Carryover Talk: L at the end

What this drill is

A picture and an open question, so the target word has to survive a whole sentence. Opens at sentence level.

Carryover is the gap between a sound a child can produce on demand and a sound they actually use. This drill opens every card at sentence level and asks an open question, so the target has to survive a whole utterance rather than sitting alone on a card.

Score it the way you would score connected speech: got it when the target held across the sentence, almost when it held once and slipped once, cue given when you had to model. The drill hands the shared level dial back to whatever it was on when you finish.

How the turn works

Buddy takes the first turn every time: he says the word, and where the deck has a target sound he adds the cue for it. Then the banner flips to YOUR TURN, the mic orb starts pulsing, and he listens. What he hears decides what happens next — the target moves the drill on, a different word gets a warm reaction and a re-model, any voice at all gets credit, and silence gets hints rather than a stall. There is a green button on every card for a child who is not using a mic, and it is a first-class path, not a fallback.

The data you walk away with

The trial log runs beside the drill. Every turn lands as got it, almost or cue given; the listening result suggests the mark so a parent running this alone still gets data, and one tap changes it. Little Words does not do automated phoneme scoring — the adult in the room is the judge, and the export records which marks were suggested and which were yours. At the end you get a short summary with counts, an accuracy percent and the words worth another look, plus CSV, print and copy-to-clipboard. Everything stays on the device.

The words in this deck

• ball
• bell
• doll
• pool
• tail
• whale
• snail
• mail
• nail
• owl
• seal
• wheel
• hill
• smile
• apple
• turtle
• bottle
• candle
• camel
• towel

Try next

• Repetition Drill: L at the end
• Say Three Things: L at the end
• Carryover Talk: B at the start
• Carryover Talk: CH at the end
• Carryover Talk: CH at the start

Little Words activities are practice materials, not an assessment or a diagnosis. If you have a concern about a child's speech, a licensed speech-language pathologist is the person to ask.