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1. Introduction
29. Nasals m, n, ng
33. Semivowels w, y
37. Liquids l, r
Introduction
Overview of Speech Sounds
Integration of Audition, Speech, Language, Literacy and Cognition
• Child-friendly words • Listen, attend to, and discriminate if sounds are the same
or different
• Daily routines
• Vocalize suprasegmentals: rhythm, duration, pitch and intensity
• Activities
• Produce vowels
• Games and toys
• Attach meaning to animal and/or vehicle sounds
• Songs, rhymes and fingerplays
• Imitate vocalizations on request
• A popular children’s book
• Understand and use a few functional words, such as “bye bye,”
• Additional books
“more,” “all gone” with the appropriate suprasegmentals and
vowels, but not necessarily correctly produced consonants.
What to Do What to Expect
The focus is on teaching speech through listening to maximize a child’s The purpose of Speech Sounds is to “bathe the child in sound”
auditory potential or auditory self-monitoring of speech. The process (Pollack, Caleffe-Schenck, Goldberg, 1997) to stimulate natural
is as important as the content. Listening is a cognitive process and development of speech through listening. Provide rich auditory input
our job is to stimulate a child’s brain so he can understand what the and exposure for one sound, and then move to a different sound
ears hear. Follow the 5 E’s (Caleffe-Schenck, 2007) as you highlight after one or two weeks. Typically a child will show understanding
sounds through spoken language and weave them into daily routines, (reception) prior to using the sounds and language (expression).
children’s literature, activities, games and toys:
Initially there is not an expectation for perfect speech. Speech
• Expose a child to a sound or word(s) using auditory input only. development is a process and emerges over time. A child’s imitations
Begin by babbling the target sound coupled with either the vowel will give adults information about what the child hears, his depth
“ah” or “oo” or “ee”, such as “bah bah bah”. Extend this to words and confidence in listening, need for reprogramming of his cochlear
and phrases rich in the targeted sound. Present the model through implant speech processor(s), the amount of exposure he has had
listening first, before the child sees the toy or prop or cue. This to the sound, oral-motor development and/or motivation. Imitation
sets the stage for a child to listen with intent and to establish an is highly dependent upon motivation, so a child must be stimulated
“auditory impression” of the target sound that will assist in recall in with interesting daily activities. Analyze the reason for a child’s errors
the future. As soon as a child produces a sound with consistency, to determine future goals and recommendations. Be aware that a
discontinue the babbling and continue to encourage carry-over child’s production of sounds at this stage may come and go as the
into spontaneous language. From then on, babbling is used as emphasis on one consonant over the other changes.
a remediation strategy to acoustically highlight a sound if it is
incorrectly produced in some context. Over time, correct productions are encouraged and expected.
• Expect the parent, then the child to imitate or respond verbally. The expectation for correct speech should be based on the ages and
This completes the auditory self-monitoring loop and encourages progression of speech development for children with normal hearing.
active rather than passive listening. If a sensory or motor delay is suspected, make appropriate referrals
• Experience a toy, book or activity that represents the sound or to an occupational or physical therapist who specializes in this area.
word. This is a child’s opportunity to relate to the toy, book or If a child has had sufficient time and experience in learning a
activity and enjoy the process in a meaningful way. It keeps a child Speech Sounds sound through listening and still does not
interested and encourages carry-over into the real world. It is approximate the sound or word, it may be appropriate to use the
also an important step in taking a child quickly from imitation to strategy called “the auditory sandwich” where a child is exposed to
thinking and auditory processing and understanding. an auditory presentation three times followed by a visual or tactile
cue and then again through listening alone.
• Expand on the language model and the child’s communication.
The adult’s verbal input should be at a level slightly higher than
Tracking Progress
a child’s spontaneous expressive language to establish the
foundation for future progress. Monitoring a child’s progress is an important aspect of any program.
It is the responsibility of professionals to coach parents to be
• Expressive spoken language emerges later in time when a child
positive and effective spoken language models in their child’s natural
spontaneously uses the sound or words with symbolic meaning
environments. Parents should take an active role by:
in the real world.
• Reading daily to their child and discussing what they have read
Where to Begin • Targeting and teaching vocabulary from each unit in a variety of
There is no specific order for the sound units. There are some meaningful contexts
general guidelines to help you choose the sequence of sounds • Tracking their child’s progress
for any individual child. Start with consonants a child is already • Reporting back to professionals on a consistent basis
producing. Then proceed by following the normal order of
development of speech sounds. Earlier developing sounds, not in Each Speech Sounds unit provides an easy and time-efficient way to
specific order, may include: m, b, y, n, w, d, p, h. Take into account maintain consistent and accurate records of progress.
the acoustic characteristics of each sound relative to what a child
hears. Also consider that the most frequently occurring manner of Place a dot (•) in front of a word or an activity after you have
phonemes is plosives and stops, or p, t, k, b, d, g, although “s” is the presented it to a child. To monitor speech development, circle a
specific sound most often used by English speakers. Consider the word when the child correctly says the targeted sound in the
sounds a child uses frequently which are highly motivating, such as word. Vocabulary development is tracked by putting a dash (----- )
sounds in his name or sounds in his favorite foods. by the words a child understands and a plus (+) by the words
a child says spontaneously.
Overlap among units is expected. A variety of sounds, in addition
to the target sound, will emerge naturally as a child’s auditory self-
monitoring develops. It is important to individualize the program
based on each child’s progress. Develop strategies based on
diagnostic teaching, such as, alternating consonants within manner
from sounds the child has acquired and babbling nonsense syllables
related to words and phrases from real life situations.
How Speech Sounds Works Speech Acoustics
Introduction
Since the basic premise of Speech Sounds is that a child learns
The Listening-Talking-Reading Connection speech through listening, it is fundamental to consider the basics
We learn to talk by saying what we hear and hearing what we say. of speech acoustics. Every speech sound has concentrations of
This is termed the “auditory self-monitoring loop” or “auditory acoustic energy called formants that make it different from other
feedback loop.” It is the avenue through which children develop sounds. Although the same sound is pronounced slightly differently
sounds and learn the language of their culture. Children who are based on the sounds that precede or follow it, in general, the
deaf are capable of developing natural sounding voices and spoken acoustic properties of a sound are consistent. Understanding of
language when they learn speech through listening rather than speech acoustics assists professionals and parents in establishing
looking. Too much emphasis on visual cues may lead to unnatural realistic and systematic goals, reinforcing appropriate approximations
sounding voice quality and exaggerated speech. A child’s ability to of speech, and optimizing a child’s auditory potential with the use
develop natural and intelligible speech is related to early detection of appropriate technology.
and intervention, use of appropriate and optimal technology such
Manner of production is HOW a sound is made. Speech Sounds
as cochlear implant(s), establishing a strong auditory foundation
cards are color coded according to the manner of the sound. Listed
by learning to listen, integrated sensory and motor systems,
below are the different manners, basic definitions, consonants and
consistent exposure to spoken language, and parent or caregiver
the cards’ color code for each manner of production:
participation. Communication among a child’s cochlear implant
audiologist, teacher or therapist and parent is important for • Plosives and stops : a release of built up air pressure occurs
maintaining optimal programming of the cochlear implant(s). with plosives; the pressure is not released for stops.
p/b, t/d, k/g — green tabs
With individualized modifications any child may benefit from • Fricatives : a point of constriction causes friction in the breath
Speech Sounds for remediation. Even though it is difficult to stream that creates a sound. h, f/v, TH/th, s/z, sh/zh — blue tabs
change voice quality, articulation can be corrected even for older
• Nasals: the breath stream goes mainly through the nose.
children. The process and materials may be helpful for older
m, n, ng — purple tabs
children who receive a cochlear implant(s); children who use sign
language or other visual systems to communicate; children learning • Semivowels : produced like vowels except there is greater
English as a second language; children with normal hearing who constriction. w, y — yellow tabs
have auditory processing, articulation and/or language delays; and • Liquids : the tongue diverts the breath stream in the
children learning to read. mouth. l, r — orange tabs
• Affricatives : a stop is released with a fricative. ch, j — red tabs
Speech Sounds facilitates phonological awareness for reading as well
as reading comprehension. Reading aloud to a child on a daily basis Place of production is WHERE a sound is made. Listed below are
strengthens the connection of listening and talking with reading. the different places, basic definitions and the consonants within
A robust receptive and expressive vocabulary is necessary for each place of production:
proficiency in communication, reading and writing.
• Bilabial : two lips. p, b, m, w
Phonological Development • Labiodental : bottom lip and teeth. f, v
A child with normal hearing typically develops speech in a • Linguadental : tongue and teeth. TH, th
predictable manner. Young children with hearing loss usually learn • Alveolar : ridge on hard palate behind
in the same developmental way as normal hearing children if they the upper teeth. t, d, s, z, n, l, r
have a strong auditory foundation, no additional challenges, and • Palatal : hard palate. sh, zh, y, ch, j
access to learning speech through listening during the early
• Velar : back of soft palate. k, g, ng
speech development period.
• Glottal : back of mouth. h
Speech Sounds is based on typical development where the normal
progression is: vocal play, suprasegmentals, vowels, and consonants. Manner of production is easier to hear than place of production.
It encourages development at the phonetic level where a child For example, /b/ is a plosive and sounds very different from /m/
imitates sounds or uses echolalia, and sets the stage for a child to which is a nasal. Interestingly, /b/ and /m/ look the same through
begin babbling. Babbling progresses beyond simply imitating sounds lipreading because they have the same place, bilabial. This is why
to linking sounds with meaningful language, conversation, literature sounds that have the same place of production may be confusing
and eventually reading. to a child who relies on lipreading to learn speech. A child is relying
more on auditory cues when he substitutes sounds that are within
the same manner of production, such as saying /p/ for /t/ or /k/ or
saying /s/ for /f/ or /TH/.
Voicing indicates whether a sound is made while the vocal folds are • Educator’s Guide. Download a copy at www.cochlear.com/HOPE
vibrating or not vibrating. Most sounds are grouped in pairs where • Getting Started: Practical Tips for Parents. Free booklet available
one sound is made with voice and the other sound is voiceless. from Cochlear Americas
With lipreading they look the same, so again these sounds can be
• Start Listening: A Guide to Hearing Habilitation. DVD from
confusing to a child who relies on looking rather than listening.
