Goodnight, Gorilla Book

Goodnight Gorilla is one of our go-to speech therapy stories! This book comes with a FREE book companion (see below for included activities). It’s bedtime at the zoo, and all the animals are going to sleep. Or are they? Who’s that short, furry guy with the keys in his hand and the playful grin? 

💡 Add this book to your Language Sample bin! This is a great one to pull out for dynamic assessment, informal data collection, or language samples. 

This 110+ paged DIGITAL companion comes in multiple .pdf formats within a .zip file:

• Articulation targets
• Therapy cheat sheet: ideas for use, vocabulary, core words, wh-questions, etc!
• Parent strategies
• Communication board: core & fringe
• Sentence frames
• Animal picture cards
• Interactive story activity: put then animals in/out of the cages as you read!
• Go back, animals! Add the bars to each cage
• Animals fun facts: part/whole, why questions, describing animals
• Describing animals mat
• Big or small sorting: zoo animals
• Preposition practice: where are the animals in the bedroom?
• Dynamic assessment
• Comprehension questions: leveled questions or questions by wh-question type
• WH-questions with visual choices: who, what, where, when why
• Story grammar: sort by characters/settings
• Sequencing story events
• Which home? setting sort
• Grammar practice: present progressive -ing, past tense verbs
• Feed the animals: pronouns, following directions, describing
• Goodnight, Speech Sounds! - no prep cut/glue worksheets - put the characters in the cages for the night!
  • initial/medial 'y', /w/, /h/
  • initial/medial/final /p, b, m, t, d, n, k, g, f, v, s, z, l, sh, ch, j, th/
  • initial /r/ and vocalic /ar, ire, or, er, air/
  • mixed /l, r, s/ blends

I'm an SLP: Each book comes with a FREE list of articulation and language targets. We strive to make planning easy!

I'm a PARENT: Each book comes with FREE easy-to-implement strategies and ideas to help you read and work on language skills thoughtfully with your child!