Sonido de la che
Tarjetas para el africado postalveolar: chico, coche, leche, chaqueta, mochila.
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 the affricate into its parts if the student is substituting. Che is a stop released into a fricative, and cueing the tongue to touch first usually helps more than repeating the whole sound. Do the initial-position words — chico, chocolate, chaqueta — before the medial ones like leche and mochila, since position matters here as it does in English. Six minutes covers a subset.
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 cueTongue tip and front of the tongue up on the ridge behind your top teeth. Hold, then let go with a short burst of air: 'cha'.Log as cued
Adjust it
Drop to syllables ('cha' and 'cho'), or use fewer cards.
Put each word in a short carrier phrase with no /ch/ in it.
Matching IEP goal
Given picture cards, Student will produce /ch/ 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 the che sound: chico, chile, chocolate, chaqueta, churro, coche, leche, mochila, cuchara, noche, ocho, lucha, mucho, muchacho. The sound appears at the start and in the middle, and muchacho has it twice — a useful hardest case at the end of the deck.
What to listen for
Listen for what replaces it. A plain fricative — she for che — means the stop is missing; a plain stop means the fricative release is. Those need different cues. Watch muchacho, which has two targets in three syllables, and mochila, where the sound sits in an unstressed syllable and is quietest.
Carrying it home
Leche, coche, noche and mochila are everyday words in a Spanish-speaking home. Asking a family to listen for one of them rather than the sound in general gives them something they can actually track.
What's in this activity
- chico
- chile
- chocolate
- chaqueta
- churro
- coche
- leche
- mochila
- cuchara
- noche
- ocho
- lucha
- mucho
- muchacho
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.
- Is it free?
- Yes, no account and no card needed.
- What ages is it for?
- Kindergarten through second grade, for Spanish-speaking students working on the che sound.
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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