Cycles for Phonology: Assessment, Setting Up, Progress Monitoring, & Intervention
Get ready for all the information you need to set up your own cycles for phonology toolkit!
The Cycles for Phonology Toolkit All Started When….
When I created the phonology toolkit, I primarily worked with students up to grade 2 and had a TON of students with phonology disorders.
I worked for 1 week at a new school before heading out to Costa Rica. Rough life, I know. I was in the middle of one of the long drives from one of our hotels to another and discussing my new job. Phonology therapy was especially overwhelming to me. I had heard of cycles, but didn’t know where to start. After reading things online, I still felt overwhelmed. So, in true Shannon form, I pulled out my laptop and started this product. Really at first, I was just jotting down notes from research article after research article. Then, I made a progress monitoring form. When I start something, I like to be super organized so that I don’t lose steam and motivation! Shortly after I added a screener and an evaluation because I needed a fast way to assess all of these new students!!
3 months later, we had a complete Cycles for Phonology Toolkit. It has everything you need to informally assess children with phonological disorders, set up a cycles program for them, monitor their progress, and provide easy, grab and go therapy! Read on to learn more!
Video Demo
If you’re a video type of person, click here to check out a video tour of the product on YouTube or watch it below:
What You’ll Get in the Cycles for Phonology Toolkit
This cycles toolkit targets the following phonological processes and sounds:
Syllable Reduction (2, 3, and 4 syllables)
Syllable Structure (CV, VC, CVC, CVCV)
Fronting (initial /g/ and /k/)
Backing (initial /t/ and /d/)
Final Consonant Deletion (final /p/, /t/, /k/, /m/)
Stopping (initial /s/, /f/, /v/, /z/, and “sh”, final /s/ and /f/)
Cluster Reduction (initial /sm/, /sp/, /st/, /sk/, /sn/, and /sl/, final /ks/, /ps/, and /ts/)
Gliding (initial /l/ and /r/)
Included in this packet is:
Example phonology goals
Informal phonology screener
Informal phonology assessment
Progress monitoring forms
Session schedule
Parent letters
Summary pages for each process (of the targeted words on the flashcards)
Flashcards in both color and black & white for the processes named above
Watercolor card deck covers
Toolbox labels
Pictures and More!
There are 5-15 stimulus cards for each sound. There are two card deck cover options:
And the clip art used looks like the picture below:
All cards are included in both color and black & white:
Below is an example of how I use the progress monitoring form to keep track of dates, progress, and processes!
And below is an example of the results form for the 80 picture informal assessment that is included:
For each process targeted in this packet, I’ve included an overview page with all the targets in each set included in the packet. Below is an example of the page for syllable structure.
Assembly and Storage
When all assembled and put into this toolbox, the Cycles for Phonology Toolkit turns into this beautiful thing!
I purchased the toolbox from Amazon. Check it out using the link below. I’ve also heard they are for sale at local home stores such as Menards.
I’ve heard from lots of readers who have actually come up with lots of different ways to assemble and store this product! Check out some of my favorite ways to make a cycles SLP toolbox here.
Digital Toolkit Now Available!
AND, new in 2021, I created a digital version of the Toolkit too! To use it, you can click on the drawer you want (just like the real toolbox!) and page through the flashcards one at a time. This is a great option for use in teletherapy, or even just as a no-prep therapy tool if you don’t have time for cutting and lamination or space for storage!
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Check out more images of the product in action below! Click on any of them to see the product in my Teachers Pay Teachers store:
Would love to use this!
Love this! I’m a graduate student just starting out and this could be really useful with the little ones on my caseload!
This product is amazing!!! Looking for something just like it!!!!
I absolutely love how organized the product is. I know I would be able to use this product with so many of my kiddos! Thank you for the giveaway!
This looks like a fantastic product!!
I love how everything is in ONE place! It’s so quick and easy to just grab a binder and go. Especially with IEP season upon us when you don’t have as much time to prep. I would REALLY love a copy of this!
Love how many sound targets you made for this and I think the stimulus cards will be great for getting multiple quick repetitions! I usually use more of a developmental approach but ive often considered switching to cycles for my more severe kiddos! Thanks for making this product!
