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FREEBIE Friday: Shamrock Articulation-Rhyming Match Up!

clip art courtesy of: Oodles of Doodles found at www.theJoyofKindergarten.com 

This is the last St. Patty's Day material I made for my kiddos this year.  I wanted to make a material that focused on the articulation difficulties my kiddos where having while also encouraging phonemic awareness and early literacy skills.  So...the St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Articulation-Rhyming Match Up was born.

This packet contains 8 sound mats (see 2 examples below) for initial and final /k, g/ as well as final /b, p, m, s/.  Can you tell that my kiddos are working on fronting and final consonant deletion? Hahaha!

And shamrocks with the rhyming words on them (see below).

 The child is to match the shamrocks correctly by their rhymes.  

Many of my kiddos are non-readers and I specifically used words without pictures this time so my kiddos can focus on "hearing" the rhymes rather than guessing at the pictures.  I used this activity this week and I cued my young clients by giving them a choice between two: "Johnny, what rhymes with tan, can or sock?" or maybe "Which two sound alike?  Tan, can?  Tan, sock?"  This way we can work on articulation and phonological awareness at the same time!  I am so glad I made this activity because I realized how some of my kiddos are really struggling with this skill.  So it was helpful information for me as well as a good articulation activity.

I also added a blank mat and blank shamrocks for you to make your own rhymes and focus on whatever sounds you are working on with your students.

Download this activity for FREE here!

Enjoy and happy talking!

Tip Tuesday has moved to Wacky Wednesday and Therapy Thursday this week!!!!

I know today is Tip Tuesday and I promised a tips blog every week.  Well actually Tip Tuesday has turned into Wacky Wednesday and Therapy Thursday this week which means you get TWO tip blogs (and freebies of course)!

My first tip post will be on Hodson's Cycles Approach, what is it, how to implement it, and of course a freebie I made for one of my kiddos on the primary patterns he is struggling with!  You can find this post on Let's Talk Speech-Language Pathology.  But here's a little preview:  

This post is up and running so if you want to learn more about secondary patterns and how to implement the cycles approach click here and let me know what you think!

Ok for the special announcement I promised yesterday....(drum roll please)...

...this Thursday will be the 1st installment of my new monthly column in ASHAsphere called Kid Confidential.  Every month we will talk about a new topic focusing on speech, language and child development.  The article is now up and running so head on over to ASHAsphere and check out my new column.  Don't forget to comment!  Never be afraid to share your thoughts, ideas, experiences so we all can become better therapists!

Do you have a topic you want to discuss on ASHAsphere's Kid Confidential?  Let me know!  Comment below or on my ASHAsphere blog and you may just see your topic in an upcoming article.

Thanks for your support and as always...happy talking!!!!