Ahoy Mateys! ⚓️
September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. As an SLP and R sound enthusiast, we celebrate big in my speech room. In fact, I used to make the entire month of September pirate themed! Here is a list of fun activities you can use in your speech room this month or any month. Because let's face it, anytime is a good time for SLPs to work on saying ARRR!
1. Say ARRR: Talk Like a Pirate workbook for eliciting vocalic AR. Arrr you ready to tackle the R sound? This workbook is designed specifically to help you elicit vocalic R (the AR context) with a fun pirate theme. It systematically takes your students from production of the “ahh” sound to the R sound with professional illustrations, simple instructions, and motivating activities. This book is available as an ebook or published paperback.
2. FREE Video for how to say ARR! Watch this free video with your students during their therapy session or send the link home for additional practice. It takes you step-by-step through how to make a perfect pirate ARR sound.
3. FREE Pirate Clues Early Inferencing Activity. Read the clues and have your students color the picture that corresponds to the correct answer. Fun, simple, and on-theme!
4. Pirate Treasure Maps for Articulation Practice. Make a fun treasure map full of your practice words! Available for many different speech sounds, so perfect for your articulation groups! Print and go and then send home for additional practice!
5. Pirate's Booty Speech for Articulation Therapy: Grab a dot-marker and get ready for fun! This speech sound activity has 30 target words, so have your students say each one 3x before dotting, and you'll get 90 trials in a session!
6. Pirate Language Activities for Answering WH questions: Target listening comprehension, inferencing, vocabulary, and more with this no-prep language pack.
7. FREE 100 Trial Pirate Treasure Challenge. Get 100 trials with this open-ended sheet!
If you want to get really into the pirate theme, be sure you check out our pirate themed mug and tee as well!
Xoxo,
Meredith
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