Archive for the “Speech sounds” category
Generalising speech sounds poster
A poster to display in classrooms to support children when generalising speech sounds in everyday talking.
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Happy Families – Initial sounds
Advice sheet and resource pack including instructions on how to play Happy Families when practising targeted speech sounds at the start of words.
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Helping children with s clusters
Advice and strategies for helping children with s clusters
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Speech steps
Children say new sounds in their talking step by step. Speech steps shows the stages children take to use a new sound all the time. See ‘speech sound game ideas’ and ‘generalising speech’ for ideas to help on the way.
Minimal pairs
An activity to help children listen for sounds in words. Working on minimal pairs helps children with sounds they find tricky to say
sound pictures – s blends
Pictures to help children with s blends. This pack contains pictures with and without written words
sound pictures – l blends
Pictures to help children with l blends. This pack contains pictures with and without written words
sound pictures – r blends
Pictures to help children with r blends. This pack contains pictures with and without written words
Sound pictures – Final sounds no written words
A pack of pictures to work on final sounds of words. These pictures no written word on them
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sound pictures – final sounds with written word
A pack of pictures to work on final sounds of words. These pictures have the written word on them
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