Posted by estrella_roja · October 11, 2006 · 5 replies
I have to use minimal pairs for auditory discrimination and production of /t/ and /d/. The minimal pairs must end in /t/ and /d/. The trouble is i can't find any minimal pairs on the net. I will be working with a young child (around p2/p3 age) and so pictures of the words would be very useful.
Can anybody help me think of minimal pairs ending in 't' and 'd' that i could find pictures for??
Thanks in advance!!
I did a search and found these words:
deer tear
die tie
din tin
doll toll
door tore
doze toes
dent tent
dead Ted
dim Tim
I found them here:
http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/wordlists.html
Since the vocab is so random with minimal pairs it's going to be hard to teach with pictures. Just focus on listening/speaking and don't worry about learning the words at this time.
Others are...
den ten
daff taff
dell hell
doe hoe
deaf heaf
I always just make them up. You don't have to worry about them being actually real-life words, they are only for phonics practice.
Thanks for your help guys but i needed the words to end in /t/ and /d/. Syllabale initial word initial position would have been fine to think up words for but syllable finial word final is always a little more tricky, especially if you need to find pictures too. I managed to think of enough though, so no problems there. Unfortunatley they do have to be real words as i am doing informal assessments and it would not work accordingly otherwise.
Thanks for all the help anyways!!! 🙂
estrella_roja wrote:I managed to think of enough though, so no problems there.
What did you come up with? If you tell us we might know where you can find some images.
I used:
card / cart
sad / sat
mad / mat
foot / food
bad / bat
pot / pod
sead / seat
I got pictures from clip art and google images. I will put them onto flash cards and put them on the site, sometime in the near future, for anyone else who may find them of use. 😃
