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Initial L by Syllables
lemon juice
life jacket
living room
London Bridge
long distance
loudspeaker
law abiding
Liberty Bell
life preserver
Little Dipper
Los Angeles
loving kindness
Medial L by Syllables
marshmallows
roller skates
caterpillar
celebration
chocolate chip
intelligent
relationship
roller skating
water colors
acceleration
accidentally
articulation
electricity
immediately
occasionally
personality
possibility
qualification
roller skating rink
unbelievable
individually
revolutionary
theoretically
variability
Final L by Syllables
Ferris wheel
racquetball
rock and roll
soccer ball
summer school
swimming pool
certified mail
nursery school
vice principal
intellectual
testimonial
Initial L Phrases and Sentences
tall ladder
pretty lady
beautiful lake
burning lamp
laundry basket
orange leaf
hanging light
bright lightning
shopping list
listen carefully
green lizard
hand lotion
nice letter
small ladybug
loose pants
Use the ladder to reach the fruit.
The lady is beautiful.
The lake has mountains around it.
The lamb is so cute.
They used a candle in the lamp.
There were many acres of land.
I laugh every time I see him on TV.
The laundry basket is full.
He decided to be lazy today.
The leaf fell from the tree.
The leak is in the kitchen.
He hoped his leg wouldn't cramp.
He squeezed lemon on his fish.
Turn the light on please.
Lightning touched the ground.
The lion was hungry.
She has pink lips.
He wrote everything on the list.
Listen with the headphones.
The lizard moves fast.
They used a lock on the gate.
He made the seat out of a log.
It is a long walk to the beach.
She wanted to look over the field.
She put lotion on her hands.
They really love each other.
She ate lunch outside.
He wrote a nice letter to his mom.
The ladybug crawls in the grass.
He felt lucky to have won the race.
My pants are too loose, I need a belt.
Medial L Phrases and Sentences
alarm clock
helium balloon
bowling match
brown buffalo
yearly calendar
crunchy celery
baby elephant
number eleven
close envelope
long eyelash
happy family
fruit jelly
month of July
marshmallow snacks
black olive
soft pillows
airline pilot
hungry polar bear
healthy salad
tied shoelace
classical violin
leather wallet
yellow crayon
police ready
pretty wallpaper
cute sea lion
cold Iceland
white toilet
He pushed the button on the alarm.
The balloon floated in the sky.
He ate so much his belly hurt.
She beat her friends bowling.
We saw a herd of buffalo at Yellowstone National Park.
Use a calendar to find the date.
Celery is a great snack.
She put lotion on her elbow.
The elephant sprayed himself.
She lived in apartment number eleven.
Put the letter in the envelope.
She puts glitter on each eyelash.
The family was very happy.
Do you want some strawberry jelly?
We are going on vacation in July.
The marshmallow is soft and white.
Oil is dripping from the olive.
That is a big stack of pillows.
The pilot is ready to take off.
The polar bear looked for food.
A sailor spends many hours on his ship.
We ordered a salad for lunch.
Tie your shoelace before jogging.
She is being silly today.
She played the violin for her friend.
The wallet is full of money.
She colored the sun yellow.
Police were ready to help the people.
They just put new wallpaper in their house.
The sea lion sat on the sand.
I bought my drink with one dollar.
We will visit Iceland next week.
The toilet is next to the tub.
Final L Phrases and Sentences
month of April
dribble the ball
baseball glove
Brazil South America
mail delivery
short pencil
playful seal
beautiful shell
packed snowball
tall building
dentist's tool
killer whale
custom wheel
smooth heel
My birthday is in April.
He shot the ball at the buzzer.
He loved to play baseball.
He used the spotted bowl for his lunch.
Tourists go to Brazil in the summer.
She made a call to her mom.
Be careful not to slip and fall.
Using a file makes your heel smooth.
I am too tired to climb the hill.
I have a hole in my sock.
The mail came this morning.
His muscle is so big.
Pound the nail with a hammer.
The owl is sitting in the tree.
He needs to sharpen his pencil.
We swim in the pool at night.
The seal rolled over on his back.
I found a beautiful shell on the beach.
She threw a snowball at him.
The dog's tail is straight.
That building is so tall.
The dentist used the tool to pull teeth.
The baby snuggled in his towel.
The killer whale jumped high in the air.
The chrome wheel is shiny.
We did not know he could yell that loud.
She likes to climb on the wall.
L Reading Paragraphs
Jungle safety.
April the elephant lived in Brazil. Her friends Lucy the Lizard and Lexie the Owl liked to be lazy. They would play on the log in the lake, take extra long lunches, and dig holes.
Then they met Albert the Whale, near a pool of water, by the ocean. Albert told them that it is okay to laugh, be silly, and lazy sometimes, but it was dangerous to do in the jungle.
Albert told them eleven ways that would help them be safer. April, Lucy, and Lexie listened and learned how to be more safe.
After Albert finished talking, the three friends yelled, "Thank you," to him as he swam away.
Laundry Day
Lynn loved to do laundry. In fact, she would call her family to tell them every time she did laundry! She would watch baseball on the couch with her pillow and a bowl of green salad whenever she did laundry.
She looked at her calendar and it said laundry was this Saturday. She called her family to tell them. Her mom told her she did not want to listen to her talk about laundry.
"We can talk about lotion, lightning, or polar bears, I do not care! Just not laundry," she said.
"But I have some new shoelaces and a towel that I am washing with my laundry today," Lynn said.
"Please, no more laundry talk. I'm going on a long walk to think about ladders and marshmallows. That should keep my mind off of laundry."
Fireworks Show
Dale jumped up when he heard his alarm. Today was the fourth of July and he could not wait to watch the firework show!
He found a tall hill that he could watch the show from very well. He and his family ate lunch on the hill, threw a ball around, and played silly games all day until it was time for the show.
The fireworks were bright and loud like lightning. Dale liked to look at all of the different colors that lit up the sky.
After the show was over he got a call from his Uncle Larry. Uncle Larry studied leaves in Brazil and called to ask Dale about the firework show. Dale told his Uncle how great the show had been.
Uncle Larry laughed and said, "That is wonderful! I wish I could have been there to celebrate with you. We'll see, maybe I can visit next year."
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Initial BL by Syllable
blue cheese
black and blue
black widow
blockbuster
blood pressure
blue jacket
blue mountains
blue ribbon
Medial BL by Syllable
established
public school
shoulder blade
unpublished
army blanket
establishment
publication
publishing house
Final BL by Syllable
comfortable
presentable
questionable
responsible
dishonorable
irresistible
unapproachable
unavoidable
undesirable
unprofitable
unreasonable
Initial BL Phrases and Sentences
black crayon
plaid blanket
red blindfold
painful blister
snow blizzard
wooden blocks
blue crayon
chirping bluebird
He is using the black crayon.
She used a blanket to keep warm.
She could not see with the blindfold on.
The bright light made her blink.
She got a blister from her new shoes.
The blizzard lasted for three days.
The children played with wooden blocks.
He used a blue crayon to color a sky.
The bluebird sang in the garden.
Medial BL Phrases and Sentences
babbling baby
gambling man
stone goblin
stop mumbling
nibbling a cracker
bad nosebleed
big problem
sore shoulder blade
younger sibling
The baby was babbling.
Gambling can be risky.
The goblin is made of stone.
He is mumbling about something.
He was nibbling on a cracker.
She tried to stop her nosebleed.
It is a problem that my car is in water.
He lifted less weight so it would not hurt his shoulder blade.
The sister takes care of her younger sibling.
Final BL Phrases and Sentences
perfect bubble
clothing label
glass marble
round pebble
scrambled eggs
horse stable
dining table
She read her Bible daily.
She made the perfect bubble.
Every shirt has a label.
I found a marble on the floor.
We saw a pebble in the sand.
He had scrambled eggs for breakfast.
Horses live in a stable.
They had dinner at the table.
The girl is in trouble.
BL Reading Paragraphs
Goblin in a blizzard.
The movie was about a blue goblin. He was in trouble because he got caught in a blizzard. The blizzard was so bad, it was like the goblin had a blindfold on over his eyes.
This was a problem for the goblin because he was not used to cold weather. After stumbling around in the blizzard, the goblin saw a cabin.
Inside he found a blanket, made a fire, and cooked some scrambled eggs. He had a blister on his shoulder blade from the back pack he was carrying, but he was glad that he found the cabin. After nibbling on his scrambled eggs, he fell asleep.
The Blink Dance
Able gave his sibling, Blake, a nosebleed. It was an accident.
They were playing marbles on the kitchen table. After Able lost a game he started mumbling. Blake jumped up on the table and started doing the blink dance. That was when the trouble began.
When Blake started blinking his eyes, he became unstable and lost his balance. Able tried to grab him before he fell, but it was too late. Blake fell face first onto the black coffee table hitting his nose on it.
When their mom came home from Bible study, she was mad to see blood all over the carpet. She asked the two siblings what had happened. Blake got into a lot of trouble when his mom found out he had danced on the table.
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Initial CL / KL by Syllable
clam chowder
cleanliness
cleft palate
club sandwich
Medial CL / KL by Syllable
health club
country club
dry cleaning
Four-H Club
garden club
health spa club
proclaiming
senior class
service club
underclothes
athletic club
declaration
digital clock
exclamation
exclusively
grandfather clock
proclamation
reclining chair
vacuum cleaner
Final CL / KL by Syllable
statistical
academically
alphabetical
categorical
chronological
geographical
mathematical
mythological
unmechanical
Initial CL / KL Phrases and Sentences
clam shells
science class
new clothes
The clam shells are open.
People clap when a performance is over.
Science class is fun.
The lizard's claw was sharp.
She uses gloves to clean her sink.
She likes to climb a rock wall.
She saw a clock on the wall.
No one has a bigger closet in the house.
She shopped for new clothes.
Medial CL / KL Phrases and Sentences
weekly book club
cycling together
kitchen dishcloth
express dry clean
yellow duckling
silver necklace
eight o'clock
prickly cactus
ticklish stomach
They are sharing stories with their book club.
They love cycling on the trail.
He is drying with a dishcloth.
She has to dry clean people's clothes.
Her yellow duckling was precious.
She is holding her necklace.
Her alarm rang at eight o'clock.
Watch out, the cactus is prickly.
Her mom knows where she is ticklish.
Final CL / KL Phrases and Sentences
blue bicycle
belt buckle
circle of hands
freckle face
one knuckle
sour pickle
ocean snorkel
Her ankle is sore from a slip.
His bicycle is the blue one.
The belt buckle is gold.
They made a circle with their hands.
Her freckle face is gorgeous.
She had a bruise on her knuckle.
She gave me a nickel for change.
I want a pickle with lunch.
He saw many fish using his snorkel.
CL / KL Reading Paragraphs
The ocean is a great place to catch clams. Today, Clay woke up at five o'clock, grabbed his fishing clothes and blue belt buckle from the closet, and ate a pickle for breakfast. He hopped on his bike and started cycling. He only lived a mile from the ocean.
When he got to the beach he noticed a nickel on the ground and picked it up. Surprisingly, it was clean.
As he walked closer to the shore he saw a pile of clothes, a gold necklace, an ankle bracelet, and a snorkel. He looked out into the ocean and saw his friend Cloey. She was swimming in the ocean.
"Hi Cloey," he said.
"Hi Clay, what are you doing," she replied.
"I came to fish for clams," he said.
"That is called clamming," Cloey explained.
"Really?" said Clay, "I did not know that." "I guess you're never too old to learn something," he said, "Let's go clamming then."
The two friends grabbed the clam cages, walked to Clay's favorite spot, and started clamming.
Climbing Mt. Clap
Looking over his shoulder, Clark could see for miles. The sky was clear and blue. He had climbed 8,000 feet and was only half way to the top of Mount Clap.
His knuckles were white, his hands were cold. The higher he climbed the colder he got. He checked his map to make sure he wasn't climbing in circles. He had seen many animals - including a duck with her ducklings. He hoped he would be able to climb to the top of the mountain where he would see everything.
During his climb, he had rubbed his ankle on a prickly plant and it scratched him really bad. Clark wanted to be brave and so he kept on climbing. He felt like making the climb would be worth the view and the memories.
"My friends in the book club will not believe that I did this," he thought, "We have only talked about doing this, but no one ever wanted to do it."
Clark wanted to reach his goal even if his ankle was in a little pain. He turned back towards the mountain and kept climbing.
Initial GL by Syllables
glass cutter
glamorously
Medial GL by Syllables
work gloves
boxing gloves
dark glasses
leather gloves
looking glass
rubber gloves
window glass
Final GL by Syllables
Initial gl phrases and sentences.
big glacier
water glass
wear glasses
shiny glitter
leather glove
glow in the dark
The ship passed a big glacier.
He is glad to see his mom.
Pour me a glass of water, please.
His glasses helped him see.
Glitter is all over her face and neck.
She showed them on the globe.
Her glove will keep her hand warm.
She has glow in the dark lips.
The glue spilled on the paper.
Medial GL Phrases and Sentences
red boxing gloves
small hourglass
round igloo
pro juggler
big magnifying glass
pink piglet
yellow rubber gloves
metal spyglass
yellow sunglasses
He took off his boxing gloves.
The hourglass has blue sand in it.
They made an igloo out of snow.
The juggler is using knives.
He looks for bugs with his magnifying glass.
The baby piglet is cute.
Rubber gloves protect your hands.
The spyglass helps me see far away.
She wore sunglasses to the beach.
Final GL Phrases and Sentences
onion bagel
beagle puppy
soaring eagle
giggle and laugh
illegal work
juggle balls
family snuggle
He chose a fresh baked onion bagel.
A beagle obeys his owner.
He plays his bugle in school.
A soaring eagle was looking for food.
She began to giggle at the joke.
Breaking into cars is illegal.
She likes to juggle at the beach.
Their family wanted to snuggle.
GL Reading Paragraphs
Glen's best friend.
Glen was glad he had built his igloo by Glacier Pass. From there he could watch eagles fly all day long.
Glen studied eagle feathers. He did this with a magnifying glass that was part of a special tool kit. He had to be careful that his beagle, Gloria, did not bark too much or it would scare the eagles away.
Glen was glad that Gloria was with him though. She was a good beagle. She would wiggle at night when he was trying to sleep, but they would snuggle and Gloria would keep him warm.
Sometimes Gloria would lick his nose and make him giggle. Glen was glad that Gloria was with him.
Amazing Juggler
I have seen a man on Glendon Street who likes to juggle bagels. Really! It does not matter what type or flavor of bagel either.
It could be an old bagel, a new bagel, a large bagel, or a small bagel.
One day, I was passing by and watching him. He looked at me and said, "I can juggle your sunglasses."
"What?" I said.
"Let me see your sunglasses," he replied.
I gave my sunglasses to him and said, "Be careful, those are new."
"Do not worry," he said. Then he did something I would have never thought. He put on some boxing gloves, grabbed my sunglasses and some bagels and began to juggle all of them. It was amazing!