I love how colorful and simplified this is!
I really like how organized this product is and I like that you included a progress monitoring tool with it which will be so helpful when you have many kiddos to monitor.
I love how organized you have made this! All the forms you have created for screening, evaluation, and progress monitoring look amazing and so helpful!
I agree! The organization is fantastic! And I love that there is a black and white version that I could use for home practice!
I love the watercolor graphics for me and the kid-friendly graphics for my preschoolers!
This will make my phonology sessions much more efficient! Wish I was this talented.
I have several clients who are perfect candidates for the cycles approach but I struggle with getting organized and sticking to a schedule to make sure I’m hitting all the necessary processes and incorporating all aspects of the cycles program. I was one of the very few Type B people in my graduate program and at my current workplace and am amazed by what therapists like you create. This product seems like the perfect tool to help me implement more evidence-based practice consistently.
Working in the schools this would be a wonderful product! Great giveaway! Thanks!
This is on my wish list! What an awesome resource!
Wow! Way to go! I am impressed with the effort you put into creating such a beautiful and wonderful product! This resource is definitely on my wish list!
This looks like an amazing product!
I think this product has everything you would need, especially starting out as an SLP. Love it!
I love the organization of this all. I will know exactly where to go to find everything I need to work on phonology and the cycles approach.
This product looks wonderful. I’ve been scouring for more phonology products!!!
I love this product! I have a lot of elementary schoolers on my caseloas with phonological processes and I struggle with find great materials for them! This would work so well!
This is awesome! Would love to win this!
What a wonderfully organized approach to cycles. Thanks for creating and sharing!!
Looks very organized! I have several patients who could benefit from this. Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
This looks like a wonderful product! I’m always looking for materials to target phonological disorders! I also LOVE how it’s organized! So cpmprehensive, too!
Want!!!
I love how organized it is and the progress monitoring. ASHA has a great webinar with Barbara Hodson that really helped me comprehend Cycles better.
Organization is my thing. And so many different items!
great clip art and assessment materials! Thanks!
This looks awesome! Love how it is organized and includes progress monitoring!
Just started cycles with 3 of my kiddos-this would make planning/implementing/collecting data SO SO much easier and efficient! Love this so much!
i love how organized and thorough this product is!!!
I’ve had knowledge of the cycles approach since graduate school, however there is never any in depth demonstartion. I always hear a person who knew a person who was trained directly in using it. Thanks for having this helpful resource all in one place.
This looks incredible! I have a few students that I am going to start using cycles with and am planning it out this weekend. This tool will be perfect to assist me with this and begin my cycles therapy. I can’t wait to try it!
This would be perfect for my phonological preschool. I love the organization making the materials readily available.
This product looks incredibly thorough and organized! The big clear font and brightly contrasted pictures would be great for kiddos (of all ages!) with phonological goals:) Thank you for all your hard work… your products are always so useful!!
That looks like so much work! Thank you for taking the time to organize and plot out this program! Looks great!!
I’ve attend conferences so I can implement the Cycles with my students but it’s hard when I don’t have the appropriate resources. This product will help me a lot! I like that it’s organized, clear cut, no frill or fuss type of product.
I can’t wait to start using this — my supervisor has been bugging me to use the cycles approach with a few of my kids but I’ve always shied away from it thinking it was way too complicated and effortful. Now I’m actually excited about cycles!
I love how organized this is! Very functional and easy for the busy school SLP
I like the organization of this material. The progress monitoring page and the list of words are my favorite. Your materials always make therapy planning and implementation efficient. Thanks!
CFY here. Great giveaway!
I appreciate the visual organization of the toolbox – as a new SLP trying to figure out my system, I hope to set up my papers that way next year!
The flashcards look great, and the progression of words from simple to more challenging would be really helpful for probing.
I’m excited about this product’s because it seems to have everything I’ll need to treat with cycles but it’s ready to go!
This looks fantastic!
I love the awesome organization, the data tracking, and the way the cards are kept together!
What an amazing resource to have!
Functional AND cute. The best of both worlds 🙂 Love it!
Organization is sooooo helpful!
This looks amazing! Would love to win!!
