GR

  • 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.

/G/

  • Back (dorsal) top of tongue touches back top of mouth (velum)

  • Voice on

/R/

  • Base of tongue BACK (toward throat)

  • Sides of tongue UP

  • Voice on

/GR/ grape

/GR/ gray

/GR/ grab

/GR/ group

/GR/ green

/GR/ grand(ma/pa)

/GR/ great

/GR/ grow

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: "This fruit that grows on a vine is a (grape) ."

Week 3
Practice saying these words with 1-2 additional words (e.g. eat a grape, green, grape, sour grape, bit grape, grape is rotten).

Week 4
Pick 1-3 of these words you can say the best. Take turns making 2 sentences each that have that word. Ex: "I want a grape, please. Do you want a grape? The grape is green."

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!