"I'm so good at juggling, it should be illegal," he said. I told him he could entertain people around the globe with his talent for juggling. I was so impressed with his juggling skills, I invited him to lunch. He accepted and we went and had a bite to eat together.
Initial FL by Syllables
flash flood
flea market
floppy disk
flying fish
fluctuation
flying safety
flying saucer
Medial FL by Syllables
cauliflower
inflammable
inflammation
influential
Final FL by Syllables
disgraceful
distressful
resourceful
tablespoonful
Initial FL Phrases and Sentences
checkered flag
Battery flashlight
orange flippers
float in water
dental floss
potted flowers
play the flute
He waved the checkered flag.
The flashlight lit up the room.
Flippers help you go fast in water.
She likes to float in the water.
The wood floor made the room look great.
He cleans his teeth with floss.
The potted flowers were colorful.
He practiced his flute every day.
The fly is on the flower.
Medial FL Phrases and Sentences
orange butterfly
camouflage uniform
fresh cauliflower
bowl of cornflakes
blue dragonfly
beach flip-flops
dirty housefly
winter snowflake
yellow sunflower
The butterfly rested on a stem.
The whole troop wore camouflage uniforms.
She cut up cauliflower for a snack.
She had cornflakes for breakfast.
The dragonfly was blue and pretty.
She wore her flip-flops on the beach.
The housefly is on the flower.
Every snowflake is different.
A sunflower grew in the garden.
Final FL Phrases and Sentences
happy and cheerful
colorful wig
graceful dancer
handful of berries
harmful chemicals
big mouthful
painful ache
shuffle cards
Be careful you do not slip.
Everyone always thinks she is cheerful.
For her costume she wore a colorful wig.
The way she moves is so graceful.
He shared his handful of berries.
Be careful, those chemicals are harmful.
She had a mouthful of pizza.
Her toothache was painful.
Shuffle the cards before we play.
FL Reading Paragraphs
Covered in butterflies.
It was a normal morning for Floyd. He sat on his tile floor and ate a bowl of cornflakes, watered his sunflowers, and played a song on his flute.
He was careful not to give his sunflowers too much water. Too much water can be harmful to sunflowers. He really liked his sunflowers. They made him cheerful.
Right after he watered the sunflowers, he watched as a butterfly landed on them. Then another. Then another. Pretty soon his sunflowers were covered with butterflies. He had never seen anything so colorful before.
He took a picture of his flowers covered in butterflies. Later, he put it in a picture frame, on the wall, next to his flute. He always wanted to remember that day.
Special Flippers
Wearing flippers will not help you float, but they will help you swim better! Flynn was a scuba diving teacher who took good care of his flippers. They were special. They were camouflage.
He had bought them at a special store after his other pair gave him a painful blister. They were the best flippers he ever had. He was excited to use them on his scuba diving trip in the morning.
The night before his trip, he was flossing after some cauliflower had got stuck in his teeth at dinner. While flossing he remembered that he needed to pack a flashlight and his flip-flops for the trip. Without his flashlight, the trip would not be as fun because he would not be able to see all of the sea flowers under the water. Without his flip-flops he would not be able to walk anywhere off the boat.
"Phew! I'm glad I remembered those," he thought. After he finished flossing, he laid down and dreamed about his adventure in the morning.
Initial PL by Syllables
place kicker
play by play
playing card
playing field
Plymouth Rock
pleasurable
planetarium
pledge of allegiance
Medial PL by Syllables
double play
application
explanation
exploration
unemployment
Final PL by Syllables
deep purple
free sample
candied apple
keep it simple
lovely dimple
mini-sample
rotten apple
Initial PL Phrases and Sentences
planet earth
garden plant
play together
new playground
metal pliers
purple plum
We live on planet earth.
She watched the plant grow.
The boys play together every day.
The playground opens every day.
It is polite to say please.
Cut the wire with pliers.
My TV has a white plug.
I'm going to eat a plum.
Use a plus sign to add.
Medial PL Phrases and Sentences
jet airplane
thunderous applause
fresh applesauce
strongly complain
explore nature
warm fireplace
desk stapler
green stoplight
file upload
We flew in an airplane.
The cast loved the applause from the audience.
Mom just made fresh applesauce.
He is going to complain about his salad.
They used binoculars to explore the country.
The fireplace heated the whole house.
My stapler is on my desk.
The stoplight turned green.
Upload the file to your computer.
Final PL Phrases and Sentences
married couple
crumple paper
deep dimple
maple syrup
purple crayon
metal scalpel
staple papers
An apple is a healthy snack.
They were a married couple.
You should recycle paper not crumple it.
She had dimples on both cheeks.
I love maple syrup on my pancakes.
There are many people in a city.
I'm going to color the flowers purple.
The doctor uses a scalpel in surgery.
Staple your papers to keep them together.
PL Reading Paragraphs
Planet project.
Danny made a model of the planets for his science project. He complained, at first, after he was given the assignment, but as he explored the planets they became much more interesting to him.
He made his planet model using paper mache, staples, and some old plugs. He used pliers and wire to connect them all together.
He wrote a plus sign on the three planets that were closest to the sun. He painted four of the planets purple. He painted the rest of them green. He wanted people to appreciate the uniqueness of his project.
He did not play after school for two weeks in order to complete it. After he finished presenting the project, Tim's class applauded and he was pleased.
"This went so well. I'll try not to complain the next time I get assigned a project," he thought.
First Airplane Ride
It was Tammy's first time on an airplane. She was nervous. A couple of other people she had talked to said they were nervous too. She had so many questions about flying.
Were there stoplights in the sky?
Were clouds more purple if you fly higher?
Could we explore space in this airplane?
She pulled an apple from her backpack and started eating. A stewardess asked her if she wanted some apple juice.
"Yes please," she said. Eating the apple was making her less nervous. She began listening to the music she had uploaded to her music player. One song was about a maple tree. It made her smile.
"You have nice dimples," a girl sitting next to her said.
"Thank you," said Tammy.
"I left my music player on the fireplace at my house," the girl said.
"We can share if you want," said Tammy, "as long as you do not mind listening to songs about maple trees."
The two of them laughed, listened to the music, and enjoyed the airplane ride together.
Initial SL by Syllables
sleigh bells
slalom course
sledgehammer
sleepwalking
slide trombone
slow-motion
sluggishness
Medial SL by Syllables
cross-legged
purposeless
translation
wrestling camp
wrestling coach
wrestling match
wrestling shoes
wrestling team
dislocation
legislation
legislative
Final SL by Syllables
blood vessel
Initial SL Phrases and Sentences
light sleep
shirt sleeve
playground slide
toy slingshot
fuzzy slippers
dog slobber
He went fast downhill on his sled.
Sleep on the couch for a nap.
He fixed the sleeve under his coat.
He went fast down the slide.
His mom let him play with a slingshot.
She left her fuzzy slippers on the couch.
No one likes dog slobber.
Sloths hang upside down in trees.
Drive slow, children are playing.
Medial SL Phrases and Sentences
fast asleep
race bobsled
metal bracelet
dogsled race
big mudslide
quiet ski slope
English translator
loud whistling
The girl was fast asleep.
Bobsled is a sporting event.
Her grandmother gave her the bracelet.
The dogsled team was out in front.
Stay far away from the mudslide.
He was excited to get on the ski slope.
Our translator speaks 4 languages.
He is whistling at the car.
The boys are in the championship wrestling match.
Final SL Phrases and Sentences
tiny blood vessel
vitamin capsule
kings castle
ancient fossil
big missile
You can see the blood vessel on her eyelid.
She prefers to take a vitamin capsule.
The castle is on top of a cliff.
The fossil is of a fish.
He will get tackled if he doesn't hustle.
The truck has a missile on the back.
The sumo's are starting to wrestle.
SL Reading Paragraphs
Dogsled racing.
I have a dog named Sylvester but we call him "Sly" for short. When we wrestle he likes to lick and slobber on me. We compete in dogsled races.
Dogsled races are hard work and we don't sleep much when we train for them. We don't go slow, we hustle...for many days. Some days it is hard not to fall asleep on the trail.
I talk to Sly through words and whistling.
Dogsled races can be dangerous. One time we almost got caught in a mudslide and another time I pulled a muscle and needed help from another dogsled team.
Sly and I help each other though. He is my best friend.
A Spy in Pajamas
My friend Sloan sleeps a lot. He told me about a crazy dream he had yesterday.
In the dream, he was a spy. He was being chased by bad guys on sleds down a ski slope. He had taken an expensive bracelet and destroyed the bad guys' castle.
The bad guys were launching missiles at him and trying to slow him down.
When Sloan reached for something to defend himself, all he could find was a slingshot. He fired rocks from the slingshot as fast as he could.
The bad guys began to laugh at him. Not because of the slingshot, but because Sloan was doing all of this wearing pajamas and pink bunny slippers.
Sloan didn't care though.
He remembered he had a special capsule that could help him. He reached up his sleeve, grabbed the capsule, and ate it.
A few seconds after he ate the capsule, Sloan was invisible. The bad guys couldn't see him. Just as he was about to escape, he woke up. It was a funny dream.
This list of functional words was professionally selected to be the most useful for a child or adult who has difficulty with producing the "L" sound.
We encourage you to use this list when practicing at home.
Doing home practice will help your child make much faster progress toward correct production.
Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) are only able to see students/clients 30-60 mins (or less) per week.
This is not enough time for your child to overcome an articulation disorder with the "L" sound. But with high caseloads...
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Initial L and Final L Speech Therapy Words (for SLPs)
If you’re a speech-language pathologist looking for a quick list of initial and final l target words to practice during speech therapy, make sure to bookmark this post. SLPs will also find helpful tips for making articulation therapy more fun with a variety of engaging games, resources, and speech therapy activities for teaching the l sound. At the bottom of this post, lists of initial l, medial l, final l words, and l blends are provided, as well as a variety of strategies for teaching the correct placement of the l sound.
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Correct Production of L
The l sound is classified as a liquid sound. It is a voiced lingua-alveolar sound.
Tongue placement differs slightly depending on which type of l you are making.
If l occurs at the beginning of a word, it is called a ‘ light l ‘. An example of this would be ‘lime’. To produce a light l, the tongue tip touches the small bump behind the upper front teeth known as the alveolar ridge. The side of their tongue should allow the air to escape laterally. The light l is considered an alveolar sound.
If l occurs in the final position of words, as a syllabic, or before a consonant, it is known as a ‘dark l’. Examples of this would be ‘fall’ or ‘bottle’. The tongue tip is still raised toward the alveolar ridge, but the back of the tongue is also raised toward the velum.
References: Bauman-Waengler, J.A. Articulatory and Phonological Impairments: A Clinical Focus . Third ed., Pearson Education Limited, 2013.
Shriberg, Lawrence D. & Kent, Raymond D. Clinical Phonetics: Third ed. Pearson Education Inc. 2003
Common L Sound Errors
Children with speech sound disorders may make the following substitutions for the L sound:
- w for l (for example, a student might say “woah” for “low”)
- r for l (for example, a student might say “right” for “light”)
- “oh” or a vowel-like sound for the dark l (for example, a student might say “bah-o” for “ball”)
How To Teach the L Sound in Speech Therapy
Speech therapy suggestions.
A great way to start articulation therapy is to give the l sound a fun name, such as “the singing sound” (la, la, la).
The next step would be to explain what the alveolar ridge is to a student.
Older students can be told, “The tip of your tongue should be at home [aka the alveolar ridge]”.
It is often helpful to provide a tactile cue . This might be as simple as tapping to remind of lingua-aveolar placement.
Many errors involving the initial l involve a w for l substitution . When a liquid sound (such as the l sound) is substituted for a glide (such as w), this is a phonological process known as gliding . Minimal pairs may be very beneficial in this case. Telling the student to “smile” and “freeze” will help keep the lips from rounding to say w.
Occasionally, speech-language pathologists may also need to address r vs l substitutions in therapy sessions. For example, a student might say ‘right’ for ‘light’. Use simple reminders for lingual placement, such as pointing to the alveolar ridge, or using a hand model to show bunched or retroflex r positioning. In fact, one research study indicated that treating R first can lead to a generalized L .
Sometimes, students say an ‘o’ (or a vowel-like sound) in place of the final l sound . They need to remember to make tongue tip contact with the alveolar ridge.
Speech pathologists might also try to have the student add a schwa (ball-uh), then slowly fade it using a whisper technique, in order to elicit final l.
Speech Sound Word Lists for the L Sound
The following word lists contain words with the initial l sound, medial l sound, and final l sound. These articulation word lists allow the SLP to easily work on a target sound in speech therapy at the word level. Or, have your student think of an extra word or two to create short phrases for practice. Quickly pull these word lists up during your speech therapy session and pair them with the game or activity of your choice.
Initial L Word List for Speech Therapy
Here is a list of l words in the initial position to use in speech therapy (initial position of the l sound):
- Los Angeles
Medial L Word List for Speech Therapy
Here is a list of l in the medial position of words to use in speech therapy (l in the medial position of a word):
Final L Word List for Speech Therapy
Here is a list of l in the final position of words to use in speech therapy (l in the final positions of words):
- high school
L Blends Word Lists for Speech Therapy
Here is a list of initial l blends to use in speech therapy:
Initial BL Words
Initial fl words, initial gl words, initial kl words, initial pl words, initial sl words, speech therapy activities for the l sound.
Are you a school speech therapist looking for some great activities to work on your student’s articulation skills? I’ll share some of my favorite go-to articulation activities that can be used for targeting this speech sound in your therapy room- as well as a couple of fun worksheets!
Hint: get ready to go to the “speech salon”! It’s manicure time!
Initial L and Final L Picture Cards for Speech Therapy
A school speech therapist has a non-stop day and needs hands-on, effective materials to use in therapy. These initial l and final l articulation picture cards are wonderful because they provide a speech sound mouth placement visual cue . They are also easy to send home for at-home practice. Family members can easily review the articulation l words as a carryover activity to work on their child’s speech. These practice words are practical and a great way to get started with targeting the l sound in initial, medial, and final word positions.
These articulation cards are perfect to print & laminate for therapy use- or a speech therapist might print them out in B&W to send home with students to practice and color.
Play dough Articulation Activity
This play dough articulation activity targets a variety of speech sounds at the word level. Have fun practicing the l sound while creating “speech therapy manicures“! This resource will be a HIT in your speech therapy room! It is SUCH a fun way to work on articulation!
The manicure activity is easy to set up and use during therapy sessions.
You will want to print, laminate, and cut out each task card.
You will then select which target speech sound to work on.
Your student can select a favorite color of play doh to pair with the articulation task card selected. Just like at a real salon, it’s fun to have different colors of play dough available for this activity, since you are doing a “manicure”.
Your students won’t even realize all of the hard work they’re doing in therapy. Before you know it, you will have easily elicited 20-30 minutes of practice on the target speech sound! The articulation manicure activity is available in my speech therapy store on TpT.
Fun Articulation Worksheets
These articulation tic tac toe worksheets are perfect to pair with a dot marker or a magnetic wand and chips! Each page is low ink, no prep, and provides pictures along with text to support your readers and non-readers.
