/v/ Final Flashcards
Conventional word-final /v/ 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 lip and tooth contact, which is visible. /v/ puts the top teeth on the bottom lip with the voice on, and a mirror plus a hand on the throat covers both halves of it. Hold the final sound in your model, since a word-final /v/ is very quiet in ordinary speech. 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 /v/, before the student tries again.Log as cued
- Verbal modelSay the word; the student says it right after you.Log as cued
- Placement cueTop teeth rest lightly on your bottom lip. Blow with your voice on so your lip buzzes.Log as cued
Adjust it
Drop to syllables ('av' and 'eev'), or use fewer cards.
Put each word in a short carrier phrase with no /v/ in it or mix in /v/ words from another position.
Matching IEP goal
Given picture cards, Student will produce /v/ 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 /v/: five, dive, cave, give, love, hive, wave, save, move, olive, glove, stove. Every one is spelled with a final e that does no work for the sound — English does not end a word in v — which makes this a set where the spelling and the speech are cleanly separate.
What to listen for
Listen for /f/ replacing it, which is a voicing error with the placement correct — the child has the lip and teeth right and the voice off. That is a small and workable gap. Watch olive and glove, where an unstressed syllable or a preceding cluster makes the final target quieter still.
Carrying it home
Five, love, glove and stove are ordinary words. /v/ is visible enough that a family can see whether the teeth touched the lip, which makes it one of the easier sounds for them to notice.
What's in this activity
- five
- dive
- cave
- give
- love
- hive
- wave
- save
- move
- olive
- glove
- stove
Questions
- What grades is this for?
- First through fourth grade.
- Is it free?
- Yes, all twelve cards play with no login.
- My child says 'fife' for 'five'. What is that?
- A voicing error — the lips and teeth are in the right place and the voice is off. A hand on the throat usually shows the difference faster than listening does.
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.