Articulation can be SUCH a boring thing to target. How many times can you run through that set of artic cards before your students are begging to do something different? Well ladies and gentlemen I have found your answer- Artic Game Show!
It's set up like the popular game show Jeopardy. There are 5 different categories, each with 100 to 400 point squares. Each sound gets its own game board. The categories included are:
- Fill in the blank- Kristin included sentences with a blank somewhere in there. All words have the target sound in them, in either the initial, medial, or final position.
- Rhyming- You are given a word to rhyme with. Each one of the words has the target sound in the final position, requiring your student to use the target sound in the rhyming word.
- Make me a sentence- You are given a word (with the target sound in it) to use in a sentence.
- What am I?- In this category, you are given a few clues to guess the word that contains the target sound.
- Mystery Square- All the questions in this category are a little different- hence the term mystery square. Options range from wh- questions, tongue twisters, repeating words, and fill in the blanks.
What I love about this product:
- It makes articulation fun! Your students aren't stuck doing drill, they feel like they are playing a game.
- You can use it with mixed groups. Because there are so many different categories, this would be perfect to use in mixed artic/language groups! So many language topics are covered- word finding, wh- questions, rhyming, sentence formulation, etc.
- It's also great for one student who has mixed artic/language goals. You can play one game and get in both goal areas at one time. Talk about using your time wisely!
- It's in a friendly competitive format. I love the Jeopardy style board. You can even split your group into small teams to incorporate teamwork and peer interaction.
- It targets those harder sounds- these are some of the hardest sounds to learn and are often the sounds I see kiddos the longest for.
- As I mentioned earlier, I really, really LOVE that it targets so many language concepts in addition to artic. Products like these are so valuable!
The preceding thoughts are solely mine and were written on my own terms, no person asked me to write this review.
Have I perked your interest? You can check it out on TPT here! (And if you like it so much you want to get it with different sounds, check out her Articulation Game Show: k, g, f, l edition!)And while you're at it, head on over to Kristin's Facebook page and blog and tell her hello.
What have you gotten recently that you thought was "worth it"?
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