Halloween Speech Therapy Books

Halloween books are so much fun to bring into therapy. Over the years I’ve collected quite a few different Halloween books, and wanted to share some of my favorite books with you and how I use them in therapy. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Affiliate programs pay a small percentage of a sale to bloggers. It doesn’t cost anything more to you, but it you are interested in one of the books and purchase one of these resources it helps me out if you use a link from this page.

Early Language Halloween Speech Therapy Books

Boo Bunny:

by Kathryn O. Galbraith:

This is a pretty simple book but great for little ones who are working on imitating environmental sounds. It’s also great for working on rounded vowels like /o/ and /u/ and bilabials /b/.

EEK! Halloween!:

by Sandra Boynton:

I love Sandra Boynton’s books! A cute book with some nervous chickens who keep seeing spooky things-but don’t realize that it’s Halloween.

Mouse’s First Halloween!:

by Lauren Thompson:

This book includes repetitive story lines including questions (What could it be?) and reassurance (not so scary after all). I use it for naming fall vocabulary, asking questions, and inferencing (what could be rustling on the ground?).

Pop Up and Lift the Flap Books

Is That You, Wolf?

by Steven Cox:

I love pop up books! Each page requires you to put your hand in a pocket and feel something to see if it is the wolf. This is a great book for working on adjectives. Plus there is a scary surprise at the end. (I made my son jump with this one when he was about 4 years old…insert evil mom laughter here.)

Haunted House

by Jan Bienkowski:

Have I mentioned that I LOVE pop up books? This is a classic pop up book where you open flaps and pull and push the flaps to make different actions happen. Great for working on future and past tense forms: What will octopus do? What did the octopus do? Plus you open a toilet seat lid to find an animal inside. Bathroom humor is ALWAYS hilarious. I think this book is out of print-but you can still get it for a reasonable price online.

Mommy?

by Maurice Sendak

I actually bought this for my son, and only use it in therapy with children I trust. This is an amazing pop up book with new technology. The boy in the story is trying to find his mother On each page, he simply asks, “Mommy?” to different monsters. I use it to work on early CVCV imitation, question intonation and early reasoning skills (Do you think that is his mommy?)

Repetitive Story Books

In the Haunted House
by Eve Bunting

This is a classic book which tells the tale of a child going through a haunted house. There is a lot of halloween vocabulary in this book. I like that it seems creepy as you read it-with a surprise at the end. There are some fun videos of this book on YouTube-complete with scary music. Check my favorite out HERE. Perfect if you are working in Telepractice.

Halloween Good Night
by Doug Cushman

This is a cute book where you talk about how you would tell different Halloween characters “Good night.” It uses a lot of “If you were” sentence structures.

Inside a House that is Haunted
by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

A great repetitive line book along the lines of “There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a ….. Each page builds on the actions from the previous page. Fun for reading in a group-I sometimes add actions to each page to help with the recall. Perfect for working on sound imitation and auditory memory.

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
by Linda Williams

Another repetitive line book that builds on the previous pages. I use this to work on sound imitation, auditory memory and short sentence repetition. This is another fun one to use with actions. We clomp our feet, shake our hands and wiggle are bodies while reading it.

Funny/Silly Halloween Books

The Hallow-Winer
by Dav Pilkey

There are a few silly moments in this book-but with a good message about how things that seem bad at first-can actually turn out okay.

Goodnight Goon
by Michael Rex

After reading Goodnight Moon a gazillion times, I thought this was a funny parody. Great for working on rhyming and short sentence imitation.

Laugh Out Loud Spooky Jokes for Kids
by Rob Elliot

I love to work on jokes in therapy-they are fantastic for working on multiple meaning words, figurative language and expressive language. Here’s one of my favorites: What do you call a haunted chicken? A Poultry-geist.

Social Language Books for Halloween

Pumpkin Trouble and The Doghouse

by Jan Thomas

I love Jan Thomas’s books. I use both of these books to work on perspective taking and false beliefs tasks. The Pumpkin Trouble book lends itself to trouble shooting, thinking about perspectives (what can each character see) and what happens when someone comes to the wrong conclusion.

The Doghouse isn’t a Halloween specific book, but it also works with what happens when you make the wrong assumption and understanding how words can mean different things. I also like to work on the words “spooky” (when they see the doghouse), “scared,” “smart” and “stinky.”

The Gruffalo

by Julia Donaldson

This is another book that is great for teaching about perspective taking as well as how other’s perspectives of us change their behavior. In the story, a mouse tricks a variety of predators by talking about a scary Gruffalo monster-until the mouse meets the Gruffalo. Suddenly, he has to show the Gruffalo that he is scary-which he does by walking back to old predators. They are scared because of the Gruffalo-but the Gruffalo thinks it’s because they are so scared of the mouse.

QUESTION: What’s your favorite Halloween book and how do you incorporate it into your therapy session? I can’t wait to read about it!

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