Have you ever picked up the book Bear Wants More and wondered how you could use it in your speech therapy sessions as a busy school-based SLP? And not only that, but trying to determine speech and language therapy targets for your mixed group sessions?
No need to look any further! I have chosen 5 speech and language goals that you can specifically target using this book. Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson is one of my favorite food-themed books to use in my speech therapy sessions.
This adorable book found in Karma Wilson’s “Bear” series is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade students. Bear wakes up in the springtime from his hibernation and is absolutely starving! His forest friends lead him to different sources of food, like berries, to help him out.
I love using this book to target several different speech goals. Here are my top 5 favorite speech and language targets for the book Bear Wants More:
- Adjectives and Descriptive Words
- Core Word: “More”
- Third-Person Singular Verbs
- Prepositions and Spatial Concepts
- Early Syllable Shapes: CV, VC, and CVC Words
Target 1: Adjectives and Descriptive Words
This book has a bunch of descriptive words that are repeated throughout such as “big,” “fresh,” “hungry,” and “thin.” For even more describing opportunities, practice describing what you see in the picture! These photos are simple, yet beautiful and allow for lots of descriptive activities. A few more of the descriptive words include “sweet” and “new.”
Target 2: Core Word “More”
The phrase “But the Bear wants more” is repeated throughout the story, giving you lots of modeling examples of the core word, “more.” This book is perfect for targeting this concept in a functional way, especially with your higher needs students. Have students practice using the word “more” using any of their communication modalities (e.g., saying/speaking, signing, picture exchange, AAC device, etc.). This would be a great word to practice during a structured snack time.
Target 3: Third-Person Singular Verbs
Third-person singular words are found on basically every single page, making this children’s book perfect for targeting verbs with early learners in speech therapy sessions. Several examples include: wants, digs, wakes, hops, etc. There are several third-person singular verbs that would also be great for focusing on Tier 2 vocabulary: nibbles, waddles, roots (verb), paws (verb), and more!
Target 4: Prepositions and Spatial Concepts
Bear Wants More has a bunch of different spatial concepts throughout the story including “outside,” “around,” “on,” “in,” “by,” “through,” and more! Students can point to even more prepositions found in the pictures. Practice these concepts using plastic food items or photos and hiding them around the room. Talk about “where” the item was found.
Target 5: Early Syllable Shapes: CV, VC, CVC
This book has TONS of consonant-vowel (CV), vowel-consonant (VC), and consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words which makes it perfect to target initial and final consonants. These simple syllable shapes also make this book great for working with both apraxia and more severe phonological process students. Some examples of CV, VC, and CVC words include the following:
- CV: he, the
- VC: up, on, is, eat
- CVC: but, bear, more, hare
Now What?
Books are such incredible tools for speech and language therapy sessions, but sometimes it can be difficult to choose the targets to use in therapy!
👉🏾To get you started, I created a list of 10 of the best food-themed books for literacy-based speech therapy that includes a total of 50 speech and language targets. AND, it’s FREE. Check it out below!
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