Automation of the sound “Z” in words is carried out after automation in syllables. In order for the child to find it interesting to pronounce syllables, it is recommended to play them with the help of Adventurers. Adventure games can be found on the Internet, made with your own hands, or downloaded from our website.
When pronouncing the sound [З], watch the articulation (position of lips, cheeks, teeth).
Sound articulation [Z]:
- lips are stretched, slightly pressed to the incisors;
- there is a small gap between the incisors;
- the tip of the tongue is lowered, pressed against the inner surface of the lower incisors;
- the front part of the back of the tongue is lowered, the front part is raised, the back part is lowered;
- the tongue is in the “slide” position;
- the lateral edges of the tongue are pressed against the upper molars;
- the front part of the back of the tongue forms a gap with the alveoli, in the middle of the tongue there is a groove that directs the exhaled air stream in the center;
- the soft palate is raised (Z - oral sound);
- the vocal cords are closed and vibrate (Z – dull sound).
What to do if a child does not speak the sound Z and Zь
Option 1. If the child does not say all the whistling sounds (С, Сь, З, Зь, Ц
), then first we work with the sound C and its soft version Сь. And only after that + we call out the sound Z and reinforce its correct pronunciation. If a child has mastered the sound C well, and the sounds C and Сь are perfectly automated in words, phrases, poems, and dialogues, then producing the sound Z will not cause difficulties.
Option 2.
If a child speaks the sounds S and S very well, but pronounces the sound Z incorrectly , then usually there are no problems with pronouncing the sound Z and consolidating its correct pronunciation.
The baby quickly begins to pronounce this sound correctly simply by imitation. So, we begin to work on the sound Z when the child already speaks the sounds S and Сь perfectly.
Children are usually ready for this at the age of four.
Goat and the alphabet
Zoya has a goat, Zabavka. Zoya loves her goat. Zoya takes care of the goat Zabavka. One day a goat was grazing in a meadow, and Zoya was sitting on the grass and looking at her ABC book. Zoya began to show the goat her ABC: “Here, Fun, this is the letter A!”
And the goat responded: “Meh!”
Fun doesn't know the letters, but the goat doesn't even need to know them! But the goat knows for sure: where the food, the barn and her owner Zoya are.
How to evoke the sound Z by imitation?
In the absence of the sounds З and Зь or their replacement with other sounds, you can first try to evoke the sound З by imitation.
Ask your child to sing the mosquito song zzzzzz.
- Show what position the lips have (smile), tongue (wide with a groove in the middle).
- Pronounce the sound Z – “mosquito song” – slowly.
- Ask your child to repeat it.
Play mosquitoes with your child - reinforce the sound “z”. Remind your child how in the summer mosquitoes in the forest sing their song: “zzzz” and bother us. Let the child be a mosquito in the forest and sing the mosquito song “zzz”, and you will run away from him into the house and hide.
When playing with a group of children, one half of the children “walks in the forest”, the other pretends to be mosquitoes and rings “zzz”. Then the children change roles.
After the children ring like mosquitoes, show them the difference in the articulation of the sound C and the sound Z. Sit in front of the mirror. And compare the sounds s (“pump song”) and the sound z (“mosquito song”). Draw the children’s attention to the fact that the sound C—“pump song”—sounds quietly, and the mosquito song sounds loud—zzzz—and a voice can be heard. The mouth is the home of the voice. And when the voice loudly sings the song of a mosquito, even the walls of the house tremble. And you can feel it.
Demonstrate these unusual sensations to your child. First, place the child’s hand on your neck when you say the sound Z. Let him feel the vibration as you pronounce the sound “z.” Then ask your child to put one hand on the back of your neck, and the other hand on his neck, and sing the mosquito song “zzzzz” with him. Children usually really like this task, new sensations that are unexpected for them.
Compare with the sound C - “pump song”. Pull the ssss sound. Trembling - no vibration! Tell your child that the sound C is a dull, quiet sound, our voice sleeps. And the sound Z is loud, ringing, the voice loudly sings the song zzzzz.
