Oral Motor Activities

2. PRESCHOOL
AWARENESS RHYMES
ASMA AGHA

3. Rhyming
 Tasks in this area encourage students to listen to
parts of words and distinguish that words can
sound the same and different. Rhyming requires
students to listen for the beginning of a word
(onset) and the vowel and consonant of the word
(rime).
 Make sure to include movement with the songs
and rhymes as well. This can be a part of your
everyday routine. Anything that you normally do
with your child can always be put into song or
turned into a rhyme.

4. GOAL
To create awareness of:
 Good posture for breath and speech
production
 the oral mechanism
 The independent movements needed for jaw,
lips and tongue

5. GUIDELINES
 Seat the child in a chair that fits him.
 His feet should be flat on the floor while his
back is resting against the back of the chair.
 His head should be straight up

6. EXERCISES
1. Speech – Time Rhyme
2. Jaw Rhyme
3. Tongue Rhyme
4. The Silly Sound Chorus
5. Closing Rhyme

7. 1. Speech time Rhyme.
It’s time for speech, so come on around.
Sit in your chairs, feet on the ground.
Backs up straight, heads up high.
This is what we’re going to try.

8. 2. Jaw Rhyme
 Motions: Tap along your jaw
with your fingertips, ending with all fingers on
your chin.
Tap your jaw with your fingertips,
Over to your ears and back under your lips.
Feel your mouth open and close.
Can you make it touch your toes.

9. 2. Jaw Rhyme
 Motions: Tap around your lips with your
fingertips.
Around your lips your fingers go.
Tap them high, tap them low.
Tap them hard, tap them light.
Listen well to get it right.

10. 2. Jaw Rhyme
 Motions: Smile and
pucker your lips.
Give a big smile, make it wide,
Lips go from side to side.
Pucker up and throw a kiss.
Smile again and make a hisssss.

11. 3. Tongue Rhyme
 Motions: Stick your tongue out.
Open your mouth and stick out your tongue,
Side to side. Isn’t it fun?
Point it up, point it down.
Make it go ‘round and round’.

12. 4. The Silly-Sound Chorus
Goals:
 To demonstrate full range of motion of the jaw
and lips for speech sound production
 To develop sound sequencing skills

14. Practice
 “oo sound” (Point your index fingers forward)
 “ee sound” (Point your thumb over your
shoulders)
 “ah sound” (With your hands in front and
palms together, pull your hands apart)
 “mm sound” (With your hands open, bring your
palms together)

15. Instructing
 Make lips go round
 Oo – oo – oo – oo
 Smile to make “ee”
 Ee – ee – ee – ee
 Open wide to your toes
 Ah – ah – ah – ah
 Close lips very tight
 Mm – mm – mm – mm

16. Chorus:
 oo – ee, oo – ee, oo – ee, oo – ee
 ah – mm, ah – mm, ah – mm, ah – mm
 oo – ee – ah – mm, oo – ee – ah – mm
 oo – ee – ah – mm, oo – ee – ah – mm

17. 5. Closing Rhyme
Stretched my lips and my tongue.
Made some sounds and it was fun!
Each time we meet, we will see
How much better our speech will be.