The Best Story Props for Winter's Literature Activities

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Last week, as I was cleaning up the links on some of my older posts, I noticed that Kizclub.com's newest Story Patterns are for The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. This is my favorite winter literature selection for speech/language groups and the story patterns by Kizclub illustrate some of the more unfamiliar vocabulary words found in the book.  Use beautifully drawn pictures as story props to retell the story, define vocabulary, or create a PowerPoint book or game.  And, check out my earlier post The Snowy Day for Speech and Language Therapy.

Here are more story patterns suitable for winter's literature activities. 

Under My Hood I Have a Hat 

The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

Three Little Kittens 

Froggy Gets Dressed

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

The Mitten 

The Hat

Diana

© 2016

35 + Mitten Links and Activities for Speech and Language

I have been working with a co-worker to provide some resources to use with the book, One Mitten by Kristina O'Connell George, and realized that I had gone overboard; however, I now have enough resources for my first post in several months. Enjoy!

One Mitten

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for only $1.00

One Mitten by Kristine O'Connell George is about a young girl who has lost her mitten. This book can easily be paired with many winter themes. 

Find a description of the book, One Mitten, and great ideas for using it in language therapy at The Picture Book Teacher.  Download the cause and effect activity and writing activity. 

One Mitten in the classroom at Kristine O'Connell George.com.

The Mitten Book, by Maria Fleming, can be introduced with any book about mittens - great for teaching actions and verb tense. This can be found at Scholastic's Teacher Express for $.99.  

  

Two songs about mittens, The Mitten Song and Mittens Song, can be found on YouTube.

Talk about winter clothing while reading these PowerPoint books from Tar Heel Reader.org.

• It is Cold. What Will You Wear?
• Brrr..It's Cold!
• Bear's Day Out

Download my Boardmaker Activities found at Boardmaker Online.

• Where is my Mitten? - A Spatial Concepts Book and Activity
• Mitten Match - A color matching activity
• Mitten Patterns - Good for articulation carry-over, answering questions, and reinforcing concepts such as next and after. 

Red Mitten .. Red Mitten .. What Do You See? - a color activity demonstrated on YouTube.

Match The Mittens - Found on Boardmaker Online, describe and match these patterned mittens.

My Cute Graphics has free Mitten clip art for your projects.

Download My Mittens are Soft. Made from the free graphics at My Cute Graphics, this PowerPoint book reinforces the concepts hard and soft. 

Play Mitten, Mitten, Mitten, Glove (or Mitten, Mitten, Mitten, Sock) - A teacher or student gives an item to each student. Most students receive a mitten, but one or two students will receive gloves (or socks). Great activity for answering questions or practicing negations. Who has a mitten? Who does not have a mitten? Is that a mitten? What color is your mitten? What is that? 

The Mitten 

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Find animal masks, games, and many other activities related to The Mitten at Jan Brett's website. Make sure that you use her "search" to find the numerous mitten activities.

Download W is for Winter {Mommy School} and check out the author's suggestions for a "Magical Mitten Day" where all of the activities are focused on the story "The Mitten."

Download The Mitten (KinderReaders FREE SAMPLE Title) - NEW EDITION from A to Z Teacher Stuff. The 87 page download includes a book that is leveled so that the story is offered on four different levels, plus a wordless version. Included are a printable sequencing activity, sight word and vocabulary cards, and a large book for reading aloud. 

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The Mitten - Retelling and Sequencing,  The Mitten Sorting {FREEBIE} – Winter Themed Animal Sorting Activity, and The Mitten Emergent Reader are free from Teachers pay Teachers. There are many, many, extremely creative activities relating to mittens on TpT and most cost less than a cup or two of coffee. 

A wonderful Language at Home printable for The Mitten from Heard in Speech. 

Find The Mitten at Tar Heel Reader - a very simple version of the story with beautiful photographs of the animals. 

Useful printables for The Mitten activities can be found at Home School Creations, Home School Share, and 1plus1plus1plus1equals1.

At BooksInTheClassroom.com find suggestions for discussing this book with elementary aged students.

Visit Kizclub.com to find story props for The Mitten.

Sing The Mitten Phonemic Awareness Song at Mrs. Jones' Classroom. 

Three Little Kittens

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Visit Kizclub.com to find story props for the Three Little Kittens by Paul Galdone.

Play easy to create mitten games from Step by Step Child Care  

Free felt story set for the Three Little Kittens at Teachers pay Teachers. 

Find many Three Little Kittens Rhyme and Speech Activities from Ricki's Preschool Speechie.

I like the reversible Three Little Kittens puppet printables at Let's Play Music. 

Read Mama Cat has Three Kittens, by Denise Fleming, and teach verbs after downloading the free play-dough mat from Growing Book by Book. 

Comprehension questions about The Three Kittens can be found at BoardmakerOnline.com

Your students/clients can pretend to be three kittens. One child can be Mama Cat.  The props are easy. Buy or make kitten masks. Each kitten needs mittens. Mama can wear an apron and serve pretend pie from a foil pie tin. OR, use the story props from Kizclub.

Diana

© 2015


Some graphics from My Cute Graphics