Little Jude Sky's Really Strange Day Pt. 1

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This book is intended first and foremost as a tool for laughter for children. It is also created as a learning tool to help children improve their language skills. It is written by a speech-language pathologist with decades of experience in helping children improve language. Children will learn about figurative language and improve their listening skills and vocabulary.

It is the break of dawn and Little Jude Sky doesn't know it but his day is about to be really, really, REALLY strange. Follow Little Jude Sky through his day and help him fix all the strange things that are happening to him. He has worms on his pancakes, his clothes are hanging from lizards in his closet, he even sits IN the toilet instead of on it, and so much more.

A note from the Author.

I am a speech-language pathologist . This profession has taught me many wonderful things over the years, but there is one incredibly profound truth that has risen to the top and stayed there. As it turns out, language is much more than just the modality by which we convey our ideas, thoughts, and emotions. To borrow from my beloved Star Wars, it is “The Force” that kick starts and guides the development of the human brain. It is the single most important ingredient to raising little humans. Ok oxygen might one-up language. And love. Also love. But you get my drift.

This isn’t just me trying to put an area so integral to my profession up on a pedestal. It has been researched and backed up by countless studies. To put it simply, the more language a child hears growing up, the better they perform in school and in life in general. It’s a fact. Children who grow up in a rich language environment are consistently better readers, mathematicians, scientists, critical thinkers, creative thinkers, and even have higher IQs.

Anyone can talk to a child and teach them language, but is the job of a SLP to know how to teach language in unique WAYS. Ways that ensure these building blocks are sturdy and effective. SLPs don’t just teach words, we teach about the beautiful and intricate webs that are woven by words.

This book was designed as a way to bring the specialized knowledge of SLPs into the homes of all families with children. Reading books should be more than a story, it should be an experience. Each page in books has so much potential to feed the brain on each page - far beyond just the text on the page. SLPs use tactics such as “modeling” and “expanding” when reading to a child. This book is designed to help with this process and teach some foundational language skills along the way.