/th/ Final Flashcards
Conventional word-final voiceless th 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
Show the tongue. /th/ is one of the few sounds fully visible, and asking a child to watch your tongue tip between your teeth is faster than any description. Hold the final sound in your model — bathhhh — so it is audible at all, since a final /th/ in ordinary speech is very quiet. Six minutes covers the twelve.
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 /th/, 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 peeks out between your teeth. Blow air gently over it: voice off for 'think', voice on for 'this'.Log as cued
Adjust it
Drop to syllables ('ath' and 'eeth'), or use fewer cards.
Put each word in a short carrier phrase with no /th/ in it or mix in /th/ words from another position.
Matching IEP goal
Given picture cards, Student will produce /th/ 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 ending in the voiceless /th/: bath, math, teeth, mouth, path, tooth, both, fourth, south, north, moth, earth. Final position is the harder half for this sound — the tongue has to come forward between the teeth and stay there while the word finishes, with no vowel to run into.
What to listen for
Listen for /f/ replacing it, which is the standard substitution and is a normal developmental pattern in young children — bath becoming baf. Watch fourth, north and south, where the /th/ follows another consonant and the tongue has to travel further; those three are consistently the hardest in this set.
Carrying it home
Bath, teeth, mouth and math come up in ordinary days. Asking a family to listen for the end of one word gives them something concrete, and /th/ is visible enough that they can see whether it happened.
What's in this activity
- bath
- math
- teeth
- mouth
- path
- tooth
- both
- fourth
- south
- north
- moth
- earth
Questions
- What grades is this for?
- Second through fifth. /th/ is one of the last sounds to develop, so it stays a target longer than most.
- Do I need an account?
- No, all twelve cards play free.
- My child says 'baf' for 'bath'. Is that a concern?
- It is a very common pattern and /th/ is among the last sounds to develop — in a young child it is often within the expected range. Age matters a great deal in deciding whether it needs work.
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.