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During April, you can use the book; There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick by Lucille Colandro to work on sequencing, vocabulary, AAC CORE words, speech sounds, and story retelling. To bring the book to life in your sessions, bringing in the story retell props can keep your students engaged while working on their speech or language goals. You can make an old lady who swallowed a chick DIY storytelling kit with items you may already have or can get on a budget heading to Dollar Tree during the Easter holiday.
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You can always grab it at your library, but if you want your copy, grab one on Amazon. On YouTube, you can pull up the read-aloud. Get Epic has an audio version of the book that you can pair with the old lady who swallowed a chick sequencing story map visuals that are printable and have Google Slides.
During the Easter holiday, you want to get the old lady who swallowed a chick story props because they are affordable and accessible. Once round up all the props, store them in zipper pouches or plastic containers to pull out for years.
Now that your old lady who swallowed a chick storytelling kit is ready, you can pair it with the book!
As the old lady swallows something, have a student in the group hold onto it. Every time you get to their item in the story, they can hold it up, answer a question, or fill in the blank for the text.
Or, you can read the book using shared book reading strategies and then use the storytelling kit as an extension activity.
Research shows that having students retell a story in their own words using props to reenact helps with comprehension. You can read more about that in this blog post with the research article linked.
Check out this story prop kit for the book Apple Trouble HERE.
If you love having hands-on props to work on storytelling and other language skills but don’t have the time to gather supplies, there are other ready-to-go options.
Etsy has an old lady who swallowed a chick puppet kit.
For a sensory bin kit and book, check out this set on Etsy.
To have story retell digital visuals, use the animated Google Slides in my Old Lady book story maps.
If you can do Easter-themed activities with your students, check out this blog post for an Easter sensory bin. For SLPs not able to do religious holidays, use a chicken theme! You can still use your plastic eggs, which goes well with a farm theme. I have a blog post with a free push-in lesson plan guide for a chicken theme. Loving these themed ideas? Check out the Themed Therapy SLP membership. We provide themed speech therapy materials for your Prek-5th grade caseload. For April, we have spring, insects, and chores! As an annual member, you can access over 24 themed units simultaneously.
