Fiery Tales in My Speech Therapy Room

"Goldilocks and The Three Bears"

I often use fairy tales in my speech room. And guess what? My kids love it.

Albert Einstein once said: 

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. 

If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

In short:

• Storytelling plays an important role in Early Literacy Development. 
• The stories teach children positive problem-solving skills.
• Fairy tales can help children develop emotional resiliency.
• Fairy tales give emphasis to various cross-cultural values and behaviors.
• Fairy tales teach the basics of a story.

"The Three Little Pigs"

Fairy tales are predictable!

• They follow a similar pattern, easy for children to remember and replicate:
• Once Upon a Time
• Royalty (The king and queen…)
• Towers, Castles, Forests on my…(There in the forest stood a tower…)
• Mistreated Characters (Goldilocks, Snow White, Rapunzel, etc.)
• Villans and Heroes
• Magical Characters (Witches, Fairies, etc.)
• Evil Spells
• Acts of Bravery and Heroism
• Happy Endings

"Litlle Red Ridinghood"

There are many goals to target with fairy tales:

• Reading and Listening Comprehension Questions
• Story Sequencing
• Vocabulary Knowledge and Use
• Compound and Complex Sentences
• Story Grammar Elements
• Semantic Flexibility Skills (e.g., Synonyms, Antonyms, Multiple Meaning Words) 
• Verbal Reasoning (Inferencing, Predicting, Negative Questions, etc.)
• Social Cognition Elements (Perspective Taking, Pragmatics, Socioemotional Vocabulary, etc.)

"An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly"

There are plenty of FREEmaterials on the Teachers Pay Teachers website.

Go to https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/ and register. Materials-wise, the sky is the limit!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:fractured%20fairy%20tales%20/Price-Range/Free

"Seven Blide Mice"

Also check the resources organized by Whitney, an SLP from South, GA

http://whitneyslp.com/fairy-tale-activities-for-speech-therapy/

http://whitneyslp.com/using-twisted-fairy-tales-in-speech-therapy/ http://whitneyslp.com/fairy-tale-books-for-speech-therapy/