A variety of speech sounds are included, such as the l sound. These speech therapy worksheets are ideal for individual therapy or small-group speech and language therapy.
These articulation worksheets are fun, quick, and easy! Magnetic wands and dot markers are always rewarding for students to use in speech therapy.
Fun Articulation Game Ideas
These fan-favorite board games aren’t technically for articulation- but they work perfectly for ANY sort of speech sound drill practice.
Whenever I play games in speech therapy , I like to choose ones that are quick, rewarding and don’t require batteries.
Here is a list of my favorite games for speech therapy:
- Crocodile dentist – this game is a favorite because it’s QUICK- simply say a word and push down a tooth! Don’t get bit (but be dramatic if you do!)
- Pop Up Pirate – this game is also a fun and easy game to use in therapy- simply practice a target word, then push a sword into the barrel and hope the pirate doesn’t pop!
- Don’t Break the Ice – this game requires some set-up, but the positive is that it doesn’t require any batteries!
- I Spy Dig In Game – this one is a lot of fun and provides the perfect “brain break” in between working on articulation words- plus, you can easily target language objectives (such as describing and following directions) with this game as well!
- Spot It – this is a classic fun and quick card game- say a target speech sound, quickly flip two cards over, and be the first one to “spot” the matching pictures! This game is really handy because it’s small and can be transported in a therapy bag easily.
- Hoyle 6 in 1 Fun Pack – my absolute favorite “simple” game in this card deck is Flap Jack. You simply pass out the cards, then take turns flipping them over until someone dishes out a moquito! Be the first to slap the mosquito to win the round! After a mosquito is pulled, we practice 5-10 target words with our target articulation sound.
Check here for a full list of my favorite games to use in speech therapy .
Fun Articulation Therapy Ideas
Sometimes, it’s fun to switch things up! We all get bored from time to time. When we’re bored, it’s almost a guarantee that our students are bored too!
Here are a few easy- but fun- ideas to try during articulation therapy.
- Hide mini articulation objects in theraputty . Your student will have fun digging through the stretchy putty to find the objects.
- Hide articulation cards in a sensory bin.
- Pair target articulation words with yoga stretches !
- Go on a scavenger hunt around the school and look for items with the target articulation sound.
- Play “Simon Says” with l words.
- Play ‘musical chairs’ in group therapy- but instead of chairs, write articulation words on large pieces of construction paper.
- Tear up paper! Younger students could create a picture, perhaps of a tree, using paper strands. SLPs can write target articulation practice words on the paper.
More Articulation Word Lists for Speech Pathologists
Do you need more handy articulation word lists to use during your therapy session? How about some easy-to-implement ideas? Luckily, there are several more articulation blog posts available covering highly targeted speech sounds! Make sure to bookmark these articulation word lists so you can use them while on the go during a busy school day.
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Are you a parent or speech therapist looking for l words to practice with your child or student? Then this blog is just what you need! It has hundreds of words for working on the l sounds in different positions.
L Words Speech Therapy
Speech-language pathologists who need l words to practice their students’ speech sounds are in the right place!
Correct Tongue Placement
When working on the l sound, correct tongue placement is very important.
First place the tip of your tongue on the small bump, called the alveolar ridge, right behind your front teeth.
Secondly, relax your tongue and allow the air to pass along the sides of the tongue while making their sound “loudly” to turn on their voice box.
You can tell when your voice box is turned on by touching your neck and feeling the vibration.
A great place to find a visual cue for the placement of your tongue is to use the Play with Dough Tongue Placement Sheets created by Peachie Speechie . Simply grab some play dough using this visual cue page!
Another great visual cue picture is the Articulation Elicitation Visuals (placement/manner) created by Chatter Fox Speech.
If your child or student is still having a hard time producing the l sound the next best place to start would be to use a tactile cue.
A tactile cue would be when you place a tongue depressor or even a small amount of peanut butter on the ridge behind the child’s top teeth.
You can then instruct the child to place the tip of the tongue where the tongue depressor is located or if you place peanut butter on the ridge you could instruct the child to take a lick of peanut butter while they let air pass on the sides of their tongue using their “loud” voice to turn on their voice box.
Parent Guide
If you’re a parent working on your child’s speech here is a great road map for working on your child’s individual sound. The resource was created by A Happy Learner titled, “ Working on the “L” Sound at Home: A Guide for Parents ”
Speech Development
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.
According to the Standardized Sample from the GFTA-2 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.
Word Position: L Words Speech Therapy
Beginning of words.
The initial position of the l sound comes at the beginning of a word. For example, “lizard” or “low”.
Medial Position of Words
The medial position of a word would be “balloon”, “ruler”, and “jello”.
Final Position
The final position of l words examples are, “pole” or “candle”.
Target Words
Here is an example list of l words to increase your child or student’s speech productions.
- Beginning of Words Example: lettuce, like, listen, lice, love, lock, live, lame, lost, lake, lazer, lace, late, liquid, laugh
See the full list of initial words, phrases, and sentences here.
- Medial Position of Words Example: pillow, follow, hula, chili, color, jellyfish, police, violin, stroller, wallet, elephant, helicopter, hello, envelope, igloo
See the full list of medial words, phrases, and sentences here.
- Final Position of Words Example: sale, pill, bill, pencil, sell, soul, pile, hill, tall, spell, bell, tale, drill, pickle, ball
See the full list of final words, phrases, and sentences here.
Be sure to grab my one page freebie of each initial, medial, and final l words. Simply click the links above for each position you need and then scroll to the bottom of that post and grab your free copy!
Speech Therapy Ideas: L Words Speech Therapy
Board games.
If you’re looking for fun ways to work on your child or students’ articulation skills of the l sound be sure to check out these board games.
My student’s love using board games as reinforcement when working on their individual articulation sounds.
Board games are also great if you have a group with other students working on a different sound; they can also play the same board game while they work on their individual sound.
Here are a few fan favorite board games to try are: Chutes and Ladders , Jenga , or Battleship .
Do you have a child or student who would love to play a video game while they work on their l sound?
If you answered yes, then be sure to check out Pink Cat Games and look through the l words search here .
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Consonant blends.
Need activities to work on consonant blends?
Here are a few great activities to work on consonant blends.
- Consonant Blends (L and R Blends) Word Sort by First Grade Magic – Melissa Mitchell – Use this word sort as a cut and paste activity, or use the version with write in words and a word bank.
- Consonant Beginning L Blends Worksheets: Bl Blend Kindergarten 1st Grade Phonics by Little Achievers -This product provides 4 different words searches. It focuses on the 11 blends: /bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl,pr/ The answer key is also provided!
- FREE Spring Articulation Dot Art: Consonant Cluster Reduction (/L/ Blends) by Ausome Speech- If you work with preschoolers, special education, students with apraxia, or students in speech therapy or occupational therapy, then this set of printable sheets that target /L/ blends in the initial position is for you! If you say each word 5 times, then 100 targets are reached on each page.
Students love using Boom Cards to work on their articulation sounds.
I’ve gone ahead and listed a few L sound Boom Cards below:
- Initial Consonant Blends Phonics BOOM Cards- FREE Digital Phonics Activity by Spark LearningCo – This deck of boom cards will provide your students the practice needed to master initial consonant blends. Use the provided ‘L’ blends for some quick practice.
- Sound Loaded Articulation Scenes BOOM CARDS L Sound (Distance Learning) by PlayingSpeech – This product gives students 10+ items to manipulate in scenes that are loaded with the ‘L’ sound. There are 5 scenes in all: 2 initial L scenes, 1 medial scene, 1 final L scene and 1 mixed scene.
- FREE Old Lady Articulation L blends BOOM Cards™️ for Distance Learning Speech by Jenna Rayburn Kirk – These articulation cards pair wonderfully with the book, “The Old Lady who Swallowed” books! The cards focus on L blends.
- L Blends Boom Cards™ (Distance Learning) by The Conett Connection – 6 L blends: /BL, CL, FL, GL, PL, SL/ are loaded into this boom card deck.
SEE ALSO: Free Articulation Games for Speech Therapy
Language Skills
Do you have students who also have language goals?
Here are a few language activities that also work on the L sound:
- SNOWMAN KNOWS CARD GAME: A Speech & Language Multi-Skill Activity /l/ edition by Plan and Prep Simplified – This fun card game can be used with students working on articulation, language and fluency with the sound /l/. The target words include 4 initial /l/ words, 2 medial /l/ words, and 2 final /l/ words. In total, there are 48 response opportunities to practice the /l/ sound.
- FREE Autumn Theme Articulation Activity for Speech Therapy | L Sound by Dean Trout’s Little Shop of SLP – This is a fun sample of a hidden picture activity targeting the /l/ sound. This engaging fall themed activity can be printed or not.
- FREEBIE: Print and Go Pirate-Themed Speech Seek and Language Look Reinforcer by Jessica Finch – These engaging “Speech Seeks” sheets provide articulation reinforcement, and the “Language Looks” can provide vocabulary reinforcement. The target /L/ sound will be reinforced with additional language practice provided.
Enough Time
If you ever feel like you don’t have enough time in the day to work on your child or student’s l sound. Then try these activities that are simple 5 minute activities to work on the l sound.
Check out this list of 5 minute therapy ideas to work on the l sound.
- Articulation Bookmarks | Speech Sounds | FREEBIE by Sparklle SLP – These fun bookmarks will encourage reading and articulation practice! Give your students a bookmark with a target sound to place in their books.
- Beginning Initial Sound Clip Cards l Two Versions by Tracy Bender – These back to school themed clip cards can be used for practice or a quick assessment! In one set, students can find the picture that matches the sound. In the second set, students can find the letter that matches the beginning sound. This resource includes the whole alphabet, A-Z!
- Summer Articulation Practice Freebie L Sound by Ms. Toni’s Speech Tools – This fun engaging summer-themed resource included 3 print and go articulation worksheets. The worksheets focus on the L sound in initial, medial and final positions.
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If you’re a speech therapist on a hunt for l word activities to practice with your clients then be sure to check out these activities below.
- FREEBIE!! Connect Four – Speech Therapy for Artic – initial /l/ by Hyde and Go Speak – This engaging deck, which includes /l/ in the initial position, helps to build vocabulary (try talking about why the picture represents the word!) and also helps students practice articulation of the /l/ sound.
- SAMPLE /L/ Speech-O for Articulation Card Game by Functional Speech with Rachel – This fun game created to practice articulating the /l/ sound includes practice for initial, medial and final positions!
- Monster Speech Mats FREEBIE by Love Speech Therapy by Betsy – Engage students by using play-dog, bingo marks, or a dry erase to mark off words that they say! You can print this in color or black & white.
In Conclusion: L Words Speech Therapy
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Final l virtual games and activities, freeslp offers tons of virtual slp materials for the l sound. to help target the l sound in the initial, medial, and final positions, we have created l tic-tac-toe, connect 4, virtual flashcards, virtual progression cards, battleship, spot-it, candy land, soccer, painting, and more to view our all free l sound virtual games and materials, click below:, final l sound games and activities link.
Downloadable Final L Materials
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Animated videos for each sound teaching how to produce the sound as well as animated articulation adventures for each sound adventure across safaris, space, the world of minecraft, and more while teaching your child how to make awesome l sounds to view our all free l animated videos, click the link below:.
Final L Artic Hierarchy Activities
Virtual materials to target l from the isolation level all the way up to the conversational level whether you're targeting sounds at the word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, story, or conversational levels, we have free and engaging speech therapy materials for each to view our all free l hierarchy activities, click below:.
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Final L sound overview page
What age should my kid be able to say the l sound.
Children typically are able to correctly produce the L sound around 4 years old.
Is the L sound a voiced sound?
Yes, the L sound is a voiced sound.
Is the L sound a Lingua alveolar sound?
Yes, the L sound is a Lingua alveolar sound.
Is the L sound a liquid sound?
Yes, the L sound is a liquid sound.
How do I make the L sound?
How to make the “l” sound: First we need to place the tip of our tongue on the bumpy spot of our gums behind our front teeth. We call this spot the alveolar ridge. Turning on your voice ( voice is the rumbling in your vocal folds. Have your child/client place their hand on their/your neck during the production of “s” and “l”, and have them feel the difference between the two. In the production of “s”, there should be no rumble or voicing. While in the production of “l”, there should be a rumbling or voicing.) Blow out air over the sides of the tongue. Tricks and Tips for producing the “l” sound: A fun and tasty way to teach the child where to put their tongue for a “l” production is to put some Nutella, peanut butter, sour candy gel, or any other creamy food they enjoy on the bumpy spot. (Rubbing a sucker over the target area also works!) Once the child has felt the spot a few times, have them try to blow out air while lowering the tongue at the same time! Have the child pretend that their tongue is a finger and the bumpy spot is a door bell. See how many times they can ring the door bell in 10 or 30 seconds! Have the child press down on the bumpy spot using their finger. Often our tongues are curious creatures and they will inspect the area that was just pressed which happens to be our target area! Have the child pretend they are ignoring you by putting their hands over their ears and saying “la la la”
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Virtual Materials for Each Level of Artic Practice:
Target the L sound at the isolation level with 3 different activities: Isolation Animation, Pop the Bubbles, and Click the Button!
Target L at the syllable level with our virtual flashcards!
We have three activities for targeting L at the word level: 1.) Classic flashcards with initial, medial, final, and mixed sets. 2.) Minimal Pair Sliders 3.) Name the Photos (Have the computer give you feedback on your sound productions!)
L phrase flashcards with sets targeting L in the initial, medial, final, and mixed positions!
Target L at the sentence level with our rotating sentences activity!
Our L story is full of L target sounds and tongue twisters! Read it yourself or play it out loud and then repeat it back!
We have two ways to target L at the conversation level: 1.) Silly story scenes full of L target words. 2.) Conversation starter questions.
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Materials target the L sound in the initial, medial, and final positions!
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L Word List Speech Therapy Materials
If your child is having trouble saying the sound L, you have come to the right place!
If you are a speech therapist and need some L speech therapy materials, hopefully, our L word list and other materials can help you!
Below you will find lots of free materials!
- First, there is a FREE worksheet (for non-members) and link (for members) to access new articulation materials.
- Second, there is a word list for quick viewing .
- Next, you can sign up for a FREE newsletter and receive A LL THE WORD LISTS in one Folder in your Google Drive.
- After that, check out a brief explanation on how to say the target sound.
- Last, there are ideas for articulation practice that do not require flashcards or word lists. This is the most functional option and appropriate for children working on generalization.
Enjoy the FREE materials!!!
L Worksheets and More!
We have articulation worksheets for teaching, drill practice, generalization, and language-based articulation games!
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If you want a copy, fill out the form above. I put all the word lists in one folder. Once you receive your email with the materials, make a copy of the files and they are yours to use and tweak as needed.
- If you need help saving the word lists to your Google Drive, click here: Save Google Document
- If you LOVE Google Drive as much as I do, check out our Speech Therapy Documentation Page.
Complete L Articulation Packet
This is MY FAVORITE NEW RESOURCE! I HONESTLY use it all the time for each articulation session and handouts for home practice.
