Sound FUNtastics

The activities in this book can be used to teach speech sounds, remediate phonological processes, and enhance phonemic awareness. Students practice sounds as they rhyme words, manipulate sounds within words, complete sentences, and tell stories. Minimal word pairs are presented in pictures. The book contains reproducible worksheets and is divided into five sections:

• Think About Sounds: targets phonological processes such as voicing alterations, stridency deletion, final consonant deletion, velar fronting, liquid deviations, and cluster reduction. Activities challenge students to rhyme words, change sounds within words, and use specific sounds to complete sentences.
• Sound Challenge: activities to facilitate phonemic awareness as students manipulate sounds in a variety of ways, eg: "Change the last sound in tip to /k/."
• Sound Contrast Picture Fun: each page includes two pictures that represent a minimal pair (e.g., pear - bear). Students can be asked to think of words that rhyme with the pictured words or to think of words that have similar features.
• Listen to the Story: students respond to questions relating to the content of stories that emphasize specific commonly misarticulated sounds.
• Tell a Story: students finish incomplete stories, using words with their target sounds.