These /r/ blend sound-loaded scenes can be used as Speech Therapy tools to help your students develop their speech sound skills, with auditory input therapy, repetitive drills or speech production work. The hidden items in these scenes are all words with the /r/ blends sound in initial, medial and final word position.

This product contains four speech sound-loaded scenes, provided in both colour and black and white options. Have fun together while locating all of the /r/ blend speech sound target words that are hidden in amongst the beautifully illustrated scenes!

These speech sound-loaded scenes can be used in many different ways to practice the /r/ blends in single words, in short phrases, in sentences or at the narrative level.

You can encourage your student to practice the /r/ blends by completing the following activities;

1. Ask your student to label the target words as they find them in the scene.

2. Ask your student to complete the phrase 'I found a ...' as they find each target word in the scene.

3. Ask your student to describe where they have found each of the target words in a sentence.

4. Ask your student to tell you a story about the sound loaded scene.

The target words that are hidden in these scenes include:

· /br/ words: broccoli, broom, paintbrush, umbrella, brush and bread.

· /cr/ words: crying, crocodile, ice-cream and microphone.

· /dr/ words: dragon, drum, driving, dressing-up, drying, drawing, drawers and drinking.

· /gr/ words: grass and grapes.

· /fr/ words: fridge, fries and frog.

· /pr/ words: pram, present, princess and prince.

· /tr/ words: trampoline, trumpet, treasure, train, tricycle, trophy and truck.

· /scr/ words: sunscreen and screwdriver.

· /str/ words: stripes and strawberry.