Free SLP Download: Final Consonant Deletion Speech Activity

Free SLP Download: Final Consonant Deletion Speech Activity

Practice materials that engage your students are a critical element of successful treatment in any speech-language pathology classroom. This fun (and free!) final consonant deletion speech activity has twenty pages of minimal error pairs and pictures that will surely do the trick!

How It Works

Each page of this final consonant deletion speech activity shows two words: one ending in a vowel sound (i.e., an open word) and the same word with a consonant on the end (i.e., a closed word). The objective of the exercise is to help your student understand that using a closed sound on the end of a word changes what the word means.

For example, if you ask a student, “What do we call that large ball that shines in the night sky?” the student may say “moo” for “moon.” Explain to the student that you heard him/her say “moo,” which is the sound a cow makes. Ask if the student meant “moon.” At this point, you could model that when you say “moo,” you are talking about an animal sound, but when you say “moon,” you are talking about the round thing in the night sky. As you say, “moo,” hold your palms together out in front of you (praying gesture), and then open them as you say “moo.” Explain that “moo” is an open word because it doesn’t have a sound on the end to close the word. When you model “moon,” open for the “moo” part, and clap your hands together for the “n” to shut or close the word. Model open versus closed word pairs, and have the student copy your words and movements. Have the student point to one of the two pictures on the page after you say it to see if s/he can hear the difference. You can begin with the visual cue of your palms open versus closed as you say each word and then fade the visual cue as appropriate over time.

Great for both in-person speech therapy AND online speech therapy

If you work with students in person, print out and cut the slide/page in half to have one word per half page. If you provide online speech services, draw a black rectangle to cover one side of the slide. Practice each error pair until you get through five to ten pairs. Work on those same pairs for two to three sessions until s/he is able to identify the correct word with 80% or higher accuracy. Next, have your student choose a word to say (switching roles with the Speech Therapist), and you point to the picture matching what he or she has said. Have your student use the cue open versus closed as he or she says each word. Provide feedback with the goal of working toward 80% accuracy or higher.

Bonus Speech Activity 
Have your student sort the words by “open” vsclosed,” and if you work onsite, play “matching” by cutting each page into separate halves, and have the student match each set of words.

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Have more ideas? In addition to this free final consonant deletion speech activity, here are 45 word pairs to use in your next school-based speech-language pathology lesson.

Final Consonant Deletion Word Pairs

BEE – BEEP FEE – FEED RAY – RAIN
BAR – BARK DIE – DIME RYE – RIDE
PIE – PIPE DOUGH – DOME ROW – ROAD
DAY – DATE PEA – PEEP COW – COUCH
PIE – PINE MAY – MAKE FOUR – FORT
SEE – SEED ME – MEET LIE – LIGHT
BYE – BITE MY – MINE DRY – DRIVE
BOW – BOAT MOO – MOON WE – WEEK
BOO – BOOT KNEE- NEED BOY – BOIL
TEA – TEAM NO – NOSE SHE – SHEEP
TIE – TIME NEW – NOON SHOE – CHUTE
TOE – TOAD LAY – LATE TREE – TREAT
TWO – TOOT LEE – LEAD WE – WEEP
KEY – KEEP LYE – LIME PLAY – PLANE
TOW – TOAST LOW – LOAD LOU – LOOM


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