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“10 on the Sled” Book for Speech Sound Trials

“10 on the sled” is one of my favorite repetitive books for winter.  The book is sung to the tune of “10 in the bed”, and song books are generally always a hit with my kids!  In a previous post, I wrote about the role of repetitive books in therapy, some of which involved speech sound trials.

When looking for books to use for speech sound trials, you want to find ones that provide a lot of repeated opportunities throughout the book to practice, not just one or two. If you’re looking to use “Ten on the Sled” with students with speech sound goals, here’s what you can target!

(Note: The words listed by target speech sound below are applicable to the hardback and paperback versions of this book only. The board book version is shorter with verses taken out, so all of the following may not be applicable).

“10 on the Sled” provides repeated target practice for: 

/SL/ Blends: sled (11x), slip, slide, slid
/K/: Caribou (10x), keep (3x), kept (3x), slicker, quicker (2x), duck
/S/ (singleton): said (10x), sunlit, soon, seal, seven, six, racing, chasing, moose


VOCALIC /R/:
AIR: Caribou (10x), Bear
ER: quicker (2x), slicker, whirled, lighter, tighter (2x), thunder, under (2x), squirrel


Final Consonant Deletion:
Final /n/: on (12x), moon, one (3x), ten, nine, run, fun, sun, bone
Final /t/: out (9x), night, eight, shot

Vowel-Consonant words: on (12x), out (9x), eight

For more practice with VC words “on” “eight” and “out”:

*ON: Put characters “on” a sled, 1 by 1, and practice “on” as you put each one on before starting the story (or at the very beginning, after you read the first page).  

*EIGHT: Count all the animals after they’re on the sled (another opportunity for “eight”), and continue to count them as you read the book, through the page where there are 8 on the sled

*OUT: Take characters out of the sled.  Fill in “out” as you read the line in the book, and practice “out” again as you pull the animal off the sled

You can also practice VC word “in” by telling where each character that fell out is, on the next page (“IN the snowball”) and getting additional practice by adding characters “in” the big snowball that’s rolling down the hill in the book if you’re using manipulatives.

Note: Printable pieces of all the characters and the sled and snowball shown above can be found in my “Ten on the Sled” speech and language book companion on TPT.

If you want this list in printable PDF format, enter your first name and email in the form below to get the list sent to your inbox. Sheets like these are a huge timesaver for me to be able to stick inside the book or in a zip bag/envelope with my other printable materials so I always have it on hand!

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