Practicing sounds and articulation with sound scenes is a fun and engaging way to build strong speech skills! These vibrant, picture-packed scenes bring words and sounds to life, making practice feel like play. By focusing on sounds in scenes, children can connect their speech practice to everyday communication, helping them grow their confidence and clarity. Whether working on individual sounds or full sentences, sound scenes make learning interactive, exciting, and effective. Speech practice has never been this creative and enjoyable!
Ways to Use TIKI TAKI Picture Scenes for Articulation Practice:
Word Practice: Have the child say the target word depicted in the scene to focus on accurate production of the sound.
Phrase Practice: Use two- or three-word phrases related to the scene (e.g., “red kite”) to encourage smooth articulation in connected speech.
Sentence Practice: Create sentences using elements from the scene to build sentence-level articulation and expressive language skills.
Story Retell / Story Creation: Use the scene as a prompt for a short story, promoting narrative skills while providing multiple exposures to the target sound.
“What’s Different?” Game: Show two similar scenes and have the child identify differences to strengthen auditory discrimination, observation skills, and repetition of target sounds.
Sound Hunt: Ask the child to find objects in the scene with the target sound, providing repeated, contextualized practice in a fun, interactive way.
Role Play / Pretend Play: Act out the scene with characters or objects to encourage functional use of speech sounds in conversation.
Peer or Group Practice: Use cards in small groups for taking turns describing scenes or making sentences, building social communication skills and motivation for articulation practice.
Sentence Expansion: Have the child expand a simple sentence into a longer one using scene details to improve syntax, sentence complexity, and repeated sound practice.
Question & Answer Practice: Ask questions about the scene (e.g., “What is the girl holding?”) to encourage spontaneous use of target sounds in conversation.