ActivitiesWhat this drill is
Ten to twenty tries at th at the start, one card at a time. Buddy says it, you say it, the tally keeps score.
A repetition drill is the plainest thing in a session and usually the most productive: a set number of tries at one target, with a number at the end. Set the trial count before you start — ten for a warm-up, twenty when you want the count to mean something.
The cards come from TH Sound: Word Start, so every trial puts the TH sound at the start of words. If a child is stable at word level, move the card's dial to phrase or sentence mid-drill; the picture and the audio stay put, only the length changes.
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
- thumb
- three
- thorn
- thread
- think
- thirteen
- thermos
- thermometer
- throw
- throne
- thimble
- thunder
- thistle
- thumbtack
- theater
- thief
- thin
- thick
- thirsty
- Thanksgiving
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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.