Developing Speech and Language Skills - Noel's ESL eBook Library

Phoneme FactoryActivityThe adult needs to familiarise the children with the pairs of words. Do the actionstogether at first. Once the child has practised the actions a few times, the adult simplysays one of the words and the child does the action. The actions are: park (park a toycar); bark (bark like a dog); path (walk a doll or fingers along a path); bath (pretend towash). In this activity it is important to just say the word ‘park!’ and then ‘bark!’ and soon, so that extra clues about the word are not provided.You could include additional words, e.g. pat, bat; pole, bowl. The actions would be: pat(pretend to pat a dog); bat (pretend to hit a ball with a bat); pole (pretend to pole vault)bowl (pretend to bowl a ball).Initial ‘t’Name game: bossy puppetTarget sound: ‘t’ word initialContrast: ‘d’Words: tea, dee (D)Resources: pictures of Tea Bee and D Bee (Bee family) can be found on the CD; apuppet; two or three activities such as colouring, puzzles and a construction toy. Theseare spread out on the floor or spaced widely on the table.ActivityThe adult works the bossy puppet who tells one of the characters what to do. ‘D Bee, dothe puzzle’, swiftly followed by another instruction ‘Tea Bee, do some colouring’, or ‘Teabee, do the building’. The child takes the character to the activity and does a little bitbefore the puppet gives a new instruction.Initial ‘k’Throwing gameTarget sound: ‘k’ word initialContrast: ‘g’Words: coat, goat; Kate, gate; coal, goal; card, guard; crane, grainResources: beanbags; a selection of objects from the word pairs listed above126