(ASFYS) Articulation Stories for Younger Students
Joan S. Kissel
Grades: Pre-K to Elementary
Administration: Individual or Group
The ASFYS was developed to present articulation skills based on those earliest developing phonemes and syllable structures which contribute to intelligibility. These articulation skills are embedded in vocabulary taken from children’s environmental experiences.
ASFYS is composed of seven sections presenting materials to develop labials, alveolars, and velars. Each section facilitates a particular early learned articulation and/or language skill, plus meta-question skills. The earliest learned articulation skills, presented in syllable reduplication and by place in cvc words, are used in common family names and objects. Each of the articulation specific vocabulary words is then presented in Game Pages, Teacher/Parent Question Pages, Rebus Stories, Reading Stories, and finally in Language Experience Stories which use no pictures, but draw on or develop the child’s use of imagery for auditory and reading comprehension.
