Raise your hand if you are ready for spring! Both my hands are up! This Florida girl is over the cold weather and ready to stick my toes in the ocean 🙂 Until that time comes, I have started working on spring activities for my speech room. First on the list…another wonderful Bear book…
Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman is another one of my favorites. I love these books (in case you couldn’t tell by my other Bear book companions!) This one is the story of when Bear wakes up from hibernation in spring and he is HUNGRY! If you don’t have this one in your collection, I definitely recommend it!
- First activity is Bear’s Pairs, to target rhyming. There are 32 cards with words from the story that rhyme. You can have your students do a matching activity, play memory, or Go Fish! I also included 12 blank paws. You can use these for having students come up with additional rhyming pairs OR for speech words, parts of speech, etc. Anything!
- Next are Comprehension Questions, which I made 2 levels for. Level 1 includes 15 cards with 2 answer choices, paired with pictures. There are 23 level 2 comprehension cards to cover who, what, when, where, and why questions.
- Next activity is Category Feast, an activity to work on sorting food groups. You have the above sorting mat, which you can print one for the group or one for each student. There are 5 food items for each category for the kids to sort. You can mix them all up and have the students take turns sorting, or you can give them their own pile of cards to sort.
- Next is a Sentence Strip that you can use for lower level or nonverbal students. Every item that Bear eats in the story is on the bottom row.
- Sequence the Story is activity for students to work on sequencing skills. There are 12 cards and each has an event, paired with a picture. Once students finish sequencing, they can retell the story.
- Next activity is What’s That Mean?, to target word meaning. There are 8 cards with a sentence, one underlined word, and 3 answer choices. The student or therapist will read the card, then students will choose the correct word meaning.
- Sleepy Synonyms targets one vocabulary word from the story and a synonym for it. There are 9 pairs included, you can play matching, memory, or Go Fish!
- Then we have Bear Wants Verbs! to target verb tense. Use the above sorting mat and print one for the group or provide one to each student. Students will practice using the verbs (below) in sentences for past, present, and future tense. There are 12 regular verbs from the story and 8 irregular verbs from the story.
- Bear-y Good Speech is for your articulation students…they can find words with their sounds from the story and you can send this home for carryover practice!
- I also included a craftivity! YAY! For this bear, you will cut his mouth out and attach to a box or bag so that students can ‘feed’ him! You can feed him any of the card sets in this download or any of your own stimulus cards!
- And last, but not least…Spring Party! Use this open ended game board as a reinforcer with any of the included activities!
You can find this book companion in my TPT Store!
I hope you like it! I am so excited to use this with my students this spring!
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LOVE your Karma Wilson/Jane Chapman Bear companion units!! This is perfectly timed for spring!! Thanks, I am adding this to my cart!!!
Looks great! Would love it to be my first companion pack!!
I have a new bear puppet and this would be the perfect lesson to use it with my Spring themed unit!
This looks fantastic! I like that you have included both regular and irregular PT verbs. I also like the leveled comprehension questions. Excellent. Would love to win a copy. twmorlan@gmail.com
This is a favorite book and the level of your activities is perfect for my students. I especially need the work on verbs to help my students express themselves and build better sentences!
Cute! Love that you included the bear craftivity 🙂
Love this! This was my daughter’s favorite book when she was little. All the activities would be perfect to use with my students 🙂
This book is wonderful for so many grade levels so the leveled comprehension cards are perfect!
This looks so cute!
I love this book and the whole series:). So glad that you are making book companions to go with them.
Cute! I love incorporating book activities to show kids that reading can be fun!
I love you Bear book companions! Super fun. I am always looking to incorporate more literacy units into my speech room because you can work on so many goals; plus it gets my students excited about books! This looks like another great unit!
Carly, you won! Email me at slpgonewild@gmail.com so I can get you your copy!
