Pronunciation Practice Sentences for Older Kids, Teens, & Adults: An Articulation Workbook with Modern Sentences for R, L, S, Z, SH, and TH

Changing a pronunciation habit takes rehearsal. It is not enough to get the sound right once or twice. It must be practiced to the point of automaticity. This kind of rote practice can be quite boring with boring, silly, or non-sensical sentences like those you find in workbooks designed for small children. That's why sentences in this book were designed to include useful words and terms from popular conversation topics, like fashion, technology, social media, football, and basketball.This book has over one thousand practice sentences on lined data sheets!These sentences are geared toward the interests, colloquialisms, and phrasing patterns of older kids and adults. The phonemes selected were also cultivated for these older age groups of adolescents, teens, and adults, as they include the later-developing articulation sounds of American English. These targets are not only great for students who are native speakers of American English but have some residual pronunciation goals, these phoneme-focused sentences can also be quite useful practice for non-native speakers of English who may not have these sounds in their native language's phonemic repertoire.This book was written by experienced speech-language pathologist and accent modification specialist Autumn Bryant, with consultation on some sports-related terms and sentences from her husband, Lawrence Bryant - a physical education teacher.All sentences are written on a built-in data sheet for ease of use and monitoring progress.These are great for in-session practice or to send home for homework/home programming.These sentences would be great for upper elementary school, middle school, junior high, or high school students. These sentences can even be used with adult pronunciation and articulation clients or those working on accent modification (sometimes called "accent reduction" or "accent addition") as it includes a lot of "R" probes and American English is a rhotic accent, which means it is heavy on the "R" sounds.These sentences are also great for sparking conversation with an individual or in a group, which can be great if you are seeing an articulation student who is in a group with students working on other skills or if your student is ready to start crossing over to the conversation level, so I will also add my conversation data sheet as a bonus file.Book includes the target sounds in applicable word positions (beginning of the word, middle of the word, end of the word):SZSHTHLRFootball R Sentences (170 R sentences vocalic only)Modern R Sentences (180 R sentences: vocalic only)Basketball R Sentences (265 R sentences): vocalicconsonantalblendsSentences are organized by the types of "R" included. In the Basketball section, sentences were carefully balanced to ensure that only one "R" appears in each sentence (other than challenge sentences) to hone focus. Other "R" sections of this book do include the occasional use of more than one "R" in a sentence where it could naturally come up, but the target "R" variant of the sentence is bolded and underlined. Read more