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Have you ever had a child who is struggling to blend consonant clusters on your caseload? You know the benefits of working on clusters but you both feel stuck in therapy! If you have ever felt this way, this is the bundle for you! Covering ‘s’, ‘l’ and ‘r’ clusters, and using forward and backward chaining cues as well as multisensory cueing, this bundle will provide you with an abundance of resources that have been specifically designed to help achieve success with blending complex clusters. Useful for children with a range of speech sound disorders, this bundle is sure to give you extra confidence when teaching complex clusters.
We know that working on clusters can make significant gains in speech intelligibility, but often they can be hard to teach and even harder for a child to blend together. This bundle featuring /s/, /l/ and /ɹ/ clusters breaks down the complex cluster into smaller, manageable parts so that the child can achieve success. Using multisensory cueing as well as forward and backward chaining, you can try various types of cues to see which ones help your student! These cues can be helpful for children with a range of speech sound disorders, including phonological impairment and Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
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➊–Cues to break down a complex word (featuring clusters) into smaller, manageable parts.
❷–To try different types of cues, and nothing has helped “click”.
❸–Additional cues while using the complexity approach, minimal pairs, or cycles approach, to teach the cluster.
❹–To support students with motor planning challenges (e.g., CAS) that require specific cueing, coarticulation, and support to sequence clusters.
There are three different sheets and cues for each /s/, /l/ and /ɹ/:
1. Backward chaining (e.g., key, key, key, ski)
2. Forward chaining (e.g., fffffflake)
3. Flashcards with visual cues
Multisensory Cueing:
We know that children learn differently, and these Cluster Help Sheets give you multiple options for teaching /s/, /l/ and /ɹ/ clusters. Teach your child that they have to use their /b/ sound when they see the bouncing ball visual or a /f/ sound when they see a bunny teeth picture. You might like to tap or trace with your finger to reinforce the continual airflow and need to join the first sound to the rest of the word. This helps the child break down the word into smaller, manageable speech units to help the child to “hear” the individual sounds or syllables within the word.
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CONTENTS:
✅ — Includes support for 19 clusters: /sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, bl, fl, gl, kl, pl, bɹ, dɹ, fɹ, gɹ, kɹ, pɹ, tɹ/
✅ — Additional voiced options for /sk, sp, st/
✅ — 43 x Forward Chaining Sheets for all clusters
✅ — 43 x Backward Chaining Sheets for all clusters
✅ — 254 flashcards for each cluster
✅ — Over 250 pages of color + b&w pages provided
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⭐ Click on each link below to see the content of each product – they have recently been updated with NEW pictures and are in color and black & white!⭐
What SLP’s like you are saying:
❝ So helpful with the older phono kids who also struggle with phonological awareness❞
❝ Great visuals. Great content. Thorough word lists covered… GREAT overall❞
❝ Perfect for fading out the verbal models❞
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20 reviews for Cluster Reduction Forward & Backward Chaining Help Sheets – BUNDLE
Blair –
This is an amazing resource. It is incredibly effective to provide students high frequency practice of L blends. These also make great homework sheets. I value the opportunity to practice one Cluster at a time. I often probe across worksheets (FL, CL, BL…) to see which my students are stimulable for to select which one to practice first. I also find this worksheet doubles as an opportunity to work on phonological awareness skills! This is a really unique and effective set of worksheets and a great value!
Becky (verified owner) –
This is such an effective resource for practicing blends. They’re beautifully presented- clear and easy for caregivers to use at home too! A great addition to my therapy toolkit! Thank you!
Lori R. –
Love these cluster worksheets, they really help the consonant cluster population realize that all the sounds are important in a blend. Easy to use and no prep. Both the kids and I love them.
Chelsea R. –
Amazing resource. The visual cues work wonderfully to support my children with targeting the phonological process of cluster reduction
Nina C. –
A great resource with lots of pages that allow for high practice trials
Rachel S. –
Working on all of the different consonant clusters can be tricky when kids can get some but not others, so this bundle has been very helpful in tailoring my approach for what each student needs extra support with.
Shannon H. –
Love this set. I appreciate the visuals to represent each sound in a cluster. I also love the full page worksheet practice format and that the cards have a small version of the symbols shown above the target picture so I am not chasing the sound symbol cards around the table when working with groups of students who all have different sounds to work on with different visual cues needed. Perfect!
Beth K. –
This is an absolutely amazing resource. My kids love it and it’s great to send home with the child to practice with the parents. Thank yOU!!
Kate (verified owner) –
Love these. easy to use in session and to send home !!
Samantha (Sam) Lewis (verified owner) –
Another great resource to add to my growing collection from Adventures in speech.
Samantha (Sam) Lewis (verified owner) –
Great to see what blends a child is stimulable for and to help parents understand how to model in home practice!
Jillian F. –
Oh my goodness! Cannot say enough great things about Rebecca’s products! This bundle makes it easy to to navigate the /s/ blends with my kids. I love the layout and the graphics she uses, very clear for the kids and parents to use.
Venus S. –
The scaffolds for these activities are so helpful. Thank you for this!
Lauren G. –
This is an amazing resource when working on cluster reduction, I also love the visuals of adding the two sounds together at the top of the cards!
Hailey G. –
Super super useful resource that I love love love to use with students who’re having those phonological processes and was not stimulable with just the minimal pair cards. This is definitely one of my favourite!!
Milca B. –
The visuals in these have really helped my students with difficulty producing clusters. I have also been sending them home which is helpful for parents/families to see and visualize the cues provided in our sessions. Thank you!
Maria D. –
The breakdown for each sound not only helped my students independently self-correct it also allowed me to cue them less frequently.
Logan N. –
I looove this resource, and it has been so helpful for my students who are reducing clusters! I like the multiple presentations included — for example, some of my students are most successful with the backwards chaining pages, and others do best with just the snake visual into the word. I’ve also sent these sheets with parents for home practice. Worth every penny!
Taylor H. –
This is the perfect resource for practicing consonant clusters with students. The graphics and target words are engaging with a variety of different targets. The mixture of sheets and cards allow them to be integrated into various activities during sessions.
Leah H. –
I LOVE these products!! These are a huge game changer for eliciting correct speech sound productions. The layout, design, colors, targets, etc. are great! The sheets are also great to send out for carryover of speech sounds for at home or in the classroom. I highly recommend buying this bundle!