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I created these free speech and language worksheets so you can easily download and print them out to use as part of your speech therapy program.  Just scroll down the page to view the worksheets by topic.  You will find free speech therapy worksheets for articulation, vocabulary , grammar, holiday articulation and language games…and lots of other miscellaneous speech therapy creations that I love!  If you would like more information on what articulation therapy is you might like to read a post I have written called  Teaching Speech Sounds: The Process of Traditional Articulation Therapy

Parents:  If you are a mommy or a daddy (or grandma or grandpa) who wants to work with your child at home, you can use these speech therapy activity pages for extra practice.  Just choose the sound position to work on (initial, medial, or final) and click on the corresponding link to view and print the worksheets.  To help make practice more fun, you can print out two of the same page so you have pairs, cut them out, and use them to play a game of memory or go fish. You can also use them as flashcards.  You will find free speech therapy worksheets by sound and at a variety of levels; word level, phrase level and sentence levels!

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17+ PDF Speech Therapy R Sound Activities {I Spy Articulation!}

The r sound. What speech therapist doesn’t love the r sound? Okay, that would be me. But I do know there are some SLPs out there who do love working on the r sound. That’s why I wanted to help my fellow Speech-Language Pathologists by providing you with a list of speech therapy r sound activities to work on in therapy or to simply send home for extra practice.

Correct Position for the Target Sound

In the English language, the r sound is a difficult sound to make as well as one of the last sounds to develop. There are two different ways a Speech-Language Pathologist can teach tongue placement for r remediation. 

First, let’s review the two different variations for the correct tongue position for producing the r sound:

• Retroflexed R

The two different tongue positions are very similar and vary in mid-tongue and tongue tip placements:

• Teeth: The /r/ sound is made by having a slight gap between the teeth.
• Lips: Lips should be in a neutral position and not rounded. (A rounded lip shape might lead to a /w/ in place of an /r/ sound, such as “wed” for the word “red”.
• Sides of the Tongue: Be sure to place the sides of the tongue against the upper side of your teeth to allow for the passage of air to go down the center of the tongue.
• Retroflexed Tongue Position: Have the mid-tongue / back of the tongue somewhat tense but not bunched up. Then place the tip of the tongue pointing up just past the alveolar ridge.
• Bunched Tongue Position: Have the mid-tongue bunched up near the roof of the mouth / back of the mouth. Then place the tip of the tongue pointing down or straight.
• Air: Then blow a skinny stream of air over the center of your tongue (you do not want the air to come out the sides of the tongue).
• Voice: The r sound is also a voiced sound so your voice box or vocal cords should vibrate. You can tell that their voice is turned on by touching your voice box on your neck and feeling it vibrate.

R Speech Sounds

• Prevocalic R – is when the r sound comes before a vowel sound, such as initial r words like “red” or “row”. 
• Vocalic R. – vocalic r words are when the r sound comes after a vowel sound, such as: or, ar, er, ear, ire, air. (more, far, later, hear, hire, pair)

Here’s an r word list for you to use in therapy or at home practice to work on your student or child’s speech.

• For Example: run, rest, ride, rake, root, parade, tarp, harp, worm, farm, soccer, wire, weather, faster, baker

See full list of 1220+ R words at the word level, phrase level, and sentence level here.

Different Word Positions: R Words Speech Therapy 

Initial position of words.

The initial position is the r sound at the beginning of words. For example, “rock” or “race”.

Middle of Word

Some words have the r sound in the medial position of a word, such as “scared”, “tired”, and “fork”.

End of Words

The final positions of words are when the target sound is at the end of a word. For example, “tiger” or “star”.

SEE ALSO: 21 Best Reinforcement Games for Speech Therapy

Speech therapy r sound activities.

Below I’ve outlined my I Spy Articulation Worksheets along with some other speech therapy activities that can be used to make your speech therapy sessions a breeze this year. 

I Spy Articulation – Sound Game

If you’re looking for an amazing freebie then you’re in the right spot. 

I’ve created a fun and engaging I Spy activity that any student is sure to love!

Conversation Level

Articulation Reading Passages and Conversations by Speech Therapy Store – Be sure to check out my TPT product if you’re in need of reading and conversational level articulation activities. 

These activity sheets would be perfect for you! You could even have your students work on identifying the main idea of the reading passages. 

Bonus Points – This product also comes with a digital version making it also perfect for teletherapy.

Articulation Games

Free Articulation Games for Speech Therapy by Speech Therapy Store – Help your child produce a good initial r sound, medial sound, or final sound with a sound game from the list above.

Flash Cards

Another fun activity is to use interactive flash cards right from your computer. 

Using real life photos is a fun way to work on r articulation therapy in connected speech with your older students or middle school aged students. 

• Interactive Flash Cards – Have fun using our interactive r flash cards right from your computer! We’ve included 25 flash cards for the initial r, medial r, and final r for a total of 75 interactive flash cards to use with your students or clients right from your computer. 

SEE ALSO: Free Articulation Games for Speech Therapy

Picture cards.

If you’re in need of picture cards to work on the r sound then be sure to check out these free resources below.

• Free Interactive Nature Themed Bundle – You can use these digitally interactive with fillable forms and checkboxes right from your computer or you can simply print them out.

• Free Interactive Technology Themed Bundle – Grab this digitally interactive technology themed bundle with fillable forms and checkboxes right from your computer or you can simply print them out.

Need Sound Practice for other Specific Sounds?

