Multisyllabic /s/ Words
Flashcards for /s/ in multisyllabic words.
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
Split into syllables and rebuild. Su-per-mar-ket has two targets, and slowing it down gives the student a shot at both. Do sunshine and telescope first, which are two and three syllables with clean singleton targets, before strawberry and spaghetti. Ten minutes is enough for six words with the syllable step.
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 /s/, before the student tries again.Log as cued
- Verbal modelSay the word; the student says it right after you.Log as cued
- Placement cueTeeth close together, tongue tip just behind your top teeth without touching them, sides of the tongue against your top side teeth. Send a thin stream of air down the middle.Log as cued
Adjust it
Tap out the syllables and say each one on its own, then two at a time, then the whole word.
Say each word in a short sentence of the student's own.
Matching IEP goal
Given picture cards, Student will produce /s/ 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
Six long /s/ words: supermarket, salamander, strawberry, spaghetti, sunshine, telescope. Three of them start with an /s/ cluster — strawberry, spaghetti and the st in supermarket's middle — which raises the demand again, since a cluster inside a four-syllable word is the hardest configuration in this set.
What to listen for
Listen for the cluster separately from the singleton. A student accurate on sunshine and inaccurate on strawberry has /s/ and not /str/, which is a cluster problem rather than an /s/ one. Watch supermarket, which has an /s/ at the start and an /s/ inside a cluster in the middle — the two often come out differently in the same word.
Carrying it home
Supermarket, strawberry and spaghetti are ordinary household words. Asking for one careful production of one of them beats a list, because the length gives more practice per word.
What's in this activity
- supermarket
- salamander
- strawberry
- spaghetti
- sunshine
- telescope
Questions
- What ages is this for?
- Second through fifth, for students accurate on /s/ in short words.
- Is it free?
- Yes, all six words play with no login.
- My student is fine on 'sunshine' and not 'strawberry'. Why?
- Because strawberry begins with a three-consonant cluster, which is a different motor task from a single /s/. Cluster work is its own target rather than more practice on the singleton.
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.