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Creating Incredible Games that Match Story Content

Goal: English Spanish

Articulation /r/, /s/high use of fricatives /r/, /r/ blends, /s/

Syntax Possessive pronouns, Past tense structure, especially

conditional tense. Descriptions irregular verbs (e.g. tiene, fue,
of body parts and inferencing vió, era)
on the part of the animals as to
what would happen to them if

they met the Gruffalo.

Semantics Body parts- eyes, teeth, claws Body parts- ojos, dientes, garras,
and other invented body parts. etc.

Multiple animals, forest words.

Wh- questions “Where” use every other page. “Qué” use every other page.

Macrostructure- story elements, Sequencing, story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution,
structure, organization of a narrative
initiating event, character intentions and desires, moral)

Rhyme Story Games and Activities.

Rhymes = action and most rhymes have been around for a long time. Do an internet image search
for YOUR BOOK + ACTIVITY and you will find a treasure trove of masks, games, songs,
catapults, to adapt for therapy. The sky is truly the limit. For The Gruffalo, you can even go to

www.Gruffalo.com! Some of our favorites for the Gruffalo include:

 Anatomy charts for the Gruffalo’s amazing body parts.

 Lunch bag puppets to eat the animals with
 Animal story-sequencing activities

 Pantomime hand movements for each repeated rhyme:
o terrible tusks
o terrible claws

o terrible teeth
o in his terrible jaws.

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