Cochlear Americas
It is much more effective to use listening rather than looking for
discrimination of voiced versus voiceless sounds. Listed below are • HOPE Notes (18 individual Notes) Download a copy at
the consonants pairs for voiced and voiceless phonemes: www.cochlear.com/HOPE
• Listen, Learn and Talk includes a booklet providing a comprehensive
scale for assessing progress and DVDs demonstrating therapy
VOICELESS VOICED ideas www.cochlearamericas.com
VOICE OFF VOICE ON
Bilabial p b, m, w Selected References from AG Bell
Labiodental f v
• Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of
Lingua-dental TH th Hearing, Washington, DC. www.agbell.org
Alveolar t d • Estabrooks W, Editor (1998) Cochlear Implants for Kids.
s z • Estabrooks W, Editor (1994) Hear & Listen! Talk & Sing!
n, l, r • Estabrooks W, Editor (2003) Songs for Listening! Songs for Life!
Palatal sh zh • Ling D (2002) Speech and the Hearing-Impaired Child.
ch j
y
Other Useful Resources
Velar k g, ng • Gebers JL (2003) Books are for talking, too! Austin, TX: PRO-ED.
Plosives
• Find your slippers.
Initial pineapple Medial Final • Take off your pajamas.
pink
pack airplane asleep • Change your diaper.
pizza
paint apple beep-beep • Put on your underpants.
plant
pajamas applesauce bump
plate • Ask for help to zip your pants.
pancake camping cap
play • Brush your teeth with toothpaste.
pants diaper chip
play dough
paper empty chop
park
playground
grandpa clap Kitchen capers
play pen
party grapes cup • Have a “ P” food tasting party or picnic. First, wash your hands
please
pass grasshopper drop with soap. Taste: peach, pear, apple, grape, pancake, spaghetti,
pointy
pat happy dump pickle, potato, popcorn, pineapple, peanut butter, peas, soup,
police
patty helicopter grape pizza, popsicle, pie, potato chip, pretzel, pudding, applesauce.
patty cake pony hippo help Use your spoon. Put the ones you like on a pretty paper plate.
peach pool hopping hop Chop them up. Wipe your face and lips with your napkin.
peanut butter poo-poo lollipop jeep
poor • Have a tea party. Say, “Please, pour the tea into my cup.”
pear leopard jump Be careful not to splash. Be careful not to drop it.
peas pop napkin ketchup Fill the cup again when it is empty.
pee-pee popcorn napping lamp
popsicle • Wipe up spills.
peek-a-boo octopus lip
peel porch open mop • Sweep and mop the floor.
pen potato paper nap
pencil potato chip people pop Each day, every day
penguin pour pineapple potato chip • Use the potty. Go pee-pee and poo-poo.
penny present play pen rip
• You are sleepy. Put your head on your pillow. Take a nap.
people pretend puppy rope
Go to sleep.
person pretty purple sheep
piano pretzel shopping ship
pick pudding sleeping sleep
Activities
pickle pull sleepy soup
• Play peek-a-boo.
picnic pumpkin slippers step
puppy • Play patty cake.
picture spaghetti stop
pie purple spill sweep • Pour rice and beans into different sized containers.
pig purse splash tape • Make a toy sailboat move across the water using your
piggy push spoon top breath when you say “p-p-p.”
pill put teapot up • Feed and pet and pat your puppy, real or stuffed animal.
pillow puzzle toothpaste wipe
• Paint a picture on paper. Use purple and pink paints.
• Paint on the sidewalk using water and a paintbrush.
Daily Routines • Open boxes and plastic containers. Stack them up. Pick them up.
• Wrap a present or package.
Moving through the day
• Put puzzles together.
• Pull and push things around in a big cardboard box or wagon.
• Fill a purse with “P” animals: pig, penguin, pony, hippo, leopard,
• Jump and hop up and down. grasshopper, octopus.
• Take giant and tiny steps. • Put miniature “P” objects in play dough or packing peanuts and
• Go up and down. try to figure out what they are by what they feel like.
• Open the door. • Go shopping and buy food for your “P” party/picnic.
• Pretend you are an airplane or a helicopter. • Plant seeds and pretty flowers.
6 • SPEECH SOUNDS
• Put pictures of people on popsicle sticks and act out Conversational phrases for this book
a story: Dad, mom, siblings, grandma, grandpa.
• Every phrase using pig
• Blow bubbles and pop, pop, pop them.
• Once upon a time, there were 3 little pigs.
• Make paper airplanes and fly them.
• The pigs go shopping (for building supplies).
Games and Toys • Pick out what you want (selecting the building supplies)
• You need to pay money (for the building supplies)
• Pop beads • Do you have any pennies?
• Pop -up toys • Push the wheelbarrow (carrying the building supplies)
• Pull toys • The sticks are pointy and sharp.
• Sleepy Princess and the Pea game by Haba Toys • Chop the sticks.
• Hungry Hungry Hippos game by Hasbro • Put it on (when placing straw, sticks or bricks on a house).
• Bunny Hop game by Educational Insights • We’ll help you.
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Game by University Games • Step up on the ladder, climb up and put a chimney on
• Penguin Pile Up game by Ravensburger top of the roof.
• Stone Soup game by Game Wright • Pick the apples (some versions of the story when they
• Wormy Apples game by Fundex go to the orchard).
• Ants in the Pants by Milton Bradley • The pig is not happy.
• The pigs are happy.
Songs, Rhymes or Fingerplays
Props for this book
• This Little Pig Went to Market (Wee Sing 2)
• 3 pigs
• Pease Porridge Hot (Wee Sing 2, 5, 9)
• Wolf
• Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers (Wee Sing 2)
• Straw
• Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
• Sticks
• Higglety, Pigglety, Pop (Wee Sing 2)
• Bricks
• Polly Put the Kettle On (Wee Sing 2)
• Small box or chair to represent the wheelbarrow
• Pop! Goes the Weasel (Wee Sing 3, 5, 9)
• Pot for water in the fireplace
• Pussy-Cat, Pussy-Cat (Wee Sing 2)
• Small cardboard box to represent the chimney
• The Hokey Pokey (Wee Sing 3, 9)
• Polly, Wolly Doodle (Wee Sing 8, 9) Additional Books
• Put Your Little Foot (Wee Sing 8)
• If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Joffe Numeroff
• Rock, Paper, Scissors (Wee Sing 6)
• Piggies by Audrey & Don Wood
• Hot Potato (Wee Sing 6)
• Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
• Open, Shut Them (Wee Sing 5)
• Pat the Puppy by Edith Kunhardt Davis
• I’m a Little Teapot
• Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle
Book: The Three Little Pigs (any version) • Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
• Peanut Butter and Jelly by Nadine Bernard Westcott
Each of the three brother pigs set out into the world to build their
• Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
own house. Find out which house is the strongest and which one
• Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
protects them from the Big Bad Wolf.
• The Princess and the Pea (any simple version)
Building communication with this book • Henny Penny by Paul Galdone or (any other version)
• Comparative and superlatives more, most (money to buy building • The Napping House by Audrey Wood
materials); stronger, strongest (building materials); heavier, heaviest • Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss
(sticks versus bricks); fast, faster, fastest (running away from the wolf)
• Pitch, rhythm and auditory memory for singing We’re Not Afraid
of the Big, Bad Wolf
• Auditory memory for repetitive phrases “Little pig, little pig, let
me come in.” and “Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin.” and
“Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down.”
7 • SPEECH SOUNDS
“B” Unit Plosives
Plosives
• Here’s your bottle.
Initial before bread baby • Put on your bib.
behind break belly button
baa-baa • Set the table.
bell breakfast bubbles
baby • Bite a banana, strawberry, peanut butter,
belly bring caboose
baby sitter hamburger, bean, bread.
below broke cowboy
back
belt broken elbow • Put the bread in a basket.
backyard
bench brought garbage • Butter the bread.
bad
beside broom gobble
bake • Listen for the microwave bell.
better brown goodbye
ball • Eat breakfast.
bib brother green beans
balloon
bicycle brush hamburger • Throw the trash in the garbage.
banana
big bubbles ladybug • Sweep the floor with a broom.
bark
bike bucket maybe
barn
basement bird buffalo peanut butter Each day, every day
basket bite bug peek-a-boo
• Take a bath.
bat black build/built rabbit
• Pick out books and read books.
bath blanket bump ribbon
block bunny strawberry
bathroom
blow bus table
Activities
bathtub
be blue busy teddy bear
• Play Simon Says with the phrases: sound like a motorboat, hop
beach boat but toothbrush
like a bunny, growl like a bear, cry like a baby, row a boat, buzz
beads body butter
like a bee, fly like a bird, rub your belly, stand behind ___ , stand
beans boo-boo butterfly Final
beside ___ , stand by ___ , stand in between ___ and ___ .
bear book button bib
buy/bought • Play hide and seek and yell, “ Boo!” when someone finds you.
beard boots crab
because bottle by • Play with balls: roll, bounce, throw, hit, catch, spin, swing a bat.
crib
bed bottom bye-bye grab • Compare different balls for size, shape and function.
bedroom bounce ice cube • Bathe, dress and feed a baby doll. Fill the tub. Scrub the
bedtime bowl Medial job baby’s back, elbow, bottom, belly button. Splash bubbles.
bee box about robe Rub on some lotion.
beep-beep boy above rub • Blow bubbles.
• Ride bikes.
Daily Routines • Take a bus ride.
• Go to the beach. Take your bucket.
Moving through the day
• Go outside and look for bugs and butterflies.
• Hop like a bunny.
• Take a walk around the house and find the:
• Bounce a ball. bathroom, bedroom, basement, backyard.
• Fly like a bird. • Find everything in the house that is: black, brown, blue or beige.
• Watch daddy shave his beard.
Getting dressed
• Play with boxes. Sort and nest them from big to bigger to biggest.
• How big is baby? So big!
• Build with blocks.
• Brush your hair.
• String beads.
• Brush your teeth with your toothbrush.
• Sort buttons by color, size and shape.
• Put on your robe.
• Blow up balloons. Make them big, bigger and biggest.
• Tickle baby’s belly.
Bat them above and below you.
• Put on your boots.
