FL

  • There are 8 words below for you to practice. Ideas for practice are listed below, or make your own!

  • Click here each day you practice to submit your homework

If your child cannot produce these correctly even with your help, switch to modeling the words while your child watches your face and listens.

/F/

  • Top teeth rest on bottom lip

  • Blow air forward

/L/

  • Tip of tongue touches alveolar ridge (i.e. bumps BEHIND upper teeth)

  • Sides of tongue relaxed (air moves past tongue laterally)

  • Voice on

/FL/ fly

/FL/ flag

/FL/ flat

/FL/ floor

/FL/ float

/FL/ flock

/FL/ flash

/FL/ flip

Week 1
Each day you practice, pick four words to correctly say 10 times each.

Week 2
Name each of the pictures, then make sentences for each other to finish. Ex: "One black bug with wings is called a (fly) ."

Week 3
Practice saying these words with 1-2 additional words (e.g. the fly, black fly, big fly, see if fly, birds fly).

Week 4
Pick 1-3 of these words you can say the best. Take turns making 2 sentences each that have that word. Ex: "A fly landed on my arm. I wish I could fly. I like to fly in airplanes."

Note: The ideas, resources, and information on this site are meant to support (not replace) professional recommendations from a speech language pathologist (aka SLP, or speech therapist). Consulting an SLP will help you personalize how you use the resources found here, decrease your frustration, and speed your success!