You won’t want to miss out on my complete growing list of all my articulation word lists for different sound disorders! 

This list includes s blends and coming soon l blends and r blends.

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Correct production – effective r therapy.

Here are a handful of different types of speech therapy exercises to help your speech students in the process of articulation therapy produce the tricky r sound. You can even grab a tongue depressor to use as a tactile cue.

• Teach Tongue and Mouth Anatomy: Start by teaching the parts of the tongue and mouth that will help with cueing for articulation placement. Grab the R Sound Freebie – Anatomy of Tongue and Mouth for Speech Therapy by Speechy Things.
• Phonemic Awareness, Auditory Discrimination, & Articulation: Practice targeting all three skills with this free trial of Locate! Discriminate! Articulate! – /r/: FREE TRIAL VERSION by OTTeR Speech.
• Phonemic Awareness: Have your students start by identifying where they hear the r sound in a word. Use this Phonemic Awareness – R Freebie by michjco to get started.
• Perception Training: Start with R Perception Training by having the student identify the difference between the correct R sound and the incorrect R sound. Grab the R Sound Perception Training FREEBIE: Early R Speech Therapy Activities from Speechy Things.
• Vocalic R Visual Cues: Have students working on the vocalic R? Grad this free Vocalic R Visual – Free / English Only worksheet from The Spanish Speechie.
• Minimal Pairs: Use minimal pairs to work on the r sound. Have your students identify the /r/ vs. the /w/ sound with the Free r/w Minimal Pairs Hide & Seek Speech – School Theme – Boom Cards & PPT by Little Speech Shop.

In Conclusion: Speech Therapy R Sound Activities

We hope you have found this article helpful for working on your child or student’s r sound. 

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10 Engaging Speech Therapy R Activities

Nov 21, 2015 | 1 comment

Treating the /r/ phoneme can be tricky, tiresome, and annoying for the clinician and student! I haven’t met an SLP at the elementary, middle, or high school level that doesn’t need more speech therapy R activities for their caseload. Today, I will share ten engaging R sound speech therapy activities to help you get those high trials in therapy.

Before practicing R at the syllable, word, sentence, or conversational level, you want to ensure you have established a solid /r/ production. It benefits no one to continue drilling /r/ when it isn’t an accurate production. If you need more resources to establish the /r/ phoneme, keep reading because I share some great tools!

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Feeling Defeated about Teaching the R Sound?

The best advice I got from a veteran SLP when I asked how to teach a child to say /r/ was, “Just grab a pair of gloves, a tongue depressor, and hope for the best!”

In his office video clip, Dwight Schrute sums up most SLPs’ feelings about the /r/ phoneme!  He says, “R is one of the most menacing of sounds!  That’s why they call it murder and not muck duck!”  Those are my thoughts exactly, Dwight.

R Speech Therapy Techniques and Resources

If you are looking for manuals and guides for how to teach R to your student, Pam Marshalla has two excellent books. The first book is called Successful R Therapy: Fixing the Hardest Sound in the World . You will learn tips for how to help your student use their jaw, lips, and tongue together to produce r. Pam Marshalla also has The Marshalla Guide: A Topical Anthology of Speech Movement Techniques for Motor Speech Disorders & Articulation Deficits, which is a fantastic resource for a spectrum of speech sound disorders. Not only does she include techniques for remediating the /r/ phoneme, but Pam also shares various techniques for many speech sound disorders. If you serve a caseload with various speech sound disorders, this may be a better fit for your needs, whereas the Successful R Therapy book is excellent for SLPs who treat R often with students. 

Here is a post by SLP Natalie Snyders about getting a good /r/. Some excellent ideas from Playing With Words 365 about teaching the /r/ phoneme.

The Peachie Speechie has some great videos for how to teach r that you can use in therapy with your students.

Speech Therapy R Activities

Not having engaging speech therapy R sound activities for your sessions can make the day drag along! That’s why I am sharing a round-up of ten engaging prevocalic and vocalic r sound activities to help you keep students motivated to practice. If you need tips for encouraging R carryover into conversation, check out this blog post . 

• For word, carrier phrase, and sentence level R sound practice, check out the prevocalic and vocalic r activities flipbooks. You can get high trials while working on the vocalic r that your students are stimulable for using correctly. 

2. Figuratively speeching has an excellent articulation placemat set that is great for sending home for additional practice. It provides activities for the whole week on one sheet with letters included to send home!

3. Whether you are doing teletherapy, in-person therapy, or need to build a speech home program, using the digital speech folders for R will help you customize syllable, word, sentence, and carryover activities in one spot! Once your student’s digital speech folder is set up, you can easily share the Google Slide presentation with the family or pull it up on your computer for ready-to-go therapy.

R Sentences Activities and R Activity Worksheets

4. Erik Raj has these super fun Mini homework sheets for articulation. These mini R articulation worksheets have great silly R sentence questions that students can read and discuss. One way to incorporate more R sentence level practice is to have your student ask a friend, teacher, and parent the silly question outside the speech therapy session.

5. To up your student’s motivation to practice R sentences, use the No Prep Articulation Sentence Challenge Sheets . Students will be excited to see if they can beat their last challenge score! Make sure your students go slow enough to achieve correct productions. Play 3 rounds to see if they can get more trials or correct productions.

R Words Sound Loaded Carrier Phrases

6. Need resources for R words sound loaded carrier phrases? Use the sentence strip visuals to practice R with similar carrier phrases such as “I want a ____.” or with sound-loaded R phrases for initial r, r-blends, and vocalic r.

