It feels like the entire United States has been transformed into a winter wonderland, making it the perfect time to dive into winter-themed speech therapy activities! Today, we're sharing some of our favorite picture books that capture the magic of the season, along with speech therapy tasks you can target using these delightful stories.
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📊Publisher: Two Lions
✏️ Summary:
1 + 1 = 2 snowmen.
3 + 4 = 7 snowmen.
5 + 6 = 11 snowmen.
Finally, 100 snowmen!
As you count and add, watch the snowmen enjoy a snowball fight, make funny faces, play hide-and-seek— and just plain have fun. And you’ll have fun, too!
👄 Speech Sounds: S blends, R, S
🧠 Language: math concepts, describing,
📱 AAC: more, one, all
👑 Book Type: picture book
🌳 Themes: winter, snowmen, counting
👦🏽 👧🏻 Ages: Elementary
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📊Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
✏️ Summary: My favorite Wordless Picture Book! Winner of the 2018 Caldecott Medal A girl is lost in a snowstorm. A wolf cub is lost, too. How will they find their way home? Paintings rich with feeling tell this satisfying story of friendship and trust. Here is a book set on a wintry night that will spark imaginations and warm hearts, from Matthew Cordell, author of Trouble Gum and Another Brother.
👄 Speech Sounds: S blends, F
🧠 Language: inferencing, wh questions, describing, narrative skills
📱 AAC: go, find, help
👑 Book Type: wordless picture book, picture book
🌳 Themes: winter
👦🏽 👧🏻 Ages: Preschool, Elementary
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📊Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
✏️ Summary: This is one of Lauren's daughter's favorite books. Tacky’s quirky behavior initially annoys his perfect companions, but in the end, his uniqueness saves the day.
👄 Speech Sounds: K, L, S
🧠 Language: Social Language, Problem Solving, Pragmatics, Same/Different,
📱 AAC: Same, Different, Go, Look, It
👑 Book Type: Picture Book
🌳 Themes: Social, Winter
👦🏽 👧🏻 Ages: Preschool, Elementary
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📊Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
✏️ Summary: In this almost wordless picture book, a host of woodland creatures take a child’s sled for a nighttime joy ride. Their whimsical ride is gorgeously depicted in bold watercolor, complemented by humorous expressions and pitch-perfect sound effects. With a timeless tone and classic characters, RED SLED will become a wintertime favorite.
👄 Speech Sounds: S blends, R, Environmental sounds
🧠 Language: Inferencing, Predicting, Describing, WH questions
📱 AAC: go, stop, up, down
👑 Book Type: wordless picture book, picture book
🌳 Themes: winter
👦🏽 👧🏻 Ages: EI, Preschool, Elementary
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📊Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
✏️ Summary: Claudia loves butterflies. Blue ones. Yellow ones. Purple ones with dots. And since she can’t take them home, she paints them in all their beautiful colors. But when winter comes, there are no more butterflies to paint…until she finds a little moth. Suddenly, Claudia sees winter in a whole new light.
👄 Speech Sounds: TH, K, Multisyllable,
🧠 Language: Same/Different, Lifecycle, Easy to tie to nonfiction study of butterflies/moth, cause/effect
📱 AAC: Look, go, same, there, it
👑 Book Type: picture book, fiction
🌳 Themes: winter, bugs, butterflies, lifecycle, art
👦🏽 👧🏻 Ages: Preschool, Elementary
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📊Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
✏️ Summary: A lemonade stand in winter? Yes, that’s exactly what Pauline and John-John intend to have, selling lemonade and limeade–and also lemon-limeade. With a catchy refrain (Lemon lemon LIME, Lemon LIMEADE! Lemon lemon LIME, Lemon LEMONADE!), plus simple math concepts throughout, here is a read-aloud that’s great for storytime and classroom use, and is sure to be a hit among the legions of Jenkins and Karas fans.
👄 Speech Sounds: L (soooooo many L’s haha), R
🧠 Language: math concepts, inferencing, sequencing, cause/effect, problem solving
📱 AAC: no, some, more, done
👑 Book Type: Picture Book, Diverse Characters
🌳 Themes: Winter, Money, Math
👦🏽 👧🏻 Ages: Preschool, Elementary
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📊Publisher: Templar
✏️ Summary: Every day, lumberjack Jim Hickory heads into the forest with his trusty ax and chops down trees. Unfortunately, all sorts of creatures, including a bird, a porcupine, and a beaver, lose their homes in the process, so Jim gives them a home in his beard — until one day it all gets to be too much. Time for Jim to come up with a better solution! This funny story carries a green message.
👄 Speech Sounds: J, L, vocalic R, CH, F, S blends
🧠 Language: inferencing, predicting, WH questions, comprehension
📱 AAC: down, up, in, on, off
👑 Book Type: picture book
🌳 Themes: winter, forest animals,
👦🏽 👧🏻 Ages: Preschool, Elementary
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📊Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
✏️ Summary: Blizzard is based on John Rocco’s childhood experience during the now infamous Blizzard of 1978, which brought fifty-three inches of snow to his town in Rhode Island. Told with a brief text and dynamic illustrations, the book opens with a boy’s excitement upon seeing the first snowflake fall outside his classroom window. It ends with the neighborhood’s immense relief upon seeing the first snowplow break through on their street. In between the boy watches his familiar landscape transform into something alien, and readers watch him transform into a hero who puts the needs of others first. John uses an increasing amount of white space in his playful images, which include a gatefold spread of the boy’s expedition to the store. This book about the wonder of a winter storm is as delicious as a mug of hot cocoa by the fire on a snowy day.
👄 Speech Sounds: L blends, Z, S blends
🧠 Language: Predicting, Inferencing, Describing, Retelling,
📱 AAC: More, Go, Out
👑 Book Type: Picture Book
🌳 Themes: Winter, Weather
👦🏽 👧🏻 Ages: Preschool, Elementary, Big Kids
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What are your favorite picture books with the winter theme? Comment and let us know!
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