200+ Medial L Words Speech Therapy

Are you a speech therapist or parent working on medial l speech sounds? Then this blog is just what you need! It has over 200 medial l words for speech therapy.

Medial L Words Speech Therapy

Speech-language pathologists are always in need of a great list of medial l words for at school or at home practice.

Target L Words

Here’s a list of medial l articulation sounds for you to use in therapy or at home practice to work on your student or child’s new skill.

• For Example: silly, pilot, jello, dollar, police, July, jelly, salad, walrus, island, ruler, alarm, olive, toilet, hello, gallon, belly, elbow, tulip, color

See the full list of words, phrases, and sentences below.

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Word Positions: Medial L Words Speech Therapy 

Initial Position of Words

The initial l sound is at the beginning of a word. For example, “like” or “late”.

Medial Position of Words

Then there are some words that have the l sound in the medial position of words, such as “envelope”, “caterpillar”, and “violin”.

Final Positions of Words

The final positions of words are when the target sound is at the end of a word. For example, “ball” or “snail”.

Target Production

When working on the medial l sound the tip of your tongue is placed behind your front teeth. 

Your child or student should aim for the small bump or ridge behind their teeth. 

Next, instruct your child or student to relax their tongue and let the air pass on either side of their tongue while making their sound “loud” in order to turn on their voice. 

They will be able to tell that their voice is turned on by touching their voice box on their neck and feeling it vibrate.

Play with Dough Tongue Placement Sheets created by Peachie Speechie – If you’re looking for a great place that has a way to give your child or student a visual cue about how to make the medial l sound. Then be sure to grab some playdough and print out this visual cue page!

Medial L Words Speech Therapy at Word Level

If you’re looking for some high-frequency medial l words see the list below.

You can use the list below by having your child or student as the words using their best medial l sound. 

In addition, I’ve compiled an easy-to-download medial l words list below to help you get started if you prefer a paper or digitally interactive copy. 

Simply scroll down to the bottom of this post and download your free copy.

• 2 Syllable: silly, pilot, jello, dollar, police, July, jelly, salad, walrus, island, ruler, alarm, olive, toilet, hello, gallon, belly, holly, tulip, color, alley, solar, Ali, colon, boulder, realize, bulldog, sailing, moonlight, challenge, dolly, sibling, fully, tally, Salem, bully, Haley, value, villain, failure, belly, smelly, allow, below, bullied, solid, balloon, college, Helen, allow, melon, feeling, jealous, Allen, village, Riley, jolly, shallow, ceiling, smiling, shallow, jello, rally, foolish, Islam, polar, cello, filling, Billy, balling, cooling, skillet, salon, trolley, lolly, molar, talon, relay, Polly, delay, smaller, relax, million, billion, stellar, lilac, wailing, willing, collage, dealing, railing, valor, zealous, gally, Iceland, college, limelight

• 3 Syllable: ambulance, reality, quality, medallion, gallery, repellent, brilliant, monologue, excelling, violent, dialect, rebellion, geology, fallacy, polio, bellini, excellent, trilogy, satellite, Hillary, agility, challenge, zoology, intellect, isolate, analyst, realism, scholarly, Himalayas, lullaby, unwilling, embellish, recalling, qualify, expelling, violate, wallaby, syllable, parallel, jubilance, qualify, idolize, unalike, 

• 4 Syllable: ecology, artillery, Australia, irregular, Elizabeth, bullying, alligator, technology, celebration, Carolina, maleficent, watermelon, realization, salmonella, alien, Amelia, angelica, television, intelligence, relationship, loneliness, cinderella, caterpillar, ability, sporadically, constellation, equality, celebrity, intelligent, Italian, revolution, insulation, malnutrition, absolution, aluminum, resolution, elevator, Filipino, adrenaline, mozzarella, military, accelerate, biology, delivery, apology, spectacular, revelation, tilapia, agility

• 5 Syllable: quadrilateral, circulatory, resilient, chronological, radiologist, antipollution, auxiliary, singularity, liabilities 

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Medial L Words Speech Therapy

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Short Phrases

When working on the medial l sound production, in addition to working at the word level it’s also important to work on short phrases once your child or student has mastered the sound at the word level at or near 80% or higher accuracy.