8 • SPEECH SOUNDS
Plosives
• Look in your closet. What will you put on? Maybe a t-shirt, hat,
Initial towel spaghetti goat belt, underpants, and pants. What did you put on first? last?
toy sweater hat You look so cute!
table
t-shirt thirsty hit • Remember to wear your sweater, coat (or jacket), boots and
taco
tummy underpants hot mittens when it’s cold outside.
tail
tuna waiting hurt
take/took • Be sure to button up!
turkey water it
talk • Tie your shoes, but not too tight.
turn yesterday jacket
tap
turtle kite
tape
TV Final last Kitchen capers
taste
two let • Sit down at the table to eat breakfast.
tea about
light • Taste and eat toast, tacos, tuna, potatoes, spaghetti, pretzels,
teacher a lot
Medial ant
lost carrots, fruit, donuts, chocolate or yogurt. Remember to take
tear night
teddy after at little, tiny bites. Was anything too salty or too sweet?
not
telephone bathtub basket • Drink water or tea when you’re thirsty. Oh, is your glass empty?
out
tell belly button bat
paint • Eat your fruits and vegetables.
ten better belt
parrot
tickle bottle bite Each day, every day
plant
tie butter blanket
plate • Wait for people, wait in lines, wait your turn,
tiger butterfly boat
present and wait for things to be ready.
tight button boot
put
time dirty breakfast • Take your turn to do things.
quiet
tiny doctor bucket • Turn the TV off and on.
rabbit
tiptoe eating but • Pet the cat. Its fur is so soft!
rat
tire empty carrot salt • Tell people where you went today.
tired gentle cat shirt
tissue giant chest • Today, tonight, and/or tomorrow take a bath in the bathtub.
sit/sat
to helicopter chocolate Were you dirty? Wash your tummy, chest, wrists, waist, feet,
soft
toad into closet and toes. Dry off with a towel.
street
toast little coat tight • Brush your teeth with a toothbrush. Brush your tongue too!
today mitten cut waist • Have a quiet time every day.
toe naughty cute wait • When you’re tired, tell everyone goodnight and go to bed.
tomorrow outside donut want
tongue party eat went Activities
tonight potato elephant wet
too potty fast what • Find lots of things that turn, “T-T-T-turn.”
tooth pretend first white • Turn a kaleidoscope and look at all the colors.
toothbrush pretzel foot/feet wrist
top fruit • Listen for the clock t-t-ticking.
rooster write
touch sister get/got yogurt • Trace around your toes.
• Play Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
Daily Routines • Have a teddy bear picnic. Have a tea party. Invite all your friends.
• Play school and pretend to be the teacher.
Moving through the day • Make butterflies out of tissue paper and pipe cleaners.
• Tiptoe, turn and tap dance around the house. • Plant seeds or beans in a clear jar and watch them grow tall.
• Tickle your family members. • Make colorful footprints on large pieces of paper using
tempera paint.
• Cut fruits and vegetables.
10 • SPEECH SOUNDS
• Decorate a t-shirt using markers or fabric paint. • Past tense verbs lost, said, made, thought, did, came, was, ran,
• Talk on the telephone to your sister, teacher or doctor. scared, tiptoed, gasped, screamed, yelled, cried, huddled, cuddled
• Write your name. • Contractions Eddie’s, I’ll, I’m, it’s, you’re, you’ll, what’s, there’s
• Play Charades-write the names or draw stick figures of the • Two-four word utterances I’m scared already! I want my bed! I
following on slips of paper and put them in a basket: cat, turtle, want my teddy! Look out! There’s something there! What’s that?
goat, tiger, teddy bear, rabbit, teacher, turtle, rat, turkey, bat, MY TED! A BEAR! A BOY! MY TEDDY!
butterfly, ant, rooster, elephant, toad, and parrot. • Sequence events and retell a story
• Recall details
Games and Toys
Conversational phrases for this book
• Tic Tac Toe Game (Wee Sing 6)
• Where’s my teddy?
• Hot Potato Game (Wee Sing 6)
• I lost my teddy.
• Tag Game (Wee Sing 6)
• I want my bed!
• Teddy Bear Says- a variation of Simon Says (Wee Sing 6)
• I want my teddy!
• Teddy Mix & Match game by Ravensburger
• Do you want the tiny teddy
• Go Teddy Go game by Ravensburger
or the giant teddy?
• The Very Quiet Cricket game by University Games
• Tiptoe to the tiny teddy/giant teddy.
• Go Away Monster game by Gamewright
• What’s that ?
• Monsters Under My Bed game by Fundex Games
• Look out!
• Cat and Mouse game by Ravensburger
• A giant teddy bear!
Plosives
• Get dressed in the morning. Find your favorite clothes
Initial Medial Final outside and put them on.
playground • Help mommy take all your clothes out of the dryer and then
daddy bedroom and
pretend put them away in your drawers in your bedroom. Don’t forget
dance birthday around
read to put away your underpants or dresses!
danger body bad
red
dark candy bead • Does someone have a dirty diaper?
ride
day cock-a- bed
round
deer doodle-doo behind
salad
Kitchen capers
diaper garden beside • Let’s make lunch or dinner! We could make hot dogs, noodles,
scared
dig hot dog bird a sandwich, pudding, bread, donuts or a salad. Let’s put our
seed
dinner ladder bread food in a dish. We could drink a soda too! When we’re done
sled
dinosaur lady build we can talk about whether each food item was hot or cold and
slide
dirty ladybug child if it tasted good or bad.
stand
dish leader cold
teddy • Don’t forget to wash those dirty dishes.
dive meadow could
tired
do/does/did medicine feed
doctor noodles find
under Each day, every day
wide
dog play dough food • Feed your dog or other pet.
wind
doll pudding friend • Open and close doors.
would
dolphin radio good
yard • Walk down the stairs.
done reading had
donkey ready hand • Ride in a car, truck, van or bus.
donut riding hard
door sandbox head Activities
dot sandwich heard
down shoulder hide • Charades (Wee Sing 6): Write the names or draw stick figures
downtown sidewalk hold of the following on slips of paper and put them in a bag: duck, dog,
draw soda inside deer, dinosaur, dance, dolphin, donkey, doctor, drinking, reading,
drawer spider kid digging, spider, sandwich, and bird.
drink today leader • Play Hide-and-Seek (Wee Sing 6).
drive underpants loud • Help mommy or daddy dig in the garden or dig in your sandbox.
drop window mad • Slide your stuffed animal friends down a slide at the playground.
dry windy made
• Drive your cars and trucks on the sidewalk or in the yard.
dryer woods mud
Make them go behind, beside, around, and inside various things.
duck yesterday need
dump old • Jump in a puddle of mud or build a three-layer
birthday cake out of mud.
Daily Routines • Feed all of your stuffed animals (duck, dog, deer, dinosaur,
dolphin, donkey, spider, bird, etc.).
Moving through the day • Wash all your dirty plastic animals (duck, dog, deer, dinosaur,
dolphin, donkey, spider, bird, etc.).
• Dance, dance, dance around the house to your favorite music.
• Build blocks towers, then knock them down.
Maybe your doll or dinosaur would like to dance too!
• Wind, wind, wind all your wind-up toys and have a race. Games and Toys
• Swim and dive like a dolphin.
• Ride a bike. • Lucky Ducks game by Hasbro
• Diggity Dog game by International Playthings, Inc.
• Dog Dice game by Gamewright
12 • SPEECH SOUNDS
• Three-six word utterances Who can help? • Duck and Goose by Tad Hills
Two fish splish to the duck. Three moose clomp to • 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle
the duck. Four crickets pleep to the duck. Etc. • Five Little Ducks by Raffi
• Preposition … to the duck • Dog by Matthew Van Fleet
• Categorization animals by locomotion. • Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman
• Onomatopoeia splish, clomp, pleep, plop, plunk, • The Baby Bee Bee Bird by Diane Redfield Massie
sloosh, slosh, slink, zing, spluck
• Little Quack by Lauren Thompson
• Predicting
• Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? by Iza Trapani
• Problem solving
• The Chick and the Duckling by Mirra Ginsburg
• Auditory memory Try choral reading this book.
• From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
• Sequencing skills
• The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
• Social awareness cooperation and teamwork
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen
• Number concepts 1-10
• How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? by Jane Yolen
Conversational phrases for this book • Five Little Dinosaurs by Will Grace
• A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
• The duck goes down to the deep green marsh.
• Down By the Bay by Raffi
• The duck is stuck in the mud-deep in the mud.
• The duck is dirty!
• The duck is muddy!
13 • SPEECH SOUNDS
“K” Unit Plosives
Plosives
Initial coyote kicking black Moving through the day
cracker knocking block
caboose • Fly a kite.
crayon looking book
cage • Kick a ball.
cry lucky break/broke
cake
cup monkey cake • Play catch.
camel
cupcake napkin chalk
camera • Ride your trike or bike.
curve necklace cheek
camping • Climb in and out of big boxes.
cut pancake chick
can/could
cute patty cake clock
candle
kangaroo peeking coke
Getting dressed
candy
ketchup pickle cook • Put on your jacket or coat.
cap
key picnic cupcake • Change your stinky diaper.
car
kick picture dark
card • Tickle, tickle your neck and ankle.
kindergarten pocket drink/drank
careful
king popcorn duck
carrot
kiss popsicle
Kitchen capers
carry fork
kitchen pumpkin kick • Cut, cut, cut soft foods with a dull knife.
catch
kite raincoat knock • Have a picnic with carrots, crackers, cupcakes,
caterpillar
kitten rocket lake cookies and popcorn.
carpet
kitty rocking lick
cartoon • Cook pancakes.
kleenex rocking chair like
castle • Lick ice cream.
quack- sandbox lock
cat
quack scarf look • Make cookies. Use cookie cutters.
clap
quiet school make • Make a thick chocolate milk shake.
clean
climb shaking milk
Medial • Clean the kitchen.
clock skate neck
backpack sky pancake
close Each day, every day
closet backyard sneaker park
bacon sprinkler patty cake • Look in the closet. What do you want to play with next?
cloud
clown basket sticky peek • Get in the car to go to your activities.
coat because stinky picnic • Read lots of books.
coffee bicycle taco pick
talking • Snuggle up with your blanket.
coke blanket pink
box thank you rock
cold
breakfast ticket shake
Activities
collar
color breaking tickle shark
• Play patty cake, peek-a-boo, and knock-knock games.
comb broccoli turkey sick
broken uncle sidewalk • Cut play dough with a dull knife or cookie cutters.
come/came
computer bucket vacuum sink • Cut paper with a pair of children’s scissors.
