Sound Change Workshop - Foundation

Teach children to say, change and check a sound. Sound Change Workshop moves through first, middle and last sound substitutions, simple initial addition and removal, and real-word sound chains. The sequence gives teachers exact examples and prompts while keeping the child's first oral response separate from later picture or choice support.

What's included

• A 44-page Unit Plan PDF: branded contents page, 12 teacher-planning pages and 31 finished resource pages.
• Five complete lesson plans, with modelling, guided practice, pupil tasks, support, extension, observable evidence and closure.
• A 22-slide editable teaching PowerPoint.
• A 22-slide editable quiz PowerPoint: ten oral questions, each followed by a separate feedback slide, plus opening and closing slides.
• Eighteen colour resource pages: teaching displays and models; 24 picture cards across four pages; sound-swap and add/remove mats; adult prompt cards; a Fix the Sound board and rules; model and child-created sound chains; and a sharing prompt.
• Five low-ink worksheets, each immediately followed by its red answer or model page: first sound, middle sound, last sound, addition/removal and a personal sound chain.
• An individual sound-change task, a separate teacher record with six exact scripts and keys, and an observation rubric.
• An 88-page watermarked Preview PDF showing the Unit Plan, teaching slides and quiz slides, plus a Table of Contents JPEG.

Learning focus

Children listen to familiar spoken words and change one sound to make a real new word. They practise first, middle and last sound substitutions, add or remove a simple initial sound, check what changed and what stayed, and apply the routine in a short sound chain.

The five lessons take about 35–45 minutes each and can be spread across a flexible teaching week. Examples include pin to tin, pin to pan, cap to cat, up and cup, at and hat, and in and pin. Teacher guidance explains consistent picture naming, pure sounds, counters and short spoken vowels.