The Very Hungry Caterpillar
This book is best for:
- quantity concepts (numbers, counting)
- temporal concepts (days of the week)
- sequencing
- food (fruit/veg, healthy/unhealthy)
Review
One Sunday morning, a very hungry caterpillar pops out of an egg. He starts making holes through the book’s pages as he feasts on various kinds of food throughout the week. The hungry caterpillar eats everything from fruit to chocolate cake! As the week goes on, he gets bigger and fatter as he eats more and more food. Finally, he decides to build himself a cocoon, and he soon emerges as a beautiful butterfly.
This classic book has been used to develop children’s speech and language skills for generations. The simple and repetitive text which makes it an effective book for teaching counting, days of the week and a variety of different food. The Very Hungry Caterpillar follows a predictable sequence, so it's perfect for developing young children’s sequencing skills.
For further speech and language targets in The Very Hungry Caterpillar, see the list below.
Book Details
Narrative Structure: Action Sequence
Story Plot: Repetitive Tale
Themes:
- animals - minibeasts/insects
- food/drink
Speech and Language Targets
Speech Sounds:
- /l/ - light, little, lay, leaf, look, leaf, lollipop, caterpillar, watermelon, small, hole, apple
- /s/ blends - started, still, strawberries, slice, stomachache, small, stayed
- /k/ - caterpillar, cake, cupcake, cocoon, pickle, stomach, sick
Grammar:
- adjectives (little, warm, tiny, nice, green, big, fat, beautiful)
- conjunction (and, but)
- irregular past (ate, felt, built)
- regular plurals
- synonyms (little/tiny/small)
Semantics:
- labelling
- matching
- description
- simple predictions
Concepts:
- descriptive concepts (big, little, colours)
- quantity concepts (one, two, three, four, five)
- temporal concepts (days of the week, morning, day, night)
Narrative:
- character description
- time
- setting
- sequencing
Book Info
Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 2011 (ISBN: 9780241003008)