Christmas Silly Sentences: Articulation, Language, and Stuttering Game
Make your holiday-themed speech and language therapy sessions exciting with this fun Christmas resource! With 200 silly sentences for articulation, language, and stuttering, it's great for mixed student groups.
Each sentence, in addition to a Christmas theme, features a semantic absurdity and includes at least one TH, R, and S or Z sound. For instance, "Candy canes are super healthy for you," and "Beth's hot chocolate was purple."
Make your holiday-themed speech and language therapy sessions exciting with this fun Christmas resource! With 200 silly sentences for articulation, language, and stuttering, it's great for mixed student groups.
Each sentence, in addition to a Christmas theme, features a semantic absurdity and includes at least one TH, R, and S or Z sound. For instance, "Candy canes are super healthy for you," and "Beth's hot chocolate was purple."
Make your holiday-themed speech and language therapy sessions exciting with this fun Christmas resource! With 200 silly sentences for articulation, language, and stuttering, it's great for mixed student groups.
Each sentence, in addition to a Christmas theme, features a semantic absurdity and includes at least one TH, R, and S or Z sound. For instance, "Candy canes are super healthy for you," and "Beth's hot chocolate was purple."
As an added bonus, this resource offers a colorful and black-and-white game board--students can practice and articulate these sentences while having fun!
For Articulation: Students should draw one of the card slips, then read the sentence out loud using their best TH, R, S, and Z sounds. If they pronounce their target sounds correctly, they can roll the dice and move forward that number of spaces on the game board. If they mispronounce any of their target sounds, give them a chance to try again. Let them move two spaces if they are able to pronounce it on the second try, or one space if they say it correctly on the third try. Students can also earn bonus points if they can explain why the sentence doesn't make sense using their correct articulation sounds.
For language:
Students should draw one of the card slips, and then read the sentence out loud. Students must explain why the sentence doesn't make sense. If they do this, they can roll the dice and move forward that number of spaces on the game board. Students can then earn bonus points if they can re-write or re-state the sentence in a way that makes sense. For example, if the sentence says, "Santa Claus has three arms" the student can fix it to say, "Santa Claus has two arms." If they do this, the student can roll the dice again and move forward that number of spaces.
For fluency:
Students should draw one of the card slips, and then read the sentence out loud. They can practice whichever fluency-shaping or stuttering modification strategy they are working on. Students can also say these sentences to practice pseudo-stuttering. After reading a sentence, students can roll the dice and move forward that number of spaces on the game board. Students can then earn bonus points if they can use their fluency-shaping/stuttering modification strategies to re-state the sentence in a way that makes sense. If they do this, the student can roll the dice again and move forward that number of spaces.
This resource is perfect for late elementary through high school articulation (R, TH, S/Z sounds), language, or fluency students.
This product is a PDF and can be printed or students can practice reading the sentences on a computer or iPad/tablet.
This product includes:
200 silly Christmas-themed sentences, each with R, TH, and S/Z words
1 game board in color
1 game board in black and white
1 page with paper dice templates
1 page of directions for how to use the resource with articulation, language, and fluency