Speech Activities

To produce clear speech a child needs to be able to hear the difference between different sounds as well as be able to make individual sounds. This is called discrimination and it is one of the most important skills your child needs to master for learning to read as well as talk.

We have divided this page into two sections. In the first section, you’ll find some online games for your child to play. These games are graded listening tasks and early phonics tasks.

In the second section, you will find some activities for you to complete with your child to encourage good sound discrimination to help their reading and talking.

Spotlight

I Spy - Video
I Spy Work on early phonics using this classic game with a twist.

INTERACTIVE GAMES

Kids playing

These games are to help develop your child’s ability to tell the difference between sounds and work out where sounds are in words. Both these skills are important for speaking as well as reading.

There are five different levels:

  • Pirate Island Helps listen for single sounds
  • Circus Helps identify sounds in simple words
  • Haunted House Helps discriminate between socially unfamiliar words
  • Racing Helps identify sounds at the beginning of words
  • Submarine Helps identify sounds at beginning and end of words
Play Games

Activity Sheets

Use these games to encourage your child to hear single sounds and identify sounds at the beginning and end of words.

Parents Speech Link - Islands Islands - This game will help your child hear the difference between speech sounds. Parents Speech Link - Feed the Puppet Feed the Puppet - This game will help your child hear the difference between sounds in words. Parents Speech Link - Monster Food Monster Food - This game will help your child hear sounds at the beginning of words. Parents Speech Link - Shooting Stars Shooting Stars - This game will help your child hear sounds at the beginning of words. Parents Speech Link - Roll the Car Roll the Car - This game will help your child hear sounds at the beginning of words. Parents Speech Link - Bin It! Bin it! - This game will help your child hear sounds at the beginning of words. Parents Speech Link - Grand National Grand National - This game will help your child hear sounds at the beginning of words. Kings and Knights Kings and Knights - This game will help your child hear sounds at the beginning and end of words. Socks Box Socks Box - This game will help your child produce rhyming words. Syllable Steps Syllable Steps - This game is to help your child break words down into syllables. Hands and Feet Hands and Feet - This game is to help your child listen carefully. Farmyard Sounds Farmyard Sounds - This game is to help your child listen carefully. Rhyme Detectives Rhyme Detectives - This game is to help you child recognise words that rhyme.