Following Two-Step Directions: Outside and nature

What this drill is

Two instructions held in order, then both words said out loud.

Following directions with two instructions, in order. Buddy speaks the words in the order they have to be touched, in his own voice, and the pictures stay on screen while the child works. Touching them out of order is answered with the word said again, never a buzzer.

A two-step trial produces two scored productions, because the child says each picture as they touch it. That is why the trial count on this one runs a little higher than on the one-step drill.

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 pictures in this set

• beach
• branch
• bush
• flower
• garden
• grass
• hill
• lake
• leaf
• moon
• mountain
• mud
• pond
• rain
• rainbow
• rock
• rose
• sand
• seed
• star
• sun
• tree
• twig
• wave

Try next

• Sorting: Outside and nature
• Odd One Out: Outside and nature
• Following One-Step Directions: Outside and nature
• Following Two-Step Directions: Animals
• Following Two-Step Directions: Food and drink

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.