These are games to help children hear the difference between speech sounds.
- Sound discrimination – EYFS
Resources:
Target sound cards
Game of choice
Sound discrimination activity - Early Years
Easy sound discrimination activity - listening for two different speech sounds in isolation
Resources:
Target sound letter/picture cards
Set of pictures for each target sound
Initial sound sorting demo
Description
Sound discrimination at the start of words - early years
An easy activity to listen for sounds at the start of words
Resources:
Target sound letters
Pictures with target sounds
Silent sorting
Practising silently sorting words according to their initial sound helps children to store them more accurately and that helps them to say them more accurate...
Resources:
Picture cards with target sound
Listening for mistakes demo
Listening for adult errors can help children to develop their discrimination and self monitoring skills
- Listening for mistakes – end of words
Resources:
Picture cards with target sound at end of word
Listening for mistakes - ends of words
Listening for deliberate errors in an adult's speech is a really good way to help children improve their self-monitoring. Say the words, make a deliberate er...
Resources:
Sequencing caterpillar
Target sounds
Pictures or word list with target sounds at the start/middle/end of words
where in word demo video
Listening for a target sound in different word positions helps to build phonological skills and can also help children to generalise sounds they have been wo...
- Discriminating and producing ‘S’ blends
(‘Sc’ blend but can be used with ‘Sl’, ‘St’, ‘Sm’, ‘Sn’)
Resources:
S blend picture or letters
Sequencing caterpillar
Vowel pictures or letters
Discriminating and producing 'S' Blends
Lots of children find it tricky to use consonant blends. Listening for which sounds are at the start of a word and then practising blending them will help.
