There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose
Here at Tri County Therapy, books are one of our favorite activities to enhance speech and language development! The book, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose by Lucille Colandro, is a staff pick for February!
Reading with your child at home is a great way to develop language and listening skills. Story book reading together helps develop joint attention, phonemic awareness, and building vocabulary.
Here are some tips to incorporate speech and language development into story book reading:
- Ask various ‘WH-questions’ (who, what, when, where, why) about what is happening in a given picture on the page. This also helps him to work on spatial concepts (in, under, behind, in front), pronouns, sentence structure, and vocabulary skills.
2. Ask comprehension questions throughout and following the story to work on identifying the main idea and details of the book.
3. Ask your child to retell you the story once you have finished the book to work on sequencing skills. You can reinforce this skill with words such as first, next, then, and last.
There are so many fun, free resources online available to help with retell of this story. Your child will have fun “feeding” the Old Lady!