I love that it covers so many skills. My students would love this.
cbartram@kitcarsonschool.com
Love these for the pre-k and primary kiddos! Bear books are a lot of fun 🙂
I just got this book! This activity looks great!
Jennburroughs18@gmail.com
This looks great! I love using picture books in therapy and this is perfect timing for a spring unit. Love how comprehensive it is and how many targets it hits. 🙂
love all your bear books thanks so much
Looks like some fun activities for my ECDD class!
I love all of your bear book companions. This is a great activity. Thanks for the giveaway.
ssjvarga@yahoo.com
This looks so great!! So many skills are targeted! I love the “Bear” books! Thank you for making a companion for this one!
Wow, what a great book unit!! I’m going to have to get this book so that I can use this wonderful packet! Thanks!! maria.wellman@gmail.com
I just got this book and a few others in the series from Scholastic and would love to have some resources to go with it! I love that you included comprehension questions and sequencing cards. Thanks. ptownsend26250@yahoo.com
Thanks for the great activity and the opportunity to win! This looks like fun and would be very useful!
beachc4@gmail.com
I love all these Bear stories. I like all your activities, and especially the comprehension questions.
I’m multi-tasking–looking for this book on Scholastic and checking out the activities. Once again, thank you for sharing your creativity and the wonderful developmental needs for intervention.
I would love to win this.
jmediratta@yahoo.com
This looks really great! Thanks for the chance to win it! pherstedt@yahoo.com
I could do soo much with this pack. The kids love all of “the Beat” books
This looks wonderful. I have loved the book companions that people are making. There is so much that you can do with a book. Thanks!
jkiekhoefer1@gmail.com
I love this book! My preschool kiddos would love these activities! Your targets are so appreciated as many of my kids are working towards comprehension and related goals! I absolutely love spring themes! Thank you!
Loving your book companions! I love to incorporate books in my sessions! This definitely looks great – lots of ways to use it with many kiddos. Thanks for sharing! c_bisgard@yahoo.com
I’d love to have this for my students! They’d be so happy! 🙂 fair2284@yahoo.com
I had never seen this book before, but I will certainly look for it at my school Book Fair tomorrow. Thank you for making such a wonderful packet of activities to go with it! Lensy@aol.com
I love these books. I would even use this with my 4 yr old son!
Not yet familiar with this book…but ready to go out and find a copy! So cute and love variety os skills addresses. Well done! straightupspeech@gmail.com
My favorite bear! Love the sorting map and writing your word on each bear. Nice!
I have some pre-k and Kinders that I would love to use this with! Great! dturner98@yahoo.com
Love that book and I use it every spring. 🙂 I would love to have these activities.
Diane
brookssy58@gmail.com
I love the Bear books!
Love this book too! The pack looks great with lots of activities I could use.
I love this!! So cute! Amy
maskwest4@att.net
Hey Jenn!
I have already purchased your previous Bear Packets and loved how well it allowed these books to be differentiated for different grade levels. I’d love to win a copy of this packet to keep the Bear book activities going into the Spring 🙂
What a perfect March activity packet! This Bear loves it. (Sally Bearry that is) lol mygal1000@yahoo.com
I love the Bear books! I really like how comprehensive this packet it is! I could use it with many kids, all with different goals. My elementary kids would love it!
taylor.rodgers@maine.edu
I don’t have this book but would love to win this companion pack and buy the book to use with my younger students. This looks soooo well-rounded and thought through. Thanks for offering it.
I would love to win the packet to use with all my students prek-elementary…. This would solve my lesson planning to fill the two weeks before spring break! Thanks for offering!
cbzdavis@gmail.com
My kiddos are definately ready for spring and this packet would be great for spring. There are so many activities that for langauge and articulation! Another great book companion!:)
Thank you so much for such great generous sharing of your wonderful ideas!
Love it!
I wasn’t sure which book about spring I was going to read to my kindergarten ESL students and then I found your website! Thank you so much – for your expertise, for your sharing with other teachers and parents, for your beautiful work!