I can't take credit for having this idea - I was talking to my supervisor about ideas to work on fluency with preschoolers, and she shared this idea with me. It's a simple visual of the ocean, along with a boat. Cut out the boat and use it to help your student see and feel the difference between "smooth" and "bumpy" speech. She said she's had great success moving students from relying on her model/ID of smooth or bumpy speech to self-correcting using the sailboat to help them. It's also just a great visual reminder to use slow, smooth speech.
As always, there's both a PDF and a Word document in case you want to adapt it for your own purposes. I'm excited to try it - let me know what you think, or what other ideas you have to support fluency skills in preschoolers!
As always, there's both a PDF and a Word document in case you want to adapt it for your own purposes. I'm excited to try it - let me know what you think, or what other ideas you have to support fluency skills in preschoolers!