ch Initial Sound Stories – Stories for sound production

The Sound Stories series is designed for children with sound production difficulties. This ch Initial Sound Stories pack includes narratives for sound production to develop the /ch/ initial sound. Other editions include /f/,/s/,/t/, /k/, /l/, /sh/ initial phonemes, /l/ and /s/ clusters and /s,/f/,/t/, /k/ and /p/ final.

How to Use This Resource

Ch Initial Sound Stories is designed to enhance phonemic awareness and sound production and so teachers will find this product useful to supplement phonics interventions. Read and enjoy the story together, pointing out details in the illustrations.

• Pick out words from the story that begin with /ch/ and say them together.
• Have a competition to see how many words you can find in an individual picture that begins with /ch/.
• Encourage the child to name items independently.
• Use the colouring activity and questions that accompany each story to encourage sound production.
• For children in the later stages of therapy who are attempting to correctly produce words at sentence level, encourage them to carry out a whole story retelling. You may wish to make an additional copy of the story and to cut the illustrations into individual pictures which can be laid out, one at a time.

What’s inside

1. Three pages of background, introduction and instructions.
2. Ten pages of colour sound stories featuring the target sound, along with extension activities including colouring activities and a set of questions and pictures related to each story, all featuring /ch/ initial.
3. Story one: Charlie chooses chewing gum. Meet Charlie and his friends in Mrs Chamber’s class at Champion Street School. As a treat, most of the children choose cherry yoghurt or chocolate. But Charlie always chooses sticky chewing gum! So, they have a challenge – how can they persuade Charlie to choose something else for a treat?
4. Story two: Chico the noisy chimp. Chico was the noisiest chimp in the jungle and all the other chimps were tired of his chattering and chittering. But everything changes when a cheetah walks by – can you guess what happens?!
5. Black and white duplicate stories.

For additional resources which encourage sound production check out our /ch/ initial – Speech Sound Worksheets. This resource offers a wide range of attractive interactive games and activities which encourage the production of the focus sound.

Age: 4–9 years

Format: PDF file, Available as a download, 26 pages.

Snippets: Upgrade your account to send specially selected extracts of this resource, via our website, to parents and carers for homework exercises. The snippets for this resource include black-and-white illustrations and the following:

• The story of Charlie chooses chewing gum. Meet Charlie and his friends in Mrs Chamber’s class at Champion Street School. As a treat, most of the children choose cherry yoghurt or chocolate. But Charlie always chooses sticky chewing gum! So, they have a challenge – how can they persuade Charlie to choose something else for a treat?
• Picking out the words from the story with the ‘special sound’ and saying the words together with the child.
• It is a game to see how many words the child can find in a picture that ends with the ‘special sound.’