Typically I like my articulation homework to be 3 to 5 words or phrases that were practiced successfully in the speech room. I want them to practice 5 minutes a day, every day. A few years ago, I made up a form that provided directions in both Spanish and English with lines for each day of the week, for the parent to sign indicating that they had practiced with their child. I had a large blank space in the form in which I would write the targeted words. This was a quick and easy way for me to individualize each students homework based on their goals. You can download a free copy of that form on my teacherspayteachers page. Towards the end of last year, I realized that I could make it even easier on me. In reality, I usually send the same words for each phonological process, because I have the best success with those words.
I read in someone's blog that they set their homework up by copying multiple pages from the Webber Jumbo Articulation Drill Book, and then passed out a copy for homework. I considered that idea for a while. I do love that giant book. It definitely has it's uses. It's an awesome tool for single sound disorders. But I have two reasons why I didn't go that route: 1) I want more explicit directions. I found that parents really didn't understand what they were suppose to do with the pages. And if they did practice, they might only practice once that week. 2) I don't like all the words. The pictures are great, but many of the words were too hard or had sounds in other places in the words that made the target more difficult. The words "cat" and "coat" have a /k/ sound in them, but they are horrible words to work on velar fronting.
So I took my blank homework sheet, and created a homework page for each of the phonological processes I typically work with in my speech room: syllabic reduction, initial consonant deletion, final consonant deletion, velar fronting, cluster reduction and stopping.
I based my targets on Barbara Hodson's Cycles. If you are unfamiliar with Cycles or need a refresher course I recommend checking out playingwithwords365.com's series of posts about it. It is an excellent tutorial with lots of great resources.
You can buy my homework packet on teacherspayteachers.com here. Or you can enter my raffle. Bear with me, as this is my first time using rafflecopter. But I will give out a copy to a winner on August 1. (I'd like to give out 3 copies, but I'm not sure how that works yet, so I'm only promising one.)
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