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In the month of October, there are so many fun themes and books to use, like pumpkins, the fall season, or Monsters. For SLPs that can do a Halloween theme, pulling out the book Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson for your literacy-based speech therapy sessions is an engaging story that you can adapt for many goals. I will share all the BEST room on the broom speech therapy lesson plan ideas to help you adapt this book for your caseload.
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Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson is a great story for sequencing and story elements. If you can’t check it out at the library or buy, using the YouTube read-aloud works well. In the themed therapy SLP membership we have a book cheat sheet and companion activities for this set.
You can make your own room on the broom story retell kit with ideas from The Imagination Tree or grab this set on Amazon for character props. For plush story props, there is a fun eleven inch dragon and a fifteen-inch witch on Amazon. You can use these for acting out the story elements, doing verb actions or teaching spatial concepts. If you have a felt board, these story felt pieces are great for comprehension, and allowing kids to retell the story in their own words. Get a fun cauldron to put the story props inside or use for teaching spatial concepts. This set of cauldrons would be great for teaching superlatives for big, bigger, biggest.
Most SLPs working in the schools have mixed groups, so using a book is really helpful for targeting speech sound and language goals. Here are some FUN room on the broom speech therapy activities that will help you get those higher trials in your sessions:
Use mini-cauldrons and your mini trinkets to make a festive articulation or phonology brew, just like how the witch in the story made a spell with her wand and cauldron.
Print out these room on the broom articulation worksheets to use in your sessions, and then send the homework sheets home for additional practice.
For an open-ended game that you can use for both articulation and language groups, my flying broomsticks game would be fun to pair with this book.
Another open-ended witch game would to be use the set of 3 cauldrons that I linked above and play a paper toss game. Whoever can get their crumbled paper in the cauldron earns a point.
If you have time to make some dragon toilet paper crafts, this can be a fun prop to get your preschoolers and early elementary students to practice their speech sounds. Put out some mini trinkets and have them blow fire on the trinket or card that they are practicing.
The mama workshop has a cute and easy popsicle wand craft and paper bow that you can use in a scavenger hunt around your speech room. You can give students preposition clues or have them practice their speech words every time they find an item. I love making a craft with students and then using it as a prop for teaching spatial concepts with items. Pencils to pigtails has a cute broom sequencing craft that is great for story retell.
While reading the story, you can bring in a broomstick or your own broom from home and pretend to be the witch. Have students get on the broomstick as the cat, frog, dog, and bird. Primary Playground has a free sequencing worksheet that helps kids decide what happened first, middle, and ending in the story. Days with Grey made this adorable DIY story retell kit with a paper towel roll, popsicle sticks, construction paper and a few other supplies. It’s perfect for a hands-on room on the broom sequencing activity.
For your students working on stop, go, fast, slow, you can play broomstick red light, green light. Bring in brooms from your home, or get some at the Dollar Tree. Have students get on their broom, and when you show them the go sign, they can head to the finish line. When the stop sign goes up, they must fly down and stop. Whoever gets to the finish line wins.
To help students work on story retell, using this Room on the Broom song is perfect for putting music to the story. There are other fun Halloween songs that fit a witch theme that would be fun for language, and vocabulary. Here are some songs that I found that would pair well with the book and be fun to do in small group or a whole class lesson:
Do you have a fun speech or language activity for the book, Room on the Broom? Share in the comments or tag me on Instagram.