Very often this exercise and explanation is enough for the sound Z to appear in the child’s speech.
Strange vase
Zoya has her mother’s favorite vase on the table in the dining room. She is tall, blue, with gold patterns.
One day Zoya took a vase from the table. She wanted to look at the patterns. The vase slipped out of Zoya’s hands and broke with a clang.
Mom returned from work and asked Zoya: “How did the vase break?” Zoya replied: “She fell off the table herself!” “What a strange vase! - Mom was surprised. “And when she fell, she told you “Goodbye”?”
What difficulties may arise when working with the sounds З and Зь? Useful tips.
Advice one. If a child cannot make the sound Z, then the reason may be insufficient development of the organs of the articulatory apparatus.
Articulation exercises for whistling sounds will help cope with this problem. You will find a detailed complex of articulation gymnastics in step-by-step descriptions and videos in the article “How to teach a child to pronounce the sounds C and Сь.”
Tip two. If a child cannot make a groove in the middle of his tongue when pronouncing the sound Z, then most likely his tongue muscles are underdeveloped. Exercises will help us:
- Ask your child to smile widely (stretch their lips) and hold their lips in this position. If your lips are stretched, you need to stick your outstretched tongue out and blow on its tip. You will get a groove in the middle of the tongue. The exercise is carried out in front of a mirror.
- If the groove does not work, then ask the child to stick the wide tip of his tongue out. Place the edge of a teaspoon in the middle of your tongue. Having made a small depression in it, ask the child to blow air along this groove. You can blow on cotton wool or a thin strip of paper, then the result of the exercise will be clearly visible. As soon as the child can easily do this exercise, you can ask him to move his tongue behind his lower teeth (maintaining the position of his lips). The result is the sound S. When you add a voice to it, you get the sound Z.
- The exercise described above can be done with a glass vial (a glass jar or bottle from a pharmacy). Teach your child to whistle into a bubble so that the tip of the tongue moves slightly outward or touches the edges of the bubble. Air flows along the groove in the middle of the tongue and the result is a whistle. First, try whistling yourself in front of a mirror, and then show the exercise to your child. If the groove in the middle of the tongue does not work out for him, place a thin round stick along the tongue.
Tip three. If a child sticks his tongue out between his lips when pronouncing the sound Z
(therefore the sound is distorted), then do this exercise. Ask your child to stretch his lips into a smile and close his teeth tightly. And whistle like a pump ssssss. And then sing like a mosquito zzzzzzz. With clenched teeth, the tongue will automatically rest against the lower teeth, and the correct sound will be produced.
You will learn more about the methods of producing sounds S and Z from a video by a speech therapist about producing whistling sounds.
The sound Z appeared. Now we are faced with an important task - to automate this sound in the child’s speech.
The sequence of exercises to consolidate the correct pronunciation of the sound Z:
- 1. exercises with isolated sound,
- 2. sound in syllables,
- 3. sound in words
- 4. sound in phrases, poems, stories, dialogues, tongue twisters.
First we work with the sound Z, and then with its soft version - the sound Зь. Games, tongue twisters, nursery rhymes, poems, and pictures are selected for each stage.
Good Zoya
Once Maxim and Zoya made a kite out of paper. They were flying a kite in a clearing. The kite flew low and became entangled in the branches of a linden tree. Maxim climbed up the linden tree after the kite and caught his T-shirt on a branch. A piece of fabric remained on the branch. When Maxim came down from the linden tree, Zoya told him: “Don’t worry, I’ll put a patch on your T-shirt!”
Stories and fairy tales with the sound Z for classes on ZKR with preschool children.
Bunnies (Lithuanian fairy tale)
Bunnies were born to a hare. The father looked at his children and said to them: “I have a mustache, and you already have a mustache!” So, that means, get your own food. Since then, the little hares, as soon as they are born, live alone, without parents, in a dark forest: they have neither a nest nor a hole. But everyone with a mustache, everyone from the first days can get their own food.
Boy and goats.
