Children’s Books That Use Semantic and Syntactic Patterns Commonly Targeted in Language Intervention
ing ending
Audrey Wood, The Napping House
Marie Hall Ets, In the Forest
Ruth Young, Golden Bear
Steven Kellog, A-Hunting We will Go
Pronouns
Eric Carle, The Very Busy Spider
Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Nicki Weiss, Where Does the Brown Bear Go?
Robert Kraus, Herman the Helper
Objective
Bill Martin Jr., Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Steven Kellog, Can I Keep Him?
Mercer Mayer, Just My Friend and Me
Mercer Mayer, Just Me and My Little Sister
Possessive
Judith Viorst, My Mamma Says
Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Marc Brown, Arthur’s Nose
Robert Kraus, Whose Mouse Are You?
Reflexive
Margot Zemach, The Little Red Hen
Idries Shah, The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water
Claude Lebrun, Little Brown Bear Dresses Himself
Mercer Mayer, All by Myself
Prepositions
Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum
Ed Emberley, Klippity Klop
Mercer Mayer, There’s an Alligator Under My Bed
Pat Hutchins, Rosie’s Walk
Present Tense Verbs
Noelle Carter, My House
P.D. Eastman, Are You My Mother?
Past Tense Verbs
Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Ezra J. Keats, Over in the Meadow
Ezra J. Keats, Peter’s Chair
Ted Aronold, Green Wilma
(Be) (verb)ing
Lydia Dabkovich, Sleepy Bear
Margaret Wise Brown, The Runaway Bunny
Mirra Ginsburg, The Chick and the Duckling
Paul Galdone, Henny Penny
Modal auxiliaries
Ann Jonas, Where Can It Be?
Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss, Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Margot Zemach, The Little Red Hen
Negatives
Eric Carle, The Very Busy Spider
Charles G. Shaw, It looked Like Spilt Milk
Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham
Marilyn Sadler, It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny
Wh- questions
Bill Martin Jr., Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr., Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Diane Good, Where’s Our Mama?
Nicki Weiss, Where Does the Brown Bear Go?
Do insertion
Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham
Mary Serfozo, Who Said Red?
Shigeo Watanabe, How Do I Put It On?
Stan and Jan Berenstain, The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree
Yes/No
Masayuki Yabuuchi, Whose Footprints?
Nancy Hellen, The Bus Stop
P.D. Eastman, Are You My Mother?
Rose Greydanus, Double Trouble
Have auxiliary
Shigeo Watanabe, Where’s My Daddy?
Paul Galdone, The Gingerbread Boy
Relative Clauses
Maurice Sendak, One Was Johnny
Nancy Tafuri, This Is the Farmer
P. Adams, There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly
Wh compliment
Margaret Wise Brown, Where Have You Been?
If clause
Chris Riddell, The Trouble with Elephants
Judi Barrett, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Laura Numeroff, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Margaret Wise Brown, The Runaway Bunny
But clause
Mercer Mayer, Just For You
Because clause
Laurel Portet-Gaylord, I Love Daddy Because
Steve Zuckman & Steve Edelman, It’s a Good Thing |