18+ Bear Themed Books for Speech and Language Therapy

There are so many bear themed books, it’s always so hard to choose just a few to use in speech therapy sessions.

You can use a bear theme all year round, or talk about bears and hibernation during the winter months. A bear and hibernation theme is perfect for speech and language therapy because you can use it across multiple months (e.g., December, January, AND February!).

There are so many types of bears, you could break your bear theme into subthemes such as polar bears and panda bears.

Here are 18+ bear themed books to use in your speech therapy sessions the next couple of months.

Bear Themed Books for Speech Therapy:

• P.B. Bear series by Lee Davis (21 books total including P.B. Bear’s School Day)
• Bear series by Karma Wilson (13 books total including Bear Wants More and Bear Snores On)
• Mother Bruce series by Ryan T. Higgins (9 books total including Hotel Bruce, Out Cold, and Bruce’s Big Move)
• Bears on Chairs series by Shirley Parenteau (6 books total including Bears in the Snow and Bears in the Bath)
• The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood
• The Teddy Bears’ Picnic by Jimmy Kennedy
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear series by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle (5 books total including Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?)
• Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris
• Tiptoe Joe by Ginger Foglesong Gibson
• Spring is Here: A Bear and a Mole Story by Will Hillenbrand
• Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! series by Maureen Wright (3 books total including Sneeze, Big Bear, Sneeze! and Share, Big Bear, Share!)
• Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
• A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen
• The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach
• That’s Not My Panda by Usborne Books (from the That’s Not My… series)
• Mr. Panda series by Steve Antony (8 books total including Please, Mr. Panda and I’ll Wait, Mr. Panda)
• The Panda Problem by Deborah Underwood
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears (various authors)

The easiest way to plan a session is to choose a book and pair it with themed activities. One easy activity to pair with one of these books is to sing “We’re Going On a Bear Hunt.”

Take the headache out of planning what to do for every mixed group, by choosing books and activities that work for multiple groups!

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Targeting following directions is such a great way to hit multiple goals at once. There are so many ways to implement and use them with mixed groups. 

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➡️Includes enough activities for multiple sessions including 260 differentiated directions!

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