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Literacy-Based Speech Language Therapy Activities
Accordion Books
A fun take-home activity to use with cumulative stories is an accordion book that opens up to more
and pictures with each turn of the page. The student can glue each picture on the strip and by the
end, they have a completely sequenced story. Here is an example from The Gigantic Turnip and all the
help that the farmer gets to try to pull the turnip out of the ground.
How to Make an Accordion Book.
Take an 8.5×11 piece of paper and cut it in half length-wise. If it is a long story, tape the
two short ends of each half sheet together, so you have one very long strip of paper.
Fold the paper in half, width wise. Open the paper and fold the ends of the paper, in equal
sized sections, towards the midline. If you are using an 11 inch long piece of paper, you will
have a total of 6 equal sized sections.
On one side of the paper you will put pictures from the story in REVERSE order, from
RIGHT to LEFT:
1. Picture of the problem, or initiating event
2. First attempt at the solution/First event in the cumulative sequence
3. Second attempt at the solution/Second event in the cumulative sequence
4. Third attempt at the solution/Third event in the cumulative sequence
5. Fourth attempt at the solution/Fourth event in the cumulative sequence
6. Picture of the resolution of the story and/or the words “The End!”
7. On the other side of the paper, put the title of the story on the second section (when
going from LEFT to RIGHT). The rest of the sections on this side will be left blank.
8. Now, turn the paper back over and fold in each section over the one in front of it,
folding from LEFT to RIGHT. The title page should appear on the front after the last
fold.
9. To read your accordion book, open the title page first and you’ll see the initiating event.
Keep unfolding your book to show the sequential attempts at the solution. The previous
attempts will still be showing, so you can repeat each attempt at solving the problem
(much like what is done in these cumulative stories).
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