• Miss V’s Speech World has an incredible 52 Weekly /r/ homework worksheets product that helps you get sound-loaded R practice in your session and a one-page R worksheet to send home for weekly practice. 

Speech Therapy R Activities for Carryover

8. To get those high trials when reading passages, you will have fiction and non-fiction passages ready using the R articulation carryover activities set . No more stressing about taking data because the R sound is counted for you to take data easily! Find sound-loaded articles on Wonderopolis.org , NewsELA , or Readworks.org .

• Work on sequencing skills and explaining how to do something with sound-loaded R YouTube videos. You don’t have to spend time searching for videos because they have been organized as QR codes in the R Articulation carryover activities set . The best thing about these how-to YouTube videos is that they are mixed group friendly!

Here are a few how-to videos that have the R sound embedded in it:

• How to Make Rice Crispie Treats
• How to Care for a Rabbit
• How to Do Your Laundry
• How to Drive a Car

• One common core standard in classrooms is to work on comparing and contrasting. Comparing and contrasting occur when discussing characters in stories, scientific methods, and figurines in history. So, why not provide more opportunities for students to practice comparing and contrasting and practicing their r sound? Compare and contrast similar R nouns by attributes. If you don’t have time to think of word pairs, there are R flashcards in this set to help you save time . 

Some good R articulation words to compare and contrast are as follows:

• truck/train
• dinosaur/giraffe
• turtle/alligator
• grapes/strawberries
• rabbit/raccoon
• breakfast/dinner

You can even make a list with your students, fill out with a Venn diagram and then use it to practice carryover. Save it for future sessions as a warm-up.

What R Speech Therapy Activities Do You Use With Your Students?

Sometimes speech therapy for r can get a little boring for the clinician and the student. When in a planning rut, it’s nice to find activities that will liven up the sessions. So, if you have a fun r speech therapy activity, share it in the comments!

My free articulation carryover activities guide will help you with any of these resources shared. In the guide, I include visual supports, data tracking for progress, conversation ideas, and a homework sheet.

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Vocalic R Worksheets for Speech

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Add these Vocalic R Worksheets to your speech therapy collection of printables for practice.

This is another free resource for teachers and families from www.freewordwork.com.

I have created these free Vocalic R Worksheets for speech therapy to help children work on speech sounds.

This set was a request from a speech therapist – if there are other resources you would find helpful, please let me know!

If you are looking for practice at home with your child while they are not receiving services at school, these might be helpful for you.

What are Vocalic R Words?

These worksheets are different than the other worksheets found in my phonics collection.

These pages specifically focus on speech sounds – not repeated letter patterns.

The vocalic r words contain a vowel or vowel pair followed by an r. These pages focus on the sounds ar, air, er, ere, ire and or.

Because of this, the letter combinations on the focus pages will be in quotation marks. For example, one page has “or” at the top. The words on this page contain words with or and other words with other letter combinations that will make the same sound.

The or page contains the words sword and dinosaur – even though the “or” sound in dinosaur is not made by an or combination.

About these Vocalic R Worksheets

This set contains 16 free pages. The pages are set up in three different formats.

My idea is that each page contains pictures and words that the child and teacher can work on together. All of the words focus on vocalic r sounds.

After pronouncing the words together, there is an activity the child can complete independently.

Or, the page could be sent home for the child to complete the activity with a parent as part of continuing practice.

The first set contains a row of pictures. Children will draw the line between the picture and the word.

The second set contains one sound. There are then words with matching pictures containing the sound. After practicing the words, students can color the pictures. They might circle the letter combination that produces the sound.

The final two pages list the focus sounds at the top. Children will use the color key to color the pictures according to the directions.

You can download this free set of Vocalic R Worksheets here:

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So you finally have the R sound but gosh darn it… getting it in any other form or word is TOUGH. R puzzles are the perfect tool for visual and tactile learners. They can finally (and literally) see that their R fits into EVER R word… no matter the form! Students love putting the puzzles together (much more engaging than flash cards) and find it so helpful.

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Need to keep sessions productive?

Even if your student (or students!) doesn’t have a beautiful, crisp R sound yet… don’t stress. You can stay productive in therapy AND maintain your sanity by incorporating phonology. Not only will you be laying the groundwork for generalization once that R finally comes in… but you will feel good about the services you are providing.

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Many students can produce a beautiful R… but only if they go slow. That’s acceptable until it comes time for actually using our R sound in real life! Speedy R is designed to give visual and tactile cues for speeding up that R sound with dedicated drill work.

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10 Step Process

1). Evaluate the 32 /r/ allophones utilizing The Entire World of R Screening Tool.

2). Write down the correct /r/ productions based upon the screening results.

3). Choose a customized /r/ target.

4). Determine natural tongue position.

5). Break habits and dysfunctional patterns with chronic /r/ students by determining natural tongue position taking The Entire World of R: Chronic /r/ Course or R Makeover Course.  

6). Practice Utilizing Target production probe lists from the Entire World of R Instructional Workbook.

7). Practice at least 150 correct /r/ words per session.

8). Send home homework consisting of correctly produced /r/ words.

9). Measure carryover: correctly produced /r/ words heard in speech session.

10). Start process over once 80% or greater accuracy is obtained for chosen target at the sentence level.

The Entire World of R (Vocalic R)

The Entire World of R™ is a proven, research-based program to evaluate and treat the difficult /r/ phoneme.

