Baby Animals (printable book)

Get out your offsprings' stuffed animals and enjoy this book with your speech kids.  I'm sure all of you moms out there know what I mean.  I stole (borrowed) a lot of my daughters' toys for therapy, and still have a large bag of beanie babies sitting in the corner of my speech room waiting for books about furry creatures...a book like this!  

I grabbed the original version of "Baby Farm Animals" from Tarheel Reader, and then embellished it with a bit of dialogue, a new last page, and icons for kids to match.  When cutting out the icons to match in the book, I would leave the two word phrases together (e.g. 'baby horse'--don't cut out 'baby' separately).  It makes for less of a cluttered experience. 

Check out the pictures---who wouldn't love the baby dog?
   This book is great for April---baby animals seem to be born then!   Work with the kids on many levels:

• basic matching
• combining two words
• commenting (what do you think the kitten is saying?)
• talking about remote events (Do you have a pet?  What does it do?)
• Making choices (What animal do you like the best?  Why?)

If you think of other uses, add a comment!  

 Click here to download the book and icons.

Have fun!

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