THE VERY LONELY FIREFLY by Eric Carle is one of my favorite books to read with little listeners in auditory verbal intervention before the 🎇 fireworks display on the 4th of July.
Why? You wonder.
✨ It's a simple story about a very lonely firefly that goes out into the night searching for other fireflies. It sees a lantern, headlights, the eyes of a cat, and an owl ... all glowing in the darkness and then the 🎇 FIREWORKS in the sky!
✨ The book ties new vocabulary and non-fiction facts about fireflies which expands background knowledge and facilitates listening comprehension
✨ It’s great for story sequencing and kids love retelling the story with the firefly finger puppet
✨ Repetition is important for listening and language development and the sentence “The firefly saw a light and flew towards it.” and “But it was not another firefly it was a…..” repeats throughout the story.
✨ The lights of the firefly, flashlight, headlights, reflection of the cat’s eyes... and the 🎇 FIREWORKS together make connections between the story and what the child experiences on Independence Day.
If you don’t have trinkets and engaging manipulative to use in the story no worries. Beautiful stories paper props are available for free download from Kizclub.com