cone chicken wake-up snack • Stack blocks. Sort them by color.
cook chocolate walker snake
• Fill containers with “K” objects: key, coat, book, comb, computer,
cookie circle walking stick
yucky candy, box of crayons, pictures, camera, Kleenex.
cool circus stuck
corn cookie take/took • Draw pictures on the sidewalk with colored chalk.
corner cooking Final take care • Go to a lake at a park. Look for ducks. Carry some crackers to
couch doctor awake talk feed the ducks. Listen for the ducks saying, “Quack quack.”
cough donkey back think • Take pictures of “K” words with your camera. Look at them
count fix backpack truck on the computer.
cow helicopter bake walk
• Talk about your pictures with your cousins, uncles, and other kids.
cowboy ice cream bike work
14 • SPEECH SOUNDS
• Pretend or go camping in the backyard or out in the country. Building communication with this book
Pack your backpack. Take a walk. Gather sticks and rocks and
• Auditory memory for the foods he ate. Props will assist the child
sort them by color and size. Climb a tree, but be careful. Draw
in remembering the foods and also make it more interesting, but
circles in the dirt. Be very quiet and look for insects. Can you
eventually move into auditory memory without the props being
find any caterpillars, crickets or butterflies? Sit on a blanket and
visible, so that it is truly auditory memory.
have a snack and a drink. Look at the clouds. When it becomes
dark, look up in the sky at the stars. • Auditory sequencing and retelling of the plot of the story:
egg — small caterpillar — fat caterpillar — cocoon — butterfly
Games and Toys • Auditory self-monitoring of speech within manner of production,
/ktp/, caterpillar
• Tic Tac Toe Game (Wee Sing 6)
• Duck, Duck , Goose Game (Wee Sing 6) Conversational phrases for this book
• Hot and Cold Game (Wee Sing 6) • Any reference to caterpillar.
• Lucky Ducks game by Hasbro • The sun came up.
• The Very Quiet Cricket Game by University Games • Out of the egg came a very hungry caterpillar.
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Game by • He started to look for some food.
University Games or Briar Patch • Crunch, crunch, he ate through food.
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Card Game by University Games • Count the apples, pears, plums, strawberries, oranges.
• Very Hungry Caterpillar Magnetic Set by University Games • He can’t get enough to eat.
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar: 18 Piece Puzzle by Briar Patch • Listen, a butterfly is so quiet. Can you hear it?
• Monkeying Around Game by International Playthings • He kept eating more food: chocolate cake, ice cream cone,
• Monkey Madness game by Ravensburger pickle, lollipop candy, cupcake, cold watermelon.
• My Grandmother Went to Market game by Child’s Play • He had a big picnic.
• Cat and Mouse game by Ravensburger • He had a stomachache!
• Care Bears game by Parker Brothers • He built a cocoon to cover himself.
• Candyland game by Milton Bradley • He woke up.
Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar • 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle
• Five Little Ducks by Raffi
Written by Eric Carle • Little Quack by Lauren Thompson
Follow the caterpillar after he hatches from an egg and adventures
• Little Cloud by Eric Carle
out into the world to find some food. Little does he know that
someday he will look very different.
15 • SPEECH SOUNDS
“G” Unit Plosives
Plosives
Initial Medial Final Moving through the day
game again bag • Walk on the green grass in your bare feet.
garage all gone beg • Make a wagon out of a cardboard box. Push and pull it
garbage alligator big around on the floor (not carpet due to electro
garden begin bug static discharge from carpets).
gas station bigger dig • Hop like a kangaroo.
gate digging dog
• Crawl like an alligator.
get/got doggie egg
ghost dragon fig • Wiggle like a piggy.
gift finger flag • Shake like a doggy.
girl goggles fog • Put your child on your back. After saying, “G-G-G-GO,” move
give/gave hamburger frog around the room until someone says, “Stop.” Then repeat the game.
glass hungry gag
glasses kangaroo hog Getting dressed
gloves nightgown hot dog
• Put on your nightgown.
glue penguin hug
go piggy jog • Say “good-night.”
goat playground jug
gobble rectangle ladybug Kitchen capers
goes spaghetti leg • Make gooey rice crispy treats.
goggles sugar log
• Count out, eat and give out goldfish crackers.
going thanksgiving mug
goldfish tiger peg • Have a “G” tasting party with: grapes, green beans, hamburger,
Goldilocks triangle pig spaghetti, yogurt, egg. Don’t eat too much sugar.
gone wagon rag
good wiggle rug Each day, every day
goodbye yogurt slug • Play games.
gooey snug • Feed and play with your dog. Give your dog a drink of water.
goose tag
gorilla tug Activities
grr wag
grandma wig • Play with tractors. The tractor says, “G-G-G.”
grandpa zigzag
• Play with wind up toys. After you wind up the toy, hold it and say,
grapes
“G-G-G-GO” before letting it move.
grass
green • Hold a musical toy in front of your child. Without the child seeing
green beans you, turn it on right after saying, “G-G-G-GO.”
guess • Plant a garden. Dig the dirt. Look for bugs and slugs in the dirt.
guitar Watch the plants grow.
gum • Draw triangles and rectangles with your fingers in yogurt.
Feel how gooey it is.
• Hide “G” objects in plastic eggs. Describe each object before
letting the other person see what’s in the egg.
• Put “G” objects in uncooked beans, pasta or rice and look for
them with your hands. Name them when you get them out.
• Give grandma and grandpa a big hug.
• Glue paper or felt pieces onto a big poster board.
16 • SPEECH SOUNDS
Fricatives
her/hers horrible • We can heat up the leftovers.
hamburger buttonhole
here horse
hammer doghouse
herself hose Each day, every day
hand dollhouse
hey hospital
hang downhill • Hug everyone in your home.
hi hot
hanger forehead • Call someone on the phone to say “hi” or “hello”.
hide hot dog
happy grasshopper
high hound • Hold your puppy or kitten gently. You don’t want to harm it.
hard playhouse
high chair house • Don’t worry, be happy!
harm rocking horse
hilarious housekeeper
hat seahorse • Always behave at school.
hill how
hatch tree house • It’s not too hard. You can do it.
himself hug
have/has/had unhappy
hip huge
hawk hippo hum
unhealthy Activities
hay uphill
hiss hump
he/him/his yahoo • Find things that are hot, but don’t touch.
hit hungry
head hoe hurry • Pretend to be a clown. “ Ha ha ha.” Put on a funny wig for hair.
heap hog hurt Wear a silly hat. People are happy to see you.
hear/heard hold/held hush • Try on all the hats you can find.
heart hole hut
• Blow a trumpet or horn or honk the horn of a car.
heat home hymn
heavy honey who • Knock on the door of your neighbor’s house. Anyone home?
• Play “hairdresser” with a friend. That hairdo is hilarious!
Daily Routines • Make a playhouse out of old sheets and a table or chairs.
Play house.
Moving through the day • Decorate a cardboard box to resemble a beehive, birdhouse,
doghouse or dollhouse.
• Pant like a dog, “h-h-h.”
• Set up an animal hospital. You have many patients: a hawk, hen,
• Hop up, hop down, hop here, hop there, and hop all around.
hippo, hog, horse, hound, grasshopper and a seahorse.
• Hit the ball hard.
Who’s first?
• Walk ahead or behind someone.
• Set up a pretend hospital. Put a Band-Aid where it hurts-your
• Dig a hole with a toy shovel or hoe. patient’s hip, hand, heel, heart or forehead.
• Reach up high to the sky. • Hum your favorite songs or hymns into a microphone.
Getting dressed
• Hurry and get dressed.
• Do you need help putting the buttons in the buttonholes?
• Take your clothes off the hangers.
• Don’t throw your clothes in a heap. Hang up the clothes
you’re not wearing.
• Put a hat on your head.
• Be sure to fix your hair.
18 • SPEECH SOUNDS
Games and Toys • The hippo is very heavy. He has a huge mouth.
• The flamingo has a hooked beak. How does he use it?
• Hide -and-Seek Game (Wee Sing 6) • The zebra is braying. Oh, that’s a horrible sound.
• Hot and Cold Game (Wee Sing 6) • The snake is hissing. Can you hear it?
• Hot Potato Game (Wee Sing 6) • The elephant has huge ears. Hush, do you think it can hear us?
• Hungry Hungry Hippos game by Hasbro • I hope the leopard’s not hungry. His teeth could really hurt.
• Bunny Hop game by Educational Insights • This peacock has beautiful feathers. Is it a boy or a girl?
• Chuck it Chicken game by Ravensburger (hens) Right, the girl is called a peahen and it’s usually brown.
• Horton Hears a Who game by University Games • The walrus has huge tusks, but it looks friendly.
• Polar Bear Touch and Stack Blocks by Small World Toys (hear) Can we give it a hug?
• Bunny Hop by Educational Insights • The zookeeper is whistling. Is that like humming?
• The children are hilarious! Where did they get those
Songs, Rhymes or Fingerplays masks and hats?
• Sound-Object Association lion-roaring; hippo-snorting; flamingo- • Henny Penny by Paul Galdone or any other version
fluting; zebra-braying; boa constrictor-hissing; elephant-trumpeting; • Mrs. Honey’s Hat by Pam Adams
leopard-snarling; peacock-yelping; walrus-bellowing • Hansel and Gretel, any simple version
• Auditory memory for repetitive questions and sentences. • Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr.
• Whose Baby Am I? by John Butler
Conversational phrases for this book
• The Napping House by Audrey Wood
• Polar bear/lion/hippo/flamingo/zebra/boa/elephant/leopard/
• A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
peacock/walrus/zookeeper. What do you hear?
• Hi, Blueberry! by Barney Saltzberg
• I hear a lion/hippo/flamingo/zebra/boa constrictor/elephant/
leopard/peacock/walrus/zookeeper/children…in my ear.
• Hey, the polar bear has sharp claws. I hope he behaves himself.
• Hide ! It’s a lion! He has a huge mane on his head.
