LLA Therapy intern, Kelly Dugan, blogs about fall books for speech and language development.
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“We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt” by Steve Metzger
This book has easy, rhyming text and fun sound effects
that will delight and engage children. This book is a great tool to learn
different types of leaves and trees. After reading, venture outside to see if
you can find different trees and leaves of your own!
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“Let It
Fall” by
Maryann Cocca-Leffler
This book depicts the colorful scenery of fall and
celebrates all the seasonal awe of autumn. The vocabulary and cute pictures are
great for preschool ages. This book plays into rhyming words, so you can work with your child
to identify the rhyming words in the text.
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“There
Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves” by Lucille Colandro
This book talks about building a scarecrow. You can
discuss the steps and items needed to build your own scarecrow while
incorporating fall vocabulary. The receptive nature of this book along with the
silliness is sure to be enjoyed by preschool and early elementary aged kids.
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“Apples
and Pumpkins” by Anne
F. Rockwell
This story is a perfect book to read before going to
an apple orchard or pumpkin patch. The little girl in this book spends a
glorious fall day picking apples and searching for the perfect pumpkin.
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“The
Busy Little Squirrel” by Nancy Tafuri
Great pictures with repetitive language and simple
sentences. The fall vocabulary makes this one a perfect fit for a large age range.
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“By The
Light of the Harvest Moon” by Harriet Ziefert
When the harvest moon rises, something magical takes
place. The leaves begin to dance on the wind and soon the pumpkin patch is
alive with leaf people celebrating the season. To extend the book, create
activities that mimic what the leaf children do in the book such as “stacking
the pumpkins” or
make a dessert surprise like the leaf parents did.
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“Apple
Trouble” by
Ragnhild Scamell
This is simply a fun book with intentions of
teaching children to help each other and respect each other. A hedgehog gets
items stuck to her spines and needs help from her friends to get them off. It's
a good book for counting ("one apple, and one, two, three brown nuts on
her back!"), problem solving ("she's going to dive in the water, do
you think that will work?") and for talking about helping
other people.
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“The
Apple Pie Tree” by Zoe Hall
This is a story about a little girl and her sister who
likes to make apple pies with the apples from her apple tree. The young girl
explains the process the tree must go through in order for the apples to be
ready and then to be picked and made into apple pie. The last page of the book gives a
recipe for homemade apple pie that would be fun to try with your child to work
on following directions and sequencing skills.
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