I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie, book of the month
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie is a knockoff from the classic children’s song, “I know an old lady who swallowed a fly.”
This is a great repetitive book I use with the kids to get ready for Thanksgiving. The book chronicles a lady who goes through and eats certain Thanksgiving items.
In therapy, I have cutouts of all the various items that the kids hold. When it’s their turn, the visuals may serve as a reminder to help them remember their word. At the end, my older kids are required to do a summary and may use the visuals to help them complete it. However, that’s further down the line for Ashlynn.
For now, I gave her the word “pie” since this another bilabial she is still mastering. In addition, it’s also one of the speech words used in the Kaufman apraxia card set. As before, I read the sentence, “She swallowed the cider to moisten the___, the Thanksgiving___ which was really to dry…” pausing and pointing to her visual to remind her to say the word.
By the end of the book, she was doing great and said “pie” in the cutest voice when I would pause for her to complete the sentence. Her daddy even stopped in the hallway the other night to listen as we were reading it before bed.