Target useful words
Practice words reinforce the sounds in your current learning path rather than being drawn at random. If you have been working on /th/, the words you get are the ones that will actually exercise it.
Every position, not the easy one
Many learners produce a sound perfectly at the start of a word and lose it at the end, or the reverse. Word practice covers initial, medial and final position, plus consonant clusters, which are the hardest case and get their own attention.
See where it slipped
Feedback points at the part of the word that needs another attempt rather than giving you one number for the whole thing. Knowing which sound in which position is what makes the next try different from the last one.
Expect coarticulation
The same /t/ is not produced identically in "top", "stop", "little" and "cat". Your mouth is already moving toward the next sound while it finishes the current one. That overlap is normal speech, not a mistake to eliminate.
Create confidence
Revisit words as often as your allowance allows and let consistency do the work. Short daily sessions build the motor pattern faster than one long session a week, even when the total time is identical.
Dropping back is targeting
If a sound falls apart inside a particular word position, the right move is a short return to phoneme practice for that sound. Going back one stage is not losing progress, it is aiming.