I would love this! I have a student on my caseload with fronting, and these materials would be perfect! This would help any child with phonological processing. Thanks!!
The organization and the obvious “where to go next” are the best parts about this! So awesome.
I have been afraid to try the cycles approach because it seems sooo overwhelming. This is needed for many of my students. It is fantastic that you have made such a cute and thorough material that so many of us can implement easily – THANK YOU! 🙂
I absolutely LOVE everything about this product… the organization, the common vocabulary words targeted, and most of all how it is broken down into the syllable shapes. So many of the students that I work with would benefit from this as it is motivating and functional! Thank you for sharing and the giveaway opportunity!
Wow! great product, I pinned on my speech board!
Thanks for the opportunity to win one of your new kits! You have organized an important resource to fit so many needs. I would use this with students and in professional development I do with other educators in other districts. I know this product will be a hit for its thorough usefulness and for its ultimate organization. Terrific!
Wow! great product, I pinned on my speech board!
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/501940320950112349/
This looks awesome! I love how everything is so organized.
I already bought this product. I used the screener yesterday to help plan an IEP. I liked the screener. It was quick and easy. Your product will make it easier to work on phonology using the cycles approach.
That is FANTASTIC to hear! Day made. Thanks so much for commenting!
This looks to be exactly what I need for a large portion of my students!
What a wonderful product!!
This looks like an awesome product! I love all the resources you have included and the organizational system.
This looks great! I love the overall organization and progress monitoring tools! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
This product looks fantastic! I love the range of sounds included and love the fact that the pictures are so clear, so I know even my pre-reading kiddos can work out what the targets are! The organisation/layout also appeals to my love of colour coordination!
Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
What a great resource! Love the organization!
I love the organization and the handiness of this!! Everything you need at an arm’s reach away!! My birthday is February 22…what a wonderful gift/surprise this would be!!!
I use the cycles approach and would love to have materials that are organized and look so amazing!
I am about to use the cycles approach for the first time in my practice! I have a kid on my caseload who is just not responding to other therapies I’ve tried including multiple and maximal oppositions. I would love this resource to help me navigate through the first time implementing this approach in therapy! It looks like an extraordinary compilation!
I’m dying over this! 🙂 I would love to be able to have this for therapy and I think I could get my whole school district on board with using this! 🙂 Thank you for making this it really is so amazing and organized! 🙂
This looks like exactly what I need! I am getting more and more phonology kiddos on my caseload each year.
I love that you have examples of all the phonemes, the organization and most of all the data tracking!
What a great idea and the data tracking and organization are a bonus.
This is what I call one-stop shopping, The materials look true to the cycles approach and you even provide us the the organization tool too. Thanks.
Once again, you have knocked it out of the park! I need this!!! Thanks so much!
Would love to win!
I love the fact that everything is there in one product!
This is awesome. I love that it includes the screening and progress monitoring to keep you organized and on track. It’s so important to be more methodical in order to really target the phonological processes and not just the sounds.
I would LOVE to win this product! Everything you create is so thorough and easily implemented!
I LOVE this product! The forms look great and the graphics you used are beautiful. It looks simple and easy to use.
I would love this. I teach ASD students and we recently lost our speech teacher for the foreseeable future due to an illness. I need this to help pick up where she left of with my kids! !
I love this product!! The organization is wonderful and it makes for easy access and use for any child!
What an amazing product! I have so many young students this year where I have really needed to break down therapy to the motor patterns and this would help so much with giving them consistent practice. Love love love this product
I like how many different sounds you’ve targeted in here along with final consonant deletions.
This would be AMAZING to have and use in therapy!
Absolutely Amazing! I’ve been wanting to the Cycles approach and just wasn’t sure where to start. This is definitely going to be my next purchase. Thank you!
I have one of these toolboxes that I use to organize office supplies, but when I saw you used it for artic cards, I thought it was genius! I also love that you use rings to keep the cards together…so sick of rubber bands!
I have heard great things about the cycles approach but I have no idea where to start. This will be a great summer project for me!
I love the organization of this product! I have started using the Cycles approach recently with my entirely preschool- and early intervention caseload, and it has been great! This is a wonderful addition to my toolbox (and includes an actual tool box, so neat! :)).