Once upon a time there was a boy, and he had three goats. During the day the goats galloped and jumped on the rocks, and by night the boy drove them home. One evening the boy began to drive them home, and the goats ran into the cabbage field, and there was no way to get them out of there. The boy sat down on a hillock and began to cry. A hare walked past. - Why are you crying? – the hare asked the boy. “I’m crying because I can’t drive the goats out of the field,” the boy answered. “I’ll drive them out,” said the hare. The hare began to drive out, but the goats did not come. The hare sat down and also cried. A fox walked past. - Why are you crying? – the fox asked the hare. “I’m crying because the boy is crying,” says the hare, “And the boy is crying because he can’t drive the goats out of the field.” “Calm down, I’ll drive them out,” said the fox. She began to drive out, but the goats would not come. The fox sat down here and also began to cry. And so the wolf drove him away, but he didn’t drive him out either. A bee was flying here. He sees that they are all sitting and crying, and says: “I’ll kick them out.” Then all the animals and the boy stopped crying and began to laugh at the bee. How will she drive out the goats when they all couldn’t cope! But the bee flew to the cabbage field, sat on the goat, and began to buzz. - Zhzhzhzhzh! Zhzhzhzhzh! Zhzhzhzh! How the goats will start running! And they ran home from the field.
Monkey Ruza. The author of the story is A.I. Maksakov. From the book “Development of correct speech of a child in the family” (Publishing house Mozaika - Synthesis, 2011).
“Dad brought Zoya a monkey from Africa. Zoya named the monkey Ruza. Ruza knew how to jump funny and imitate Zoya's friends. Zoya taught Ruza to answer the doorbell. In winter, Ruza fell ill. Zoya took Ruza to the doctor, gave her various herbs, and fed her bananas. Thanks to Zoya’s care, Ruza recovered.”
Ask your child questions about the content of the story. Ask them to find words with the sound Z in the story and make up their own sentences with them.
The story "Girlfriends". Author – M.F. Fomicheva. From the book “Educating Children to Pronounce Correctly.”
“Zoya, Lisa and Aza are friends. Friends gathered at Zoya's. Zoya, Lisa and Aza play together. The Muse doll is put to bed. They go for a walk with a funny bunny. Mom called Lisa home. Azu was also called. Zoya was left alone. Zoya's teeth hurt. Zoya tied her teeth and sits. Lisa found out about this. Zoe brought a mosaic. Aza also found out. I brought Zoya some forget-me-nots. Zoya put forget-me-nots in a vase. Lisa, Zoya and Aza began to play mosaic. They made a beautiful mosaic pattern! Then they asked riddles:
As soon as she got down to business, she sawed and sang. She ate, ate oak, oak, broke a tooth, a tooth. (Saw)
Kuzma is knotty and cannot be untied. ( Chain)
He himself doesn’t know the days, but he points them out to others. (Calendar)
The friends had fun for a long time. Zoya forgot about her bad teeth.”
Ask your child questions about the content of the story. Make sure that he pronounces the sound Z correctly in his answers.
An outdoor game to reinforce the correct pronunciation of the sound Z “Find out by voice.”
Authors: E.I. Radina, V.I. Rozhdestvenskaya.
This game develops children's auditory attention. A circle is drawn on the ground. Children run around the playground. At the adult’s signal, “One, two, three – run in a circle!” they gather in a circle.
The driver is selected. He is blindfolded. He turns his back to the children.
All the children say:
“We frolicked a little, everyone settled down in their places. Guess the riddle, Find out who called you!”
The adult gestures to one of the children, who says: “I’m calling you!” The child driver guesses who called him: “Vova called me? Katya called me?”
If the child guessed who called him, then he changes places with this child. And the other child becomes the driver.
If the child did not guess who called him, then he guesses again in the next game.
In the game you can change your voice, speak in a squeaky high voice or a thick bass voice. It's always interesting and unexpected in this game how players will change their voice.
Fun ride
Winter came. The ground was covered with snow. The whole earth is white. Zoya and Zina brought out the sled. They walk around with empty sleds, carrying them here and there through the snow... It’s cold for Zoya and Zina!
