Sílabas trabadas con /l/ (bl, cl, fl, gl, pl)
Tarjetas de grupos consonánticos con lateral: blusa, clavo, flor, globo, plato.
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How to run it
Say the two consonants separately and then close the gap. The reduced version is often a real word — plato becomes pato, a duck — which makes the consequence obvious without any correction. Group by cluster rather than mixing five, and start with pl and bl, which are the most frequent. Eight minutes covers a subset properly.
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 /l/ clusters, before the student tries again.Log as cued
- Verbal modelSay the word; the student says it right after you.Log as cued
- Placement cueSay the first consonant, then lift the tongue tip straight to the ridge for /l/ with no vowel between: 'bla', not 'bala'.Log as cued
Adjust it
Split the cluster with a short pause ('b… la'), then close the gap until it is one sound.
Put each word in a short carrier phrase with no /l/ in it.
Matching IEP goal
Given picture cards, Student will produce /l/ clusters in Spanish 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
Fourteen Spanish words with an /l/ cluster: blusa, blanco and bloque for bl; clavo, clase and clima for cl; flor, flaco and flecha for fl; globo and glotón for gl; plato, playa and pluma for pl. Sílabas trabadas are where the second consonant is most often dropped in Spanish, exactly as in English.
What to listen for
Listen for the l being dropped rather than separated. Pato for plato is reduction; puh-lato is insertion, and the two need different cues — reduction responds to adding the missing sound slowly, insertion to speeding the two up. Watch glotón and flecha, which are the longest here and where the cluster competes with the rest of the word.
Carrying it home
Plato, flor and blanco are everyday words in a Spanish-speaking home. Asking which word the child meant, when plato comes out as pato, gives them the feedback without a correction attached.
What's in this activity
- blusa
- blanco
- bloque
- clavo
- clase
- clima
- flor
- flaco
- flecha
- globo
- glotón
- plato
- playa
- pluma
Questions
- Is this board in Spanish?
- Yes, all fourteen words are Spanish. This page is in English so an English-speaking clinician can find and evaluate it.
- Do I need an account?
- No, it plays free with no login.
- Is cluster reduction normal in Spanish?
- In young children, yes — it is a typical early pattern, as it is in English. It becomes a target when it persists past the age most children have outgrown it.
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.
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