Language Delays and Halloween Fun
Using Fun Fall Books to Build Vocabulary
Halloween is the celebration of ultimate pretending. Use this opportunity to build vocabulary and language skills in your child.
Do you have a preschooler or beginning reader with special needs? Make sure these language building books are on your Halloween shopping list.
Great Book Number One:
Emma Rose Pumpkin Faces; 12 pp. Scholastic 1997 ISBN 0-590-13454-X $6.95 (Toddler / Preschool Book)
Pumpkin Faces is a playful introduction to describing words, opposites, and emotions. Each glow-in-the-dark page has a different pumpkin face. . . a vocabulary builder for preschoolers . . . a read-aloud for emerging readers. Young readers love to make their own expressions as the book is read. The book offers a great springboard for Halloween crafts as well as an imaginative way to brainstorm how the family pumpkin could be decorated. Pumpkin Faces is sure to be a favorite “read again” story.
Great Book Number Two:
Five Little Pumpkins; 14 pp. Harper Festival 1998 ISBN 0-694-01177-0 $5.95 (Toddler / Preschool Book)
Five Little Pumpkins is a board book remake of the popular children’s rhyme. In addition to the playful, rhyming words, kids are introduced to order words: first, second, etc. Beginning reading and math vocabulary and tons of Halloween fun are the take away values of this book. It is a great alternative to more trick-or-treat sugar for your favorite little goblin.
Great Book Number Three:
Nancy Star The Case of the Missing Pumpkins ; Scholastic 2004 ISBN 0-439-67260-0 (Easy Chapter Book)
Your beginning reader will love helping the calendar club kids solve the mystery of who is taking the pumpkins from the neighborhood porches. Use this opportunity to show your child that you are confident he can read a chapter book. This series is written in a very kid friendly style and level of reading. Don’t forget to check out Star’s other Calendar Club Mysteries . . .She is working toward one for each month!
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