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Your first session, start to finish.

Pick the goal you are working on, open one of the three activities under it, and you are running a session. Each one says what you do. You do not need to learn the catalogue first — and nothing here needs setting up.

1

Pick the goal

Not a game — the thing on the child’s goal sheet. Nine of them below, with three activities under each.

2

Set the target

Every activity opens on its own setup screen: choose the sound and position, the level, or the grade band, then press start. That is the whole of the preparation.

3

Play — you judge

The child talks, you decide whether it counted and tap Got it or Try again. Trying again never costs anything.

True in every activity

No microphone and no camera. The site never listens to a child or records one. You are the judge of every response, the way you already are.
Nothing about a child is stored. Close the tab and the session is gone. There are no child accounts and no names to type.
← Games, top left of every activity, goes back to the library. ↺ Start over, just below it, restarts the activity you are in.
No timers and no scores to beat unless an activity is explicitly a race. Nothing can be failed, so a child who needs three goes gets three goes.
Works on a computer or a tablet, in the room or shared on a call. Nothing to install and no plugin.
Tap the ☆ on any activity card in the catalogue and it stays on your shelf, at the top of Browse All Games, ready for next week. The last dozen you opened are listed there too, so last week's session is one tap away.

Nine goals, three activities each

These are picked to work on a first try: a fast one, one for younger children, and one for older students. The link at the end of each row opens everything else under that goal.

Speech sounds

Articulation at word, phrase or sentence level See all speech-sound games →

Sound Fishing The quickest way to a lot of repetitions. Pick the sound and position, the child says the word, then taps the fish to reel it in. Free — no account Construction Crew For preschoolers. Every word said moves the digger, the dump truck and the crane one piece further through building a house. Speech Quest For ages 9 and up. Each clear word rebuilds a section of a broken skybridge. R and vocalic R, plus twelve other sounds.

Phonology & minimal pairs

Hearing the contrast before producing it See all phonology games →

Sound Contrasts Choose your approach — minimal or maximal oppositions, complexity, cycles, multiple oppositions — or just pick a process with no approach attached. Bubble Pop! The target sound against distractors, with the word and a picture on each bubble. Pop the right one. Sound Invaders Minimal pairs as a space game, in five difficulty levels, for a child who needs the listening work to be fun.

Vocabulary & word finding

Naming, categories, function, retrieval See all vocabulary games →

Word Explorer Categories and function, receptive and expressive, in four grade bands. Start at the band below the child’s and move up. Creature Lab Answer a language question, earn a creature part. Five levels, from finding the picture to odd-one-out. Early childhood to middle school. Rapid Naming & Word Finding A timed naming grid plus clue-based retrieval, on real photos, for the child who knows the word and cannot get to it. Grades 2 up.

Describing & comparing

Attributes, function, category, compare and contrast See all describing games →

Describe It! Real photos with a describing web: group, function, appearance, location. The web gives the child somewhere to go next. Free — no account Munch Monster Preschool to elementary. Answer, feed the monster, and wait for the surprise — he grows the more he is fed. Same & Different Two things and a Venn diagram. Practice together first, then the quiz. School age.

WH-questions & comprehension

Who, what, where, when, why, how — and inference See all comprehension games →

WH Story Detectives Fifty-four short stories with all six question words, in three grade bands from K–2 to middle school. Inference Detective Grades 1–5. The answer is never stated, so the child has to say what the words let them work out. Question Climb A game-show ladder of WH questions for middle school, when the plain worksheet version has stopped landing.

Following directions

One, two and three-step, including spatial See all directions games →

Zoe’s Playroom One, two and three-step directions in a playroom. Preschool to elementary. Start at one step and add a step when they are right twice. Garden Grow The same steps, but spatial — under, beside, behind — so the concept is carrying the difficulty rather than the length. Drive-Through Dash Listen to the order, build it, serve it. Nine modes and four levels, so it stretches from one item to a held sequence.

Sentences & storytelling

Word order, syntax, and getting to a whole account See all sentence games →

Build a Sentence Eighty photo scenes. The child says what is happening, then taps the words into order. Three levels of sentence length. Story Builder Words to sentences to a whole story, from picture-word banks. Read it back at the end, or print it to send home. The Short Version High school and adults. Retell a rambling account inside a word budget, keeping the facts that matter. No microphone — you tick the facts.

Social & emotional language

Feelings, tone, perspective, saying why See all social language games →

Feelings Naming emotions, reading situations, shades of a feeling, and what to do with a big one. Preschool to elementary. Free — no account Read the Room High school. Fictional group chats and posts: what was meant, what the tone was, and what a clear reply would be. Make Your Case Middle school and up. Pick a side, say why in a full sentence, then answer a comeback written against you.

Thinking skills

Memory, attention, sequencing and planning See all thinking-skill games →

Memory Grid Study a grid, then answer from memory: how many, which appeared most, what was where. Easy, medium and hard. Listen & Remember Nothing is shown. The child hears a word list, then answers about it — how many, the first, the last, what came next. Step by Step Twenty everyday tasks in words, tapped into order. A wrong step can be fixed and tried again. Older students and adults.

That is nine goals and twenty-seven activities. There are another hundred and forty in the catalogue, filtered by the same goals, plus age band, and the ten that are free without an account.

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