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An educational graphic titled "'R' CLUSTER HELP SHEETS" featuring multisensory cues for practicing /r/ clusters.
An educational graphic titled "MULTISENSORY CUES TO HELP SAY /r/ CLUSTERS" featuring a "BR CLUSTER" worksheet
An educational graphic titled "INCLUDES CARDS WITH CUES ON THEM" showcasing multisensory cue cards for /r/ clusters.
An educational graphic titled "USES CHAINING FORWARD & BACKWARD" featuring two "KR CLUSTER" help sheets.

R Blend Cluster Forward & Backward Chaining Help Sheets for Speech Therapy

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Do you need a resource to help you teach the concept of R clusters? The R Cluster Help Sheets for Speech Therapy use multisensory cueing to help the children on your caseload learn complex r blend targets. This product will be helpful if the student leaves off the first or second sound in the cluster. These sheets can be used for backward chaining, forward chaining, and as flashcards with visual cues. Includes clusters: br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, and tr.

Description

Are you struggling to teach /ɹ/ clusters? Do you find that your student continues to delete either the first or second part of their cluster and you’re stuck with cues that can help?! If you have tried all the tricks you know, perhaps you just need a fresh strategy that SLPs all over the world have found useful.

The ‘R’ Clusters Help Sheets resource uses different multisensory cues that break down how to say /ɹ/ clusters using metaphors, visual cues, forward and backward chaining to help students be successful using consonant clusters.

DOWNLOAD THIS RESOURCE IF YOU WANT:
➊–Cues to break down a complex word (/ɹ/ cluster) 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.

THREE DIFFERENT MATERIALS FOR EACH /I/ CLUSTER:
1. Forward chaining (e.g., t-rain, train)
2. Backward chaining (e.g., rain, rain, rain, train)
3. Flashcards with visual cues on the top of the card

MULTISENSORY CUEING:
We know that children learn differently, and these ‘R’ Clusters Help Sheets give you multiple options for teaching /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 of the /ɹ/ cluster word.

DIGITAL FILE CONTENTS:
✅ — Clusters included: /bɹ, dɹ, fɹ, gɹ, kɹ, pɹ, tɹ/
✅ — 14 x Forward Chaining Sheets for each /ɹ/ cluster
✅ — 14 x Backward Chaining Sheets for each /ɹ/ cluster
✅ — 80 flashcards (x12 for each /ɹ/ cluster)
✅ — 92 pages of color + b&w pages provided
⭐ Check out my best-selling ‘S’ Cluster Help Sheets⭐

What SLP’s like you are saying:
❝ Used this with my clients and it just clicked!!! This is a great resource every SLP must have! ❞

❝ Fantastic visuals for working on these blend sounds. These really helped my student get a better sense of how the sounds blend together.❞

❝ This resource is amazing. I’m having great success with eliminating cluster reduction with my speech kids. This is also a great resource to send home for homework.❞

⭐ If you’re looking for this strategy with other clusters, check out:⭐

IMPORTANT LICENSING & USAGE INFORMATION:

Single-User License: This digital resource is licensed for individual use only. You may print and assemble materials as needed for your personal use.

Need to share with your team? Upgrade to a Multi-User License to legally share this resource across your organization. Perfect for:

  • Therapy teams and clinics
  • School districts and educational institutions
  • University programs and training centers
  • Any organization seeking consistent tools across practitioners
 

Questions about licensing? Please review our complete Terms of Use or contact us for guidance.

NOTE: All of our products use US spelling as standard (for example, color, not colour). This has been our brand standard since we began, and it keeps every resource consistent across our range. 

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44 reviews for R Blend Cluster Forward & Backward Chaining Help Sheets for Speech Therapy

  1. Emily A. –

    Great resource, I love using it with my clients in my sessions

    Great resource, I love using it with my clients in my sessions

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  2. Rachael P. –

    Helpful Resource

    This has been very helpful for students who struggle with /r/ clusters.

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  3. Michelle N. –

    r cluster helper!

    This is a great addition to my speech sound toolkit for students needing help with /r/ clusters. You can’t go wrong with an AISP product!

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  4. Kristi B. –

    Love Her Products!

    This has be a great help with students working on r-clusters! Love the dedicated targets and practice that I can send home to parents! Thanks!

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  5. Little Speech Friends –

    Love these chaining sheets (and so do my little clients)!!!

    Fun and easy to use! Very well thought out. I recently used it when a client wasn’t quite ready for minimal pairs. After a couple of sessions using these, we were able to shift back to a contrastive approach.

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  6. Claire S. –

    Helpful Resource

    Helpful resource for working on consonant clusters

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  7. Amy (verified owner) –

    This is a great resource. It is straight forward, and easy to use, with nice, fun visuals!

  8. Courtney H. –

    All of your materials have been so helpful! This is another great resource using effective methods!

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  9. Katrina S. –

    An excellent resource that has helped give success for tricky sounds. So helpful!

