sh Initial Sound Stories – Stories for sound production

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

How to Use This Resource

Sh 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 /sh/ and say them together.
  • Have a competition to see how many words you can find in an individual picture that begins with /sh/.
  • 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

The pack consists of:

1. 1. Three pages of background, introduction and instructions.
   2. Six pages of colour sound stories featuring target sound.
   3. Story one: Three sailors meet a shark: Read all about three sailors on their way back from Shell Island who meet a shark who has sharp, shiny teeth.
   4. Story two: Sharon’s sheep shop: Meet Meet Sharon the sheep who is bored…she was sure there was something she should do. Sean the shepherd has an idea to open a sheep shop in the shed!
   5. Five pages of extension activities including colouring activities and a set of questions and pictures related to each story, all featuring /sh/ initial.
   6. Black and white duplicate stories.

For additional resources which encourage sound production check out our /sh/ 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 colourful illustrations and the following:

• The story of Sharon the sheep and shepherd Sean who set up a sheep shop in the shed!
• 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.’