Toy Companion for Articulation, parking lots for speech

Parking lots for speech are great for making speech therapy fun for younger students.

My parking lots for speech are my most-used articulation activity with preschool students. The parking lots are easy-peasy and give me so much flexibility in my sessions. Plus, I never hear complaints when I bring out the toy cars! Parking lots for speech allow me to see my 3-6 year old articulation and phonology students in the same group AND work on the same activity despite the students having different speech sound or phonological pattern goals. Running groups with young children can certainly be a challenge! All you need to provide is the toy cars. If you don’t have any available, there are vehicle cards included in the packet!

Here’s how the parking lots for speech work!

I hold up a matching card and tell my student “park on the ball.” Once he/she parks on the ball, I ask “where did you park?”

Student responds “ball” (word level),

“on the ball” (phrase level) or

“I parked on ball” (sentence level).

Meanwhile, each of my students have a parking lot geared to their own specific sounds so they are all content. My car-obsessed students love the parking lots! Below is a picture of the parking lot for initial s,z words. You can also use them as a matching game!

Articulation parking lots, parking lots for speech

Speech therapy parking lots

Check out the black and white prevocalic /s/ blend parking lot pictured below. My students love to color the black and white parking lots!

Contents of parking lots for speech!

I’ve included transportation-themed feedback flowers are great for giving feedback on sound production instead of my same old “good try” or “almost.” If a student’s production is perfect, I hold up the one that says, “winning speech.” If it needed some tweaking, I use “let’s fixit.” These are easy to assemble-just laminate, cut and glue the flowers on Popsicle sticks. Best of all, there are both color and black and white parking lots in the packet. I laminate the color parking lots and use them during therapy. The black and white parking lots (pictured below) can be sent home for homework or as summer speech programs! A set of parent directions are also included in the packet!

Summer program for speech, articulation parking lots

Perfect for summer programs or homework.

summer home program for speech, articulation parking lots

Parent direction sheet included!

During this past school year, I also used the parking lots with a student that was disfluent on certain sounds! The early developing sound packet also includes an initial H parking lot so you can use it to teach fluency strategies too. Parking lots for speech work well for transportation units too! Check them out by clicking on the link below.

Parking Lot Bundle for articulation early developing sounds.

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Comments

Sharla Harvey says

February 29, 2024 at 6:08 pm

Looks like a great activity! I’d love to be on your mailing list.

Donna Miazga says

March 7, 2024 at 2:53 am

Hi Sharla,
Thank you and you can sign up here: https://www.badgerstatespeeechy.com/freebies/
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Donna