I love the idea of using a toolbox for organizing this product. I also like that you have included an informal assessment to it for monitoring progress! Great looking product.
Cycles has been a therapy approach that I’ve definitely had a need to use, but one that I am still not comfortable with. This product would be the perfect tool to start using cycles!!
Yay! I’m a graduate student and plan to eventually work in a school system so this would be amazing!
I know very little about the cycles approach and so I think this will be extremely helpful. In addition I also have had a recent influx of students with phonological processing due to a job change. Thanks for this great resource!
I love how organized all the materials are! This would be great!
Over the years, I have always had a student who I used cycles with, and I am using it now with several students. However, over time it is so easy to stray away from cycles if you are not organized. That’s what I love about this product – everything you need is there and ready to go!
This looks AWESOME! And the organization of it all- I love it!!! 🙂
This is on my wishlist!
This looks fabulous.
Being in my first year back in the schools after 10 years at home to raise 4 babies…this would be a dream to have!
Amazing. How do you create the images and such? I’m so inspired by your process. Thank you for all the work you do!
My favorite thing about the toolbox is the TOOLBOX! So pretty and organized and ready to go! Right up my alley (or In my toolbox!).
Awesome product! Would be perfect for a few of my kiddos!!
This product is something I need in my life!
This looks great. I especially like how organized it all is!
I love how organized everything looks!
This product looks amazing! I love how detailed and organized everything is. It is perfect for keeping track of all the materials needed to use the cycles approach!
Beautifully organized product. Thanks for the fun giveaway.
I would love to win this tool kit! I also find cycles for phonology to be intimidating and I think this product would be really helpful as I start in the schools!
Really excited about this product! Thanks!!
I would LOVE to use this! I also have many with phonological disorders on my 60+ school caseload ?
This looks wonderful. The graphics and information is great.
Wow! This looks great!. So professional. I love the graphics.
This is AMAZING! What a wonderful tool. I eould love to have this to use in therapy.
I think I need this product! Love the organization and design of it all!
Great idea. Thanks for taking the time to put it all together and share.
I love how organized this is! Thanks
Just started at a primary school and have tried to implement cycles but I am all over the place and constantly searching for materials. Love how this is laid out and right there at hand! Awesome!
This product looks fantastic!
This is amazing, perfect for my first year in the schools!
I love all of your produce but this looks fabulous!! Most of my caseload is phonology and I’ve been wanting to try a cycles approach!
I would love to have and use this!
What a useful, organized product! This should be on every SLP’s list!
I would love to win this! I love the organization and use the cycles approach, I just need your system. 🙂
I love the assessment and progress monitoring pieces!
I love working on cycles! I have seen some of the fastest progress with my kiddos using cycles! I am always looking for news to incorporate target words.
This product is beautifully organized! The assessment and progress monitoring will make data collection so much easier!
Your data sheets look so intuitive! I’m sure they make charting much easier!
This is such a comprehensive resource! I work with preschoolers, and I am always looking for useful resources to target phonological processes!
I love how systematic and thorough this is!
Would love to win this! I’d make really good use of it in therapy!
Amazing resource. I am just starting out and this is extremely helpful.
I need this in my life!!!!!!!
I was wondering where you bought the actual toolbox. You inspired me to be as organized !!!
I purchased it on Amazon! I have a link to it on the product listing on Teachers Pay Teachers.
What’s the best way to adhere the labels to the individual boxes on the toolkit itself?
Pages not numbered in the text. Very difficult to copy. I’m going to have to take it to Fed Ex to copy entire download. It looks organized and I’m looking forward to using it but not easy to copy
I’m so sorry about that, Jackie! If page numbers would help, feel free to email me at speechymusings@gmail.com. I can send a version with page numbers your way!
Are there minimal pair cards/pictures for the processes?
There is not, sorry!
Hello! This blog post, the resource, and the podcast are so helpful! I am about to start cycles with a first grader. For one of the processes (fronting), she is able to produce at the word level. I would like to move onto to the phrase/sentence level. Is there a way to use cycles at the sentence level?
It doesn’t typically but I’ve successfully modified it using sentence strips (plus the target flashcard) to work on sentence level! Hope that helps!