The words chosen for speech therapy can make all the difference between a good therapy program and a great one! For the generalization phase, it is crucial to use high-frequency words!! It only makes sense to use words that the client will actually say outside of the therapy room. Right?!
For only $5, you will receive 35 pages of materials including:
- Flashcards that can be used as Cariboo Cards too, yeah!
- Flashcard free games that can be used as home practice
- Dot sheets, smash-mats, and/or coloring pages
- Articulation warm-up sheets which can be used as a goal review sheet
- Flashcards which contain word, phrase, and sentence level practice
- Cut/paste sentence level worksheets
- Self-assessment sheets
- Parent handouts
Check it out here
How To Say L
Put the tip of the tongue behind the teeth while saying "L." Make sure the lips are neutral (not rounded).
Articulation Games for L
The “L” sound is a later developing sound, usually mastered by age 4 years of age.
Take turns with your child saying the desired words. It is important to practice hearing and saying the words.
- Luck - Say “good luck” before shooting a basketball
- Lady - Dress up like a lady and say “a lady wears...”
- Little - Sort coins into little and big, saying “little”
- Laugh - Tell someone to laugh by saying “laugh”
- Hello - Say “hello” to neighbors on the street
- Pillow - Have a pillow fight. Say “pillow” before taking a turn
- Police - Count dollar bills saying “one dollar,” “two dollars...”
- Full - Fill measuring cups and say “full” to stop the water
- Whale - Draw whales in an ocean and say “whale” when done
- Pencil - Ask for a “pencil” during a game of tic-tac-toe
The games listed above are for children who can already say “L” but need practice at the word and sentence level.
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If you are a parent and your child
- has trouble saying multiple sounds
- needs to work on vocabulary development
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- needs to practice following directions
- needs to work on narrative language
- needs to work on social skills
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- a step-by-step guide on how to help your child
- ideas on how to improve all language skills at home
- functional games
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- 8-10 functional games for each sound
- Language-based worksheets to spice things up!
- Picture description tasks
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Our membership might be just what you need.
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L Word List
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Tips and Tricks: /L/ Sound (Free Printable Book and Boom Cards Included!)
How to Teach the L Sound
Today I am here to offer some tips and tricks for teaching liquid sound: /L/. There are different errors that kids make for the /L/ sound. One is called “gliding”, where they use a sound like /W/ instead of /L/ (example “I see a wion!” instead of lion). This is something you can work on with your child at home (and in therapy with a qualified speech provider).
There are several levels of teaching sounds: isolation (only the sound), at the word level (ex.”lion”), in phrases (ex. “big lion”), sentences (“I see a big lion.”), and finally in conversation.
This may take some time. This is normal. Try to be patient and don’t put too much pressure on your kiddo.
Isolation Level :
One of the fastest way to get that /L/ sound is to work on sticking out the tongue (kids love this 😉 ). Some kids can do the /L/ sound right away when you do this…some cannot. If they can’t quite do it yet, don’t worry. Keep trying. Many of us make the /L/ sound by putting the tongue just behind the teeth at the top of the mouth, others have their tongue come all the way out between the teeth.
“Lllllll”
Tips and tricks: 1) First… show them and tell them where to put their tongue (you practice talking and see where your tongue hits- is it between your teeth, just behind?). You might model it yourself. Using a mirror (or the picture mode on your phone) may help too. Another trick is to put an object or picture of an object that starts with “L” by your mouth while you model the sound. This helps to draw attention to your mouth. 2) Next, they need to keep their teeth apart just a little bit so that the tongue and/or sound can come out. Try to be as patient as possible and keep it fun..we don’t want our children to be stressed about the way they sound. Just before the word level comes syllables. This is where you add in a vowel. Examples: lo, le, la, li, lu, al, il, eel
Word Level :
Once we’ve got isolation and syllables down, we can move to practicing in words. Some kids do better starting at the beginning of the word, some do better with the middle or end of the word. You can determine this by trying some words. I often start with kids where they are successful (this may sound backwards…but saying sounds wrong can get frustrating, so kids are excited when they get them right). In speech therapy, we call this “stimulability” (if a child is “stimulable” for a sound….they are saying it right! yay!).
Beginning Words (initial position)
Initial L : lemon, lay, ladybug, llama, lizard, lunch, line, lifeguard, love, level, lick, lollipop, letters, laundry, lion, lip gloss, lettuce, legs, leaf, laugh
Middle Words (medial position)
Medial L : jello, jelly, yellow, jelly beans, violet, lollipop, toilet, chocolate, hoola hoop, buffalo, elephant, telephone, cell phone, silly, olive, ravioli, vanilla, Valentine, violin, sailboat
Ending Words (final position)
Final L : jail, seal, purple, L, bubble, ball, table, raffle, waffle, shuffle, smell, level, circle, seashell, shovel, doll, travel, sandcastle, sail, whale
Once you figure out which of these positions is easiest, practice those words. You can model the sounds for your child, emphasizing the parts with /L/ in them…cheering for them if they get it right, but not scolding them if they get it wrong.
Once your child has mastered the word level (consistently getting 15-20 words correct at least 75% of the time), you can try some phrases/sentences.
I like to use this visual set to cue which part of the word we are targeting.
Phrase/Sentence Level :
We can sometimes use the same sentence to practice lots of words:
Example: I see a _____. (leaf, lion, eel, ball)
Or you can make up sentences for each word.
Again, make your /L/ sounds louder (we call this exaggerated modeling…ba ll ), encourage your child, but don’t scold. Also, don’t do this practice all day every day….just a few minutes here and there is fine. We don’t want kids to become sensitive about their speech.
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This can be used from the start in modeling of your own /L/ sounds in your conversation (for a few minutes here and there). Once a child has consistently mastered sentences (75% or more correct), you can start providing gentle reminders in conversation. “Don’t forget your /L/ sound”, “oops, I think you meant “ L eg”…right?” Don’t stress your child out….but remind them gently (some of the time).
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One of the best ways to model the /L/ sound is by reading stories. You can read stories to your child that have a lot of /L/ sounds in them and exaggerate that sound for them while you read. Here are some examples of books that have /L/ in them frequently. If your child is old enough to read, you can practice with them reading too!
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Once your child has fully mastered /L/, you may decide to work on /L/ consonant blends (ex. Sleep, Flash, Gloom).
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Teaching the ‘L’ Sound in Speech Therapy
Have you run out ideas on how to help your child elicit a clear /l/ sound? If all your usual tricks haven’t been successful so far, maybe it’s time to upskill and learn the DIFFERENT types of things that you can say, show, and use to help teach the /l/ sound.
Here’s the thing: children learn differently!
And what works for one child may not work for another.
The L Sound Handbook is a comprehensive guide featuring over 100 different cues designed to help your child elicit the /l/ sound.
The reason why you might be hitting a roadblock is because you haven’t heard of, or tried different cues.
Have a look at this checklist on the left. Do you know how to cue the /l/ sound using these cues?
no one taught me how to teach the 'l' sound
That’s okay, no one taught me either!
The benefits of only working with children who have speech sound disorders is that we get combine over 17 years of clinical experience with practical, real tips that actually help.
It’s why we wrote this comprehensive elicitation guide; to be a staple resource for all SLPs.
With checklists, information on how to best use cues, and problem-solving for individual children, we hope this is your one-stop shop for teaching any child the L sound.
Why are there so many chapters?
Because we cover so many different types of cues and you need to know what they are!
Our chapters include:
- * phonetic cues (visual, verbal, tactile, motokinesthetic),
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We suggest that you start by giving the /l/ sounds screener.
Our helpful record form will let you analyze HOW your child is making the /l/ sound now, so that you better understand the breakdown.
Maybe the are motor and phonological breakdowns. Perhaps your student is using the wrong part of their tongue or not placing it in the correct spot?
The more information you know, the better you can match the right cues to you help!
Learn from someone with experience!
With detailed information on what to say, how to layer cues, and how to be flexible to meet the children on your caseload’s needs, this is your go-to resource for feeling confident when it comes to L elicitation.
You’ll especially love our handy “tips” section for each chapter to help integrate the evidence into your clinical practice.
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The words that end with ‘L’ unveils a captivating aspect of the English language, showcasing its versatility and richness. These ‘L’ words ending, from the serenity of ‘tranquil’ to the foundational ‘essential’, play a pivotal role in crafting expressive and nuanced sentences. For educators and learners, exploring this category of words broadens vocabulary and deepens understanding of linguistic structures. Whether it’s the gentle ‘ripple’ of water or the steadfast ‘loyal’ in relationships, each word adds a unique layer to communication . Engaging with these words enhances descriptive capabilities, making language more vivid and impactful. This exploration not only aids in language mastery but also in appreciating the subtle beauty of English.
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| zonal | abysmal | adrenal | ancestral | apical | astral |
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In the ever-changing landscape of English vocabulary, staying attuned to trending words is crucial for effective teaching. Concentrating on words ending with ‘L’ opens a pathway to broadening our students’ vocabulary, enhancing their grasp of linguistic structures. These ‘L’-ending words, integrating into everyday discourse, significantly elevate language proficiency. By incorporating these terms, including Daily Use English Words for practical application and understanding singular & plural words for grammatical accuracy, we foster a learning environment that’s both engaging and contemporarily relevant. Let’s explore this curated list of 30 trending ‘L’-ending words, each accompanied by its definition, to enrich our educational toolkit and empower students in their linguistic journey.
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- Essential – Absolutely necessary; extremely important.
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- Cultural – Relating to the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society.
- Local – Relating to or occurring in a particular area, city, or town.
- Digital – Involving or relating to the use of computer technology.
- Personal – Of, affecting, or belonging to a particular person.
- Ethical – Relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these.
- Financial – Relating to finance.
- Technical – Relating to a particular subject, art, or craft, or its techniques.
- Original – Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.
- Practical – Concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas.
- Social – Relating to society or its organization.
- Physical – Relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
- Normal – Conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.
- Special – Better, greater, or otherwise different from what is usual.
- Overall – Taking everything into account.
- Royal – Relating to a king, queen, or other sovereign.
- Universal – Affecting or done by all people or things in the world or in a particular group.
- Industrial – Relating to or characterized by industry.
- Ritual – A religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.
- General – Affecting or concerning all or most people, places, or things.
- Fiscal – Relating to government revenue, especially taxes.
- Survival – The state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an ordeal or difficult circumstances.
- Visual – Relating to seeing or sight.
- Casual – Relaxed and unconcerned.
- Moral – Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior.
- Signal – A gesture, action, or sound that is used to convey information or instructions.
- Dual – Consisting of two parts, elements, or aspects.
New & Latest Added Words that End with “L”
Educators, elevate both your and your students’ vocabulary with the newest “L”-ending words in the English language. This exploration into recent linguistic additions offers a unique opportunity to bolster communication skills. Keeping pace with the evolving language landscape is crucial, ensuring students’ engagement and linguistic relevance. Incorporating these modern terms into classroom debates, creative compositions, or vocabulary drills can greatly enhance language acquisition. Adopt these novel words to enrich your educational repertoire, providing students with a broader, more varied vocabulary, including festive Christmas Words to seasonally spice up lessons and Compound Words to introduce complexity and depth to their linguistic understanding.
- Blogful – Full of blog content or related to blogs.
- Chillaxical – Relating to a state of relaxation and calm.
- Dreamful – Full of dreams or dream-like qualities.
- Ecoethical – Pertaining to environmentally ethical practices.
- Fanciful – Imaginative or whimsical in nature.
- Gigantical – Extremely large or gigantic.
- Hydrocool – Cooled using water or relating to water-cooling systems.
- Influencial – Having the power to influence.
- Joyful – Full of joy or causing joy.
- Kinetical – Relating to or involving motion.
- Librocubicular – Pertaining to reading in bed.
- Mindful – Conscious or aware of something.
- Nanochemical – Relating to the chemical processes at a nanoscale.
- Optimal – Best or most favorable.
- Peaceful – Free from disturbance; tranquil.
- Quizzical – Indicating mild or amused puzzlement.
- Rhythmicical – Pertaining to or characterized by rhythm.
- Spectral – Relating to or resembling a ghost.
- Technifical – Relating to technical aspects or technology.
- Unusual – Not customary or common.
- Virtual – Almost or nearly as described, but not completely.
- Whimsical – Playfully quaint or fanciful.
- Xenoglobal – Relating to global influence by foreign elements.
- Youthful – Remaining young or youthful in appearance.
- Zodiacal – Relating to the zodiac or astrology.
- Aerodynamical – Relating to aerodynamics.
- Biocultural – Pertaining to the interaction of biological and cultural factors.
- Cryptological – Relating to cryptology or the study of codes.
- Ethereal – Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
Noun That Ends with “L”
Nouns ending in ‘L’ significantly boost vocabulary and are key for students enhancing their English communication. Teachers can make learning these nouns engaging, improving word knowledge and practical application. These ‘L’-ending nouns often relate to everyday or academic topics, enhancing their relevance. Integrating these into lessons broadens students’ language understanding, aiding better English comprehension and expression. Including Dictation Words sharpens spelling and listening skills, while Encouraging Words motivate and build confidence, enriching the learning experience.
- Animal – A living creature such as a dog, lion, or human.
- Signal – A gesture, action, or sound used to convey information or instructions.
- Council – An advisory, deliberative, or legislative body of people formally constituted and meeting regularly.
- Vessel – A large boat or ship; also can refer to a hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid.
- Panel – A flat board on which instruments or controls are fixed.
- Crystal – A piece of a homogeneous solid substance having a natural geometrically regular form with symmetrically arranged plane faces.
- Barrel – A cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops around them.
- Festival – A day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons.
- Fuel – Material such as coal, gas, or oil that is burned to produce heat or power.
- Hospital – An institution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people.
- Journal – A newspaper or magazine that deals with a particular subject or professional activity.
- Pencil – An instrument for writing or drawing, consisting of a thin stick of graphite or a similar substance encased in a long thin piece of wood.
- Tunnel – An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.
- Capital – The most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government and administrative center.
- Novel – A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.
- Carousel – A rotating machine or device, particularly a merry-go-round at a fair.
- Chapel – A small building for Christian worship, typically one attached to an institution or private house.
- Easel – A self-standing, three-legged frame structure usually made of wood, which is used by an artist to hold a canvas upright while it’s being worked on.
- Kettle – A container or device in which water is boiled, having a lid, spout, and handle; often a large metal pot for cooking.
- Mural – A painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall.
- Pedal – A lever that is moved with one’s foot.
- Rebel – A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler.
- Sequel – A published, broadcast, or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one.
- Towel – A piece of absorbent fabric or paper used for drying or wiping a body or a surface.
- Vowel – A speech sound made by the vocal cords and having no obstruction produced by the lips, tongue, or throat.
- Apparel – Clothing, especially when regarded as particularly fashionable or formal.
- Petal – Each of the segments of the corolla of a flower, which are modified leaves and are typically colored.
- Dial – The face of a clock or watch, or a panel or unit on which a range of settings can be displayed or adjusted.
- Hostel – An establishment which provides inexpensive food and lodging for a specific group of people, such as students, workers, or travelers.