19 • SPEECH SOUNDS
“F” Unit Fricatives
Fricatives
forest
fancy before enough • Make waffles or muffins from wheat flour for breakfast.
forget
far breakfast giraffe Put a spoonful of honey on it.
fork
farm buffalo golf
fort • Pour Mom half a cup of coffee for breakfast? Get the loaf
fast butterfly half
forward of bread off of the first shelf in the pantry for her.
fasten careful hoof
four • What are your favorite snack foods? I know … french fries and
father cauliflower if
fox cheese goldfish. You can never have enough of them. Here’s a
faucet coffee knife
freezer full bag of goldfish and a few french fries.
feather different laugh
french fries
feed dolphin leaf • Help the “chef” in your family fix dinner. Get the beef out
friend
feel elephant loaf of the freezer. Get the cauliflower out of the refrigerator.
frog
fence goldfish myself That’s fine, thanks!
full
few grandfather off • When you’re finished eating, turn on the faucet to wash the
fun
fight laughing photograph forks and the butter knife.
funny
fill lifeguard roof
fussy
fin
phone
microphone rough Each day, every day
find/found muffin safe
• Feed your pet fish or a pretend fish some fish food.
fine office scarf
finger often shelf • Don’t be fussy. Take time to laugh and have fun!
finish outfit sheriff • Talk to your friends, father and grandfather on the telephone
fire perfect sniff this afternoon.
first refrigerator stiff • Recite or sing the alphabet.
fish snowflake thief
• Sit on the sofa and listen to your favorite music often.
fit sofa wolf
five soft woof-woof • Cover your face if you cough.
fix spoonful yourself
flag telephone Activities
flew traffic
flour waffle • Make a photo album of yourself, your family and all your
flower friends. Take lots of photographs with your camera. Take a few
pictures before and after you fix your hair and wash your face.
Daily Routines • Play dress-up with a friend and pretend to be a fairy and
an elf or a sheriff and a thief.
Moving through the day • Make a fort, forest or farm out of a large box.
• Turn on the fan. It goes very fast. Decorate it for a play.
• Sing your favorite song into a microphone. • Look up the flags of different states and make your favorite one
out of an old sheet.
• Don’t climb on the roof. It’s not safe. You might fall.
• Fly your flag proudly.
• Walk forward and backward, but be careful not to fall down.
• Play follow the leader: act like a wolf, giraffe, calf, elephant,
• Run fast, fast, fast!
dolphin, buffalo, frog or fox when it’s your turn.
• Let small plastic toys fall off something.
20 • SPEECH SOUNDS
See phrases listed below in the parentheses. • The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle
• Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox
Props for this book • Ruff! Ruff! Where’s Scruff ?
Act out the entire book with human and animal feet by David A. Carter
and a few props: • A Flea’s Sneeze by Lynn Downey
• Feet in a hurry and walking fast (feet in the morning) • The Wolf ’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
• Feet wrapped in a blanket (feet at night)
• Two feet marching (left feet & right feet)
• Feet in a large bowl of water (wet feet)
21 • SPEECH SOUNDS
“V” Unit Fricatives
Fricatives
vote oven grave
van vow over grove Each day, every day
vanilla vulture pavement have • Give Mommy and Daddy lots of love and kisses
vanish private hive (maybe five or seven).
vase Medial raven leave
vat • Take every one of your vitamins.
beaver river live
vegetable cavity rover love • Turn the volume up or down on the TV.
veil clever seven move • Use your inside voice at home and at school.
velvet clover several of • Wave goodbye to your friends.
verb cover shiver prove
verse • Leave home on time. Leave your ____ at home.
divine shovel save
very eleven souvenir serve • Drive here, drive there and drive everywhere.
vest even survey shave • Please behave everyday.
vet ever swivel shelves
victory every whenever shove Activities
video everyday woven sleeve
view everyone solve • Count everything. How many do you have? Five? Seven? Eleven?
village everything Final stove Twelve? Seventeen? Twenty-five? Twenty-seven?
vine everywhere above twelve • Save your pennies for something very special. Count them.
vinegar fever behave wave
• Make up a victory cheer with a family member or friend.
violet gravel brave wove
violin • Decorate a plastic bottle to make a lovely vase.
gravy carve
visit heavenly cave • Sort your play food into fruits and vegetables. See how many
vegetables you can name in one minute.
Daily Routines • Plan a pretend vacation. How will you go-by car, van or truck?
Who will drive?
Moving through the day • Make a very large valentine for your favorite person.
• Make a volcano out of baking soda and vinegar, putting ingredients
• Vacuum the carpet.
in a plastic bottle.
• Move fast or move slowly. Move over here and move over there.
• Look for four leaf clovers in the grass.
• Move forward and backward. Move to the right and to the left.
• Pretend to play the violin to your favorite song.
• Wait in lines patiently. No shoving even if you’re in a hurry.
• View a video of your favorite movie.
Getting dressed • Pretend to be a veterinarian. This (vulture/vole/beaver/raven/
dove) is very sick. He has a fever. He’s shivering and vomiting
• Put on your vest. Is it made of velvet?
everywhere. Tell him to be brave. Give him eleven shots and
• The sleeves of your shirt are very dirty. twelve vitamins.
• Mommy, do you still have your wedding veil? Can I see it?
• Find your missing glove.
• Watch Daddy shave. Never try to shave with Daddy’s razor.
• Brush your teeth after eating. You don’t want to get cavities.
22 • SPEECH SOUNDS
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain (Wee Sing 7, 9) • Everyone’s gone and Rover’s alone.
Fricatives
snowman awesome • Sit down for circle time in your class at school.
sack rooster
so baby sitter nurse
sad taste
sailboat
soap baseball nuts Getting dressed
sock basement thirsty octopus
salad toast • Wash your face and hands with soap. Now your skin feels soft.
soda basket pants
salt sofa tricycle piece • Can you dress yourself? Pick out sandals, sneakers, soft slippers or
bathing suit
same soft whistle police boots with your striped socks. Next, you can choose tights, a nice
beside
sand some yesterday prince blouse, a soft sweater and spotted pants. Do you need a scarf,
bicycle
sandals something yourself promise your sister’s necklace, your bracelet and a purse? Oh! You look
bracelet
sandwich sorry purse awesome!
breakfast
Santa sound castle Final race • Change the baby’s diaper. It’s stinky!
Saturday soup rice
closer blouse
say/said sour thermos Kitchen capers
dancing boots
scare spaghetti this
dinosaur box • What do you want for breakfast? Do you want pancakes with
scarf spill tights
disappear bus sticky syrup, a bowl of strawberries, grapes, toast, cereal or
scary splash toss
dressing caboose applesauce? The grapes taste sweet, not sour!
school spoon twice
eraser cactus
scissors • Let’s have a snack. Do you want a popsicle, ice cream, pretzels,
squirrel fast carrots underpants
sea carrots, celery or nuts?
stairs faucet Christmas us
seahorse stand first vase • Are you thirsty? Let’s pour soda or juice in a glass filled with ice.
class
seal star gas station dance voice • It’s time for lunch. Let’s make a sandwich with lots of lettuce and
second stay glasses dice yes mustard on it.
see/saw stick grass- dress • I smell something yummy on the stove. Is it soup or spaghetti?
seesaw sticky hopper enormous Can I have seconds? Spaghetti is messy.
seed stink grocery face • Let’s set the table. Don’t forget your spoon and fork. Sit down
seven stinky guessing fence and remember to eat slowly, not fast. Pass the salt, please.
sick stone hospital fix
side stop ice cream • Let’s put the plates, spoons and glasses in the sink.
fox
sidewalk store icing Turn on the faucet.
geese
silly story inside glass
sing/sang stove just goose
Each day, every day
sink strawberry kissing grapes • Listen to all the sounds outside.
sister street last grass • Surprise Mommy and Daddy with an enormous kiss
sit/sat stroller listen guess on the lips or face!
six suit lost horse
• Say you’re sorry when you do something wrong or
skate summer medicine house
make a mistake.
skin sun messy ice
sky Sunday missing juice • Sit on the sofa to listen to your favorite story.
sled surprise motorcycle kiss • Say your prayers. Sleep tight and sweet dreams.
sleep sweater mustard Kleenex
sleepy sweep myself less
slide sweet next lettuce
slippers swim outside lips
24 • SPEECH SOUNDS
Fricatives
legs
zero chimpanzee beans
maze
Kitchen capers
zigzag closet bears • We need to make a shopping list. We need to buy zucchini,
nose
zing clothespin because zip-lock bags, a dozen eggs, peas, cheese, cherries, bananas,
peas
zinnia cousin bees apples, oranges, pies.
pies
zip daisy bows
pigs • Look in the refrigerator and the freezer. What can we fix to
zip code dazzling boys
please eat that’s easy? A dessert?
zipper desert bubbles
rose
zombie dessert bugs • Make a dozen cookies.
shoes
zone dozen butterflies • What kind of fruit do you want: apples, bananas, cherries, raisins?
sneeze
zoo easel buzz
stairs
zookeeper easy cars
stars
Each day, every day
zoom freezer cheese
tease • Put on your most dazzling smile for everyone!
zucchini fuzzy cherries
these • Always wipe your nose when you sneeze.
husband choose
those
lizard close • Always say please when you want something.
ties
magazine clothes • Always say excuse me when you walk in front of someone.
toes
measles cookies • Don’t tease your brothers, sisters or cousins, please.
toys
music cows
trapeze • We’re always so busy!
newspaper dogs
trees
noisy eggs • Listen to children’s music.
use
pansy excuse • Put away all your toys. Now everything looks organized.
vitamins
puzzle eyes
woods
presents fizz
yours Activities
raisin flowers
razor freeze • Zebra Says — a variation of the game, Simon Says
scissors friends (Wee Sing 6)
Thursday fuzz • Play with toy farm animals: pigs, cows, horses, dogs,
Tuesday girls chickens and roosters.
visit glasses
• Plant or pick flowers from your garden. Please don’t forget
Wednesday hers
to water them with a hose.
wizard
• Be careful of the bees buzzing and zooming around.
• Draw pictures of flowers: roses, zinnias, daisies, pansies.
Daily Routines
Use zigzags to draw grass.
Moving through the day • Visit the zoo! Did you see the rhinos, seals, zebras, lions,
leopards, tigers, bears, chimpanzees, gorillas, bears, flamingos,
• Open and close your eyes. and gazelles? Don’t tease the alligators!
• Play with the boys and girls in your neighborhood • Get busy and make a “Z” collage. Cut pictures out of magazines
or your cousins. and newspapers. Use a pair of scissors, markers and glue.
• Visit your friends and neighbors. Your picture is amazing!
• Cut with scissors. • Sort keys by size.
