Flo the Flamingo

Flo the flamingo is having a party. There are fairy lights twinkling and glasses with lemonade fizzing and popping!⁠ Bowls full of melon and mangos and a big birthday cake with blue icing and sprinkles.⁠

Ollie the orangutan is singing and playing his bongos – binga banga bonga.⁠ All the flamingos are dancing, swaying and swinging, swinging and swaying! And Flo is jingling and jangling and fluttering her pink feathered wings.

Flo the Flamingo is a Clickety Early Soundplay story with the sound target ‘ng’ and a sprinkling of ‘s’ blends.⁠

The Early Soundplay stories are written by Sally Bates, a speech and language therapist. The stories are expertly crafted and designed to support children’s developing speech sound awareness and vocabulary knowledge. These foundation skills are key to children’s success with phonics, early reading and spelling.

The simple, interactive storyline makes it easy for children to anticipate what happens next and then to join in when they hear the story again. This gives them lots of opportunities to hear and practise saying ‘ng’ and ‘s’ blend words.

Children love repetition! It helps them build their knowledge and understanding of word meanings and story structure. We hope that you will enjoy this story again, again and again!

Also available as an Audiobook MP3 download read by Sophie Thompson.