Adverb That End with “L”
Adverbs ending in ‘l’ bring a distinctive flavor to English, enhancing sentences with depth and precision. For educators aiming to enrich students’ vocabulary, these adverbs offer an engaging focus area. Integrating ‘l’-ending adverbs into lesson plans or discussions can elevate language teaching, aiding students in refining their expressive abilities. This curated selection of 30 ‘l’-ending adverbs, accompanied by definitions, is designed to bolster comprehension and application, enriching students’ communication with sophistication. Incorporating Ness Words and Praising Words further diversifies vocabulary, fostering a nuanced understanding and encouraging positive expression in both oral and written English.
- Abnormal – In an abnormal manner; deviating from the norm.
- Accidental – Occurring by chance or without intention.
- Additional – In addition; more than usual.
- Artificial – In an artificial manner; not naturally.
- Beautiful – In a beautiful manner; aesthetically pleasing.
- Bountiful – In a bountiful manner; generously.
- Casual – In a relaxed or informal manner.
- Continual – Repeated frequently in the same way; continuously.
- Crucial – In a way that is critical or of great importance.
- Delightful – In a delightful manner; very pleasing.
- Dismal – In a gloomy or depressing manner.
- Eventual – At an unspecified future time.
- Forceful – In a strong, powerful manner.
- Foul – In a disgusting or offensive manner.
- Fruitful – Producing good or helpful results; productive.
- Graceful – In an elegant and pleasing manner.
- Harmful – In a manner causing harm or damage.
- Initial – At the beginning; firstly.
- Lawful – In a manner conforming to law; legally.
- Mournful – In a sorrowful or grieving manner.
- Peaceful – Without disturbance; tranquilly.
- Powerful – With great power or strength.
- Resourceful – In a way that shows the ability to find quick and clever solutions.
- Successful – In a manner achieving success.
- Thoughtful – In a considerate or reflective manner.
- Unusual – Not customary or common; rare.
- Useful – In a useful manner; being of use.
- Vengeful – In a manner showing a desire for revenge.
- Wonderful – In an extremely good or pleasing manner.
- Youthful – In a manner characteristic of young people; energetically.
Adjective That End with “L”
Adjectives ending in ‘L’ serve as the vibrant spices that enrich our linguistic expressions, infusing sentences with vivid imagery and precision. For educators and students, these descriptors are pivotal in honing communication skills, enabling more expressive and accurate conveyance of ideas. Guiding learners to master these adjectives not only broadens their vocabulary but also sharpens their understanding and writing prowess. To facilitate effective English teaching and learning, we’ve compiled a list of 30 such adjectives, complete with definitions. This resource is tailored for educators aiming to make vocabulary expansion both engaging and instructive, enhancing students’ language skills with a touch of Funny Words for humor and Consonant Words for phonetic diversity, making learning a dynamic and enjoyable experience.
- Artificial – Made by human skill; not natural.
- Beautiful – Pleasing to the senses; aesthetically attractive.
- Cruel – Causing pain or suffering.
- Dutiful – Conscientiously or obediently fulfilling one’s duty.
- Eventful – Marked by or full of events or incidents.
- Faithful – Remaining loyal and steadfast.
- Graceful – Elegant and fluid in movement.
- Helpful – Providing assistance or serving a useful function.
- Joyful – Feeling, expressing, or causing great pleasure and happiness.
- Lawful – Conforming to, permitted by, or recognized by law or rules.
- Meaningful – Having a serious, important, or useful quality or purpose.
- Natural – Existing in or derived from nature; not made by humankind.
- Quarrel – Inclined to argue or disagree frequently.
- Resourceful – Having the ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties.
- Successful – Accomplishing a desired aim or result.
- Truthful – Telling or expressing the truth; honest.
- Useful – Able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways.
- Vengeful – Seeking to harm someone in return for a perceived injury.
- Wonderful – Inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good.
- Youthful – Having qualities associated with young people, such as energy or optimism.
- Zestful – With great enthusiasm and energy.
- Watchful – Always watching and observing carefully.
- Victorious – Having won a victory; triumphant.
- Unusual – Not habitually or commonly occurring or done.
- Thrilling – Causing excitement and pleasure; exhilarating.
- Skillful – Having or showing skill.
- Ritual – Relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony.
- Playful – Fond of games and amusement; lighthearted.
Describing Words That End with “L”
Discovering new words is an essential part of learning and teaching the English language. As teachers, we constantly strive to expand our students’ vocabulary. One interesting category of describing words are those that end with the letter ‘L’. These words, often adjectives, play a significant role in adding detail and specificity to our language. Encouraging students to familiarize themselves with such words enhances their descriptive abilities, vital for both written and spoken English.
- Bountiful – Large in quantity; abundant.
- Cheerful – Noticeably happy and optimistic.
- Delightful – Causing delight; charming.
- Graceful – Having or showing grace or elegance.
- Harmful – Causing or likely to cause harm.
- Influential – Having great influence on someone or something.
- Knowledgeable – Intelligent and well informed.
- Natural – Existing in or derived from nature; not made or caused by humankind.
- Quarrelsome – Inclined to argue or disagree frequently.
- Thoughtful – Absorbed in or involving thought.
- Wonderful – Inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good; marvelous.
- Youthful – Having characteristics regarded as typical of the young.
- Zealful – Full of or characterized by zeal; enthusiastic.
- Hopeful – Feeling or inspiring optimism about a future event.
- Eventful – Marked by interesting or exciting events.
SAT Words That End with “L”
Preparing for the SAT involves expanding vocabulary, particularly focusing on less common words. As educators, it’s essential to guide students through this journey by introducing them to a variety of words, including those ending with ‘L.’ These words, often overlooked, can enhance their linguistic arsenal, making their communication and SAT essays more compelling. Let’s explore some SAT words that end with ‘L.’ This list not only enriches students’ vocabulary but also helps them understand the nuances of language, a crucial skill in both the SAT and everyday communication.
- Cordial – Warm and friendly
- Frugal – Sparing or economical with regard to money or food
- Plentiful – Existing in or yielding great quantities; abundant
- Bilateral – Involving two parties, usually countries
- Futile – Incapable of producing any useful result; pointless
- Tranquil – Free from disturbance; calm
- Vengeful – Seeking to harm someone in return for a perceived injury
- Habitual – Done or doing constantly as a habit
- Dismal – Depressing; dreary
- Artificial – Made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally
- Eventual – Occurring at a later time
- Superficial – Existing or occurring at the surface
- Vital – Absolutely necessary or important; essential
- Carnal – Relating to physical, especially sexual, needs and activities
- Manual – Involving or using human effort, skill, or power
- Partial – Existing only in part; incomplete
- Pitiful – Deserving or arousing pity
- Ritual – A religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions
- Fatal – Causing death
- Skeptical – Not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations
- Tactical – Relating to tactics, especially in military or naval maneuvers
- Rebel – A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader
- Fiscal – Relating to government revenue, especially taxes
- Nominal – (of a role or status) existing in name only
- Imperial – Relating to an empire
- Neutral – Not helping or supporting either side in a conflict
- Ethical – Relating to moral principles
- Baneful – Harmful or destructive
- Whimsical – Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way
- Terminal – Predicted to lead to death, especially slowly; incurable
Perspective Words that End with “L”
Perspective words that end in “L” can significantly enhance a student’s vocabulary and communication skills. As educators, it’s vital to introduce these words to students, enhancing their ability to express different viewpoints and understandings. This collection of words is not only helpful for enriching vocabulary but also for improving comprehension and writing skills. The list includes words from various contexts, making them applicable in multiple subjects. Teaching these words will undoubtedly benefit students in grasping the nuances of the English language.
- Ethical – Pertaining to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these.
- Global – Relating to the whole world; worldwide.
- Logical – Of or according to the rules of logic or formal argument.
- Principal – First in order of importance; main.
- Technical – Relating to a specific subject, art, or craft, or its techniques.
- Neutral – Not supporting or helping either side in a conflict.
- Intellectual – Relating to the intellect.
- Emotional – Relating to a person’s emotions.
- Commercial – Concerned with or engaged in commerce.
- Virtual – Almost or nearly as described, but not completely or according to strict definition.
- Individual – Single; separate.
- Bilateral – Having or relating to two sides; affecting both sides.
- Functional – Designed to be practical and useful rather than attractive.
- Seasonal – Fluctuating or restricted according to the time of year.
- Horizontal – At right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- Journal – A daily record of news and events of a personal nature; a diary.
- Sentimental – Of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
- Traditional – Existing in or as part of a tradition; long-established.
- Material – The matter from which a thing is or can be made.
- Personal – Of, affecting, or belonging to a particular person rather than to anyone else.
Short Words that Ends with “L”
Learning English can be a fun and rewarding experience, especially when it comes to expanding vocabulary. As educators, we often seek ways to enhance our students’ linguistic skills. One effective method is through the exploration of short words ending in ‘L’. These words are not only easy to remember but also useful in everyday communication. By introducing these to students, we provide them with tools to express themselves more vividly and accurately. Below is a curated list of such words, each accompanied by its meaning. Utilizing this list in classroom activities or homework assignments can significantly aid in vocabulary development.
- Bill – A statement of charges or costs.
- Ball – A spherical object used in games.
- Bell – A ringing device that produces sound.
- Bull – A male bovine animal.
- Cool – Moderately cold or lacking in warmth.
- Doll – A small model of a human figure, typically a toy.
- Dull – Lacking interest or excitement.
- Fall – To move downward, typically rapidly and freely.
- Fell – Past tense of fall; also means a hill or stretch of moorland.
- Fool – A person who acts unwisely or imprudently.
- Full – Containing or holding as much as possible.
- Gill – A respiratory organ of fish and some amphibians.
- Hall – A corridor or passageway in a building.
- Hill – A naturally raised area of land, not as high as a mountain.
- Jill – A female given name.
- Kill – To cause the death of a living organism.
- Mill – A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.
- Moll – Slang for a gangster’s female companion.
- Null – Having no legal or binding force; invalid.
- Poll – A process of voting, typically in a formal context.
- Roll – To move by turning over and over on an axis.
- Sell – To give or hand over something in exchange for money.
- Shell – The hard protective outer case of a mollusk or crustacean.
- Skill – The ability to do something well; expertise.
- Small – Of a size that is less than normal or usual.
- Soil – The top layer of earth in which plants grow.
- Spell – To name or write the letters that form a word in correct sequence.
- Still – Not moving or making a sound.
- Stool – A seat without a back or arms, typically resting on three or four legs or a single pedestal.
- Tool – A device or implement used to carry out a particular function.
In conclusion, words ending with ‘L’ offer a unique opportunity for language learners to enhance their vocabulary. These short, impactful words are essential for effective communication . Educators can encourage students to practice these words through writing exercises, storytelling, and interactive language games. Incorporating these words in daily conversations and written assignments will help students gain confidence and proficiency in their use, bolstering their overall command of the English language.
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Sentence Cards for L Sound
- February 25, 2020
- Activity Type , Articulation , Interactive , L Sound , Materials , Speech
Stop trying to make up sound-loaded sentences on the fly! No one needs that kind of stress. When your students are ready for practicing sounds at the sentence level, have these sentences printed and handy or pull up the interactive file and give your brain a break!
These cards are great for working on /l/ in all positions of words at the sentence level. It’s not quite as challenging as conversational speech, but is harder than practicing target words.
Each of the 40 cards has a sound-loaded sentence that contains 3 to 6 /l/ sounds. The number of sounds in the sentence is indicated on the printed cards. This is helpful for tracking data, but can also be used for game points or moves on a game board.
Interactive Material: This material includes an interactive version that can be used in teletherapy. The file can be uploaded to Google Slides or opened in PowerPoint. Make sure to use this file in slide show/presentation mode. When used in PowerPoint, the cards will flip over as each one is clicked. When used in Google Slides, the cards will flip over in order from left to right when you click anywhere on the screen.
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50 Speech Closing Lines (& How to Create Your Own) | The Ultimate Guide
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While speech openings are definitely one of the most important components of a speech, something that is equally as important is the way you conclude your speech.
There are few worse ways to end your speech than with a terse ‘thank you’–no elaboration or addition whatsoever.
Speech endings are just as crucial to the success of your speech as speech openings, and you must spend just as much time picking the perfect ending as you do to determine your best possible speech opening.
The words you speak at the beginning and end of your speech are words that your audience will pay the most attention to, and remember longer than any other part of your speech.
Speech endings can put even the most experienced speaker in flux, and increase their anxiousness manifold as they sit there attempting to figure out the perfect way to end your speech.
If you’re someone who’s in flux about your speech ending too, don’t worry. We’ve got some amazing ways to conclude your speech with a bang!
1. Circling Back To The Beginning
The idea behind circling back to the beginning of your speech is to reinforce the idea of your speech being a complete whole. By circling back to the beginning and connecting it to your ending, you let the audience understand that the idea of your speech is complete & standalone.
Circling back to the beginning of your speech also acts as an excellent way of reinforcing the central idea of your speech in the audience’s mind, and makes it more likely that they will remember it after the speech ends.
Need more inspiration for speech opening lines? Check out our article on 15 Powerful Speech Opening Lines & Tips To Create Your Own.
How To Circle Back To The Beginning
The easiest way to do this is to set up your beginning for the conclusion of your speech. That is, if you’re saying something like, say, a story or joke in the beginning, then you can leave your audience in a cliffhanger until the ending arrives.
Another great way to circle back to the beginning is by simply restating something you said at the start. The added knowledge from attending the rest of your speech will help the audience see this piece of information in a new–and better–light.
1. Will Stephen
Ending Line: “I’d like you to think about what you heard in the beginning, and I want you to think about what you hear now. Because it was nothing & it’s still nothing.”
2. Canwen Xu
Speech Ending: My name is Canwen, my favorite color is purple and I play the piano but not so much the violin…
Think of a memorable moment from your life, and chances are you’ll realize that it involved a feeling of happiness–something that we can associate with smiling or laughter. And what better way to generate laughter than by incorporating the age-old strategy of good humor.
The happy and lighthearted feeling you associate with good memories is the kind of emotional reaction you want to create in your audience too. That’s what will make your speech stick in their memory.
Done incorrectly, humor can be a disaster. Done right, however, it can entirely transform a speech.
Humor doesn’t only mean slapstick comedy (although there’s nothing wrong with slapstick, either). Humor can come in many forms, including puns, jokes, a funny story…the list is endless.
How To Incorporate Humor In Your Speech Ending
The simplest way to incorporate humor into your speech ending is by telling a plain old joke–something that’s relevant to your topic, of course.
You can also tell them a short, funny anecdote–may be an unexpected conclusion to a story you set up in the beginning.
Another way would be by employing the power of repetition. You can do this by associating something funny with a word, and then repeating the word throughout your speech. During the end, simply say the word or phrase one last time, and it’s likely you’ll leave off your audience with a good chuckle.
1. Woody Roseland
Ending Line: “Why are balloons so expensive? Inflation.”
2. Andras Arato
Ending Line: “There are three rules to becoming famous. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.”
