this "funtastic" blog post!

-Lexie Starnes, MA CCC-SLP