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If you are trying to get more trials in your speech sound sessions but want to keep your students motivated to practice, there are some fun articulation games free to you! Nothing makes a speech therapy session drag more than when students complain that they must practice their sounds repeatedly. It can’t be just me who has had this happen in their speech room.
You will learn how to use these articulation games to get 100 trials and have kids asking to play it again next session! Check out this post for more fun articulation activities that will get you 100 trials in a session.
Finding activities and games that keep your kids motivated to practice over and over again can be tricky when you have a heavy articulation and phonology caseload.
And nothing is more tiring and boring than saying, “Say your _____ sound ten more times?” for the entire session. After the third speech sound group, I needed something fresh to keep ME engaged with the activity.
Articulation and phonology flashcards can only go so far, so when you switch things up with a no-prep speech therapy game, you are WINNING. Am I right, or am I right?
It’s always great to have articulation games with free printables like this Race to 100 speech therapy game. You first use a die to see which person can get all one hundred squares covered. When the student rolls the dice, they get to color or check off the number of spaces on their articulation game mat using a dry erase marker. My favorite way to sneak in more trial practices is with a 20-sided die.
Before they cross their squares, that’s the number of times they have to practice their speech word. You can use a twenty-sided die to ensure you get to 100 within the session.
What is great about this game is you can use it with ANY goal, so it is mixed group friendly.
Click the button below to grab your free articulation game! The best way to use them is by printing and putting them in a plastic sheet protector or laminating them. Pair it with your favorite dye and dry-erase marker, and you are good to go!
The beauty of this game is that you can use any flashcards or pictures you have on hand! If you need some high-trial articulation materials to use with the game, check out these resources:
Articulation Activities Flipbooks
Write different math things to do on strips of paper such as “add 5,” “times your points by 2,” “Subtract 50 points,” “Take 100 points from another player,” etc. Put them all in a container or cup. Then, pull out a calculator or keep the points score on a piece of paper. Students have to practice their speech sound 10 times each turn and then they can pull out a piece of paper. Whoever has the most points at the end of the session wins! You can also set a timer and have your students drill until the timer goes off. Then, play 5-10 rounds of the points game before heading back into drilling with the timer. This will get you high trials quickly and every kid loves a game with some competition! Another variation of this game involves a wheel spinner with different point values that students spin each turn. You can use the wheel of names that I created to play!
Use your Uno card deck to get in lots of speech sound trials while making this an articulation game. Whatever number your student puts down, that’s how many times they have to say their speech sound. Give added trial rules for putting down wilds, reverse, pick up two, etc. If they put down a wild, maybe the other player has to say their speech sound 10 times. If they get a reverse, they have to practice their speech sound 10 times. When someone puts down a draw 4, that can be a lot of trials like 20! You come up with rules to make it a high trial drill practice articulation game.
If you are wanting more articulation games for speech therapy that are sound-loaded for specific sounds, I have many blog posts sharing my favorite speech therapy games for L, R, SH, CH, s-blends and more! Having articulation games available to make drill practice more fun, keeps students motivated and ready to practice.
Do you use some favorite low-prep games for articulation and phonology therapy often? Share in the comments, so other SLPs have more fun articulation games to use in treatment. One of my FAVE games to use towards the end of the school year is my articulation game for describing words. It’s a Name It type of game you can use with language describing goals.
If you have a lot of cluster reduction or s-blend goals, these games have been great for getting a high number of trials.
