The Best Books For Articulation

Articulation Books for speech therapy are fairly easy to find. It seems like I’m working on /S/ EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. However, I like to find books with a heavy load of specific sounds. Even if my students are not reading fluently, they can still recognize some simple words when we come to them in the text and I pause for them to use that word with their best S sound!

You can check out all of the articulation books for /S/ & /Z/ in my Amazon List (affiliate link). One of my favorite books is Caps For Sale for working on /S/. It is highly repetitive and is always a favorite with the kids. They actually request this one often. Another go-to is the “I Spy” series. You have to say the phrase “I spy…” over and over. I also love the added benefit of visual discrimination. These are in almost any library and almost any store I go to – I get most of mine from used bookstores.

The Fly Guy book series is very popular too. I love using it for my beginning readers. It has the boy’s name, “Buzz” in it frequently so it’s great for using when targeting /Z/.

Again, I always try to select articulation books that are not just “cute,” (like Splat books), but that have rich vocabulary or other literary aspects that I can touch on like Dr. DeSoto (wow, one of my all time favorites).

Download These Free Articulation Bookmarks:

I’ve made bookmarks for you to print (see the link below). I chose 12 books for /S/ and 4 for /Z/. Also, you get the Road Map for /S/ and /Z/. It has some placement strategies, other activities I use and a short word list to probe or use as auditory bombardment/progress monitoring.

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I have other posts with articulation book suggestions for speech therapy! Check out my Articulation Books For S & Z sounds and Articulation Books For R sounds.

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