Articupalooza: November Style

I have a lot of students with articulation difficulties so sometimes it's hard to keep it fresh. I try each month  to do a craft as a reinforcer (I also usually double this one up for my Concepts and following directions/language memory kiddos),  games with articulation, drill with a traditional game, and a chance for students to practice their carry-over skills.

So here are my plans for November articulation skills:

Craft

Coffee Cozy Mayflower
This Coffee Cozy Mayflower was on Parenting.com's website. How cute is it! Answer: So cute.

Photo from parenting.com

For this project you will need:

• coffee cozies
• wooden stir sticks or Popsicle sticks
• white construction paper
• red construction paper
• Styrofoam cups
• glue
• scissors

Here is a video of the Mayflower Craft  showing all the steps and some additional Thanksgiving crafts you might want to make with your students
For generalization
Generally, I give the students 1 or 2 words to monitor during the activity sure they are correctly articulating during their requests or
For Drill
You can just given them a piece for each correctly articulated word
And                     are some picture supports for sequencing students


Pin your tail feather

Cornucopia Game

For this game you need

• pom-poms
• large brown construction paper
• tape

This was a huge hit with my students. To play you toss pom-poms "fruit" into a paper cone "cornucopia". To earn fruit, the student must say their target word/sound etc. 3-5 times or make a sentence. When they have achieved this they get to toss their "fruit" into the "cornucopia". As you can imagine this is a great way to get multiple repetitions and provide opportunities for practice for students.

Cornucopia mix

For this snack you need

• bugles
• runts
• Ziploc bags

I have the students talk about what a cornucopia is using the EET tool.

"Pin your tail feather"

This game targets articulation sounds for /k/ /s/ /l/ /r/ and /th/  Download it here at my TPT site.

Assembly

1)Print, cut and laminate turkeys and articulation sound pictures.

2)Hot glue articulation pictures to clothes pins (this is optional…I like it because lots of my

Kiddos also get Occupational Therapy)

3)     Hot glue turkeys to plain paper plates or use colored circles included as a base.

Games

There are multiple ways to use this game to work on articulation skills.

Game 1:

Have students draw sound feathers from  the and let them collect points  by clipping the feather to their turkey.

Game 2:

Use as a phonemic awareness as well as articulation game. Differentiate three turkeys  for beginning, middle and end sounds by printing and laminating  green, yellow and red circles and attaching them to paper plates. As students practice their sounds ask if the target sound is in the beginning, middle or end of the word and have them clip it to the corresponding green, yellow or red turkey.

Game 3:

Have students draw multiple feathers to make sentences or have them roll a die to see how many words to put into a sentence.

you can down load it here