Reading: Ages 7-14

Tongue Twisters

 

            Today's Snack: Your tongue is a huge "player" when you eat. Try eating something without using your tongue. You can't! Today, let's have a snack of some yummy pudding. Pay attention to how your tongue works as you move that delicious pudding from your mouth down into your tummy. Wash it down with some cold milk!

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Supplies:

Tongue twisters written out on index cards or printed out (10-12) for each team

A basket or box marked "DONE" for each team | Two to four students per team

 

 

A humorous and effective way to work on your phonemic awareness, phonics skills, and pronunciation, is reading aloud tongue twisters.

 

You know what tongue twisters are: crazy sayings that are hard to pronounce accurately, the faster you go, to the point where you often make mistakes that make your friends laugh.

 

Not only are tongue twisters good literacy practice in the classroom, but they are good to do on long car trips, when you're hanging out with friends, and for sleepover parties.

 

To play this game, write out these tongue twisters on index cards, or print this out and cut them apart. Then make a pile for each team. Set the pile on a desk across the room. The team should stay at the back.

 

When you say "GO!," one player from each team should run up to the pile, take the top tongue twister off the stack, read it, say it aloud, memorize it, place it in the "done" pile, and run back to the group and teach it to them.

 

Everyone has to say it aloud before the next player can run up, memorize the next tongue twister, put it in the "done" pile, and run back to teach it to the group.

 

You can either set a time limit on this game, or, if you have more than one team going, you can give each team one tongue twister per player, and the first team to complete the task wins.

 

 

Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

 

 

Nat's knapsack strap snapped.

 

 

Sam's sock shop stocks short spotted socks.

 

 

Rubber baby buggy bumpers

 

 

Andy ran to the Andes from the Indies in his undies.

 

 

Shirley sewed Sly's shirt shut.

 

 

Pick up six pick-up sticks quickly.

 

 

The sixth sick sheep is the sheik's sixth sheep.

 

 

Sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack. Sheep should sleep in a shed.

 

 

Seasick sheep sail slowly.

 

 

A proper copper coffeepot.

 

 

Bruce bought bad brown bran bread.

 

 

Six slim, slick saplings.

 

 

Lemon liniment.

 

 

Three twirling tricky tree toads.

 

 

Blue bug's blood. Blue bug's blood. Blue bug's blood.

 

 

Unique New York. Unique New York. Unique New York.

 

 

No snow shows like slow snow shows.