3. Hasan Minhaj
Ending Line: “And you want to know the scariest part? Pretty soon every country on the earth is going to have its own TLC show.”
4. Sophie Scott
Speech Ending: In other words, when it comes to laughter, you and me baby, ain’t nothing but mammals.
5. Tim Urban
Speech Ending: We need to stay away from the Instant Gratification Monkey. That’s a job for all of us. And because there’s not that many boxes on there. It’s a job that should probably start today. Well, maybe not today, but, you know, sometime soon.
6. Hasan Minhaj
Speech Ending: Showing my legs on TV is probably the scariest thing I’ve ever done. And keep in mind last week I went after the Prince of Saudi Arabia.
3. Question
The idea behind posing a question at the end of your speech is to get the wheels in your audience’s minds turning and to get them thinking of your speech long after it has ended. A question, if posed correctly, will make your audience re-think about crucial aspects of your speech, and is a great way to prompt discussion after your speech has ended.
How To Add Questions To Your Speech Ending
The best type of questions to add to your speech ending is rhetorical questions. That’s because, unlike a literal question, a rhetorical question will get the audience thinking and make them delve deeper into the topic at hand.
Make sure your question is central to the idea of your speech, and not something frivolous or extra. After all, the point of a question is to reinforce the central idea of your topic.
1. Lexie Alford
Speech Ending: Ask yourself: How uncomfortable are you willing to become in order to reach your fullest potential?
2. Apollo Robbins
Speech Ending: If you could control somebody’s attention, what would you do with it?
Quotes are concise, catchy phrases or sentences that are generally easy to remember and repeat.
Quotes are an age-old way to start–and conclude–a speech. And for good reason.
Quotes can reinforce your own ideas by providing a second voice to back them up. They can also provoke an audience’s mind & get them thinking. So, if you add your quote to the end of your speech, the audience will most likely be thinking about it for long after you have finished speaking.
How To Use Quotes In Your Speech Ending
While adding quotes to your speech ending, make sure that it’s relevant to your topic. Preferably, you want to pick a quote that summarizes your entire idea in a concise & memorable manner.
Make sure that your quote isn’t too long or complicated. Your audience should be able to repeat it as well as feel its impact themselves. They shouldn’t be puzzling over the semantics of your quote, but its intended meaning.
1. Edouard Jacqmin
Speech Ending: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
2. Chris Crowe
Speech Ending: “It’s more certain than death and taxes.”
3. Olivia Remes
Speech Ending: I’d like to leave you with a quote by Martin Luther King: “You don’ have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.”
4. Tomislav Perko
Speech Ending: Like that famous quote says, “In twenty years from now on, you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do.
5. Diana Nyad
Speech Ending: To paraphrase the poet, Mary Oliver, she says, “So, what is it? What is it you’re doing with this one wild and precious life of yours?”
5. Piece Of Advice
The point of giving a piece of advice at the end of your speech is not to pull your audience down or to make them feel bad/inferior about themselves. Rather, the advice is added to motivate your audience to take steps to do something–something related to the topic at hand.
The key point to remember is that your advice is included to help your audience, not to discourage them.
How To Add Piece Of Advice To Your Speech Ending
To truly make your audience follow the advice you’re sharing, you must make sure it resonates with them. To do so, you need to inject emotions into your advice, and to present it in such a manner that your audience’s emotions are aroused when they hear it.
Your advice shouldn’t be something extra-complicated or seemingly impossible to achieve. This will act as a counter-agent. Remember that you want your audience to follow your advice, not to chuck it away as something impossible.
Our article, 15 Powerful Speech Ending Lines And Tips To Create Your Own , is another great repository for some inspiration.
1. Ricardo Lieuw On
Speech Ending: “Learn something new, or a new way of approaching something old because there are a few skills are valuable as the art of learning.”
2. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Speech Ending: “If we want to improve the competence level of our leaders, then we should first improve our own competence for judging and selecting leaders.”
3. Sharique Samsudheen
Speech Ending: “Some people love money, some people hate money, some people crave money, some people even kill for money. But what they miss is they just need to learn how to manage money well, and that will give them financial freedom.”
4. Kate Simonds
Speech Ending: Teens, you need to believe in your voices and adults, you need to listen.
5. Melissa Butler
Speech Ending: When you go home today, see yourself in the mirror, see all of you, look at all your greatness that you embody, accept it, love it and finally, when you leave the house tomorrow, try to extend that same love and acceptance to someone who doesn’t look like you.
6. Iskra Lawrence
Speech Ending: Speak to your body in a loving way. It’s the only one you got, it’s your home, and it deserves your respect. If you see anyone tearing themselves down, build them back up And watch your life positively grow when you give up the pursuit of perfection.
6. Contemplative Remark
As the name itself suggests, contemplative remarks are intended to make your audience contemplate or mull over something. The ‘something’ in question should be the idea central to your speech, or a key takeaway that you want them to return home with.
The idea is to get your audience thinking and to keep them thinking for a long, long time.
How To Add A Contemplative Remark To Your Speech Ending
To add a contemplative remark to your speech ending, you first need to figure out your key takeaway or main theme. Then, you want to arrange that as a question, and propose it to your audience at the end of your speech.
Remember that your question shouldn’t be something too wordy or complicated to understand. As with the quotes, you don’t want your audience stuck on the semantics. Rather, you want them to focus on the matter at hand.
1. Lisa Penney
Speech Ending: “So I invite you to pay more attention to your thoughts & consider the legacy you leave behind.”
2. Grant Sanderson
Speech Ending: “Some of the most useful math that you can find or teach has its origin in someone who was just looking for a good story.”
3. Greta Thunberg
Speech Ending: “We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up & change is coming whether you like it or not.”
4. Bill Eckstrom
Speech Ending: Now, think about this: it’s not the complexity-triggering individuals or events you should fear the most, but it’s your own willingness to accept or seek discomfort that will dictate the growth of not just you, but our entire world.
5. Robert Hoge
Speech Ending: Choose to accept your face, choose to appreciate your face, don’t look away from the mirror so quickly; understand all the love, and the life, and the pain that is the part of your face, that is the art of your face. Tomorrow when you wake up, what will your choice be?
7. Personal Anecdote
Personal anecdotes, as the name suggests, are anecdotes that are personal to the speaker or instances from their life. Personal anecdotes are a great way to incorporate the magical powers of storytelling in your speech, as well as to make a personal connection with the audience. Using personal anecdotes, you can hit two birds with one stone!
How To Add Personal Anecdotes To Your Speech Ending
To add personal anecdotes to your speech ending, you need to filter through your life experiences to find out ones that directly relate to your topic at hand. You don’t want to include an anecdote, no matter how compelling it is, if it doesn’t relate to your topic.
Remember to not keep your anecdote too long. Your audience will most likely lose their attention if you do so.
1. Sheila Humphries
Speech Ending: “Why do you go work for these people?” My answer to them was, “If I could help one child make it in this world, it’ll be worth it all.”
8. Call To Action
A call-to-action is one of the absolute best ways to conclude a speech with a bang. A well-written speech should aim to alter the audience’s mind or belief system in some way and to make them take an action in that direction. One crucial way to assure your audience does this is by using a call to action.
How To Add A Call To Action To Your Speech Ending
A call to action comes right before the ending of your speech to provide your audience with a clear idea or set of instructions about what they’re supposed to do after your talk ends.
A call to action should provide a roadmap to the audience for their future steps, and to outline clearly what those future steps are going to be.
1. Armin Hamrah
Speech Ending: “So tonight, after you finish your Math homework & before you lay your head down on that fluffy pillow, bring a piece of paper and pen by your bedside…”
2. Graham Shaw
Speech Ending: “So I invite you to get your drawings out there & spread the word that when we draw, we remember more!”
3. Andy Puddicombe
Speech Ending: You don’t have to burn any incense, and you definitely don’t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take out 10 minutes out a day to step back, familiarize yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm, and clarity in your life.
4. Amy Cuddy
Speech Ending: Before you go into the next stressful evaluative situation, for two minutes, try doing this in the elevator…
5. Jia Jiang
Speech Ending: When you are facing the next obstacle or the next failure, consider the possibilities. Don’t run! If you just embrace them, they might become your gifts as well.
9. Motivational Remark
As the name clearly explains, a motivational remark motivates your audience to carry out a plan of action. It ruffles the audience’s mind and emotions and has a powerful impact on the steps that your audience will take after you’ve finished speaking.
How To Add A Motivational Remark To Your Speech Ending
The key to a good motivational remark is to inspire your audience. Your motivational remark should act as a ray of hope to your audience and positively inspire them to take a desired course of action.
Your motivational remark should not be negative in any way. You don’t want to guilt or coerce your audience into doing something or feeling a certain way. You want to leave them on a positive note to move forward with their life.
1. Khanh Vy Tran
Speech Ending: “No matter what you’re going through right now & no matter what the future holds for you, please don’t change yourself. Love yourself, accept yourself & then transform yourself.”
2. Mithila Palkar
Speech Ending: “Get a job, leave a job, dance, sing, fall in love. Carve your own niche. But most importantly: learn to love your own randomness.”
3. Andrew Tarvin
Speech Ending: “Anyone can learn to be funnier. And it all starts with a choice. A choice to try to find ways to use humor. A choice to be like my grandmother, to look at the world around you and say WTF–wow, that’s fun.”
4. Laura Vanderkam
Speech Ending: There is time. Even if we are busy, we have time for what matters. And when we focus on what matters, we can build the lives we want in the time we’ve got.
5. Julian Treasure
Speech Ending: Let’s get listening taught in schools, and transform the world in one generation into a conscious listening world, a world of connection, a world of understanding, and a world of peace.
6. Mariana Atencio
Speech Ending: Let’s celebrate those imperfections that make us special. I hope that it teaches you that nobody has a claim on the word ‘normal’. We are all different. We are all quirky and unique and that is what makes us wonderfully human.
10. Challenge
Much like a call to action, the aim of proposing a challenge at the end of your speech is to instigate your audience to take some desired course of action. A challenge should make an appeal to your audience’s emotion, and motivate them to meet it.
How To Add A Challenge To Your Speech Ending
To apply a challenge effectively to your speech ending, you need to make sure that it’s something relevant to your topic. Your challenge should drive the central topic of your speech forward, and make your audience engage in real-life steps to apply your idea in the real world.
While its always a good idea to set a high bar for your challenge, make sure its an achievable one too.
1. Jamak Golshani
Speech Ending: “I challenge you to open your heart to new possibilities, choose a career path that excites you & one that’s aligned to who you truly are.”
2. Ashley Clift-Jennings
Speech Ending: So, my challenge to you today is, “Do you know, would you even know how to recognize your soulmate?” If you are going out in the world right now, would you know what you are looking for?
11. Metaphor
Metaphors are commonly used as a short phrase that draws a comparison between two ideas in a non-literal sense. People use metaphors quite commonly in daily life to explain ideas that might be too difficult or confusing to understand otherwise. Metaphors are also great tools to be used in speech, as they can present your main idea in a simple and memorable way.
How To Add Metaphors To Your Speech Ending
To add a metaphor to your speech ending, you need to first decide on the main idea or takeaway of your speech. Your metaphor should then be organized in such a way that it simplifies your main idea and makes it easier for your audience to understand & remember it.
The key is to not make your metaphor overly complicated or difficult to retain and share. Remember that you’re trying to simplify your idea for the audience–not make them even more confused.
1. Ramona J. Smith
Speech Ending: “Stay in that ring. And even after you take a few hits, use what you learned from those previous fights, and at the end of the round, you’ll still remain standing.”
2. Shi Heng YI
Speech Ending: “If any of you chooses to climb that path to clarity, I will be very happy to meet you at the peak.”
3. Zifang “Sherrie” Su
Speech Ending: “Are you turning your back on your fear? Our life is like this stage, but what scares are now may bring you the most beautiful thing. Give it a chance.”
12. Storytelling
The idea behind using stories to end your speech is to leave your audience with a good memory to take away with them.
Stories are catchy, resonating & memorable ways to end any speech.
Human beings can easily relate to stories. This is because most people have grown up listening to stories of some kind or another, and thus a good story tends to evoke fond feelings in us.
How To Incorporate Stories In Your Speech Ending
A great way to incorporate stories in your speech ending is by setting up a story in the beginning and then concluding it during the end of your speech.
Another great way would be to tell a short & funny anecdote related to a personal experience or simply something related to the topic at hand.
However, remember that it’s the ending of your speech. Your audience is most likely at the end of their attention span. So, keep your story short & sweet.
1. Sameer Al Jaberi
Speech Ending: “I can still see that day when I came back from my honeymoon…”
2. Josephine Lee
Speech Ending: “At the end of dinner, Jenna turned to me and said…”
Facts are another excellent speech ending, and they are used quite often as openings as well. The point of adding a fact as your speech ending is to add shock value to your speech, and to get your audience thinking & discussing the fact even after your speech has ended.
How To Add Facts To Your Speech Ending
The key to adding facts to your speech ending is to pick a fact that thrusts forward your main idea in the most concise form possible. Your fact should also be something that adds shock value to the speech, and it should ideally be something that the audience hasn’t heard before.
Make sure that your fact is relevant to the topic at hand. No matter how interesting, a fact that doesn’t relate to your topic is going to be redundant.
1. David JP Phillips
Speech Ending: 3500 years ago, we started transfering knowledge from generation to generation through text. 28 years ago, PowerPoint was born. Which one do you think our brain is mostly adapted to?
14. Rhethoric Remark
Rhetoric remarks are another excellent way to get the wheels of your audience’s minds turning. Rhetoric remarks make your audience think of an imagined scenario, and to delve deeper into your topic. Rhetoric remarks or questioned don’t necessarily need to have a ‘right’ or one-shot answer, which means you can be as creative with them as possible!
How To Add Rhethoric Remarks To Your Speech Ending
Since rhetorical questions don’t need to have a definite answer, you have much freedom in determining the type of question or statement you wish to make. However, as with all other speech endings, a rhetorical question shouldn’t be asked just for the sake of it.
A rhetorical question should make your audience think about your topic in a new or more creative manner. It should get them thinking about the topic and maybe see it from an angle that they hadn’t before.
Rhetorical questions shouldn’t be too confusing. Use simple language & make sure it’s something that the audience can easily comprehend.
1. Mona Patel
Speech Ending: Pick your problem, ask “What if?” Come up with ideas. Bring them down. Then execute on them. Maybe you’re thinking, “What if we can’t?” I say to you, “What if we don’t?”
2. Lizzie Velasquez
Speech Ending: I want you to leave here and ask yourself what defines you. But remember: Brave starts here.
Another great way to end your speech with a literal bang is by using music! After all, if there’s something that can impact the human mind with just as much force as a few well-placed words, it’s the correct music.
How To Add Music To Your Speech Ending
To add music to your speech ending, you must make sure that the music has something to do with your speech theme. Remember that you’re not playing music in your concert. The piece of music that you choose must be relevant to your topic & work to have a contribution in your overall speech.
