Initial s clusters and s blends Bundle (Team Licence)

Most children who are working on speech sounds require a high level of repetition and reinforcement to consolidate their target sound into connected speech. This resource aims to support children to do this through fun and engaging sound games.

This pack focuses on initial /s/ clusters sound and barrier games. It's aim is to support children to ‘bridge the gap’ between using the new sound in formal, highly-structured directed therapy sessions, and move towards consistent use during conversation.

The packs can be used in one-to-one or group settings, and are suitable for children between the ages of 4 and 7 years. Each pack comes with clear instructions which makes it highly suitable for school and/or home programmes of work.

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Our popular Sound Stories series is designed for children who have difficulties with sound production. Each Sound Stories pack contains two attractive and fully illustrated stories, colouring activities and a series of questions which offer high frequency words, featuring, in this case, /s/clusters.

Each pack contains colourful illustrated stories, providing a high frequency of targeted initial speech sounds for focused auditory stimulation and sound production work.

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A useful resource bank of colour pictures illustrating common phonological processes, in this case cluster reduction, s blends. An essential resource for working on phonological processes with children 4 years - 7 years.

A minimal pair is a pair of words, such as ‘tea’ and ‘key’, or ‘four’ and ‘door’, differing only by one sound in the same position in each word. Minimal
pair therapies are an essential and common method used by speech and language therapists to correct error patterns in the speech development of children.

Minimal pairs can be used to develop games and activities to directly confront the child with the consequences of his/her error pattern in terms of meaning. For example, if a child says ‘That’s a funny nail’ (when looking at a picture of a snail), the adult may respond ‘A funny nail?? I can’t see a funny nail anywhere ... but I can see a funny snail!’

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Speech Sound Worksheets are packs of resources for children with delayed speech development. Each pack focuses on an individual phoneme in a specific position in words (initial, medial or final) This pack focuses on: sk initial.

All of the activities provide multiple opportunities for the adult to model correct production and for the child to correct their own production of words. Thus, the adult uses pictures and activities to prompt the use of the target word/sound.

Attractive and easy to use, the worksheets progress from the correct use of the individual sound to single-word production, followed by using these words in simple phrases through to consolidation at the sentence level. Speech Sound Worksheets offer a wide range of attractive interactive games and activities which encourage the production of the focus sound through each of the following stages:

• identification of the chosen sound;
• developing discrimination skills so that children become aware of their error patterns;
• correcting the productions through increasingly complex production contexts i.e. individual words; simple phrases; complex sentences;
• generalising the sound into spontaneous conversational speech.

For more information see below.

Speech Sound Worksheets are packs of resources for children with delayed speech development. Each pack focuses on an individual phoneme in a specific position in words (initial, medial or final) This pack focuses on: sm initial.

All of the activities provide multiple opportunities for the adult to model correct production and for the child to correct their own production of words. Thus, the adult uses pictures and activities to prompt the use of the target word/sound.

Attractive and easy to use, the worksheets progress from the correct use of the individual sound to single-word production, followed by using these words in simple phrases through to consolidation at the sentence level. Speech Sound Worksheets offer a wide range of attractive interactive games and activities which encourage the production of the focus sound through each of the following stages:

• identification of the chosen sound;
• developing discrimination skills so that children become aware of their error patterns;
• correcting the productions through increasingly complex production contexts i.e. individual words; simple phrases; complex sentences;
• generalising the sound into spontaneous conversational speech.

For more information see below.

Speech Sound Worksheets are packs of resources for children with delayed speech development. Each pack focuses on an individual phoneme in a specific position in words (initial, medial or final) This pack focuses on: sn initial.

All of the activities provide multiple opportunities for the adult to model correct production and for the child to correct their own production of words. Thus, the adult uses pictures and activities to prompt the use of the target word/sound.

Attractive and easy to use, the worksheets progress from the correct use of the individual sound to single-word production, followed by using these words in simple phrases through to consolidation at the sentence level. Speech Sound Worksheets offer a wide range of attractive interactive games and activities which encourage the production of the focus sound through each of the following stages:

• identification of the chosen sound;
• developing discrimination skills so that children become aware of their error patterns;
• correcting the productions through increasingly complex production contexts i.e. individual words; simple phrases; complex sentences;
• generalising the sound into spontaneous conversational speech.

For more information see below.

Speech Sound Worksheets are packs of resources for children with delayed speech development. Each pack focuses on an individual phoneme in a specific position in words (initial, medial or final) This pack focuses on: sp initial.

All of the activities provide multiple opportunities for the adult to model correct production and for the child to correct their own production of words. Thus, the adult uses the pictures and activities to prompt the use of the target word/sound.

Attractive and easy to use, the worksheets progress from the correct use of the individual sound to single-word production, followed by using these words in simple phrases through to consolidation at the sentence level. Speech Sound Worksheets offer a wide range of attractive interactive games and activities which encourage the production of the focus sound through each of the following stages:

• identification of the chosen sound;
• developing discrimination skills so that children become aware of their error patterns;
• correcting the productions through increasingly complex production contexts i.e. individual words; simple phrases; complex sentences;
• generalising the sound into spontaneous conversational speech.

For further information see below.

Speech Sound Worksheets are packs of resources for children with delayed speech development. Each pack focuses on an individual phoneme in a specific position in words (initial, medial or final) This pack focuses on: st initial.

All of the activities provide multiple opportunities for the adult to model correct production and for the child to correct their own production of words. Thus, the adult uses the pictures and activities to prompt the use of the target word/sound.

Attractive and easy to use, the worksheets progress from the correct use of the individual sound to single-word production, followed by using these words in simple phrases through to consolidation at the sentence level. Speech Sound Worksheets offer a wide range of attractive interactive games and activities which encourage the production of the focus sound through each of the following stages:

• identification of the chosen sound;
• developing discrimination skills so that children become aware of their error patterns;
• correcting the productions through increasingly complex production contexts i.e. individual words; simple phrases; complex sentences;
• generalising the sound into spontaneous conversational speech.

For more information see below.

Speech Sound Worksheets are packs of resources for children with delayed speech development. Each pack focuses on an individual phoneme in a specific position in words (initial, medial or final) This pack focuses on: sw initial.

All of the activities provide multiple opportunities for the adult to model correct production and for the child to correct their own production of words. Thus, the adult uses the pictures and activities to prompt use of the target word/sound.

Attractive and easy to use, the worksheets progress from the correct use of the individual sound to single word production, followed by using these words in simple phrases through to consolidation at sentence level. Speech Sound Worksheets offer a wide range of attractive interactive games and activities which encourage production of the focus sound through each of the following stages:

• identification of the chosen sound;
• developing discrimination skills so that children become aware of their error pattern;
• correcting the productions through increasingly complex production contexts i.e. individual word; simple phrase; complex sentence;
• generalising the sound into spontaneous conversational speech.

For more information see below.

Consonant Clusters: Alliterative Stories and Activities for Phonological Intervention was written and developed by Caroline Bowen and illustrated by Helen Rippon.

Consonant Clusters is intended for use by Speech and Language Therapists/Speech-Language Pathologists (SLTs/SLPs). The resource comprises information about, and resources for, applying a complexity principle to intervention for children who have turned four, and who have moderate or severe phonological difficulties and poorly intelligible speech.

It begins with a clear explanation of the reasoning and research underpinning the pack, followed by information for therapists and families, a Cluster Screener in the form of a Monosyllabic-Word Imitation Task, and 90 pages of carefully thought out Activity Sheets illustrated by Helen Rippon.

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