/f/ initial Sound Stories – for sound production

Name: /f/ initial Sound Stories - for sound production
SKU: PA6-2
Availability: InStock

Description

Our popular Sound Stories series is designed for children who have difficulties with sound production. Each Sound Stories pack contains two attractive and full-colour illustrated stories, colouring activities and a series of questions which offer high-frequency words, featuring a specific phoneme.

This pack features simple /f/ initial sound stories for early speech development.

These fun and easy stories are designed to allow children to practice the /f/ sound and provide a high frequency of targeted speech sounds for focused auditory stimulation and sound production work. Each story includes a colouring activity and a set of questions related to the story to facilitate sound production at a conversational level.

For more information see below

Ref: PA6-2 Download Sample

This /f/ initial Sound Stories pack is part of a series of resources designed to support sound production – in this case to develop the /f/ initial sound.

The Sound Stories series are a set of illustrated stories, provides a high frequency of targeted initial speech sounds for focused auditory stimulation and sound production work. Other editions include /sh/,/s/,/t/, /k/, /l/,/ch/ initial phonemes, /l/ and /s/ clusters and /s,/f/,/t/, /k/ and /p/ final

How to Use This Resource

/f/ 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 /f/ and say them together.
- Have a competition to see how many words you can find in an individual picture that begins with /f/.
- 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 /f/ initial sound stories pack consists of:

Three pages of background, introduction and instructions.
Six pages of colour sound stories.
Story one: Finley The Fish Gets Fit. A story about Finley the fish who needs to eat fewer fish cakes and get fit. Fortunately for him, Felicity Fantail is on hand to help him feel fit and fabulous.
Story two: Farmer Philip’s Fence. A story about Farmer Philips and Fergus the fox. Farmer Philips works hard to keep Fergus from his feathery friends, but will his efforts be fruitful?
Four pages of extension activities comprised of a colouring activity and a set of questions related to each story.
Black and white duplicate stories.

Other resources which support the production of initial /f/ include: /f/ initial Consonant Worksheets and /f/ initial Sound Games.

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 Finley the Fish and his efforts, with the assistance of Felicity Fantail, to get fit by exercising and eating just a little less!
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.’