1. Tom Thum
Speech Ending: *ends the TED Talk with beat boxing*
16. Reitirate The Title
The title of your speech is its most important component. That’s why you need to pay careful attention to how you pick it, as it is something that your viewers will most likely remember the longest about your speech.
Your title will also act as a guiding hand towards how your audience forms an initial idea about your speech and is what they will associate your entire speech with.
By repeating your title at the end of your speech, you increase the chances that your audience will remember it–and your speech–for a long time.
How To Retierate The Title In Your Speech Ending
Your title is something that your audience associates your entire speech with. However, you don’t want to simply add the title in your speech end for the sake of adding it. Instead, make it flow naturally into your speech ending. This will make it seem less forced, and will also increase the chances of your audience remembering your entire speech ending and not just the title of your speech.
1. Ruairi Robertson
Speech Ending: I feel we can all contribute to this fight worth fighting for our own health, but more importantly, our future generations’ health by restoring the relationship between microbe and man. There is SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT!
Need more inspiration for speech closing lines? Check out our article on 10 Of The Best Things To Say In Closing Remarks.
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To sum up, speech endings are just as imperative to the success of your speech as speech openings, and you must spend just as much time picking the perfect ending as you do to determine your best possible speech opening. The words you speak at the beginning and end of your speech are words that your audience will pay the most attention to, and remember longer than any other part of your speech.
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How RL Words Can Help in Speech Therapy
Words with the “RL” sound can be particularly beneficial in speech therapy for various reasons:
Targeted Articulation Practice
Words with the “rl” sound offer focused and specific practice for individuals struggling with articulating this particular sound.
The targeted nature of these words allows speech therapists to address the specific challenges associated with the “rl” sound, such as tongue placement and coordination.
Contextual Learning
Incorporating “rl” words into speech therapy provides a context for learning. Instead of isolated sounds, individuals practice the target sound within meaningful words.
This contextual learning helps in the natural integration of correct pronunciation into everyday speech, promoting generalization.
Gradual Progression and Confidence Building
The list of “rl” words can be adapted to different levels of difficulty, allowing for a gradual progression in complexity. Starting with simpler words and advancing to more challenging ones enables individuals to build confidence as they master the “rl” sound in a structured manner.
Success at each level contributes to increased confidence in overall speech abilities.
RL Words by Location
Below is the categorization of RL words according to their sound placement.
RL in the Middle
| Pearlize | Burling |
| Earliness | Earldom |
| Harlequin | Curler |
| Whirlpool | Purlieu |
| World | Pearlite |
| Furlough | Earlobe |
| Hurler | Earlship |
| Coraline | Whirligig |
| Marlin | Swirly |
| Furlong | Pearly |
| Peril | Hurling |
| Parallel | Harlot |
| Burlap | Barrelful |
| Burl | Pearlized |
| Burler | Worldly |
| Caroler | Whirly |
| Coralize | Skirling |
| Furling | Squirrelly |
| Furler | Whirlwind |
| Burliness |
Ends with RL
| Earl | Laurel |
| Pearl | Sorrel |
| Curl | Carol |
| Girl | Barrel |
| Hurl | Beryl |
| Whirl | Coral |
| Twirl | Choral |
| Purl | Morale |
| Snarl | Birl |
| Furl | Skirl |
| Churl | Mural |
| Swirl | Rural |
| Squirrel |
RL Words by Syllables
| World | Burl |
| Earl | Pearl |
| Curl | Girl |
| Hurl | Whirl |
| Twirl | Purl |
| Snarl | Furl |
| Churl | Swirl |
| Birl | Skirl |
2 Syllables
| Pearlize | Whirlpool |
| Furlough | Hurler |
| Marlin | Furlong |
| Peril | Burlap |
| Burler | Furling |
| Furler | Burling |
| Earldom | Curler |
| Purlieu | Pearlite |
| Earlobe | Earlship |
| Swirly | Pearly |
| Hurling | Harlot |
| Pearlized | Worldly |
| Whirly | Skirling |
| Whirlwind | Squirrel |
| Laurel | Sorrel |
| Carol | Barrel |
| Beryl | Coral |
| Choral | Morale |
| Mural | Rural |
3 Syllables
| Earliness | Harlequin |
| Coraline | Parallel |
| Caroler | Coralize |
| Burliness | Whirligig |
| Barrelful | Squirrelly |
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Ump Had Blunt Seven-Word Message After Ending Joey Votto's Last MLB Game on Ejection
Josh wilson | aug 22, 2024.
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Joey Votto's storied MLB career is finally over . The man who secured a 1.000-plus OPS in four different seasons and led the National League in on-base percentage seven different times has called it a career after working in the minor leagues this season attempting to break back through to an MLB roster.
He ends with 2,135 hits and 1,365 walks in 8,746 plate appearances. But his final plate appearance will go down as a funny story.
Votto, miffed over an inside ball called a strike, yelled from the dugout over to the home plate umpire, Shane Livensparger . He was promptly ejected. Game over. And as we would later find out, career over.
"I struck out, went back to the dugout, and I went underneath [the dugout], slammed a bat... [I went back] to the dugout, snagged an iPad, looked at the at-bat, saw that it was not a strike," Votto explained on the Dan Patrick Show . "During the middle of the at-bat, which is typically when you don't get upset. And I start hollerin' at [Livensparger]. And he's a great umpire with a steady demeanor. But you can't holler from the bench bullying, or just disrupting the game. And he threw me out. And I ran up to him and I wasn't even angry. I go, 'That ball was inside. This could be my last game!' I said those words! And he said, 'Then why'd you get thrown out, Joey?'"
"Yeah, you're right, I'm sorry. Alright, have a good game, take care," is hilariously how Votto remembers the conversation ending. It was his 15th and final time getting ejected from an MLB game.
Other than getting on-base, the only proper way for Votto's career to end might just be an incredibly cordial ejection argument.
Votto's last time reaching base will go down in the books as a hit against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Cincinnati on September 24th, 2023.
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RFK Jr. suspends his presidential bid and backs Donald Trump before appearing with him at his rally
Robert F. Kennedy said Friday he is suspending his independent presidential bid and is backing Donald Trump. Kennedy said his internal polls had showed that his presence in the race would hurt Trump and help Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent campaign for the White House and endorsed Donald Trump on Friday, a late-stage shakeup of the race that could give the former president a modest boost from Kennedy’s supporters.
Hours later, Kennedy joined Trump onstage at an Arizona rally, where the crowd burst into “Bobby!” cheers.
Kennedy said his internal polls had shown that his presence in the race would hurt Trump and help Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, though recent public polls don’t provide a clear indication that he is having an outsize impact on support for either major-party candidate.
Kennedy cited free speech, the war in Ukraine and “a war on our children” as among the reasons he would try to remove his name from the ballot in battleground states.
“These are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump,” Kennedy said at his event in Phoenix.
However, he made clear that he wasn’t formally ending his bid and said his supporters could continue to back him in the majority of states where they are unlikely to sway the outcome. Kennedy took steps to withdraw his candidacy in at least two states late this week, Arizona and Pennsylvania, but election officials in the battlegrounds of Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin said it would be too late for him to take his name off the ballot even if he wants to do so.
Kennedy said his actions followed conversations with Trump over the past few weeks. He cast their alliance as “a unity party,” an arrangement that would “allow us to disagree publicly and privately and seriously.” Kennedy suggested Trump offered him a job if he returns to the White House, but neither he nor Trump offered details.
Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, this week entertained the idea that Kennedy could join Trump’s administration as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The announcement ended days of speculation and landed with heaps of confusion and contradictions from Kennedy’s aides and allies, an emblematic cap for a quixotic campaign.
Shortly before his speech in Phoenix, his campaign had said in a Pennsylvania court filing that he would be endorsing Trump for president. However, a spokesperson for Kennedy said the court filing had been made in error and the lawyer who wrote it said he’d correct it. Kennedy took the stage moments later, aired his grievances with the Democratic Party, the news media and political institutions, and extolled Trump. He spoke for nearly 20 minutes before he said explicitly that he was endorsing Trump.
Kennedy later joined Trump onstage at a rally co-hosted by Turning Point Action in Glendale, where Trump’s campaign had teased he would be joined by “a special guest.”
Kennedy was greeted by thundering applause as he took the stage to the Foo Fighters and a pyrotechnics display after being introduced by Trump as “a man who has been an incredible champion for so many of these values that we all share.”
“We are both in this to do what’s right for the country,” Trump said, later commending Kennedy for having “raised critical issues that have been too long ignored in this country.”
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With Kennedy standing nearby, Trump invoked his slain uncle and father, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, saying he knows “that they are looking down right now and they are very, very proud.”
He said that, if he wins this fall, he will establish a new independent presidential commission on assassination attempts that will release all remaining documents related to John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
And he repeated his pledge to establish a panel — “working with Bobby” — to investigate the increase in chronic health conditions and childhood diseases, including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity and infertility.
A year ago, some would have thought it inconceivable that a member of arguably the most storied family in Democratic politics would work with Trump to keep a Democrat out of the White House. Even in recent months, Kennedy has accused Trump of betraying his followers, while Trump has criticized Kennedy as “the most radical left candidate in the race.”
Five of Kennedy’s family members issued a statement Friday calling his support for Trump “a sad ending to a sad story” and reiterating their support for Harris.
“Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear,” read the statement, which his sister Kerry Kennedy posted on X .
Kennedy Jr. acknowledged his decision to endorse Trump had caused tension with his family. He is married to actor Cheryl Hines, who wrote on X that she deeply respects her husband’s decision to drop out but did not address the Trump endorsement.
“This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes my wife and my children and my friends,” Kennedy said. “But I have the certainty that this is what I’m meant to do. And that certainty gives me internal peace, even in storms.”
In a statement, Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon reached out to Kennedy’s supporters who are “tired of Donald Trump and looking for a new way forward” and said that Harris wanted to earn their backing.
At Kennedy’s Phoenix event, 38-year-old Casey Westerman said she trusted Kennedy’s judgment and had planned to vote for him, but would support Trump if Kennedy endorsed him.
“My decision would really be based on who he thinks is best suited to run this country,” said Westerman, who wore a “Kennedy 2024” trucker hat and voted for Trump in the last two presidential elections.
Kennedy first entered the 2024 presidential race as a Democrat but left the party last fall to run as an independent. He built an unusually strong base for a third-party bid, fueled in part by anti-establishment voters and vaccine skeptics who have followed his anti-vaccine work since the COVID-19 pandemic. But he has since faced strained campaign finances and mounting legal challenges.
At Trump’s event in Las Vegas, Alida Roberts, 49, said Kennedy’s endorsement of Trump spoke volumes about the current state of the Democratic Party.
“It says that he doesn’t trust what’s going on, that it’s not the party he grew up in,” Roberts said.
Roberts, who voted twice for Trump, said she was relieved and excited by the endorsement because she’d been “teeter-tottering” between the two candidates.
Recent polls put Kennedy’s support in the mid-single digits, and it’s unclear if he’d get even that in a general election.
There’s some evidence that Kennedy’s staying in the race would hurt Trump more than Harris. According to a July AP-NORC poll, Republicans were significantly more likely than Democrats to have a favorable view of Kennedy. And those with a positive impression of Kennedy were significantly more likely to also have a favorable view of Trump (52%) than Harris (37%).
Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Ali Swenson in New York, Rio Yamat in Las Vegas, Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pa., Meg Kinnard in Chicago and Linley Sanders in Washington contributed to this report.
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RFK Jr. endorses Trump after weeks of back-channel courtship
PHOENIX — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed former President Donald Trump Friday afternoon during a lengthy speech putting to rest his tumultuous independent presidential campaign.
Kennedy's campaign first confirmed the endorsement in a court filing in Pennsylvania before he took the stage for the speech in battleground Arizona. Trump has his own event in nearby Glendale later Friday, where Kennedy will speak, according to three sources familiar with the planning — the culmination of weeks of talks.
Kennedy, who gained prominence as an environmental lawyer and then as a leading anti-vaccine advocate, opened his remarks Friday blasting the Democratic Party for "abandon[ing] democracy," lambasting his "naysayers" for not believing his campaign could be successful, and accusing both the media and Democrats of a conspiracy that kept him from being competitive. Then, Kennedy made it official.
"Many months ago I promised the American people I would withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler. ... In my heart, I no longer believe I have a realistic path to electoral victory," he said.
Framing both Trump and himself as victims of the "continual legal warfare" by Democrats, Kennedy criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for not having won "a single delegate" during her 2020 race and accused her of ignoring the press and scuttling a policy platform for what he called a campaign focused exclusively on opposing Trump. And he compared Biden's, and then Harris', grip on the Democratic Party to the autocracy of Russia under President Vladimir Putin.
By contrast, Kennedy made clear that in Trump, he sees a partner — and a fellow victim.
"These are the principled causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump. The causes were: Free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war on our children," he said.
"One of the two candidates has adopted these issues as his own to the point where he has asked to enlist me in his administration. I'm speaking, of course, of Donald Trump."
Other members of the Kennedy family criticized the endorsement . And in a statement, Democratic National Committee senior adviser Mary Beth Cahill said, "Donald Trump isn’t earning an endorsement that’s going to help build support, he’s inheriting the baggage of a failed fringe candidate. Good riddance."
Inside the negotiations
Kennedy’s decision to back Trump comes after weeks of back-channel courtship. One person familiar with the discussions said that Donald Trump Jr. had been looking to engineer a Kennedy endorsement of his father for six months, with another source noting that Trump Jr. had long felt that Kennedy’s presence in the race was hurting the GOP campaign.
For a time, polling was unclear about that question. But it changed dramatically after Harris took over as the Democratic presidential candidate and the polling landscape shifted. It's a reality the Trump campaign acknowledged in a memo from pollster Tony Fabrizio sent to reporters after Kennedy's announcement, which argues its polling shows that Kennedy's vote "breaks for President Trump" in every key state.
Still, the initial conservations started earlier, about a week before the Republican convention, with right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson connecting Trump Jr. with Kennedy.
From there, Trump Jr. and donor Omeed Malik served as go-betweens to help close the deal. The two sources familiar with the talks said that Kennedy is expected to play a role on the campaign trail going forward.
In an interview, Malik said Kennedy has not been promised a Cabinet position in exchange for his endorsement, though that's something Kennedy running mate Nicole Shanahan suggested when speaking on a podcast earlier this week. (Shanahan did not appear at Friday's event.)
But, Malik said, "I think both President Trump and JD Vance have said as much in the last 24 hours, that should they be successful, there are plenty of roles, and I think the area of health is one," where Kennedy could serve.
"I don't see any downside whatsoever" to Kennedy supporting Trump, Malik said, adding, "These types of events have the potential to really change everything."
At his speech on Friday, Kennedy went onto detail about speaking to and meeting with Trump and his advisers, when he said he discovered "we are aligned on many key issues."
And he implied he's been offered a say in a potential future Trump administration.
"If President Trump is elected and honors his word, the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts the country will disappear," Kennedy said.
"President Trump has told he wants this to be his legacy," Kennedy continued. "I'm choosing to believe that this time he will follow through. His son, his biggest donors and his closest friends all support this objective."
