This set of disks focuses on groups of sounds featured in word initial, medial and final positions. A collection of minimal pair resources are also included. Materials on each disk are specially designed to be suitable for a wide range of activities including pairs matching, snap, sorting, lotto, board games and dominoes. For each sound on the CD you get:

• 2 sets of small sound pictures
• 2 sets of minimal pair cards
• 4 lotto boards
• 2 minimal pair lotto boards
• 1 set of large (A5) sound pictures
• 1 let of large minimal pair pictures
• 1 A4 board game
• Sound cards
• Vowel cards

These exceptionally high quality images provide a versatile resource that will be used again and again. The cards in each pack are colour coded for easy recognition.

This CD features:

The Phonics Game

This adaptable resources contains a range of activities for working on early phonological processing skills. The pack includes three colourful board games and six sets of phonological processing cards.

Each set is colour coded for easy recognition. Areas targeted include: initial sounds, onset and rime, rhyme detection, rhyme production and syllable segmentation.

A great addition to literacy hour!

Onsets and Rimes

Early spelling made easy with this handy pack.

This versatile resource contains six lotto style game boards and six sets of cards. Children can match initial sounds to pictures, rime patterns to pictures or play rhyming lotto matching pictures to pictures.

Spelling patterns build in complexity starting with simple CVC short vowel patterns through to initial blends with long vowel rime patterns. The same spelling patterns for rhyming words are used throughout to encourage children to link the visual pattern to what they are hearing.

We are sure both teachers and therapists will find this pack a valuable addition to their phonics resources.

 

These printable sheets are designed to be given to parents and carers for home practice of basic listening, speech and language skills. An invaluable collection of resources for clinicians working in early years.

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Speech Sound Homework

Speech Sound Homework is a collection of games designed to enliven phonology home practice. Each activity is flexible and can be used to work at single sound word or phrase level for both discrimination and production of phonemes. Each sheet is clearly presented with suggestions on how to make the game easier or more challenging.

Sound Squares

Sound quares provide an extensive collection of colour pictures to support phonology work. The following phonemes are covered in word initial, medial and final positions: /p/,/b/,/t/,/d/,/k/,/g/,
/f/,/s/,/sh/,/ch/,/dge/,/l/ and /s/,/r/ and /l/ blends. Also included are a wide range of minimal pair pictures for each phoneme offering place, manner and voice contrasts.

Early Language Homework

Early Language Homework sheets offer a range of activities for home practice of basic listening and language skills. Included are games aimed at developing attention and listening, memory visual skills, following instructions, basic concepts and social skills. Each activity is clearly explained and presented through amusing illustrations.

 

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Names and Descriptions

This package contains a range of activities to help children name things in groups and broaden their ability to define words, essential skills for children with word finding difficulties.

Play the boardgames to encourage naming things in groups. Curriculum topics or particular categories can be included using the Big Leap magic squares.

Use the 'descriptor' cards to encourage the children to structure their descriptions. Combine two cards to help the child to see links and associations.

This 'word finding' pack will be useful for teachers, support staff and clinicians alike.

Semantic Dominoes

These semantic dominoes are a great addition to any clinic or classroom.

Played as regular dominoes but the child has to make a link between two pictures within the same category.

Each picture has been carefully selected to be linked to the others in many different ways. A fun way to encourage semantic linking.

 

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The Language Game

A compendium of semantic linking activities that are suitable for both clinic and classroom use.

Presented as three different board game activities simply select from the semantic cards and let the fun begin.

The sets of semantic cards are coloured coded for ease of recognition and cover the following areas:

• describe it
• find the link
• naming
• what am I
• odd-one-out.

They have all be specially chosen so that there is more than one correct answer to encourage discussion and to broaden each activity.

This fantastic resource is a must for all those working on semantic linking.

Category Cards

Enliven vocabulary learning with these two packs of colourful, amusing category pictures.

Each pack is specially designed so they can be sub-grouped in many different ways encouraging children to see the links between them in several ways.

The cards can be used to help broaden childrens vocabulary, improve desriptive abilities and enhance word finding skills.

Each pack contains 3 sets of pictures, ideas for sub-categories at two different levels and activity sheets. All the cards are color coded for easy recognition.

Pack One

• Food: fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy products, snacks, sweet things and drinks
• Homes: rooms, furniture, electrical things, kitchen utensils and things to do with water
• Transport: land, sea and air

Pack Two

• People: body parts, clothing, jobs and sports
• Places: buildings, work, animals, wet, holiday and sports
• Animals: pets, wild, farm, water