/R/ (also known as vocalic R, R-controlled vowels or vowel-R), is a difficult, elusive and frustrating sound to treat. Standardized articulation tests for /r/ only evaluate 18 /r/ words, which is not sufficient for SLPs to get to the root of the problem. The Entire World of R™ thoroughly evaluates a total of 944 words for R, making it the most comprehensive assessment program available anywhere in the market today.

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Save $15! Combination of the Entire World of R Curriculum Book, Artic Attack and Other R Games, Big Book of R Carry-Over Stories, and Solve then Say R.

The WOW book for /r/ remediation. Tons of vocalic /r/ tips and techniques. Includes oral movement, coarticulation, whisper techniques and much more.

Replacement screening pad for The Entire World of R Advanced Screening. Pad of 30 11" x 17" double-sided forms. Includes all 32 types of r including vocalic r and r blends.

Set of 8 cards decks for treating vocalic /r/. Contains all vocalic combinations and prevocalic r, rl, and r blends. 

Create your own probe word lists and worksheets for vocalic /r/ using The Entire World of R methodology. Divided phonetically into 21 types of vocalic /r/ and 11 /r/ blends. Use for developing flash cards, drill sheets, games and stories.

Digital Download: Create your own probe word lists and worksheets for vocalic /r/ using The Entire World of R methodology. Divided phonetically into 21 types of vocalic /r/ and 11 /r/ blends. Use for developing flash cards, drill sheets, games and stories.

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60+ articulation worksheets ready for parents, therapists, and children. For first timers, please follow the getting started guide below.

Getting started guide

Each worksheet comes with 16 words. You can either print the sheet out and write on it directly, or  laminate it for reuse. The cards can easily be cut into flashcards as well. 

Have the child practice lip and tongue placement.

Practice the sound in isolation multiple times. Give the child a star for each attempt.

Work on syllables by combining the middle letter with each of the outer vowels. Switch the order of the letter with the vowels to practice initial, medial, and final syllables (ra, ar, ara, etc).

Every time the child says the target word make a star in 1 of the 5 circles at the bottom of the card.

Use the chart to see the average age a child produces certain english sounds. This is based off of research published in 2018. Click on the letter to jump to the worksheets or scroll down to see the worksheets in alphabetical order. 

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Ridiculously Rousing /r/ Sound Articulation Activity Sheets – FREE DOWNLOAD

With 24 consonants and 20 vowels in the English language, it’s no wonder that many children end up struggling to pronounce at least 1 or 2. And of course, /r/ sound referrals are among the most common within the school-based SLP community. It’s likely for this reason that many creative activities for school-based therapy are focused on R words and /r/ sounds! In this spirit, we’ve developed 3 visually appealing R-packed articulation activity sheets that will bring some fun into your special education classroom or therapy session. Each is designed to address the /r/ sound in a specific part of the word.

The first articulation activity sheet focuses on words starting with R: Rug, Robot, Rake, Ring, Rocket, Rain, Ribbon, Rocks, Rabbit, Raccoon, Radio, Rope, Rose

The next articulation activity sheet encompasses words with R in middle: Bird, Squirrel, Fork, Horse, Heart, Carrot, Turtle, Earth, Camera, Pirate, Worm, Giraffe, Lizard, Shirt

And finally, the final articulation activity sheet includes words that end in R: Star, Tire, Door, Lobster, Dinosaur, Feather, Hammer, Car, Helicopter, Flower, Tiger, Pear, Square

These activity sheets are colorful, easy to download, and (best of all) free! The /r/ sound activity sheets combine visual scanning skills with initial, media, and final /r/ sounds.  Without even realizing it, your students will be working on building their vocabulary and visual perception skills!

How does it work?

Each activity sheet is comprised of 2 pages. Students will count the images on the first page and then count the quantities in the space provided on the second page. Have students see how many objects they can find and then say each one aloud to elicit the /r/ sound.

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Activities for speech therapy for r words.

There are so many fun speech therapy activities that you can use to target r in articulation therapy. All of these activities are full of the r sound! This makes it so easy to get a tonne of trials during play.

I have listed some of of my favorite games, toys, songs, and books that you can use in your speech sound therapy sessions. I have even included an r word lists that you can use with a huge variety of therapy activities!

All of these games have a bunch of naturally occurring r words!

Beware of Bear: Beware, Bear, Careful, Grumpy, Danger, Dare

Racoon Rumpus: Ready, Racoon, Dress, Shirt, Turn, Roll, Green, Purple, Rainbow, Underwear, Remember

Greedy Granny: Granny, Treats, Greedy, Pretzel, Cracker, Arrow

Too Many Carrots: Carrot, Rabbit, Carry, Problem, Proud, Burrow, Crowded, Tortoise, Tree, Squirrel

Roar: Roar, Dear, Right, Rabbit, Squirrel, Playground, Terrible, Ran

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Hungry, Caterpillar, Butterfly

Little Red Riding Hood: Red, Riding, Grandma, Forest, Treats

The Gruffalo: Gruffalo, Forest, Terrible, Clever, Brown, Favorite,

Bear Wants More: Bear, More, Roots, Fresh, Grass, Hungry, Crunch, Gopher, Surprise, Raven, Party, Snore

SENSORY BINS

Mermaid Theme Sensory Bin : Mermaid, Rock, Starfish, Coral, Water

Arctic Theme Sensory Bin: Green. Artic Fox, Fur, Tree, Reindeer, Polar Bear, Feather, Warm

Dinosaur Sensory Bin : Dinosaur, Roar, Green, Run, Rock, T- Rex

Monster Sensory Bin: Monster, Green, Arm, Scary

All of these sensory bins are included in my Thematic Sensory Bin Product!