And he admitted that aligning with Trump will "a difficult sacrifice for my wife and children but worthwhile if there's even a small chance of saving these kids."
But he stressed that this alliance with Trump "will allow us to disagree publicly and privately," while still working together on their shared goals.
Criticizing agencies like the FDA, Kennedy added that with "Trump's backing," they are going to "staff these agencies with honest scientists and doctors."
As to his electoral future, Kennedy said he would only work to remove his name from ballots in swing states because he wanted to give his to give his supporters in "red states" and "blue states" a chance to vote for him without "harming or helping."
And he said that by remaining on the ballot, he could technically be eligible to assume the presidency in 2025 if no candidate wins a majority of the Electoral College, a virtual impossibility because it would require him to win Electoral College votes .
A long and difficult campaign
Kennedy's bid for the presidency stumbled amid intense opposition from Democrats, controversies stoked by the candidate himself, and difficulties overcoming the significant hurdles facing independents trying to get on ballots across the country.
The decision to end his campaign had been expected, after Kennedy’s running mate began openly musing this week about whether he would drop out to endorse former President Donald Trump . Even before then, his campaign had stopped putting on its own events and started engaging in unusual public diplomacy with Trump, an opponent Kennedy had harshly criticized earlier in the campaign.
Kennedy’s impending drop-out marks the end of one of the more quixotic presidential campaigns in modern history, one that initially gained enough traction to send Democrats into a panic about whether his bid could jeopardize their path to victory in 2024. Initially, Kennedy sought the Democratic presidential nomination, but he decided in October 2023 to run as an independent bid instead .
His support waned, as it typically does for candidates charting a collision course with the country’s two-party system — though this time, it came amid a summer packed with campaign-shaking events.
The Democratic Party’s decision to switch up its presidential ticket has prompted a decline in the share of voters saying they’d back third-party candidates, leaving Kennedy largely pulling from Trump . Even before that, Kennedy and his campaign struggled through a months-long, difficult stretch that raised questions about his viability.
Kennedy’s public poll numbers have been dropping, and neither the candidate nor his running mate have spent much time on the trail in recent weeks. Instead, the candidate was accumulating negative headlines — an allegation that he groped a former famly babysitter (to which he responded to by declaring, “ I am not a church boy ”); a revelation that he used a dead bear he found on a roadside to stage a fake bicycle accident in New York’s Central Park; and a claim by Kennedy that doctors found a parasite in his brain more than a decade ago, among other things.
He struggled to reconcile his career as an anti-vaccine activist with a need to win over a broad electorate. Kennedy repeatedly courted the anti-vaccine influencers and organizations that were integral to his career, leading to severe criticism from Democrats and other groups pointing to his comments and associations to frame him as a radical. On Thursday, after his campaign announced his intentions to give a Friday update on the state of the race, he tweeted out an 11-minute video he said was an attempt to “set the record straight by explaining my exact posture, point-by-point, one what is probably the most controversial issue of my campaign,” his stance on vaccines. Just 24 hours later, he left the race.
Kennedy also flip-flopped on abortion policy throughout his campaign: In August 2023, while still running as a Democrat, he told NBC News that he’d support signing a national abortion ban after the first three months of pregnancy, before his campaign quickly walked back the comments. Then this May, Kennedy said in a podcast episode that he would support “full-term abortions,” stunning his running mate . Days later, Kennedy walked back those comments, too .
And at an organizational level, Kennedy’s camp struggled at times under the weight of having to fund a massive ballot access program to get on ballots in enough states to win the presidency. By August, only a handful of states had certified Kennedy’s place on the ballot, and he has continued to face legal challenges, including a court decision to boot him from the ballot in New York.
Even though that ballot access program fell short, it wasn’t cheap. The Kennedy campaign spent more than $8 million on campaign consulting from Accelevate 2020 LLC, a group that also does ballot-access work.
Overall, the campaign effectively raised what it spent — it amassed $57.6 million and spent almost $54 million through July. But that fundraising includes $15 million in direct contributions from Kennedy’s vice presidential candidate, Shanahan, who spent the week stoking the speculation the campaign was about to end. (The campaign also refunded her more than $900,000 last month.)
“There’s two options that we’re looking at, and one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Walz presidency, because we draw votes from Trump or we draw somehow more votes from Trump,” she said on a podcast interview released on Monday .
“Or we walk away right now and join forces with Donald Trump. And, you know, we walk away from that and we explain to our base why we’re making this decision,” Shanahan continued.
On Friday, Shanahan posted on social media, writing: “I’m not a Kamala Democrat. I’m not a Trump Republican [.] I’m an INDEPENDENT American who is endorsing ideas, not a person or a party. I will continue working to give a voice to the voiceless and bring power back to the people.”
There have been other financial drains on the campaign, too, including the millions Kennedy spent on security as he repeatedly called on the federal government to provide him with Secret Service protection, evoking the political assassinations of his famous father and uncle.
Federal campaign finance records show Kennedy’s campaign spent more than $3 million on security services provided by Gavin de Becker, a prominent security consultant protecting celebrities who is also a Kennedy supporter and friend . The campaign is also carrying an additional $3 million in debt to de Becker’s company.
The campaign received Secret Service protection after the assassination attempt on Trump in July.
Katherine Koretski reported from Phoenix; and Ben Kamisar from Washington, D.C.
Katherine Koretski is a 2024 NBC News campaign embed.
Ben Kamisar is a national political reporter for NBC News
Henry J. Gomez is a senior national political reporter for NBC News
Garrett Haake is NBC News' senior Capitol Hill correspondent. He also covers the Trump campaign.
Dasha Burns is a correspondent for NBC News.
Middle East latest: Israel issues new evacuation orders in Gaza
Israel has issued new evacuation orders in Gaza as its military campaign continues more than 10 months since the war against Hamas began. Meanwhile, Israel and Hezbollah are said to be wary of escalating their own conflict. Below, watch military analyst Sean Bell assess the situation.
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- Israel issues new evacuation orders in Gaza
- Oil tanker still on fire days after Houthi attack in Red Sea
- Militant group Hezbollah launches drone and rocket attack on Israel
- Israel struck pre-emptively in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based
- Israel and Hezbollah 'trade messages' urging against escalation
- Watch: How attacks from both sides unfolded
- Watch: How strong is Hezbollah?
- Analysis : What does Hezbollah mean by 'phase one'?
- Alex Rossi: Great peril remains of wider Middle East conflict
- Live reporting by Samuel Osborne
We're pausing our coverage of the crisis in the Middle East.
Here are the main developments today:
- Israel and Hezbollah have reportedly exchanged messages aimed at preventing further escalation after both sides traded heavy fire on Sunday;
- The exchanges came after weeks of tensions following the killing of a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon last month;
- Our international correspondent Alex Rossi said while another dangerous moment appears to be passing, the Middle East remains at great peril of a devastating wider conflict;
- You can watch military analyst Sean Bell assess the situation between Hezbollah and Israel below.
- In the Red Sea, a Greek-flagged vessel attacked by Houthi rebels last week is still burning today;
- The group has been attacking ships in solidarity with Palestinians amid the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza;
- Israel has today issued new evacuation orders in Gaza as its 10-month military campaign there continues;
- The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 40,435 Palestinians have now been killed since 7 October , with 93,534 injured.
That's all for now.
Some 40,435 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's military offensive in Gaza since 7 October, the Hamas-run health ministry has announced.
It added that 93,534 have been injured during that time.
The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count.
Seven Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military strikes today, medics have told the Reuters news agency.
Two were killed in Deir Al-Balah, where around a million people are sheltering and where Israel has issued an evacuation order.
Two more were killed at a school near the Al-Nuseirat camp and three in the southern city of Rafah, near the border with Egypt.
More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilians and fighters in its count.
Israel has issued new evacuation orders for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, forcing more families to flee the area.
Israel has issued several evacuation orders across Gaza in recent days - the most since the beginning of the 10-month war - saying its forces intended to act against Hamas and other groups in the areas.
The Deir Al-Balah municipality said Israel's evacuation orders have so far displaced 250,000 people.
The orders forced many families and patients to leave Al-Aqsa Hospital, the main medical facility in Deir Al-Balah, where hundreds of thousands of people have taken shelter.
Family displaced 11 times
One woman said she and her children had been displaced 11 times.
Sawasn Abu Afesh told Reuters she has "no money for transportation" and would have to make the journey on foot, while three of her children had been left behind.
"No idea where," she said.
Israel was unable to anticipate the time and place of Hezbollah's "limited and managed attack," showing it has "lost its deterrent power", Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani has claimed.
Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, while Israel's military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to ward off a greater attack.
Iran praised and congratulated Hezbollah's "unique response against several vital and strategic targets" in Israel, Mr Kanaani said.
"Hezbollah's decisive response proved that the enemy's crimes do not go unanswered."
Mr Kanaani said Israel was unable to predict "the time and place" of attacks against it despite "the comprehensive support of its supporters, including the US".
Yesterday the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched an attack on Israel in retaliation for the killing of one of its commanders in Beirut - with Israel pre-empting the move with its own airstrikes.
The attacks from both sides followed the death of top Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed in a strike in Beirut's southern suburbs in July.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu previously described Shukr as "one of the most wanted terrorists in the world".
Its army said Hezbollah had been planning to launch a heavy barrage of rockets and missiles towards Israel - as the Iranian-backed group, which is designated a terrorist organisation by several countries including the UK, had promised to retaliate.
Flights to and from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport were temporarily suspended on Sunday after the attacks broke out, but have since resumed.
So what is Hezbollah and will it play a role in the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Middle East?
An oil tanker has been on fire since Friday after it was attacked by Yemen's Houthis, the EU Red Sea naval mission Aspides has said.
Fire and smoke could be seen coming from the Greek-flagged Sounion's main deck in photos published by the EU mission.
The Houthis, who are aligned with Iran, attacked the oil tanker in the Red Sea last week.
The group has been attacking ships in solidarity with Palestinians amid the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Fires were observed on at least five locations on the main deck of the vessel and part of the superstructure is on fire too, Aspides said.
"So far there are no obvious signs of an oil spill," it added.
Satellite image captured by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Satellite 2 showed smoke rising from the vessel at sea.
Aspides has warned the oil tanker, which is carrying 150,000 tonnes of crude oil, may pose an environmental hazard.
By Alex Rossi , international correspondent
Another dangerous moment appears to be passing in this disastrous conflict, but great peril remains for Israel, Lebanon and the wider region.
Israel's pre-emptive strike and Hezbollah's retaliatory attack for the assassination of their top commander in late July risked plunging both sides into all-out war.
That nightmare scenario appears to be fading for now, but all the dynamics for a much bigger conflict remain.
Effectively the stand-off - with each side sending messages with bombs and rockets - continues.
Watch: How Israeli and Hezbollah strikes unfolded
A dangerous spiral
The Israelis and Hezbollah are signalling that they do not seek a wider war but the risk of accident and miscalculation remains.
Both sides are also under pressure to do more, which could also lead to a dangerous spiral.
There are people behind Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah who are urging a more forceful response to Israel's continued assault on Gaza.
And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has very loud voices in his ear telling him to launch a major operation against the Lebanese militant group to force it back from the border and allow tens of thousands of Israelis to return home.
Great danger so long as Gaza war continues
The problem is that violence often ends up having its own logic and can take actors in directions they may not foresee.
It may not be in Israel or Hezbollah's interest to fight a major war, but it may happen anyway.
And the consequences would be disastrous, with significant damage and casualties on both sides.
The key to dialling down the tensions would be a ceasefire in Gaza, but for the moment that seems to be out of reach, meaning great danger lies ahead.
Polio vaccines for more than a million people have been delivered to Gaza, Israel's military has said.
Five lorries with special refrigeration equipment for vaccine storage were brought into Gaza on Friday and the jabs arrived on Sunday, a statement by the Israeli military body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs said.
It said vaccinations will be conducted by international and local medical teams at "various locations", in coordination with Israel's military as part of "routine humanitarian pauses" to allow people to reach health centres.
It comes after the first confirmed case of the disease in the territory in a quarter of a century, with other cases suspected after the virus was detected in wastewater in six different locations in July.
Aid groups have plans to vaccinate more than 600,000 children under 10 and have called for an urgent pause in fighting. The UN has aimed to bring 1.6 million doses of polio vaccine into Gaza.
What is polio?
Polio is a highly contagious infection that is transmitted mainly through contact with contaminated waste, water, or food.
It can cause difficulty breathing and irreversible paralysis, usually in the legs. It strikes young children in particular and can sometimes be fatal.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians live in crowded tent camps, where they lack clean water or proper disposal for sewage and rubbish - with families sometimes using wastewater to drink or clean dishes.
Israel and Hezbollah traded their most intense fire for months in the early hours of Sunday before pulling back hours later, with both sides saying they wanted to avoid further escalation.
Hezbollah claimed to hit an Israeli military intelligence site near Tel Aviv in a barrage of hundreds of rockets and drones.
Israel claimed its attacks in southern Lebanon had been pre-emptive to avert a larger assault by Hezbollah.
Our military analyst Sean Bell explains more:
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Trump and Suspends His Independent Bid for President
Mr. Kennedy said he will remove his name from the ballot in battleground states, so as not to be a spoiler.
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In my heart, I no longer believe that I have a realistic path to electoral victory. So I cannot in good conscience ask my staff and volunteers to keep working their long hours, or ask my donors to keep giving when I cannot honestly tell them that I have a real path to the White House. I want everyone to know that I am not terminating my campaign. I am simply suspending it and not ending it. My name will remain on the ballot in most states. My joining the Trump campaign will be a difficult sacrifice for my wife and children, but worthwhile if there’s even a small chance of saving these kids. Most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children. If we all unite around that issue now, we can finally give them the protection, the health and the future that they deserve.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threw his support behind former President Donald J. Trump on Friday after suspending his troubled independent campaign for president, saying he was withdrawing his name from the ballot in battleground states and that Mr. Trump had “asked to enlist me” in his second administration.
He announced his plans in a speech in Phoenix that also castigated the mainstream media and accused the Democratic Party of “abandoning democracy” and engaging in “legal warfare” against him and Mr. Trump.
Campaigning in Las Vegas, Mr. Trump expressed delight with Mr. Kennedy’s decision. “That’s big,” he said. “He’s a great guy, respected by everybody.” On Friday evening, Mr. Kennedy spoke at a rally for Mr. Trump in Arizona.
Mr. Kennedy’s decision to back Mr. Trump, in the final months before a closely fought general election, was a remarkable twist for the scion of a Democratic political dynasty. A longtime Democrat, Mr. Kennedy renounced his party, whose leaders in turn accused him of running as a stalking horse for Mr. Trump.
In his remarks, Mr. Kennedy, 70, said he had pledged to leave the race if he “became a spoiler” — a candidate with no path to victory who could nonetheless alter the outcome of the election. “In my heart, I no longer believe I have a realistic path to electoral victory, in the face of this relentless, systematic censorship and media control,” he said.
“Our polling consistently showed that by staying on the ballot in battleground states, I would most likely hand the election to the Democrats, with whom I disagree on most existential issues,” he said.
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