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Repeat each sentence. Say your /t/ and /d/ sounds carefully.

1. His coat is wet.

2. Don't sit on the cat.

3. Pat wrote a letter.

4. The note is torn.

5. Tell the teacher the truth.

6. The dog licks his plate.

7. Melt the butter.

8. Put lettuce on each plate.

9. The owl hoots in the tall tree.

10. Turn off the TV.

11. The cat is fat.

12. Don has a duck and a doll.

13. Donna likes to dance.

14. Do you dare?

15. Don't eat doughnuts in bed.

16. Did you paint your toenails?

17. Dan dreams about daisies.

18. Can you touch your toes?

19. Does your tooth hurt?

20. Pat wears a hat.

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NNNN

Tongue placement for N is the same as for T and D. The tongue tip touches the gum ridge and the tongue sides touch the side teeth, blocking airflow through the mouth. Unlike production of T and D, the soft palate is lowered, allowing sound to pass into the nasal cavity.

Tips:

1. Using a mirror, explain and demonstrate the sound. If the child can produce /t/ or /d/, compare the tongue placement for these sounds. Practice saying, “T-D-N.”

2. Model exaggerated production of /n/. 3. Touch the spot where the tongue tip should touch with a finger, spoon, or

popsicle stick. If the tongue is protruding or lowered, push it into position with the popsicle stick.

4. If the tongue is not making proper contact with the sides of the teeth, /n/ may sound like /l/. In this case, emphasize the contact with the back teeth. Using a mirror, practice idening the tongue.

5. If /n/ sounds like /d/, try alternating /m/ and /n/ (“ma-na,” “mmm-nnn”) to achieve nasalization of the voice. Enlarged tonsils or adenoids may cause this problem.

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Nail

Name

Neck

Nest

Never

Newspaper

Night

Note

Nurse

Nut

Needle

Number

Nun

Many

Pony

Funny

Tiny

Dinner

Peanut

Banana

Under

Window

Man

Rain

Moon

Garden

Listen

Kitten

Fine

Sun

Hen

Hunt

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These words begin with /n/. Say each word 5 times:

nice new

naughty nickel

nip no

number necklace

name nail

need north

These words have /n/ in the middle. Say each word 5 times:

many penny

dinner pony

funny honey

any banana

under cannot

These words have /n/ at the end. Say each word 5 times:

can plan

fun tin

sun hen

down town

nine been

noon burn

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sun nose

knife pen pe

Use one of the above words t

1. How many days are in a wee

2. Which animal has a fluffy tail

3. Name 2 things to write with.

4. Name something sweet to ea

5. What shines in the sky?

6. What do you use to talk to so

7. What is sharp and is used fo

8. What is a musical instrument

9. What is a plant that can climb

10. What do you smell with?

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each word 3 times.

nose phone bunny

pencil seven vine

ords to answer each riddle.

a week?

ffy tail and long ears?

with.

t to eat.

k to someone who is far away?

ed for cutting?

ument with strings and a bow?

climb up walls?

candy

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Repeat each sentence. Say your /n/ sounds carefully.

1. Wipe your nose.

2. I am not a nut.

3. Nora likes peanuts.

4. The candy costs a penny.

5. His name is Nick.

6. Nan can ride the pony.

7. Ann is fine.

8. The moon is not full.

9. I can count to ten.

10. The sun and moon are in the sky.

11. The money is under the note.

12. The window is broken.

13. My kitten is tiny.

14. Did you have enough dinner?

15. Your necklace is near the mitten.

16. Nellie will shop downtown.

17. The chicken is funny.

18. A hen is a chicken.

19. The man will open the window.

20. Jane can run to her cousin.

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FFFF and Vand Vand Vand V

F and V are produced by touching the upper teeth to the lower lip. F is produced by passing the breath between the teeth and lip. V is produced in the same way with the voice “turned on.”

Tips:

1. /f/ and /v/ are easy sounds to teach because the placement is so easy to see. Instruct the child to “bite his lip and blow” to produce /f/. After the /f/ is produced, instruct him to “turn his voice on” to produce the /v/. Use of a mirror may be helpful.

2. Work on auditory discrimination between the error sound and /f/ and /v/. (“Is this a pig or a fig?”)

3. If /v/ is not being vocalized, thereby sounding like an /f/, have the child feel the vibrations on his neck while saying the sound. Produce /v/ with a vowel (“Va, Vee, uh-V”).

Wordlist forWordlist forWordlist forWordlist for FFFF and Vand Vand Vand V

Face Fall Fairy Family Fan Farm Father Fight Fence Feeling Fine Finger Fire Fish Fix Fog Fork Frog Freckle Before

After Afternoon Careful Elephant Telephone Laughing Coffee Office If Off Life Knife Wife Wolf Puff Roof Gift Valley Vase Velvet

Vet Vine Volcano Violin Visit Vacuum Vacation Ever Clover Cover Evening Seventy Eleven Heaven Give Live Glove Five Move Save

Cave Slave Leave Stove

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Say these words 5 times each:

if fall off fun fan

fit food foot enough cough

roof tough leaf fine thief

Answer these riddles with a /f/ word:

1. It is used to cut food. What is it?

2. This is green and grows on a plant. What is it?

3. What is the opposite of smooth?

4. You buy bread in a ____________.

5. What is the opposite of near?

6. What is the top of a house?

7. A tiny bit of snow is a ____________.

8. In which season do the leaves turn red and yellow?

9. A person who steals is a ______________.

10. Everything you eat is ____________.

11. What very big animal has a trunk?

12. What number comes after three?

13. Cows and pigs live on a _____________.

14. A caterpillar turns into a ______________.

15. The opposite of slow is _____________.

16. Tickling will make you _____________.

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picture, say the word 5 times

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. Drop a penny onto the page. When it land

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Count the fish. Say your /f/ so

one fish two fish three fish

Listen and say:

put foot

pat fat

pun fun

cup cuff

beep beef

cap calf

best vest

bail veil

bent vent

Touch your top teeth to your

make the /v/ sound.

Listen and say these words:

fine vine

face vase

fan van

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r /f/ sounds carefully.

fish four fish five fish six fish seven fish

pine fine

pan fan

pit fit

leap leaf

cheap chief

wipe wife

boat vote

berry very

ban van

our bottom lip to make /f/ and v/. Turn your

rds:

fail veil

fat vat

fast vast

n fish

your voice on to

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Are these things rough? For each word, say, " ___________feels rough" or

"_____________ does not feel rough."

sandpaper an apple

a glass a roof

a flower a cactus

concrete jeans

bark fur

a table a fork

Are these things food? For each word, say, "___________ is food" or

"____________ is not food."

French fries a sofa

coffee a shovel

a violin fish

fruit a butterfly

a fork a vegetable

a river clover

grapefruit a waffle

a flower a foot

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h picture. Say, "Fred found a _____________.

____."

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