Here is a list of medial l word phrases to try:

Medial L Words Speech Therapy in Phrases

Sentence Level: Medial L Words Speech Therapy

After working at the word and phrase levels next it’s time to start working on the medial l sound at the sentence level.

One way to work on the medial l sound at the sentence level would be to give your child or student a list of sentences to read aloud while they work on their medial l sound. 

Another fun idea would be to give your child or student pictures with their medial l sound in them and have them create a sentence about those pictures.

Below is a list of sentences to use with your child or students.

Medial L Words Speech Therapy in Sentences

Medial L Words Speech Therapy Ideas

Challenge Games

If you’re in need of some fun challenge games be sure to check out the list below.

1. Quia Games: MEDIAL /L/ GAMES by Tracy Boyd – Play a memory game or complete a word search with words that have /l/ somewhere in the middle.
   
2. “L” medial position activities: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search by Michelle Harvey – Use your good “l” sound as you say each target speech word.
   
3. “L” medial position Battleship by Michelle Harvey – Sink the opponent’s ships by answering questions directly. 

Boom Cards

Boom Cards can be another fun way to strengthen your child or student’s medial l articulation skills.

Here are a few favorite boom cards to work on the medial L sounds: 

1.  Sound Loaded Articulation Scenes for L Sound by PlayingSpeech – This resources provides loaded scenes for students to practice the L sound.

2.  Articulation Sound Sorts L BOOM CARDS by Silver Speech – This deck of 14 boom cards helps students sort words containing l into beginning, middle and end positions. There are 120 target words in total.

3.  Camping Articulation Boom Cards™ Freebie by Ivy League Language – This camping themed activity can be used by having students cover each picture with virtual play-doh.

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Therapy Room

Are you a speech therapist looking for medial l words to practice with your clients or students? 

Here are some fun worksheets and games that you can use in your therapy room to work on the medial l sound.

1. NO PREP Articulation FREEBIE: Initial, medial, final /L/ by Cat Says Meow – This handy pack provides 27 pages of no prep activities to practice L!

2. FREEBIE: Articulation Tic Tac Toe – /L/ initial, medial, final and /L/ blends by Articulation Station – This tic-tac-toe activity comes with 10 games targeting /l/ in all positions, as well as /l/ blends. The goal is to practice the target sound in the word 5 times before drawing your X or O on the square

3. FREEBIE L Articulation Smash Mats: Initial, Medial, Final by Snuggle Bug Speech – These are fun and interactive playdoh smashmats to help students practice the L sound in initial, medial and final position! .

4. FREEBIE Artic Dino Dig- Interactive Articulation Game for medial & final /l/ by Cincy Speechie – Go on a fossil hunt as you practice /l/ in medial & final positions! Brush away dirt patches with /l/ targets to uncover buried bones until the dinosaur beneath is revealed.

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Board Games

Board games can be a great way to practice and reinforce your child’s or students’ sounds. 

Here are a few favorite board games to try are: Jenga, Tic Tac Toe, or Connect Four to name a few.

Language Development of Speech Sounds

At around 3 years of age your child will begin to use the l sound and should have the l sound mastered in conversation around the age of 5 to 6 years old. 

This information of language development of the medial l speech sound is according to the Standardized Sample from the GFTA-2 that 85% of children are able to produce the l sound at the beginning of the word, middle of the word, and at the end of the word around 5 years old.

In Conclusion: Medial L Words Speech Therapy

We hope you have found this article helpful for working on your child or student’s medial l sound. 

Be sure to grab your freebie of 20 words to start practicing 5 minutes a day starting today!

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