There are excellent online audio and visual resources that speech improvement teachers and classroom teachers alike can use to help students develop their listening and speaking skills.

These media-rich resources provide ways to listen to language and isolate specific sounds and words that may need attention. Interactive materials help keep students engaged through repeated exercises, with games and graphics that make practice fun. Developing language skills need not be confined to the classroom; these resources can be accessed online, so students can continue working on these skills at home.

The following sites have free materials for both lesson planning and student activities.

Storyline Online, a project of the actors’ union SAG/AFTRA, pairs celebrities, such as Oprah Winfrey, Seth Meyers and Cynthia Erivo, with notable children’s books that they read aloud to aid students’ reading comprehension, communication skills, logical thinking and concentration. Images from each story are featured, with the option to display captions. Each book comes with a teacher’s guide and curriculum.

Simon’s Cat is a YouTube channel that features an animated cat involved in engaging scenarios that contain no words. This format allows students to come up with their own narration and practice telling stories accurately.

ABCya! — Parts of Speech Quest uses gamification to help students learn grammar in fun ways. The Parts of Speech Quest series takes students on an adventure through the Kingdom of Lingua, where they practice identifying different parts of speech to solve puzzles and conquer monsters.

Free SLP is an online community with speech pathology materials for speech therapists, teachers and parents that focus on phonological and articulation skills. Student activities, games, videos and flash cards allow students to practice sounds and learn vocabulary in engaging ways.

Have More Fun is a collection of articulation games developed by Tracy Boyd, a speech language pathologist from Wisconsin. Using the quia.com platform, Boyd has created games focused on specific letter and sound combinations to develop phonological awareness. She uses different formats, including a “Jeopardy”-style competition, flash cards, hangman, concentration and word searches.

Songs for Speech is a YouTube channel with videos set to a musical soundtrack. In addition to videos on pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, there are songs about social skills and English language learning.

HomeSpeechHome has printables, lesson plans, classroom ideas and games, along with pedagogical suggestions for how best to use these resources in a classroom or school setting.

Speech and Language Kids is a hub of speech therapy materials, such as worksheets, games and flash cards.

Language Playroom is an online library of tools and activities created by Ezrael Maher, a speech language therapist, for articulation study, language therapy, fluency and social skills.