Counting Surprise Party: Present, Green, Robot, Guitar, Dinosaur, Purple

Transformers: Transform, Megatron, Optimums Prime, Red, Car, Truck, Drive

Barbies: Barbie, Girl, Dress, Friend, Hair, Skipper, Brush

Toy Farm: Tractor, Barn, Red, Farm, Horse, Farmer, Rooster

Dinosaurs and Tape: Tape Dinosaurs to a cookie sheet and Rescue them: Rescue, Dinosaur, Roar, Ready, Four, Rip

MOVEMENT GAME

Race - Don’t Drop: Place a bean bag (RED ideal!) on a spoon. Make sure each PLAYER has one. RACE to the finish line but make sure not to DROP your RED bean bag

CARD ACTIVITY

Hide Cards: Hide your CARDS in the DARK. Use a flashlight to find them! Make sure to GRAB them when you find them!

Memory: Can you REMEMBER WHERE your CARD is?

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PLAY ACTIVITIES

Flower Shop: Set up a pretend flower shop. Use dollar store FLOWERS, pretend DOLLARS, and a cash REGISTER. Don't forget RIBBON and WATERING CAN!

ONLINE LEARNING:

Use this Sound Loaded Scene of a Flower Shop that allows CUSTOMERS to go the FLOWER STORE and PURCHASE all kinds of beautiful flowers. (There resource includes a scene for each English Consonant sound! )

Here is a list of functional words that you can incorporate into any of your speech therapy activities to target r.

Ready, Red, Race, Rip, Run, Roll, Sorry, Rain, Read, Fork, Shirt, Cereal, Carry, Story, Car, More, Share, Wear, Before, Super, Teacher, Care, Far, Hair, Player, Here, Door

I hope you are able to incorporate some of these activities into your preschool and school speech therapy sessions. Your students will love practicing in these fun and natural activities!

Interested in more play based articulation therapy ideas? Make sure to download this free K Unit from the Play Based Articulation Handbook!

Includes the K unit word list, low prep activity ideas with detailed instructions, dramatic play ideas, gross motor ideas, fine motor ideas, and game/toy/books/songs suggestions!

Also includes a cheat sheet for Play Based Articulation using a Toy Farm! 

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15 Extra Fun R Sound Articulation Games for Speech Therapy

Games are a great alternative when articulation drills get, well… boring.

But can articulation games for speech therapy be effective as drill work? Absolutely!

You know it’s important to get plenty of repetitions when practicing the r sound in articulation therapy, and sometimes a few minutes of pure drills can be appropriate. But kids get tired of drills. You get tired of drills. Yawn.

So we try games to spice things up a bit. Play increases participation and focus if done right.

So how do you get in the mass r sound practice you need with a game?

The secret is to play games that don’t require a lot of set-up or a lot of gameplay time between turns to practice. And of course, you can have your student repeat their word or sentence for multiple repetitions each time they take a turn during the game. (Shhhhh, don’t tell them- that’s secretly drill work!)

While I love those toy-company games that pop, chomp, or crash, those get over-used too. So are you ready for some fresh ideas your kids will love?

These ideas are great for practicing prevocalic and vocalic r, and many will work just as well with other target phonemes too.

Articulation activities that will get kids up and moving:

1. Roam the Room : Each student gets a notebook or paper and a clipboard. They have 5 minutes to roam the room and write down all the items they find that begin with the r sound or have an r sound anywhere in the item’s name.

Next, head back to the table and have your students create sentences with one or more of the words in each sentence. Students score 1 point for every correct r word in their sentence, so longer sentences can boost their scores. Silly sentences are definitely allowed! Example: “The ruler ran right out of the room.”

For word-level practice, you can have your students repeat each word they found 10 times. Score a point for at least 5/10 correct with each word, 3 points if they get all 10 correct. This encourages them not to rush through the repetitions.

2. Beach Ball Toss : Blow up a beach ball and write R sound words on each section. You kids will stand in a circle, and toss the ball gently to another student. Whichever word the pointer finger is pointing to when the ball is caught is the word to practice. Try 10 or 15 repetitions for single-word practice, or have the student create a couple of sentences with their word.

Have a mixed group? Why not write a number from 1-10 on each space instead, then post each student’s numbered word list on the wall?

3. Hot Potato for Initial R : Students sit in a circle and pass a potato or a bean bag. As each student gets the “potato” they say an r word.

When the SLP says “reverse” the student must say the word given by the previous student and begin passing the “potato” in the opposite direction. If the SLP says “repeat”, the student repeats the last three r words they heard before passing the potato.

If you have the room, add some actions to the game! When the adult says “rabbit” the student hops around the circle and then sits back down in their place. You can also say “run” or “red” (Jump up and touch something red in the room and then sit back down.)

The object is to complete the action before it’s that student’s turn again (or in a smaller group, before play goes a specified number of times around the circle.)

4. Rip, Rap, Rope offers lots of tongue-twisting practice for initial r. It’s great for kids who have already established prevocalic r and need to work on consistency.