Zoya took it upon herself to carry Zina on a sled. She felt warm. Then Zina took Zoya. Zoya and Zina put little Slavik on a free sled.
The children made a train out of a sled. The dog Tuzik began to run after the sled. The children not only felt warm, but also had fun!
Thunderstorm in the forest
One hot summer, Zoya and Vasya went into the forest. They picked up a full basket of boletus and are buttering. The children were getting ready to go home, but then they were caught in a severe thunderstorm. Lightning flashed and thunder roared. Zoya and Vasya sat down under a tall pine tree and covered themselves with a basket. Soon a teenager called out to them: “Children, it’s dangerous to sit under a tall tree in a thunderstorm!” - he said. - Go under the elderberry bush! Zoya and Vasya did just that. Soon the storm subsided and a rainbow shone in the sky.
Sea snake
There are many sea snakes in the world. Snakes live in warm seas and oceans. Sea snakes do not crawl ashore. They feed, sleep and reproduce in water. The body of the snake slides along the surface of the water, wriggling in zigzags. Sea snakes are clever hunters. Such snakes feed only on fish. The sea snake does not lay eggs. She gives birth to up to five small snakes. Sea snakes are dangerous to swimmers.
Tsybik and Scratchy
The dog Tsybik and the cat Scratchy lived in the same yard. One day the cat was lapping milk on the porch, and the dog ran past. The dog Tsybik touched the cat's saucer. All the milk spilled over the porch.
The cat got angry and scratched the dog. The dog Tsybik barked and rushed at Scratchy. And the cat climbed onto the acacia tree and meowed from there: “You won’t be able to get me!” Dogs don’t know how to climb acacia trees!”
So Tsybik and Scratchy quarrel all day long. It's hard for a cat and a dog to be neighbors!
Chickens and caterpillar
The chickens were walking near the fence. Suddenly they noticed a caterpillar. The caterpillar was gray, long, and hairy. The chickens began to pull the caterpillar. They pull one end, but the other end of the caterpillar is not visible! The chickens began to worry, began to look around... Then the chickens noticed that they were not pulling a caterpillar, but the tail of a huge rat! The chickens got scared and started to run away, running to their mother chicken.
Sheep and flowers
A sheep was walking in the meadow. There were many flowers: blue, white, pink, light blue. The sheep walked on the flowers and trampled them with its hooves. A moth flew over the flowers. “Dear sheep,” he said, “look at these flowers. They are extraordinary! They are priceless! They are like a colorful carpet! Looking at them, you have to be surprised, have fun, dance!”
The sheep looked at the moth, then at the flowers and began to eat them... everything in a row: red, white, and blue...
In zoo
Today, many large cities have zoos. There, children and adults watch animals and birds, snakes and fish. Visitors to the zoo can appreciate the beauty and diversity of animals. Children are interested in learning about the habits of bison and monkeys, parrots and gazelles. It is useful for adults to take a break from the bustle of the city at the zoo.
At the circus
The circus has an arena. Trapezes and rings hang above it. Acrobats tumble on rings. Gymnasts ride on the trapeze. Rope walkers walk on a tightrope. The audience at the circus is excited and happy.
On Friday Vasya and dad went to the circus. At the end of the circus performance, two bears performed. They wore colorful skirts and danced in the center of the arena. Vasya likes going to the circus!
Zoya and the snake
Zakhar and Zoya were in the forest. Zakhar was looking for mushrooms. His basket contained boletus and boletus. Zoya was looking for strawberries. Suddenly Zoya noticed a snake under a bush. She was very scared and froze in place. Then Zoya threw the basket and, without making out the road, rushed deep into the forest. Zakhar looked at the snake and called out to Zoya: “Zoya, come back! It's a runner! Snakes are not dangerous!”
Hardening
Mom began to toughen up little Lisa. In the mornings, Lisa and mom did exercises. In the summer they sunbathed outside the city and swam in the forest lake. In winter, Lisa and mom doused themselves with cold water from a basin. Somehow mom and Lisa found out about the hardening club. The club they signed up for was called “Star”. Experienced trainers trained adults and children here.
