Tongue twisters are a great way to practice and improve pronunciation and fluency. They’re not just for kids, but are also used by actors, politicians, and public speakers who want to sound clear when speaking.

Spark your thinking!

1.  Set up your Early Enrichment Mini Spark recording page: #41: Spooky Halloween Tongue Twisters

2. Look over this list of Spooky Halloween Tongue Twisters.  Write down you favorite one.

• Creepy crawly critters crawl through creepy crawly craters.
• Dracula digs dreary, dark dungeons.
• Ghostly ghouls gather gleefully to golf on ghostly golf courses.
• Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
• Horribly hoarse hoot owls hoot howls of horror in Halloween haunted houses.
• If big, black bats could blow bubbles, how big of bubbles would big black bats blow?
• If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
• Professional Pumpkin Pickers are prone to pick the plumpest pumpkins.
• Transylvanian Tree Trimmers are trained to trim the tallest Transylvanian trees.
• Several spooky, slimy spiders sulkily spun by the sea.
• The ochre ogre ogled the poker.
• Which witch wished which wicked wish?

3. Learn to say your tongue twister. Set you timer for 3 minutes and practice reading it aloud over and over. Start slowly. Work on saying each word carefully and clearly. Work up to being able to say your tongue twister quickly.  As an adult to listen to you and initial your recording page.

4. Now that you’re an expert at saying one, write your own alliterative tongue twister.

• Pick a consonant.
• Write down as many words as you can think of that start with that letter. The more alike they sound, the better.
• Make up a sentence that uses as many of your words as possible.

5. Share your Early Enrichment Mini Spark recording page with your teacher or EY Coordinator.