Find It: A Speech Articulation Game

My daughter absolutely loved playing this Find It speech articulation game.

Supplies:
3-5 cups that aren't transparent (you're going to be hiding something underneath)
a simple sticker chart
articulation pictures (a mini-sized initial /f/ set can be found at the end of this post)
stickers
tape
something to hide under the cups (I used a smiley face clip.)

Set up:
Put a piece of tape on the top of each picture and tape a picture to the top of each upside-down up. Hide object (in my case, "Mr. Smiley") under a cup. Have stickers, sticker chart, and extra pictures handy.

Directions:
Every time you find the hidden object, you get a sticker on the chart. If you fill the chart you'll get a prize. The child must say the word (x1, x3, in phrase, or in sentence) in order to get you to lift the cup and check underneath. Whenever they find the object, remove the picture and replace it with one in your reserve. Ask the child to hide their eyes while you move the hidden object to a new cup. That's it. In 15 minutes you can easily get 1-10 productions of each of your target words and the student(s) will be enraptured the entire time. If you're playing with a group, simply have a sticker chart for each child and let them take turns guessing.

The Second Giveaway Winner Is...

Commenter #4, cbiksacky who likes the CVC words included in the Phonology app. Congratulations to cbiksacky and thank you to everyone who participated. Thanks again to Learning Fundamentals for providing me with copies of some of their apps to review and use with my own children and for sponsoring our giveaways!

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One-Syllable Initial S Printable Worksheet

We're still working on initial /s/ around here and I was trying to do something a little different. Here's a printable worksheet I made using some of the initial /s/ words and pictures from the initial /s/ picture card set. I made sure that each /s/ word included here uses a different vowel for co-articulation practice purposes.

I'm just planning on doing a simple hunt with it. Use the word from the list in a sentence and then you get to put a sticker on the matching picture. You could motivate a child to do this multiple times by marking all the pictures with gold stars and then switching colors and putting a second (or even third) color on each picture.

I know there's something more creative I could do with this worksheet, but I just can't think of anything right now. I'll send a virtual gold star and warm thoughts to anyone who posts other ideas of how to use this worksheet in the comments.