To play, your students stand in a circle. The first student claps their hands and says “rip.”The next student claps their hands and says “rap,” the next one claps and says “rope”. If a player says the wrong word or hesitates too long, that’s a strike. After three strikes, the player is out, and sits down, but can continue to say the words with the group. The last person standing wins!

Table games for articulation of R that makes practicing fun:

5. 101 and Done! This is an articulation game for older elementary students that uses dice. The goal is to build your score up to 101 points without going over. Give your students a pencil, one die, and a piece of paper with a list of their practice words, and room to keep score. They roll the die and say one of their words the number of times they rolled.

Your students then decide if they want to score the number on the die or multiply it by ten. For example, if they roll 3, they can choose to score 3 points or 30.

6. Connections This r sound game works well for students working on multiple word positions. The first student says a word that begins with an R sound. For instance, they may start with “rat.”The next student thinks of a word that begins with the last sound of the previous word but also contains an r sound anywhere in the word. For instance, they may say “tired”. The next student might say “dirt”.

Connections is a great game for your older elementary students. It works well as an r articulation activity for middle school too.

Play continues around a circle until a student can’t think of a word that fits. That student gets to make up a sentence using the last two words and then play begins again.

7. Dots and Squares I’ll bet you played this paper and pencil game as a kid! You can easily play this game with 2-4 students, making it great for mixed groups.

Provide a piece of paper with dots in a grid. Students take turns saying their word 5x or say sentences, then connect two dots to draw a line. Each time a student completes a square, they write their initial in the square and go again to draw another line.

Want a Dots and Squares sheet that’s ready to print and go? I’ve created a page of just the dots, and also a page with both dots and initial r words. Get this free articulation game when you subscribe to Speech Sprout’s newsletter.

8. Articulation Chain : Tell your students they’re going on a trip and let them have fun getting creative with the location. You need to pack for your trip, but you can only pack things that have an r sound in the name. You kids can brainstorm words, or you can provide a list with their target sound.

The first student takes a turn and tells what they would pack. The next student repeats the previous item and adds a word. The next student repeats all previous items and adds a word. Challenge your students to see how many items in the chain they can remember!

9. Tell a Tale: Start a story and then have each student adds to the story using an r word. You’ll be surprised how creative your kids can be!

10. Never Have I Ever : This game is great for practicing vocalic r words. Students take turns finishing the sentence, “Never have I ever_____.” They must use at least one r word in their sentence. For example, they might say, “Never have I ever slept in a barn.”

Provide a list of target words, or let them generate their own! Target words can only be used once… so your kids will need to think of a new one on each turn.

11. Ready? Reach! This one works well for initial r practice. Fill a bag with pompoms, cubes, blocks, mini erasers or another small items that come in several colors. All the students say “Ready? The student whose turn it is says “Reach!” and reaches in the bag without looking, then pulls out one item and names the color they found. If they find a red one, they get a point.

12. Where’s the Pair? This is a variation on Ready Reach for vocalic R. Fill a bag as above. Your student practices a word or sentence, then everyone says “Where’s the Pair?” Your student reaches in and gets two items. If it’s a pair, you keep it and score a point. You can do this with cards or items. If you use cards, it’s fun to include a wild card that gives extra points.

More articulation R games for speech therapy that your kids will love!

13. Articulation R Bingo Riddles If you’ve played any of my Bingo Riddles Games, you know how much kids love guessing the answers to play. In addition to my holiday, seasons, and language skills Bingo Riddles, I’ve now created games for articulation too!

14. Articulation R Word Puzzles Games Crosswords, Word searches, Crack the Code, and Letter Shapes articulation activities. It includes pages for prevocalic r, vocalic r, and r blends. Print and go easy, you’ll enjoy pulling these out when you need engaging articulation activities for older students.

15. Articulation Pattern Blocks is a Boom ™ Cards game. Your students say their words, then slide a pattern block to complete the fun patterns.

Head over to Boom ™ Learning to try out the live previews for the Prevocalic R and R Blends Pattern Blocks or the Vocalic R and RL blends Pattern Blocks .

I also have an Articulation Pattern Block Bundle for you which includes activities for R, L, S, TH, and blends.

Boom™ is the trademark of Boom Learning. Used with permission.

I’ve got some articulation therapy tips for you when working on those r sounds:

If you need some fresh tricks for establishing that r sound, check out this post:

The Best Articulation Tricks to Try for Those Super Stubborn R’s

Are you working on the conversational level? Congrats! You may want to try these tips for easy data-taking:

3 Easy Ways to Take Articulation Data at the Conversational Level.

I hope you found some new R sound articulation games for speech therapy that you’ll love!

Tip: Why not pin this post for later? That way, you can quickly find the list when you’re in need of a fresh articulation r activity. Have fun!

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Free SLP Initial R Materials, Games, Activities, Flashcards, and more!

Initial r virtual games and activities, freeslp offers tons of virtual slp materials for the r sound. to help target the r sound in the initial, medial, and final positions, we have created r tic-tac-toe, connect 4, virtual flashcards, virtual progression cards, battleship, spot-it, candy land, soccer, painting, and more to view our all free r sound virtual games and materials, click below:, initial r sound games and activities link.

Downloadable Initial R Materials

We also have tons of free no-prep downloadable r sound materials. r sound printables that we currently have include: r flashcards, qr code scavenger hunt, progression cards, spot-it, word finds, tic-tac-toe, bingo, candy land, connect 4, battleship and more if you're looking for more engaging ways to teach the r sound, hopefully you find these materials helpful to view our all free r sound virtual games and materials, click below:, initial r no-prep downloadables.

