Stopping-Minimal Pairs Worksheets

Name: Stopping-Minimal Pairs Worksheets
SKU: PIP2-2
Availability: InStock

Description

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.

Ref: PIP2-2 Download Sample

Each pack in our Pairs in Pictures (PIP) minimal pairs series focuses on a particular phonological process and provides minimal pairs of that particular process in initial, medial and final position. This pack focuses on Stopping-Minimal Pairs Worksheets

PIP 1: Fronting/Backing, Gliding

PIP 2: Stopping

PIP 3: Consonant Deletion

PIP 4: Cluster Reduction /s/

PIP 5: Cluster Reduction /l/ and /r/

PIP 6: Voicing/devoicing

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’

The pack includes a range of fun activities including:

hunting and hiding
where’s the sticker
picture lotto and picture pairs
which one am I talking about
jump along

Additional minimal pairs, and sentences which contain minimal pairs, are included in this pack. Some children who have severe difficulties with phonological processing and speech production will require a greater number of activities before outcomes are achieved. For this reason, speech and language therapists may find it helpful to have access to a more extensive bank of minimal pairs, particularly when working with older pupils (6 years+). Similarly, the sentences containing minimal pairs can be used to highlight the importance of word production in relation to the meaning of a sentence.

Caroline Bowen offers excellent information on her website (speech-language-therapy.com) on minimal pair therapies which clearly describes the varying approaches that can be used by therapists, and again, the picture resources provided in our Pairs in Pictures series can be utilised to support these approaches.

Aim: Use to develop sound awareness skills; help children identify process contrasts, minimal pairs therapy.

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

Format: PDF file with 4 pages of instructions, 2 pages of extra pairs and sentences, 18 pages of colour with duplicate black and white pictures (42 pages in total). Available as a download.

For more minimal pairs see our Minimal Pairs Bundle

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 colour illustrations and the following:

A series of coloured pictures which can be copied and made into lotto games and matching pairs games.
A ‘which one am I talking about’ activity, where the child needs to find the picture that the adult describes. For example, ‘this lives in my garden. It likes to eat leaves. It has a shell.’