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  10. Just Once SLP –

    My students immediately picked up on the chaining cues! Thank you for a great resource!

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  11. Tegan S. –

    Excellent resource! I have purchased all the cluster helper sheets as they are so useful in my clinical practice. Children respond well to the visuals and easy for parents to practice at home too!

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  12. Melodee K. –

    Love, love, love this resource! It visually breaks down the pronunciation and the kids really like it too! Thanks!

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  13. Maren C. –

    Adventures in Speech Pathology always gets it right! Her methods make phonology make sense to the students on my caseload. She emphasizes phonological awareness, minimal pairs, etc and uses cute pictures to boot. I’ve never seen my students remedy their phonological errors (nor generalize) as quickly with any other resource.

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  14. Sophie C. –

    LOVE this resource! I use this all the time and it’s great that both forward chaining and backward chaining visuals. It’s great to work out what strategy works best for each kid and I’ve seen lots of success using it. Thanks for a great resource once again :).

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  15. Samantha Heller –

    This resource was great when working on r-blends at the word level

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  16. Nikki M. –

    great visuals and great targets to help keep my students engaged!

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  17. Victoria S. –

    Thank you, our clients enjoyed this resource!

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  18. Katie D. –

    Such a wonderful resource for my distance speech therapy students.

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  19. jo B. –

    Great product. Nicely laid out. Easy to follow. Highly recommended.

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  20. Annabelle Laws –

    I use this all the time in my therapy! The visuals are amazing for helping children but r clusters together.

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  21. Sharon Rodrigues –

    Used this with my clients and it just clicked!!! This is a great resource every SLP must have!

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  22. Amy M. –

    Fantastic visuals for working on these blend sounds. These really helped my student get a better sense of how the sounds blend together.

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  23. smoeybtheslp –

    Very helpful resource! I’ve purchased the S and L cluster sheets as well!

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  24. Laurin B. –

    This resource is amazing. I’m having great success with eliminating cluster reduction with my speech kids. This is also a great resource to send home for homework.

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  25. rita W. –

    I love having the sequencing strips for my artic. kids.

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  26. Kendal H. –

    Very helpful resource. I would recommend it.

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  27. Macauley B. –

    Great to send for home practise. Often use ‘dr’ and ‘tr’ to elicit ‘dz’ and ‘ ch’!

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  28. Witney Loftin –

    I love this approach for teaching consonant clusters / blends. It can be modified for all different levels of cueing — sometimes I start with the ‘final product’ target word and only go back to the ‘equation’ portion if the student needs more cues / support. For kids who are just started with blends, I will go through each target word using the equation / cues. Thank you!

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  29. Samantha T. –

    amazing resource!

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  30. Julia C. –

    Good visuals to support this skill

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  31. Speech Tx with Sara –

    I loved the /s/ set so I purchased this and the /l/ set. They are all useful tools. I would love to see some that show the words with the s/l/r but not the second consonant–sometimes that can be useful as well. The visuals are helpful to students who typically do a lot of laughing when we use these–thank you!

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  32. lily S. –

    Exactly what I needed. Thank you!

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  33. Justine W. –

    I’ve been working with a little one who has been struggling with their ‘r’ blends. This visual really helped him see that the word following the initial sound needed to start with a ‘r’ sound (e.g. ‘d’ – rain) which helped improve his accuracy immediately. Great sheets, which can be left with parents to practice too.

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  34. Fernihough K. –

    An amazing resource! Instructions are very detailed, easy to use and children love the illustrations!

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  35. Australian SLP Resources –

    As with the other resources in this series for Cluster Reduction, this resource is easy to use and explain to parents and carers for home practise. My students love the pictures and it just makes sense to them with the visual prompts that are embedded within these Cluster Reduction sheets!

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  36. Jessica P. –

    This helped /r/ blends “click” with one of my students. Worth it for that moment alone!

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  37. Ann S. –

    My kiddos love this resource!

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  38. Shannon S. –

    I have another one of these resources and Love it. I am excited to use this with my students!

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  39. April M. –

    Thanks!

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  40. Karina C. –

    Just what I was looking for! Thank you!

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  41. Wendy P. –

    I’m looking forward to using these with my preschoolers. I am always looking for different materials while working on the same sounds over and over with kids who get bored of the materials easily! I also like having ready-made materials for breaking up the sounds in the words, to help my students get those missing pieces. I like that these can be kept as single sheets or cut up into individual strips. I’ll likely laminate the the sheets and use a dry-erase marker or wipe-off crayon with my kids. Thanks for putting this all together so I don’t have to!

    Only downside: I wish I’d seen that the L, R, and S “Just Add”s came as a slightly cheaper bundle before I’d purchased them individually.

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  42. Jennifer J. –

    This is a great resource for helping my preschoolers understand how to put both sounds in those blends. Thank you!

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  43. Jennifer A. –

    Love the word strip idea–this is a great activity for kids who struggle with clusters and blends!

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  44. Bridget Dumoulin –

    Can’t wait to use 🙂

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