Parking Lots for Speech!! Updated 4/15

I've been working on activities that 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!  One of the things I've come  up with are
Parking Lots for Speech: Early Developing Sounds.    Here's how it looks when it's all set up:

I use my own small cars and trucks but I also have small  digital cars and trucks for each parking lot. Here's how these 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!

                                     Here's the P, B, M parking lots and the matching cards.

Parking Lot:  Initial P,B,M Words

Matching Cards for P,B,M Parking Lot

Feedback Flowers!

The 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 fix it."  These are easy to assemble-just laminate, cut and glue the flowers on Popsicle sticks.

During this past school year, I also used the P,B,M parking lot with a student that was disfluent on these sounds!  They work well for transportation units too!   I recently added a packet of parking lots for later occurring sounds too.  Check them both out: 

Parking Lot Bundle for articulation early developing sounds.  

Parking Lot Bundle for articulation later developing sounds

 Each includes the feedback flowers, sentence strips and cars and trucks for lots.

 Thanks for parking it for awhile!            

Donna