• Zoom and buzz around the house like bees. • Zoom and zigzag your cars around the trees. Easy does it!
26 • SPEECH SOUNDS
• Look up at the stars at night. Amazing! Conversational phrases for this book
• Plant real or paper flowers: zinnias, pansies, daisies, roses, etc. • I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet.
• Have a pretend birthday party for your stuffed animals. • The zoo sent me an elephant/giraffe/lion/camel/snake/
Wrap several “presents.” How many toys/clothes/foods did monkey/frog.
each animal get?
• He was too big/tall/fierce/grumpy/scary/naughty (zany)/jumpy.
• Blow dozens of bubbles. Pop!
• Don’t tease the ____ !
Games and Toys • The zoo sent me a dog. He was perfect! Amazing!
Fricatives
shout ocean mash
shapes • The pantry shelves are empty. It’s time to go shopping
shove parachute mustache
share for more food.
shovel seashell nail polish
shark
show spaceship paintbrush
sharp
polish Each day, every day
shower special
shave
shrimp sunshine push • Share your toys with friends, sisters and brothers.
shawl
shrink suspicious radish • Throw your trash in the trashcan.
she
shut tissue rash
shed • Don’t push or shove anyone.
shy trashcan smash
sheep • Pay close attention to directions.
sugar washcloth splash
sheet
sure washing- squash • Finish what you started.
shelf
machine starfish • Flush the toilet.
shell
Medial swish
sheriff • Count sheep if you can’t sleep.
Final ticklish
shh ashamed • Make a special wish.
toothbrush
shin attention brush trash
shine bushes bush vanish Activities
shiny delicious car wash wash
ship dishes crash • Put the baby, doll or stuffed animal to sleep, “ Shh, night-night.”
wish
shirt fire station crawfish • Open and shut containers and doors.
shoe fishing directions
• Go to the beach and enjoy the sunshine. Look at the ocean and
shoot flashlight dish
the shore line. Pick up seashells. Stand in the water up to your
shop gas station eyelash
shins. Do you see any shells, starfish, or sharks? Wave at all the
ships that go by. Make a sand castle, then watch as the waves
crash and then smash it.
Daily Routines
• Play parachute games with an old sheet.
Moving through the day • Pretend to be a magician and make things vanish.
• Help wash the car, your clothes or dishes. Swish bubbles
• Shake your sillies out!
around and make a splash. Put your dirty shorts and shirts
• Push a toy wagon, car or truck. in the washing machine.
• Visit a fire station.
Getting dressed
• Go the library. “ Shh, we need to be quiet.”
• Brush your teeth with a toothbrush.
• Wash your hair with shampoo in the shower. Games and Toys
Brush it when it’s dry.
• Use a washcloth to wash your face. • Play Run, Sheep, Run Game (Wee Sing 6).
• Put on your shorts, shirt and shoes. • You’re Bugging Me game by Educational Insights ( Shoo!)
• Put nail polish on your toes. • Chutes and Ladders by Milton Bradley
• Put lotion on your hands.
• Are you cold? You can put my shawl over your shoulders.
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Songs, Rhymes or Fingerplays • Oh, no! She even hangs up her turkey? What shall she eat tonight?
• She takes off her apron and let’s down her hair.
• There Was an Old Woman (Wee Sing 2) Good, now she’s finished…
• Baa Baa Black Sheep (Wee Sing 2, 7) • She hangs herself in a comfortable chair. What???
• Ride a Cock-Horse (Wee Sing 2) Is she sleeping? Shhhhh…
• Five + word utterances She hangs up the dresses. She hangs up • Turkey
the shirts. She hangs up the underwear, nightgowns, and skirts. • Anything else you can think of (for everything in sight)
• Rhyming McNosh/wash; high/dry; shirts/skirts; shoes/news; bone/ • Chair with woman in it (for Mrs. McNosh)
phone; gown/down; wreath/teeth; tail/mail; sight/night; hair/chair • 1 long piece of thin rope or cord strung between two
• Auditory memory for repetitive sentences chairs (for the clothesline)
• Recall details • 25-30 clothespins
• Retell a story
Additional Books
Conversational phrases for this book
• Shake My Sillies Out by Raffi
• Each Monday Mrs. McNosh does a big wash. She doesn’t even
• Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
have a washing machine.
• Sheep on a Ship by Nancy Shaw
• She hangs all the wash out to dry.
• Sheep in a Shop by Nancy Shaw
• She hangs up (dresses/shirts/underwear/skirts/stockings/
shoes/newspaper). • Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car by Eileen Christelow
• Should she be washing a newspaper? Is she paying attention? • Mrs. Wishy-Washy by Joy Cowley
• She hangs up (the dog/his dish/his bone/the phone). The dog • Mr. Wishy-Washy by Joy Cowley
wishes he was someone else’s pet. • Shoo Fly by Iza Trapani
• She hangs up (a hat/old wedding gown/two sleepy bats). Shhh, • Fidgety Fish by Ruth Galloway
they’re sleeping. • Shoes from Grandpa by Mem Fox
• She hangs up (a lamp/wreath/teeth). Not teeth! She should be
ashamed of herself!
• She hangs up (a kite/mail). Look at the mailman run. He must be
suspicious of her.
• She hangs everything in sight. Surely, that’s all. I wish she
would stop.
29 • SPEECH SOUNDS
“M” Unit Nasals
Nasal
washing- plum
mess basement
machine same • It’s time to take a bath now. It’s almost your bedtime.
middle bump
woman some
milk camel • Be sure to go to the bathroom before bedtime.
yummy swim
mine camera • Say goodnight to everyone in your family. Don’t forget Mama!
them
mittens camping
Final thumb • Blow kisses to them with your mouth.
mom climbing
time
mommy empty am
uniform Activities
money family arm
vacuum
monkey fireman bathroom • Feed a doll. “ Mmmm, good. Would you like some more?”
worm
monster flamingo bedroom
• Play dress-up mailman, fireman, or policeman. Use markers
moo grandma bedtime
to turn an old white tee shirt into a uniform top.
moon hamburger bottom
moose hammer broom • Play “mailman,” sorting mail and delivering it to animal friends.
• Play storekeeper, taking your customers’ money and
making change.
Daily Routines
• Play in the mud and make a mess. Making mud pies is fun!
Moving through the day • Make frozen things melt.
• Move stuffed animals, trucks, furniture, etc. from one • Make ice cream in a bag using milk or cream.
place to another around the house. • Make a movie called “If You Give Me a Cookie.” I’m the star,
• March like a soldier. of course!
• Jump high, jump low, jump forward, and jump backward! • Make a collage using many pictures from different magazines.
• Climb stairs, steps or playground equipment. • Charades (Wee Sing 6): Write the names or draw stick figures on
slips of paper and put them in a basket: marching, jumping, smiling,
• Vacuum the carpet.
climbing, swimming, vacuuming, mouse, monkey, moose, camel,
flamingo, lamb, and worm.
Getting dressed
• It’s cold this morning. Be sure to put on your mittens. Games and Toys
• Help me put a belt around my tummy/stomach, a bracelet on
my arm, and a ring on my thumb. • Motorboat Game (Wee Sing 6)
• Put your dirty pajamas in the washing machine in the basement • Monkeying Around Game by International Playthings
or laundry room. • Monkey Madness game by Ravensburger
• Be sure to comb your hair! • Go Away Monster game by Gamewright
30 • SPEECH SOUNDS
• Monsters Under My Bed game by Fundex Games • When the mouse is finished giving himself a trim,
• My Grandmother Went to Market game by Child’s Play he’ll want a broom.
• Cat and Mouse game by Ravensburger • The mouse might get carried away and sweep every room
in the house.
• Alfredo’s Food Fight game by Fundex Games (meatballs)
• The mouse may even end up washing the floors with a mop.
• Whac-A- Mole game by Hasbro
• The mouse will crawl in the box and make himself comfortable.
• Don’t Monkey Around by Milton Bradley
• The mouse will fluff the pillow a few times.
• Marble Works by Discovery Toys
• The mouse will ask you to read him a story.
Songs, Rhymes or Finger Plays • The mouse will want to sign his name with a pen … which means
he’ll need scotch tape.
• This Old Man (Wee Sing 2) • Looking at the refrigerator will remind him that he’s thirsty.
• Three Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
• Mary Had a Little Lamb (Wee Sing 2) Props for this book
• To Market, To Market (Wee Sing 2, 5, 9) • Mouse • Pair of scissors
• Little Miss Muffet (Wee Sing 2) • 2 cookies • Broom
• Hickory Dickory Dock (Wee Sing 2, 5) • Glass • Sponge and/or mop
• Round the Mulberry Bush • Straw • Bucket
• Pat-a-Cake (Wee Sing 2, 5) • Napkin • Empty tissue box (bed)
• Three Little Kittens (Wee Sing 2) • Mirror • Tape dispenser
• Pop! Goes the Weasel (Wee Sing 3, 5) • Storybook • Cotton ball
• The Merry-Go-Round (Wee Sing 3) • Pen (pillow for mouse)
• The Muffin Man (Wee Sing 3) • Sheet of paper • Tissue sheet
• Miss Lucy Had a Baby (Wee Sing 3) (blanket for mouse)
• Box of crayons
• Miss Mary Mac (Wee Sing 3)
• The More We Get Together (Wee Sing 4) Additional Books
• She’ll be Comin’ Round the Mountain (Wee Sing 4, 9)
• If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff
• Three Blind Mice (Wee Sing 4)
• Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
• Baby Bumblebee (Wee Sing 5, 7, 9)
• “More, More, More” said the Baby by Vera B. William
• The Mosquito (Wee Sing 7)
• Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino
• Old MacDonald (Wee Sing 7, 9)
• It’s Mine! by Rod Campbell
Book: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie • Move Over, Rover by Karen Beaumont
• Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Written by Laura Joffe Numerof, Illustrated by Felicia Bond • Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Follow a demanding little mouse and a boy who tries to give the
• Mouse Mess by Linnea Asplind Riley
mouse everything he wants. The story starts when the boy gives
the mouse a cookie, but it doesn’t end there! Each request the • This Old Man by Pam Adams
boy grants, leads to another demand by the mouse. • Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow
• Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do by Eileen Christelow
Building communication with this book • Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
• Cause and effect If … then … • Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car by Eileen Christelow
• Associations cookies and milk; blanket and pillow; • Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake by Eileen Christelow
paper and crayons; etc.
• Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
• Conjunctions if, when, then
• The Chick and the Duckling by Mirra Ginsburg
• Future tense modals will, might, may
• From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
• Predicting
• Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr.
Conversational phrases for this book • Whose Baby Am I? by John Butler
• If you give a mouse a … glass of milk, mirror, broom, etc. • Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
• The mouse has a milk moustache! He made a mess!
• When the mouse looks in the mirror, he might notice his
hair needs a trim.
31 • SPEECH SOUNDS
“N” Unit Nasals
Nasal
neighbor
enough tonight nine • It’s too warm for your mittens.
nest
find tuna on
never • Can you button your shirt on your own?
finish under one
new
friend underpants
next open Kitchen capers
funny vanilla oven
nice
gentle • Let’s have pancakes with honey, banana muffins or donuts for
nickel want own
going breakfast this morning. Fresh pineapple would be nice too.
nightgown went pan
grandparents • Let’s have a snack in the kitchen. Do you want popcorn, pumpkin
night-night wind pen
green beans seeds or peanuts? You could also make a peanut butter and jelly
nine window penguin
hand sandwich for snack. You’ll need a knife, a spoon, peanut butter,
no windy popcorn
nobody honey jelly and bread. When you’re finished making it, put the sandwich
hunt pumpkin on a napkin. Do you want another one?
noise/noisy
inside
Final rain
none • Let’s pack a picnic lunch. We could bring chicken or tuna salad
into afternoon raisin sandwiches, corn, and green beans to eat, and lemonade to drink.
noodles
nose invite again run/ran Don’t invite the tiny ants, please.
not jeans airplane spoon
• Let’s bake raisin bread in the oven for dinner tonight. We’re
nothing lawn mower all gone stone finished. Let’s clean up and put everything in the sink for now.
now lemonade balloon sun Don’t forget the pan and spoon.
number lunch bean telephone
many
nurse belly button train Each day, every day
nut money
broken turn • Listen to all the sounds inside your house.
morning
brown vitamin
Medial paint • Be kind in the morning, afternoon or at night.
button wagon
pancake • Be nice and try to never be naughty. Naughty means not nice.
and can washing-
pants
animal machine • Take a nap in the morning or afternoon. Can’t sleep? Is it too noisy?
peanut butter chicken
another • Get into your nightgown or pajamas. Say night-night or
pencil children when
ant goodnight to everyone.
penny chin win
any
picnic clean • Save your money, how many pennies and nickels do you have now?
around
aunt pineapple corn • Stand up and sit down again and again. That’s a nice bench. Enjoy
banana plant crayon the weather. Is it a rainy, sunny, windy or snowy day?
behind pony down • Have you ever seen a rainbow?
bench pretend fan • Ask, What’s next?” whenever you’re finished.
bunny rainbow fine
32 • SPEECH SOUNDS
Semivowels
wheelchair woof-woof • When someone says “Thank you,” you say: “You’re welcome.”
wash sweater
when wool • Wait for people, wait in lines, wait your turn, and wait
washcloth sweep
where word for things to be ready.
washing- swim
which work
machine swing • Tell people where you went today.
whisker workbench
waste towel
whisper world
wastebasket
whistle worm
tower Activities
watch
white wow!
water • Wind up wind up toys.
why
waterfall • At the park, swing way up high.
wide
watermelon
wife • Dig for worms.
wave
• Watch animals and people in your neighborhood from a window.
• Wash dirty toys, clothes, dishes and the car with water.
Daily Routines Everything is wet.
• Whistle while you work and play.
Moving through the day
• Walk around the house, yard, or neighborhood.
• Walk here, walk there, and walk on the sidewalk.
• Sweep the sidewalk.
• Walk forward and backward.
• Where is ___? Go and find it.
• Pretend to be different animals. Walk like a wolf, penguin and
• Help mom or dad wax the car.
a squirrel. Wiggle like a worm, waddle like a duck, swim like
a whale, crawl like a spider on his web, or fly like an owl. • Help mom or dad work in the garden. You can pull or
whack the weeds.
Getting dressed • Turn cartwheels with your friends outside.
• Wash your face with a washcloth. • Build a tall tower or wall out of blocks or shoeboxes.
• Remember to wear your sweater when it’s cold outside. Whee! Watch them fall down.
• Wear something white today. • Dress-up as a waiter or waitress. Put an apron around your waist
and take everyone’s order.
34 • SPEECH SOUNDS
• Pretend to be a wizard. Using a wand, turn your friends or family Conversational phrases for this book
members into whales, worms, walruses, swans, owls, penguins
• The cow jumped into the mud-Wheeee!
or squirrels.
• The pig rolled in the mud-Wheeee!
• Fill plastic water bottles with a variety of colorful objects
and shake well. I hear that! • The duck paddled in the mud-Wheeee!
• Tell all of your stuffed animals and dolls to wait-wait-wait! • Along came Mrs. Wishy-Washy.
• Play a wake up game with family members, stuffed animals • In went the cow.
and/or dolls. “Shhhhhh….. night-night. WAKE-UP!” • In went the pig.
• In went the duck.
Games and Toys • Wash all the animals.
• Press “N’ Go Inchworm by International Playthings • Wishy-washy, wishy-washy.
• Wormy Apples game by Fundex • All the animals are wet.
• Go Away Monster game by Gamewright • Dry them with a towel.
• Whac-A-Mole game by Hasbro • Tell all the animals to wait.
• Brown Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See • Mrs. Wishy-Washy went into the house.
game by University Games • Away went the cow.
• My Grandmother Went to Market game by Child’s Play • Away went the pig.
• Where are the Animals? Game by Mattel • Away went the duck.
• Uncle Wiggley by Milton Bradley • Oh, lovely mud, they said. Wheeee!
• Where did they go?
Songs, Rhymes or Fingerplays • All the animals jumped in the mud! Wow! I bet they get in trouble.
• This is the Way (Adapt for Mrs. Wishy-Washy book) • Mrs. Wishy-Washy will be mad.
• Wee Willie Winkie (Wee Sing 2)
Props for this book
• Mary Had a Little Lamb (Wee Sing 2)
• Plastic toy animals: 1 cow, 1 pig, and 1 duck
• This Little Pig Went to Market (Wee Sing 2)
• Bowl of water (for the tub)
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Wee Sing 2)
• Bowl with chocolate pudding covering the bottom
• A-Hunting We Will Go (Wee Sing 3)
(for the mud puddle)-save some to eat later
• Pop! Goes the Weasel (Wee Sing 3, 5, 9)
• Scrubbing brush
• Walking, Walking (Wee Sing 5)
• Apron, headscarf, or fuzzy slippers to role-play the
• Fuzzy Wuzzy (Wee Sing 7) part of Mrs. Wishy-Washy
• One Elephant Went out to Play (Wee Sing 7) • Towel (for drying the animals)
• Eentsy, Weentsy Spider (Wee Sing 7, 9)
• Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be? (Wee Sing 8) Additional Books
• Frog Went A-Courtin’ (Wee Sing 8)
• Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Splishy Sploshy Day by Joy Cowley
• Polly Wolly Doodle (Wee Sing 8, 9)
• Mrs. Wishy-Washy Makes a Splash by Joy Cowley
Semivowels
• Find everything in the house that is yellow.
• Find scary things around your house. Yikes!!!
Daily Routines • Pretend to be a cheerleader. Jump and yell. Yeah!
• Pretend to be a dog. Make different dog sounds:
Getting dressed
yap, yelp, yip, and yowl.
• Get dressed all by yourself.
• Make a huge spider web in your room using lots of yarn.
• Wear something yellow. • Find all the triangular, circular or rectangular things in your house.
• Look at yourself in the mirror. You are young. • Use play dough to make “Y” animals: unicorn, yak, coyote, stallion,
• That is a cute outfit. cocker spaniel, yellow jacket.
• Yell to your friend across the street. • Make a human collage. Use pictures from old magazines.
• Make a kayak from a large rectangular box.
Kitchen capers • Help mom or dad weed flowerbeds. Yank out the weeds.
• “Do you want ____?” “Yes, please” or “No, thank you.” • Measure the rooms of your house using a yardstick.
• Taste different flavors of yogurt. Which one is yummy? • Make a huge, yellow yield sign out of construction paper.
• A raw onion might taste yucky. • Learn a few yoga moves.
• Eat a tortilla. • Pretend to be an ambulance driver. Did you cure all
• Make a cucumber salad. the sick people?
• Help your dad or mom with the barbecue. • Read a Curious George book.
• Eat yams for dinner.
• Put ice cubes in your soda pop.
• How do you like the yolks of your eggs?
• Have a barbecue in your backyard.
36 • SPEECH SOUNDS
Liquids
lime slide roll a glass of milk.
climb
line clock slipper school
• Do you want a snack? You could have vanilla or chocolate
lion close slow seal
pudding, applesauce, a slice of watermelon, a bowl of lime jello,
lips closet splash shell
marshmallows, a popsicle, pretzels or an apple.
lipstick clothes telephone shovel
list television smell • Make celery sticks filled with cheese or peanut butter.
cloud
listen toilet smile Put them on your plate.
clown
little cold umbrella snail • For lunch we can have a large lettuce, broccoli and noodle salad
living room color wolf spill with a glass of lemonade. Do you feel full now?
lizard elbow yellow squirrel • Do you like pickles or olives?
lobster elephant stool
Final • Lick a lollipop. Your lips are a little sticky now.
lock eleven table
log tail • Do you like the smell of fresh bread? I could eat the whole loaf!
eyelash all
lollipop eyelid animal tall
long family ankle tell
Each day, every day
look flag apple tickle • Learn a new word.
lost flower ball towel • Play with your favorite toys.
loud follow bell tricycle
love • Laugh a little or a lot every day. Be silly!
glasses bicycle turtle
low gloves bottle wall • Call someone on the telephone.
38 • SPEECH SOUNDS
• Say a friendly “hello” to your friends. Building communication with this book
• Never tell a lie. • Past tense verbs had, was, drank, ate, tried, called, came, said, went
• Always say “please” and “thank you” and “you’re welcome.” • Pronouns his, she, he
• Flush the toilet. • Four-eight word utterances Miss Lucy had a baby. His name was
• Get your blanket and pillow and go to sleep. Tiny Tim. He ate up all the soap. In came the doctor. In came the
lady with the alligator purse.
