ActivitiesWhat this drill is
One picture, three things about it. Colour, size, what it does, where you find it — whatever the child reaches for.
Three things about one picture. It is a vocabulary and expressive language task wearing a very small hat: colour, size, what it does, where you would find it, what it is made of. Accept any three; the point is the third one, which is where a child has to reach past the obvious.
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
- lion
- leaf
- lamp
- log
- lock
- lemon
- lips
- leg
- lizard
- ladybug
- lollipop
- lettuce
- lake
- lamb
- llama
- lighthouse
- lantern
- lemonade
- lunchbox
- loaf
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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.