The Boat Ride Outing Book Companion

by rickiblock

Price: 275 points or $2.75 USD

Subjects: speech,holiday

Grades: 14,13,1,2

Description: The Boat Ride is a book companion for Mr. Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham.  This is one of my many favorite predictable books about 2 children and animals who want to go on a boat ride with the man.  Click on pink audio button to hear sentence. There are so many differentiated SLP goals you can target with this book.   1.Auditory recall - answering simple WH questions 2.Animal sound association - meow, ruf, oink, moo, buck, baa, maa 3.1 to 3-word phrases, e.g. put on, animal on, go on boat, uh oh, oh no, fall in water, do not ____, I not _____, actions 4.Match animals the same 5.Fill in the words - Say part of the sentence and child fill in the answer, e.g. The cat says _____, “I will not chase the  bunny” 6.Create your own interactive scene  If you are working with students displaying higher language skills you can target the following goals: Answer higher level negation questions - “What won’t animal do?”  2.Ask a question syntax - asking “Can I go?”, .Syntax - Pronouns, 3rd person S, possessive pronouns, irregular past, 4.Story sequencing - putting all the animals in order, .Cause-effect  - Why did the boat tip?