Activities • Rhyming Tim/swim; nurse/purse
• Auditory memory for repetitive sentences.
• Put a puzzle together.
• Put clothes on your dolls. Conversational phrases for this book
• Play with play dough.
• Miss Lucy had a baby called Tiny Tim. Why did she call him that?
• Lock and unlock and open and close doors.
• Look. He can swim really well.
• Look for animals such as a leopard, llama, alligator, buffalo,
• He drank up all the water. Do you think he’s full?
elephant, gorilla, polar bear, lion, lamb, wolf, turtle, lizard,
owl and a camel at the zoo. • He ate up all the soap. Will he feel sick? Look at all the bubbles!
• Look for a lobster, turtle, whale, seal and an alligator • That bathtub is too large for that little baby’s mouth. He’s silly!
at an aquarium. • Miss Lucy called the (doctor/nurse/lady with the alligator purse).
• Go on a bug hunt. Find a snail, ladybug, butterfly or a caterpillar. • Look, the little baby is blowing bubbles.
• Play Simon Says. Touch your: legs, elbows, shoulders, • In came the (doctor/nurse/lady with the alligator purse).
ankles, heels and belly. • “Mumps”/ “ Measles”/ “Nonsense!” said the (doctor/nurse/lady
• Help with family projects: rake the leaves, plant flowers, with the alligator purse).
dig a hole with a shovel or clean the pool. • They’re too loud. Miss Lucy looks worried.
• “ Penicillin”/ “Castor oil”/ “Pizza!” said the (doctor/nurse/lady with
Games and Toys the alligator purse).
• Looby Loo Game (Wee Sing 6, 9) • That medicine looks nasty, but the pizza looks great.
• Bye-Bye Balloons game by International Playthings • How many large pizzas do they have? It looks like eleven
or twelve.
• Ladybug Game by Zobmondo
• Out went the (doctor/nurse/lady with the alligator purse).
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Game by University Games
• The doctor looks like he feels sick now. He’s holding his belly.
• Elefun game by Hasbro
• Look at the lady with the alligator purse slide down the banister.
• Chutes and Ladders by Milton Bradley
Props for this book
Songs, Rhymes or Fingerplays
• Nurse • Bathtub
• Little Boo Peep (Wee Sing 2) • Lady with an alligator purse • Bar of soap
• Mary Had a Little Lamb (Wee Sing 2) (a string around an alligator’s • 2 medicine bottles (1 for
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Wee Sing 2) tail & snout makes a purse) castor oil and 1 for penicillin)
• Polly, Put the Kettle On (Wee Sing 2) • Doctor • 2 spoons (for medicine)
• London Bridge (Wee Sing 3) • Baby (Tiny Tim) • Pizza
• Skip to My Lou (Wee Sing 3)
Additional Books
• Five Little Ducks (Wee Sing 7)
• Little Green Frog (Wee Sing 7) • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (any version)
• Little Bunny Foo-Foo (Wee Sing 7) • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed the Sea by Pam Adams
• Polly Wolly Doodle (Wee Sing 8, 9) • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
• There’s an Alligator under My Bed by Mercer Mayer
Book: Lady with the Alligator Purse
• Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Written by Mary Ann Hoberman, Illustrator Nadine Bernard • It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
Westcott Follow the antics of Miss Lucy’s baby, Tiny Tim, as he • The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle
drinks up all the water, eats up all the soap and tries to eat the
bathtub too. Miss Lucy calls the doctor, the nurse and the lady with
the alligator purse. Both the doctor and nurse misdiagnose Tiny Tim’s
condition, but the lady with the alligator purse knows just what to
give him. She prescribes ... pizza!
39 • SPEECH SOUNDS
“R” Unit Liquids
Liquids
road dessert scared diaper stair Each day, every day
robe dirty scissors dinner star • Brush your teeth with a toothbrush.
robot draw shirt dinosaur store
rock dress • Rock in a rocking chair.
shorts doctor sweater
roll drink/drank skirt dollar teacher • Read a story.
roof drive sorry door tear • Remember right from wrong.
room dry squirrel drawer their • Say you’re sorry.
rooster farm stairs dryer there
rope farmer • “I hear that!”
story ear tiger
round fireman strawberry far tire
row first street tractor
Activities
father
rowboat fork syrup feather under
• Gather pictures of family and friends and put one person at
rub french fries thirsty finger water
a time behind the door. Knock on the door. Who’s there?:
rug friend throw fire wear
Mother, father, brother, sister, grandmother, grandfather, friends.
run/ran frog tired floor were
wrist furry tomorrow where • Have a race. Who will hurry to finish the race first?
flower
write garage toothbrush four your • Draw a picture or make a model from a box of the rooms in your
wrong garbage train hair zipper house. Label each room: living room, bedroom, bathroom, play
room, recreation room, backyard, porch.
40 • SPEECH SOUNDS
• Watch the rain shower from your window. Roar, hear the Conversational phrases for this book
thunder. Look for a rainbow when the sun comes out.
• Any phrase using Red Riding Hood or grandmother
• Make a rock collection. Find some more.
• Her cape was red.
• Make a road on the rug with masking tape. Drive around and
• Grandmother was sick.
park your toy car, truck, tractor, camper, motorcycle. Above
the road fly your toy airplane, helicopter. • “ Remember, do not talk to strangers.”
• Find things in your house that look like different shapes: Square, • “ Where are you going so early?” asked the wolf.
circle, triangle, rectangle, star. • She forgot not to talk to strangers and answered him.
• Sort the laundry. Use pronouns. This is yours, hers, theirs. • “I’m sorry your grandmother is sick,” said the wolf.
Use names: Mother’s, father’s, sister’s, brother’s. • But the wolf really was not sorry.
• She stopped to look at rabbits and pick flowers.
Games and Toys
• The wolf hurried to Grandmother’s house.
• Go Away Monster game by Gamewright • “Who is there?” asked Grandmother when she heard a noise.
• Monsters Under My Bed game by Fundex Games • Red Riding Hood reached her grandmother’s house.
• The Very Quiet Cricket Game by University Games • She was surprised.
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Game by University Games • Something was not right.
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Card Game by University Games • “What big ears you have!”
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Magnetic Set by University Games • “The better to hear you with, my dear.”
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar: 18 Piece Puzzle by Briar Patch • The hunter heard the noise.
• Red Rover Game (Wee Sing 6) • We don’t ever have to worry
• Rock , Paper, Scissors Game about the wolf again.
• Freeze Game (Wee Sing #6) • Red Riding Hood hurried home.
• They lived happily ever after.
Songs, Rhymes or Fingerplays
Props for this book
• Ring-A-Round the Rosy (Wee Sing 5, 9)
• Little girl
• Rock-A-Bye Baby (Wee Sing 2, 5)
• Mother
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat (Wee Sing 4, 9)
• Wolf
• Round the Garden (Wee Sing 5)
• Grandmother
• Ride a Cock-Horse (Wee Sing 2)
• Man as the hunter
• Ten in the Bed (Wee Sing 9)
• Basket with some food
• She’ll be Comin’ Round the Mountain (Wee Sing 4, 9)
• Flowers
• Are You Sleeping (Wee Sing 4)
• Frog Went A-Courtin’ (Wee Sing 8) Additional Books
• Rain, Rain, Go Away (Wee Sing 9)
• The Big Road Race by Jan and Stan Berenstain
• Eentsy, Weentsy Spider (Wee Sing 7, 9)
• The Baby Bee Bee Bird by Diane Redfield Massie
Book: Little Red Riding Hood • Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen or any other version
• Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
Written by Mirelle Levert or Any Version
• The Tortoise and the Hare, any simple version
A little girl walks through the woods to take some food to her sick
grandmother. When she arrives at her grandmother’s house, she • A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
finds that her grandmother looks different. Soon she is involved in • “More, More, More” said the Baby by Vera B. William
an exciting adventure to help her grandmother. • It’s the Bear! by Jez Alborough
• Go Away Big Green Monster by Edward R. Emberley
Building communication with this book
• Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr.
• Pronouns her, your, yours, their
• Little Gorilla by Ruth Lercher Bornstein
• Family members mother, daughter, grandmother
• Auditory memory for repetitive sentences “Grandma,
what big _____ you have.” Don’t talk to strangers.
41 • SPEECH SOUNDS
“CH” Unit Affricatives
Games and Toys • The small letters match the capital letters.
• H is tangled up with I.
• Checkers • Each letter is okay.
• Hopscotch
• Game of Catch Props for this book
• Game of Chase
• Tree made out of toilet paper or paper towel cardboard
• Mouse and Cheese (Wee Sing 6) roll with green construction paper, felt, floral or real leaves
• Musical Chairs (Wee Sing 6) • Upper and lower case plastic, magnetic, felt or paper/
• Number One, Touch Your Tongue (Wee Sing 3) cardboard letters
• Chuck it Chicken game by Ravensburger
• Chicken Chase by Fisher-Price
Additional Books
• Cat & Mouse game by Ravensburger (cheese) • Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg or Any Version
• Hi Ho! Cherry-O Game by Hasbro • A Chair for Baby Bear by Kaye Umansky
• Chomp ! card game by Gamewright • Just Grandma and Me by Mercer Mayer
• The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
Songs, Rhymes or Fingerplays
• The Wolf ’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
• The Farmer in the Dell (Wee Sing 7) • The Chick and the Duckling by Mirra Ginsburg
• A-Hunting We Will Go (Wee Sing 3) • Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Bill Martin Jr.,
• Punchinello (Wee Sing 3) Michael Sampson and Lois Ehlert
Daily Routines • Pretend to grow into a giant. Start as a baby giant, and grow
larger until you become a huge giant.
Moving through the day • Dip pieces of sponges into paint and dab them on paper to
make a picture.
• Jump here and jump there.
• Recite rhymes while jumping with a jump rope.
• Jog around the house, yard, and neighborhood.
Games and Toys
Affricatives
• March like a soldier.
• Put on and take off pajamas. • Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed game
by University Games.
• Put on and take off a jacket.
• Jack , Jack (Wee Sing 3)
• Put on and take off jeans.
• Giraffe Says-a variation of Simon Says (Wee Sing 6)
• Leaping Frogs Game by International Playthings ( jump)
• Gems in a Treasure Chest Counting Game by Lakeshore Learning
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