For children with number skills and reasonable reading skills who have difficulty sorting out what the word sum means they have to do. 8 pages of questions about a situation, working towards 2-step problems. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols in Numicon layout.

A variety of activities with ideas for sorting, talking, selecting and colouring. Includes basic materials plus some tasks based on hard, soft, transparent, cold, and paper things. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Illustrated vocabulary sheets for minibeasts and pond dipping with tally sheet for minibeasts. Count down in 2s pages for minibeasts includes naming and memory task and opportunities for discussion. Items to count are presented in the same layout as Numicon pieces.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. A selection of pictures chosen for their usefulness in making up good sentences to include who/doing what/where information and for asking questions to elicit this information. Could also be used for discussion starters and EAL. Suggestions repeated on each page so you can print each page on A4 a page at a time if that’s more convenient, or in a full 2-sided set.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Vocabulary and Activity pages including Spot the Difference, Pairs, Chain Game, and Dominos. See guide for printing.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. The bricks are to be built to match the pictures and knocked down by a naughty toy. Work on hand-eye coordination and number conservation. Notes on the reverse of some of the booklets give background rationale.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. See Guide for suggestions. Coin cards for the 13/30 up to 19/90 (-teen and -ty numbers) have been included with two different fonts for the numbers. Some children are very distracted by the additions to 1 in Comic Sans, others confuse the 'p' with 9 - especially those who aren't working L-R consistently. The second set is in Rage Italic font which has numbers more like hand-written ones.

Flashcards with illustrations from PCS or Widgit symbols for the vowel digraphs in the Jolly Phonics scheme. Useful for auditory discrimination and word building. Short familiar words with regular phonic spelling patterns used wherever enough examples exist.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Print on A4 for your vocabulary folder: illustrated vocabulary page with WORDS FOR HALLOWEEN AND BONFIRE NIGHT. For word activities: RHYMES FOR HALLOWEEN WORDS – a cut and stick activity matching onset-rime words. Illustrated vocabulary page of VERBS AND ADJECTIVES ABOUT FIREWORKS could be reference for spellings or discussion. All useful for EAL too.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Print on A4 to file in a Display Folder. Use for practice in odd moments and frequent revision. 4 pages including MONTHS and SEASONS, DAYS OF THE WEEK, O'CLOCK TIME, and ALL ABOUT ME. You can build up a useful long-term resource by adding a vocabulary page for every new topic. Could also be used for EAL.

Pictures with captions to match. Use to check knowledge and reading for meaning accuracy. Early reading vocabulary and simple sentence construction.

Four sets of worksheets fully illustrated with PCS and Widgit symbols so no text reading required. Practise saying the sentences, choosing the exception and crossing it out. Sets 2-4 require a blank to be filled with a category word as the sentences are spoken. Lots of vocabulary. Suitable for SEN and EAL language work.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Two sets of dominos with verbs that occur with different prepositions as phrasal verbs. See guide for ideas.

Picture matching, spot the difference, odd one out, counting, reading for meaning and sequencing. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Card games consisting of priced items and coin cards with realistically sized coins. See Guide for descriptions of games and suggestions.

Resource to draw attention to a variety of verbs which can stand for ‘said’. Practise picking out the actual words spoken to write in a speech bubble. Mark up speech marks and missing punctuation correctly on the sentences by pictures. Illustrated with ClipArt. Mind-map created with Widgit’s Communicate Ideas about different types of sentences, the punctuation mark each ends with, and how we mark direct speech.

Six pages of typical vocabulary lists illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols. Covers some key word definitions, pushing, pulling, early circuits, springs, magnets and friction.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Two files of verbs.

A story about having guests and sharing. Illustrated with Widgit symbols. Text has some symbol-support. Gaps to complete. A text to talk about.

Print on A4. Activities are based around understanding that environmental signs may proscribe, prescribe or be for information! One file gives basic shapes for inventing some signs for an island environment. The other gives a Signs dice-and-counter game where players have to interpret the signs as they land on a symbol; a page of sign symbols to cut out and make your own game or story; and a story with gaps to fill by sticking in appropriate signs from the previous page.