LITTLE SPEECH LIFE

Need ideas on the best books for little ones, here you go!

These are staples in our household and from an SLP perspective I enjoy these for other reasons as well!

1. Lift the flap or other interactive books are a game changer for so many reasons!
   • They allow the child to interact with the story.
   • They allow an opportunity for the child to ask for help; either through sign, speech device or voice.
   • They add an element of surprise.
   • They allow for core words “open!” or gestalts “let’s open it”.
   • They are inherently more fun!

These are some of my favorite lift the flap books. (these are affiliate links but again, I LOVE THESE BOOKS and we read them EVERYDAY!)

• Dear Zoo
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• Who Said Moo
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• Open the Barn Door
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• Where’s Spot?
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• Where’s the Giraffe?
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2. Books that are musical in some way and either include musical buttons or can be sung easily!

• Children are drawn to music and recognize intonation and melody early on!
• Again, it makes the books more interesting!
• It is again, interactive and more fun for everyone involved!
• It supports movement which is our gateway to language! Let kiddos move and provide sensory supports as necessary. It is very hard to access communication when sensory needs are not met.

These are some of our favorite music books!

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3. Single picture books!

• Single picture books are great for vocabulary development and the repetition is great!
• Now we could label each page over and over again, which is okay, but we can also get creative and interact with the picture! I hope to video this but for example, if it’s a picture of a bathtub with bubbles, pop the bubbles “pop pop pop”. Or if it is a picture of a slide, model, ” up up up DOWN!!”, or “whee!!”.

Here are a few favorites in our house!

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4. Repetitive Books!

• We all know these books, Brown Bear, Going on a Bear Hunt, Five Little Monkeys!
• These books offer repetition of grammatical structures and are predictable, which our kids LOVE!
• They also have carrier phrases embedded so you can leave out parts and allow your child to fill them in AND because they are predictable, that will be easier to do as they have heard them so often!
• You can get creative! Ditch the sentence they used and try something else like “scary bear scary bear, what did you hear”, “i heard a loud duck quacking at me”.

Here are my favorites!

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5. Touch and Feel Books!

• These are wonderful! They offer a sensory experience! All children are exploring through touch and mouthing at this age and touch and feel books support this!
• They are more entertaining because they are more interactive! Interactions with the book build connections to the narrative!
• They offer more opportunities to describe how it feels which means……(drum roll please)….MORE LANGUAGE!

These are on repeat in our house!

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AND this one has sound as well! Double win!

• LINK: https://amzn.to/3UnQo4H

Some may say this one is not exactly a touch and feel but I LOVE THESE! They are interactive, they make a noise, they are single picture and the pictures are detailed! Get them all!

I absolutely adore books and especially kids books. Finding new books and thinking about how to read them is something I really love doing! However, seeing a child begin to enjoy books because of how you model it, is EVEN BETTER! I hope to video different ways to interact with books to give you more ideas but these are a great place to start! HAPPY READING!