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

Phoneme FactoryFurniture mendingTarget sound: ‘dr’ word initialContrast: ‘d’Words: drawer, doorResources: doll’s house furniture, or playmobil/Lego furniture that has moveable doorsand drawers, or a picture of a room with drawers and doors missing, and separate doorsand drawers that can be stuck on; slips of paper with doors and drawers illustrated –one or other on each slip – and placed in a bagActivityPlace the furniture in a box on the table, and the doors and drawers in a pile in front ofthe child. The adult takes one of the pictures from the bag and says the word ‘door’ or‘drawer’ but does not show the picture. The child responds by picking a door or drawerfrom the pile. The adult shows the picture to check if the child was right. The child canthen find the piece of furniture to which the door or drawer they picked belongs, andmend it. The item is returned to the box (in case it needs more than one drawer, forexample). If using a picture the activity is the same, with the paper drawers and doorsin a bag, and the child sticks them on the picture in the appropriate place.Things that go togetherTarget sounds: ‘tr’ and ‘dr’ word initialContrast: ‘t’ and ‘d’Words: tree, tea; trap, tap; track, tack; drawer, door; driver, diverResources: pictures from the CD of the words listed above; a bag; drawings orphotographs/pictures of the associated items that go with each of these words. Theseare in brackets: tree (leaf), tea (spoon); trap (mouse), tap (sink); track (train), tack(hammer); drawer (chest of drawers), door (key); driver (car), diver (diving suit or boat).ActivityAs above for ‘Things that go together’ for ‘pr’, ‘br’ target sounds.Name game: Who likes what?Target sound: ‘cl’ word initialContrast: ‘c’Words: clog, cogResources: play-food items; Clog Dog and Cog Dog (CD, p. 69)134