5 Creative Ways to Use Your Picture Word List in Spanish Speech Therapy
If you’re using our Habla Palabra Workbooks, you already know how powerful one picture word list can be. But did you know there are at least five different ways to use that same page in therapy—and beyond?
These flexible ideas will help you get the most out of your sessions, reinforce phonological patterns, and make practice feel like play. Whether you’re working with minimal pairs, articulation, or early language learners, these quick adaptations fit right into your routine.
1. Use It as a Bingo Card: Turn your word list into a fun and simple bingo game.
Great for group sessions. Print out your student’s target list for their Bingo card.
Reinforces listening and discrimination
Encourages repeated exposure in a playful way
2. Focused Auditory Discrimination Practice: Use the list for repeated auditory input. Say the words aloud while your student listens and points to the correct image.
Perfect for kids not yet ready for verbal output
Helps build phonological awareness
3. Describe Vocabulary and Activate Prior Knowledge: Use the word list to build descriptive language. Have students talk about what each image is, what it does, where you’d find it, etc.
Great for language expansion
Helps anchor new words in meaning
Great to expand on goals or for mixed groups.
4. Cut into Picture Cards for Drill: Just snip and go. Use individual images for one-on-one drill, pair games, or as visual cues.
Use them in quick articulation drills
Adapt to any minimal pair set
5. Paste into a Mini-Book for Home Practice: Send the word list home inside a simple folded book. Add check boxes, draw pictures, or have families color them after saying each word.
Encourages family involvement
Easy carryover that doesn’t require special materials
One page, five powerful ways to practice.
Ready to try them? Try the digital workbooks or shop the full Habla Palabra series in our store for ready-to-use cut, color, and play resources—perfect for busy SLPs working in Spanish.
