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Our popular Minimal Pairs Bundle contains a large bank of colour pictures illustrating the most common phonological processes. Each of the 6 packs focuses on a particular speech process including fronting, backing, gliding, stopping consonant deletion, cluster reductions and voice/voiceless production. To develop sound awareness skills, for speech production work and to help children identify process contrasts, the packs include lots of ideas for games and activities to supplement therapy in the clinic, at home or at school.

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!’

For more information see below.

 

Fronting-Backing-Gliding - Minimal Pairs

Minimal Pairs, fronting-backing-gliding worksheets for developing sound awareness skills; helping children identify phonological process contrasts. Supplements minimal pair therapy in clinic, and activities in home and school.

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!’

 

Stopping-Minimal Pairs Worksheets

Minimal Pairs, Stopping work sheets are for developing sound awareness skills; helping children identify phonological process contrasts. Supplements minimal pair therapy in clinic, and activities at home and school.

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 help 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!’

For more information see below.

Consonant Deletion - Minimal Pairs

A useful resource bank of colour pictures illustrating common phonological processes, in this case consonant deletion. These packs provide an extensive bank of  colour illustrations which target the most common phonological processes.

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!’

For more information see below.

 

Cluster Reduction, s blends - Minimal Pairs

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!’

For more information see below.

Cluster Reduction, l & r blends - Minimal Pairs

This minimal pairs - cluster reduction, l and r blend pack is useful resource bank of colour pictures illustrating  cluster reduction, l & r blends. Essential resource for working on phonological processes with children up to KS2.

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 their 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!’

Voicing/devoicing - Minimal Pairs

A useful resource bank of pictures illustrating common phonological processes, in this case voiced/voiceless, which can be used to make games and activities.

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!’

For more information see below.

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This Minimal Pairs Bundle consists of all six packs of the Black Sheep Press Minimal Pair worksheets.

The Minimal pairs series offers an extensive bank of colour illustrations which target the most common phonological processes of fronting, backing, gliding, stopping consonant deletion, cluster reductions and voice/voiceless production. The packs within the Minimal Pairs Bundle have recently been revised to include colour illustrations, instructions and extra word pairs and sentences. The packs can be used to make a variety of games and activities and to supplement therapy in the clinic, at home or at school.

Fronting/Backing, Gliding.

  • Fronting: when speech sounds made at the back of the mouth (/k/, /g/, /ng/) are produced at the front of the mouth, usually as /t/ and/or /d/. Examples: ‘car’ = ‘dar’; ‘garden’ = ‘darden’; ‘key’ = ‘tee’; ‘like’ = ‘lite’; ‘bag’ = ‘bad’.
  • Backing: when many sounds made at the front of the mouth are produced at the back of the mouth.
    Examples: ‘baby’ = ‘gaygee’; ‘teddy bear’ = ‘geggy gare’; ‘fish’ = ‘gi’;
    ‘elephant’ = ‘gegigung’.
  • Gliding: /l/, /r/, /w/ and /y/ are classified as gliding and/or liquid sounds. Examples: ‘leg’ = ‘yeg’ or ‘weg’; ‘run’ = ‘wun’ or ‘yun’; ‘yellow’ = ‘wewow’ or ‘yeyow’.

Stopping

  • When sounds which require friction, such as /f/, /v/, /s/, /z/ and /sh/, are shortened and ‘stopped’. Examples: ‘sun’ = ‘dun’; ‘fish’ = ‘bi’; ‘shoe’ = ‘doo’; ‘shoelaces’ = ‘doodaydid’

Consonant Deletion:

  • Examples: ‘car’ = ‘ar’; ‘sausages’ = ‘o’ ‘i’ ‘u’; ‘house’ = ‘ow’.

Cluster Reduction /s/ blends.

  • Sound clusters are where two or three consonants combine at the front, middle or end of words. For example, ‘spoon’, ‘flower’, ‘string’, ‘basket’ and ‘last’. A child exhibiting cluster reduction will omit one or two consonants from the cluster.

Cluster Reduction, l & r blends

  • Sound clusters are where two or three consonants combine at the front, middle or end of words. For example, ‘spoon’, ‘flower’, ‘string’, ‘basket’ and ‘last’. A child exhibiting cluster reduction will omit one or two consonants from the cluster. Examples: ‘spider’ = ‘bider’; ‘blue’ = ‘boo’; ‘school’ = ‘kool’; ‘first’ = ‘firt’:

voicing/devoicing

  • When speech sounds are paired in terms of placement of articulation but are differentiated by whether the sound is voiced or voiceless. For example, /p/ and /b/ are produced with exactly the same mouth position, but /p/ is voiceless and /b/ is voiced, which makes the differentiation between ‘pea’ and ‘bee’.

 

Aim: To develop sound awareness skills; to help children identify process contrasts.

Age Levels: Foundation Stage, KS 1+, 4years  7years+

Format: PDF files, available as a download

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Additional information

Development Age

3 to 5 years, 5 to 7 years

Fronting-Backing-Gliding - Minimal Pairs

Development Age

3 to 5 years, 5 to 7 years

Stopping-Minimal Pairs Worksheets

Development Age

3 to 5 years, 5 to 7 years

Consonant Deletion - Minimal Pairs

Development Age

3 to 5 years, 5 to 7 years

Cluster Reduction, s blends - Minimal Pairs

Development Age

3 to 5 years, 5 to 7 years

Cluster Reduction, l & r blends - Minimal Pairs

Development Age

3 to 5 years, 5 to 7 years

Voicing/devoicing - Minimal Pairs

Development Age

3 to 5 years, 5 to 7 years

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