I’ll confess to feeling a bit confused about them when we received them - they have zero words, after all! There’s so much emphasis on reading to your kids, so how could these books really be reading? Well, we sat down and “read” these books, and not surprisingly, they became our favorites too.

Little Fox in the Forest by Stephanie GraeginĪ few of the books we received when my kids were babies are on Laura’s list, including Good Dog, Carl and Goodnight, Gorilla.

The Hello Clinic’s favorite wordless picture books for speech therapy With that in mind, I asked Laura to compile a list of her favorites.

In speech therapy, we use wordless picture books to target vocabulary-building, narrative development, story retell, sequencing and temporal terms, describing, prediction and inference, perspective-taking and reading nonverbals, answering wh-questions, and so much more. Not only do wordless picture books allow you to exercise your creative muscle, they provide many receptive and expressive language opportunities as well.

etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es). A clever twist on the Goldilocks talethis time, a baby bear invades a cabin while its human inhabitants are. And, of course, we love books here at the clinic! Using wordless picture books in speech therapy might seem a bit confusing to some, but they’re actually one of the best tools we have when evaluating skills and working with kids on all sorts of speech and language goals. Deep in the Forest by Brinton Turkle, September 10, 1987, Puffin edition, Paperback. A curious bear explores a cabin in the forest with disastrous results. And they don’t have any tiny pieces that can get lost or inadvertently stepped on. Buy a cheap copy of Deep in the Forest (Picture Puffins) book by Brinton Turkle. Summary A curious bear explores a cabin in the forest with disastrous results. It is assumed that prior to this activity, students will have experienced many read-aloud activities in which theyve talked about. I always appreciated it when my kids were given books as gifts. Format Book Published New York : Dutton, c1976. Copies of Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola and/or Deep in the Forest by Brinton Turkle, or any other wordless book with a clear story line and detailed pictures that support the unwritten text.