s clusters – Stories for sound production

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

Each Sound Stories pack contains two attractive and fully illustrated stories, colouring activities and a series of questions which offer high-frequency words, featuring a specific phoneme in the initial position. These can be used for focused auditory stimulation and sound production work.

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

Teachers will find this product useful to supplement phonics interventions.

The pack consists of:

1. Three pages of background, introduction and instructions.
2. Six pages of colour sound stories.
   Story one: Stanley Gets Stuck! Stanley wasn’t the speediest of snails –  in fact, Stanley was the slowest snail of them all. Learn how Spencer the spider uses his special strong web to spin Stanley out of a sticky mess.
   Story two: Stephan’s Special Snowman! One snowy day, Stephan puts on his spotty scarf and his snuggly coat. Using his spade he builds a snowman, with a stick for arms and stones for eyes. Join Stephan and his snowman as they skateboard and skip through their special afternoon together.
3. Four pages of extension activities comprised of a colouring activity and a set of questions related to each story.
4. 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 Stanley the Snail who, as he slithered slowly along, became stuck on a sticky sweet on the ground! How might Spencer the Spider assist Stanley in releasing him from the sticky sweet?
• Picking out the words from the story with the ‘special sound’ and saying the words together with the child.
• A game to see how many words the child can find in a picture that ends with the ‘special sound.’