Articulation carryover activities for ages, that you can implement in your speech room tomorrow. These articulation activities are not just fun, but will provide you with ample opportunities to monitor target sounds in conversational tasks, for the students who are ready to work on carryover. Activities include articulation board games, articulation games (online), and more fun articulation therapy activities.
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Articulation Carryover Activities
I don’t know about you, but I struggle to find activities for my students who are working on articulation at the carryover level. I love working on articulation and I feel like the activities are endless when working on target sounds at the sound, word, and sentence levels. But after that? Especially for our younger students and non-readers… so challenging to find activities.
Articulation Therapy Activities
Some of my go-to carryover activities:
- Story retell
- Picture scenes
- Describing
Story-Telling and Retell Activities – These can be as simple as using story dice or sequencing pictures to have students make-up their own story.
Story Champs is probably one of my all-time favorites and I use it every week in my therapy sessions. It is structured to be used as a language intervention (perfect for MTSS), but as a therapist, you can adapt to use easily within your therapy sessions. The Story Champs program comes with a ton of stories, on various levels, to be paired with their pre-made lesson plans. These plans are organized by individual, small group, or large group sessions.
You can start at any level within the program based on your students’ ability levels and needs. I use their free assessment (the CUBED) as a pre/post-test or progress monitoring to see what my students’ need to work on. There are also add-on lessons to help address vocabulary and complex sentence structure, they’ve really thought of everything. I highly recommend checking it out! They also include a Spanish version if you are in need of bilingual materials. I have attended a few of their trainings as well and I highly recommend them.
Picture Scenes – These speech therapy picture scenes for articulation can be used in carryover activities such as describing and story-telling. These can also be used at home – perfect for carry-over with speech therapy picture scenes. These pediatric speech therapy picture scenes are perfect for your preschool and elementary students.
Describing – Print and laminate the color picture scenes or objects to reuse over and over or display pictures on a tablet/laptop and ask the student to describe what is in the picture or what the object is used for. I also print the black-and-white scenes and copy them for each student so they can color them during the session and then take it home for extra practice. This is a great way to address carryover, especially for our younger students.
Using Picture Scenes
How to use picture scenes for carryover activities with a variety of students:
- Mixed groups: It can be so difficult to find activities that fit the needs of multiple students with all different goals in one group. But these picture scenes are perfect to adapt for any articulation or language goal.
- Pick out words to address at the word, phrase, or sentence level for articulation drill
- Work on carryover of articulation skills in describing and story-telling tasks
- Have students make up a story about the picture to address story-retell and grammar goals
- Ask questions about the picture to address wh question and vocabulary goals
- Have students describe the scene to work on vocabulary and grammar goals
- Non-readers: Finding carryover activities for students who are not yet reading or struggle with reading can be very difficult. Many carryover activities rely on reading/literacy skills and require the student to read aloud. But what about our students who are not quite ready for that yet? There are perfect in that situation.
- Younger students: I come across this situation a lot actually. Younger students who are making excellent, quick progress in drill, are ready for more carryover activities, but they aren’t yet reading lengthier passages. We can’t just pull out a reading passage or even sentences to read for them, so what can we quickly grab to address these skills with this population? These picture scenes!
More Articulation Activities
Simple games such as memory, bingo, or go fish are also great ways for students to work on their sounds in a less structured task than in drill. They are focused on the fun of the game and therefore able to practice their target sounds in a more natural setting.
Articulation Board Games
Headbanz is a great game to use for carryover because the students will have to either ask questions or describe items which both provide great opportunities to incorporate target sounds in natural conversation.
I also enjoy using linking games (such as Pickles to Penguins) for carryover activities. In these games, students will have to express how 2 or more items are related (or how they go-together) in complete sentences.
Articulation Games Online
I have recently joined and started using UltimateSLP with both my private clients and school students and I am really enjoying it. There are tons of games that focus on different language and articulation skills that you pull up right on your tablet or laptop. They’re great for in-person or teletherapy sessions.
I also use apps for story dice, silly sentences, and matching games on my tablet for fun, virtual games with my kiddos.
Free Activity Ideas
One of my favorite, super-simple go-to activities for when my kids to move around a bit (especially when have to combine groups or have larger groups) is a musical stepping stones game with kid-friendly music.
- First, I put out pictures in a large circle around the room*
- I put velcro on the back of mine because I have carpet squares in my room, but you could do tape too if you have tile (to prevent slipping)
- When the students arrive I have them each stand on a picture
- We review the rules (e.g., no running, no skipping in line, when the music stops, you stop, etc.)
- I start the music!
- When the music stops, they stop on whatever picture they are on/closest to and complete their individual task (say the word with their target sound, answer a wh question about it, describe it, use it in a sentence, etc.)
*Pictures – can be pictures with target sounds (I usually use a lot of blends because I can target so many goals with those), action pictures for questions or describing, nouns for describing, colors to go with the EET (Expanding Expression Tool by Sara Smith) beads, symbols to go with story grammar parts, the possibilities are endless!
Free Downloads
Check out these fun new additions to my freebie library:
- Conversation starter cards
- Would you rather cards
These are simple, fun ways to get your kiddos talking so you can monitor their sounds in conversational tasks.
Free Articulation Activities Speech Therapy
Articulation picture scenes are perfect for working on carryover and there are multiple options for each sound. If you want to try a sample of my picture scenes for free, check these out in my freebie library.
Ideas
Articulation Carryover Activities & Visuals from The Dabbling Speechie
Articulation Carryover Activities For Older Speech Students from Speech Time Fun
KEEP CALM AND CARRYOVER THOSE SKILLS from Speechy Things
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