Initial R Sound Animated Videos

Animated videos for each sound teaching how to produce the sound as well as animated articulation adventures for each sound adventure across safaris, space, the world of minecraft, and more while teaching your child how to make awesome r sounds to view our all free r animated videos, click the link below:.

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Initial R sound overview page

What age should my kid be able to say the r sound.

Children typically are able to correctly produce the R sound around 5 years old.

Is the R sound a voiced sound?

Yes, the R sound is a voiced sound.

Is the R sound a liquid sound?

Yes the R sound  is a liquid sound.

How do I make the R sound?

How  to make the “r” sound:.

There are two ways that we can make the “r” sound.

• The retroflexed “r” which means we bring our tongue tip up towards the top of our mouth.
• The humped “r”which means we place the tip of our tongue on our lower gums behind the bottom teeth.  By doing so, the back of the tongue “humps” up

To find out which technique is best for the child, have them say target words from our flashcards targeting the different types of “r” listed above.  The first time, have the child say the words with a retroflexed tongue.  The second time, have the child used a humped tongue.  Each child is different, so try both and use whatever one sounds better / they feel most comfortable with.

Retroflexed “r”

• Have the child pucker their lips slightly and hold them there.
• Tell the child to make the back of their tongue flat and make it tight/strong.
• Raise the tip of the tongue towards the top of the mouth, but not touching it, and curl the tip of it backwards slightly.
• Turn  on  the voice (voice is the rumbling in your vocal folds.  Have your child/client place their hand on their/your neck during the production of “s” and “r”, and have them feel the difference between the two.  In the production of “s”, there should be no rumble or voicing.  While in the production of “r”, there should be a rumbling or voicing.)
• Release the air out over the tongue.
• Raise the back of the tongue towards the top of the mouth.
• Point the tip of the tongue towards the lower gums behind the bottom teeth.

Tricks and Tips for producing the “r” sound:

• Challenge the child to see who can make the best bear growl “Rrrrrrrrr!”
•   For the humped “r”, press the tongue tip down with the tongue depressor and typically the back portion of the tongue with hump up on its own.
• For the retroflexed “r”, place the tongue depressor under the tip of the tongue and raise it towards the top of the mouth.  When you raise the tongue tip, the tongue should naturally rise and curl backwards.

60 Initial (Prevocalic) R Words

50 medial r words, 50 final r words, what is a prevocalic r.

Prevocalic “r” words  are words where the “r” is produced at the beginning of the word in front of the vowels and include words like: road, red, run

What is a Postvocalic R?

Postvocalic “r” words  are words where “r” is produced after a vowel.  Post vocalic “r” often gives children the most issues because the vowel proceeding the “r” requires the articulators (tongue, lips, teeth, jaw, etc.) to be in different positions. To demonstrate this, look in a mirror or a camera and see how different your lips look while saying “ear” vs “or”.  Because of the placement required for the vowel, when saying a word like “ear” your articulators need to move fast to satisfy the placements for the “e” and then move quickly back to satisfy the placement of the “er”. Types of postvocalic r include: ar : artifact, farm, star or:  Orca, born, core er:  Earth, bird, mother ire:  iron, fireman, tire air:  airplane, fairy, hair ear:  earwax, beard, deer

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Target R at the syllable level with our virtual flashcards!

We have three activities for targeting R at the word level: 1.) Classic flashcards with initial, medial, final, and mixed sets. 2.) Minimal Pair Sliders 3.) Name the Photos (Have the computer give you feedback on your sound productions!)

R phrase flashcards with sets targeting R in the initial, medial, final, and mixed positions!

Target R at the sentence level with our rotating sentences activity!

Our R story is full of R target sounds and tongue twisters! Read it yourself or play it out loud and then repeat it back!

We have two ways to target R at the conversation level: 1.) Silly story scenes full of R target words. 2.) Conversation starter questions.

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Free SLP articulation word lists, flashcards with pictures, downloadable PDFs and more!

Materials target the R sound in the initial, medial, and final positions!

Whether you are looking for printable, no-prep, or virtual materials, FreeSLP offers free R sound activities for students of every level!

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These free speech therapy articulation worksheets are designed to provide targeted practice for specific sounds and sound combinations which includes a variety of activities, such as word lists, sentence completion exercises. please download these free printable pdf speech therapy worksheets on p, b, m, h, w, y, d, n, t, k, g, ng, f, v, ch, j, l, r, s, z, s blend, sh, th initial, medial and final sound words. for online practice this page contains interactive audio flashcards as well..

P Initial Words | P Medial Words   |  P Final Words | P Audio Interactive Sound Cards

B Initial Words | B  Medial Words   |  B Final Words | B Audio Interactice Sound Cards

M Initial Words | M Medial Words   |  M Final Words | M Audio Interactice Sound Cards

H Initial Words | H Medial Words   |  H Final Words | H Audio Interactive Sound Cards

W Initial Words | W Medial Words   |  W Final Words | W Interactive Sound Cards

Y Initial Words | Y Medial Words   |  Y Final Words | Y Audio Interactive Sound Cards

D Initial Words   | D Medial Words |  D Final Words | D Audio Ineractive Sound Cards

N Initial Words   | N Medial Words |  N Final Words | N Audio Interactive Sound Cards

T Initial Words   | T Medial Words |  T Final Words | T Audio Interactive Sound Cards

