Speech in the Kitchen
This is a growing list of our recipes for book extensions and speech sound practice in the kitchen. If there is not a link yet, that means the recipe is coming soon so make sure you revisit this page! This list includes many of the speech sounds for Standard American English, as well as the symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet and an accompanying food. For ease of use and teaching to kids at home, this list is not exhaustive of every phoneme (e.g. all vowels and diphthongs) included in IPA for American English. Use this to practice with a specific speech sounds at home or in a speech therapy session. Some sounds include a link to our favorite kid friendly recipes, hand crafted by Hailey from Reach Speech Therapy. Do you want a recipe for every sound? Our Speech in the Kitchen cookbook is coming to the website soon!
Here is a place where you can see and hear each sound in more detail.
Consonants
/p/ is for polar bears and popsicles
/b/ is for biscuits, berries and bagels
/t/ is for tomatoes, tacos and toast
/d/ is for donuts and diced fruits and veggies
/k/ is for cupcakes and cookies…or carrots and caterpillars :)
/g/ is for gardens and gummy worms
/m/ is for meow mix and mummies
/n/ is for nachos, naan and noodles
/ŋ/ is for ring and sing
/f/ is for fish
/v/ is for vanilla
/θ/ is for thin crust pizza, broth and three bean salad
/ð/ is for feathers
/s/ is for spiders, snakes and sand cups
/z/ is for zucchini boats
/ʃ/ is for mushrooms and sushi
/ʒ/ is for television and treasure
/h/ is for hummus
/tʃ/ is for chop, cheese, chicken and cherries
/dʒ/ is for jam
/j/ (or “y”) is for yo-yo’s
/w/ is for wands and watermelon
/ɹ/ is robots and rice crispy treats
/l/ is for lions and lemons
Vowels
/æ/ is for apple
/i/ or “ee” is for sweets and eels
/ɪ/ or “ih” is for igloos and inchworms
/u/ or “ oo” is for smooth
/o/ or “oh” is for oats
/ʌ/ or “uh” is for butter and buttercream
/ɑ/ or “ah” is for coffee and ostrich eggs
/aɪ/ or “I” is for ice cream
/eɪ/ or “A” is for eggs (use “e” when teaching this sound with kids for an easier lesson")