Parts of the Mouth
Making an R sound
R practice words - initial
R practice words - final
100

This part is outside your mouth and allows you to pucker for a kiss or blow bubbles.

What are lips?

100

When you make a Retroflex R sound, you curl this part back.

What is the tip of the tongue?
100

This is an animal with a "mask" and a long ringed tail, often seen at night in the garbage cans.

What is a raccoon.

100
I can take you places, I have 4 doors, but I'm not a truck.

What is a car?

200

This can stick outside of your mouth or touch behind your teeth.  You also use it to lick your lips.

What is the tongue?

200

For the Bunched R, you need to do this.

What is pulling the tongue back?
200

This is the long strip of pavement that you drive on.

What is a road?
200
What we call the sound that a cat makes. 

What is purr?

300

The bumps behind your top front teeth where your tongue rests or taps for sounds such as S, T, D, L.

What is the (alveolar) ridge?
300

This is the key thing you need to do with your tongue in either Retroflex of Bunched R to make the correct sound, if not it will sound like "ah".  

What is make it tense?

300

What we call it when water falls from the sky.

What is rain?

300

Where you go to buy things you need.

What is the store?

400

Far inside your mouth at the back where your tongue stretches up to touch the inside of these when making the R sound.  

What are the back molars?

400

This must be turned ON to make the R sound heard.

What is your voice?

400
Full of colours and can be seen in the sky after a rain.

What is a rainbow?

400

The third planet from the sun, where we live.

What is earth?

500

The squishy part of your mouth, also called the "roof" of the mouth.

What is the soft palate?

500
Bringing the back sides of your tongue up to touch the inside of your back molars will create a groove which is called this.  

What is taco tongue?

500

An animal with a big horn on it's nose and you can see me at the zoo. 

What is a rhino(ceraus).

500

A woman, or a female, is also called this.  

What is a girl?