l Clusters – Stories for sound production

The Sound Stories series is designed for children who have difficulties with sound production. This pack features /l/ clusters. Other editions include /f/,/s/,/t/, /k/, /l/ , /sh/ch/ initial phonemes,  /s/ clusters and /s,/f/,/t/, /k/ and /p/ final

How to Use This Resource

L Cluster 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  include/l/ clusters and say them together.
  • Have a competition to see how many words you can find in an individual picture that include/l/ clusters.
  • 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.

The pack also includes additional extension activities to support production at a conversational level.

You may also be interested in our L initial speech sound worksheets resource 

What’s inside the l clusters pack

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 /l/ clusters
3. Story one: Chloe’s washing day! Chloe had no clean clothes. Her blue blouse was covered in blobs. Her black trousers were covered in flour and even her fluffy gloves were covered in glitter. Find out what happened when her clean clothes blew away.
   Story two: Clive’s clever trick! Clive the clown wore a floppy yellow hat and a flower that squirted water. When Clive’s special trick of sliding and flying through the air goes wrong, clever Bill comes up with a plan.
4. Extension activities  – colouring activity and a set of questions related to each story.
5. Black and white duplicate stories.

Age: 4–9 years

Format: PDF file, Available as a download, 20 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 Chloe’s washing day, when it was so windy that all her clean clothes flew off the washing line onto the top of a tall clock tower!
• A game to see how many words the child can find in a picture that ends with the ‘special sound.’
• Picking out the words from the story with the ‘special sound’ and saying the words together with the child.