K Initial Words  | K Medial Words |  K Final Words | K Audio Interactive Sound Cards

G Initial Words  | G Medial Words |  G Final Words | G Audio Interactive Sound Cards

NG Initial Words  | NG Medial Words |  NG Final Words | NG Interactive Sound Cards

F Initial Words   | F Medial Words |   F Final Words | F Audio Interactive Sound Cards

V Initial Words   | V Medial Words |  V Final Words | V Audio Interactive Sound Cards

CH Initial Words  | CH Medial Words |   CH Final Words | CH Interactive Sound Cards

J Initial Words   | J Medial Words |   J Final Words | J Audio Interactive Sound Cards

L Initial Words   | L Medial Words |  L Final Words | L Audio Interactive Sound Cards

R Initial Words   | R Medial Words |  R Final Words | R Audio Interactive Sound Cards

S Initial Words   | S Medial Words |   S Final Words | S Interactive Sound Cards

Z Initial Words  | Z Medial Words |  Z Final Words | Z Interactive Sound Cards

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S blend Initial Words   | S blend Medial Words |  S blend Final Words | S Blend Interactive Sound 

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Free Articulation Worksheets and Printables

Use these to target specific speech sounds. These are great for getting a lot of reps in!

Articulation BINGO:

• /r/ initial position
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• /th/ (voiceless) initial
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Free Language Worksheets and Printables

Use these to target specific grammar and vocabulary skills including wh- questions, plural nouns, parts of speech, and figurative language.

Plural Nouns (Regular & Irregular Nouns) Review

WH- Questions Visual

WH- Short Story Questions:

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• Winter Story
• Valentine’s Day
• Fall version
• Halloween version
• Thanksgiving version
• Christmas version

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Free Seasonal Worksheets and Printables

Have fun incorporating holidays and themes into your speech and language activities. These activities are great for mixed groups and can be customized based on whatever goal you’re targeting!

Back to School:

• About Me Activity
• Get to Know You BINGO
• Fall Edition
• Winter Edition

BINGO games:

Scavenger Hunts

• Thanksgiving (highlights the 5 senses)

Free AAC Core Word Resources - Printables

Find a mix of core and fringe word activities for your AAC users and groups.

Core Word of the Week Activities

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Back to School Fringe Vocabulary BINGO

Free Speech Therapy BINGO games

BINGO games are great because they can vary in complexity and goals you can target. Some ideas for use: work on identifying or labeling the chosen word on the Bingo board, hone in on inferencing skills, explore sentence expansion, and so much more!

Articulation:

• /r/ initial
• Back to School (interactive group activity)

Free Administrative Support Documents for Speech Therapists

Gather background information on clients and take data easily with these printables!

Case History/Intake Fillable Form

Articulation Data Collection Sheet

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Free Speech Therapy Tools: Worksheets and Printables

Worksheets and Printables Are Excellent Additions To Your Speech Therapy Regimen.

Our in-depth look at tools for speech therapy continues with a look at free speech therapy tools that you can use at home. Worksheets and Printable Handouts. We have searched the Internet for worksheets that you can use with your child to use as support material in your speech therapy efforts.  There are many different worksheets and handouts to choose from, so we have narrowed it down for you and organized these activities into two categories: activities to help build speech and language skills and activities to help build literacy. And, as we continue to emphasize, these are not a substitute for proper evaluation and treatment from an SLP. These handouts are purely to provide your child with hands-on resources for improving articulation, language building and increased literacy at home and to help build a foundation for correct speech patterns and comprehension.

Many sites contain cute printables that seem better suited for a child’s entertainment, rather than actual speech therapy. Our goal with the list below is to provide valuable links and resources for both families and speech therapists looking for engaging and effective material to use as a supplement to current speech therapy treatments. The benefit to using printable handouts as a speech therapy tool, (other than the price), is that you can find worksheets that treat a specific issue of speech therapy or articulation disorder. For example, you can work specifically on the sound of /r/, if that is the only area where your child needs help. Or, help your child recognize the sounds that vowels make.

We continue to learn from you, so we encourage you to share your best sites and printable sources, so that we can all have access to this helpful information.

Free Speech Therapy Tools — Worksheets for Building Speech and Language:

• www.do2learn.com – terrific resource for kids with special needs. Includes printables and worksheets designed for home and students who need help transitioning into a school setting.
• www.speakingofspeech – a good source for SLP’s including lesson ideas, data sheets and kids activities.
• www.quia.com – interactive speech and language games
• www.freelanguagestuff.com – a wide range of over 20 specific language building exercises and activities. This site breaks down language skills into specifics such as nouns, idioms, adjectives, questions and more.
• http://www.tampareads.com/phonics/whereis/index.htm – a comprehensive site to over 56 worksheets and printables focusing on consonants and vowels.
• http://kindersay.com/words – learning and saying English words. Similar to flashcards.
• Annie’s Rhyme Time  – answer riddles with a two-word rhymes. *update: Annie’s appears to be experiencing intermittent outages, if that link doesn’t work, be sure to check out Scholastic’s other relevant free offerings .
• Rhyming Picture Cards   – nursery rhyme worksheets and printables.
• Rhyme Zone   – has a rhyming dictionary and quizzes.
• International Tongue Twisters – over 3000 tongue twisters presented in 118 languages.

UPDATE: We’ve recently added 5 new free Speech Therapy Lesson Plans for use with or without Speech Buddies Placement Tools.