/ch/ Final Flashcards
Conventional word-final ch targets at the single-word level.
Session summary (SOAP)
Stays on this screen. Nothing is saved or sent.
Mark a card Correct, Correct with cue or Incorrect and the summary writes itself here.
How to run it
Ask for the word on its own first, then in a two-word phrase — my lunch, the beach — before moving to a sentence. Contrast the near misses directly: watch against wash and catch against cat, because the two most common substitutions are a fricative and a stop, and hearing the pair is how a child learns what they are aiming for. Six minutes is a full pass through twelve cards at word level.
Cueing ladder
Start at the top. Add support one step at a time.
- IndependentShow the card and wait 3 seconds for the student to say it.Log as correct
- Visual cuePoint to your mouth, or show the mouth picture for /ch/, before the student tries again.Log as cued
- Verbal modelSay the word; the student says it right after you.Log as cued
- Placement cueLips rounded, tongue tip and front of the tongue up on the ridge behind your top teeth. Hold, then let go into a short /sh/.Log as cued
Adjust it
Drop to syllables ('atch' and 'eech'), or use fewer cards.
Put each word in a short carrier phrase with no /ch/ in it or mix in /ch/ words from another position.
Matching IEP goal
Given picture cards, Student will produce /ch/ in the word-final position in single words in 8 of 10 opportunities across 3 consecutive sessions, given no more than a visual cue.
Send it home through the parent portal →About this activity
Twelve words with /ch/ at the end: beach, peach, watch, catch, match, lunch, couch, teach, reach, witch, patch, bench. Final position is its own target — a child who has chin and chair may still say wat or wash for watch, because releasing the affricate at the end of a word is a different motor act from starting one with it.
What to listen for
Listen for what replaces the /ch/. A fricative — wash for watch — means the stop closure is missing; a plain stop — cat for catch — means the release is not becoming a fricative. Those are different halves of the same sound and they need different cues. Watch for the sound disappearing entirely at the end of a word, which happens most on the longer words like bench and patch.
Carrying it home
Lunch, watch, beach and couch all turn up in an ordinary day, and that is enough of a home programme. Ask a family member to notice one word rather than the sound in general — listening for lunch at lunchtime is a task somebody can actually do.
What's in this activity
- beach
- peach
- watch
- catch
- match
- lunch
- couch
- teach
- reach
- witch
- patch
- bench
Questions
- What ages is this for?
- First through fourth grade, which covers most of the window in which /ch/ is an active target.
- Do I need an account?
- No, all twelve cards play free with no login.
- My student has initial /ch/ but not final. Is that normal?
- Yes, and it is the usual order. Final position generally comes after initial for affricates, so the same sound needs to be worked position by position rather than assumed once it appears.
Use this board with your caseload
With a free account, every correct, cued and incorrect mark is saved to the student and scored against their IEP goal, with the data written up for you. Assign it as home practice through the parent portal.
Track progress freeFree for SLPs. No card, no trial clock.