Articulation Puzzles Bundle, Reveal Wild Animals, 50 Reps

by The Speech, Language, & Learning Workshop

Price: 1000 points or $10 USD

Subjects: games,articulation,expressiveLanguage,receptiveLanguage

Grades: 0

Description: Turn drill practice into a wildlife discovery adventure with these 5 interactive puzzle activities (initial "sh", medial "sh", initial "ch", initial "j", medial voiceless "th"). Students will say their target word & click 5x per puzzle piece to gradually reveal a fascinating (and often unfamiliar!) animal. With 10 words/pieces per puzzle, students will practice 50 total repetitions of the target sound. Do two puzzles and reach the recommended number of repetitions per session that research on motor speech learning shows is key for building lasting articulation change (100 reps). As the puzzle pieces fade with each click, students will be motivated to keep going (“I wonder what’s behind this piece?”) while getting the drill practice needed to establish new speech sound patterns. By completing the puzzles, students will walk away with improved sounds and a new appreciation for wild animals, many of which may be ones students have never heard of (i.e. “screaming hairy armadillo” or “short-eared elephant shrew”), encouraging natural curiosity and rich language opportunities. The slow-reveal format is a great springboard for language goals – use the partially uncovered image to prompt predicting what animal it might be, inferencing based on visible clues (fur, color, habitat hints), and asking "wh" questions ("Where do you think this animal lives?"). New vocabulary naturally comes up as students learn the animal's name and may want to do further research to find fun facts.