Monthly Topic Series: August

Summer is in full swing here at The Speech Village, which means we’re on Summer vacation! While we’re off enjoying our trip, we’re dropping a quick book recommendation and hope, whether you’re near or far, that you’re having an amazing Summer vacation too!

How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague

From the publisher:

Most kids go to camp over the summer, or to Grandma's house, or maybe they're stuck at home. Not Wallace Bleff.  He was supposed to visit his Aunt Fern. Instead, Wallace insists, he was carried off by cowboys and taught the ways of the West--from riding buckin' broncos to roping cattle. Lucky for Aunt Fern, he showed up at her house just in time to divert a stampede from her barbecue party!

Frequent speech sounds in the book include:

• initial /k/ (e.g., cowboy)

Key language concepts in the book include:

• Vocabulary: camp, captured, cowhand, discover, display, fright, frightened, growl, imagination, manners, matador, plains, relax, scene, stampede, west, westbound, wild, wrangler

• Grammar: adjectives, regular and irregular past tense and present progressive verbs

• Text Features: letter, italics, dialogue, thought bubbles, rhyming

• Inferencing: make some guesses - how do you think others feel about his story?

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