Passion for making all aspects of English accessible and fun for special needs students of all levels. Lover of Colourful semantics as a teaching tool to teach writing composition at all levels. Follow me on instagram for additional ideas.
Passion for making all aspects of English accessible and fun for special needs students of all levels. Lover of Colourful semantics as a teaching tool to teach writing composition at all levels. Follow me on instagram for additional ideas.
This product can be used as individual task cards or make into an interactive book.
KEY VOCABULARY
Learn key vocabulary for furniture and rooms in the house
Learn prepositions: in, at, on
1ST PERSON WRITING:
Neutral silhouette images of people to encourage students to compose sentences in 1st person. Option to sticks students pictures on the worksheets.
2 LEVELS OF SENTENCE BUILDING:
Level 1: Who? is doing? Where?
preposition word is embedded within the location.
Level 2: Who? is doing? Where? What?
preposition word is own exclusive part of the sentence.
USING COLOURFUL SEMANTICS TO WRITE:
Colorful semantics is an exciting language intervention that indirectly works on developing a child’s grammar through the use of:
•Spoken sentences
•Answering W/H questions
•Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
•Story telling skills
•Written sentences and language comprehension
Colorful semantics works particularly well in the special education classroom, helping students with difficulty in understanding language to compose sentences.
These worksheets/taskcards are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
An exciting interactive story designed for the special needs classroom.
Choose Your Own Adventure book encourages interaction and engagement in reading, by students making choices that influence their reading experience.
Students choose their own superhero character that they take on the adventure through the story.
10 different stories in 1 book.
PDF includes instructions on how to put the book together.
This bundle includes:
Transport writing - using colourful semantics
3 levels of worksheets: 2 KEY WORD: WHAT? (noun/type of transport) WHERE? (place) 3 KEY WORD: WHAT? IS DOING? (Verb, how the transport moves) WHERE? 4 KEY WORD: COLOUR/COLOR?, WHAT? IS DOING? WHERE? 11 simple and bright clipart picture to comment on. Full colour and white background worksheets and symbols. 1 and 2 picture per page worksheets Worksheets are accessible for writers and non-writers
Describing transport - interactive books/task cards using colourful semantics
These sheets are designed to be turned into interactive books or used as task cards.
BONUS activities exclusive to bundle:
Vocabulary building task cards.
Includes:
symbol to symbol matching
picture to picture matching
picture to symbol matching
clip cards reading activity
Worksheets with 5 various sentences structures. + options to create own sentence strips.
36 pictures to use as writing prompts. Pictures are of various situations, cultural groups and include both single people and groups of people to write about.
Colourful semantics is an exciting language intervention that indirectly works on developing a child’s grammar through the use of:
•Spoken sentences
•Answering W/H questions
•Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
•Story telling skills
•Written sentences and language comprehension
Colourful semantics works particularly well in the special education classroom, helping students with difficulty in understanding language to compose sentences.
Comprehension task cards that promote emerging literacy reading skills and picture/text relationship understanding.
Pictures related directly to the symbol supported sentences students have to match to the cards.
All cards contain 2 symbolised key words in the sentence. This system supports using information in a text to find meaning in a picture.
8 different categories of cards:
Animals
Clothing
Colours/Colors (labels with both spellings)
Fantasy
Food
People
Space
Stationery
OVER 70 TASK CARDS!
Task box/folder labels for each category and instructions on how to make the cards.
Widgit Symbols used with permission
Sight Word books and worksheets for special education and emerging readers.
Support students who do not read traditional text to access stories and sight words with these symbol supported reading books.
BOOKS
Each book uses repetitive sight words and structure to consolidate reading of sight words.
2 Sets of book
SET A - With symbol support
SET B - Text only
3 Books per set
Book 1: “I see a…” sentences
Book 2: Talking about temperature - sight words: is, hot, cold
Book 2: Talking about mean - sight words: is, are, for, dinner, dessert
WORKSHEETS
Sight Word worksheets
Topic word match worksheets: matching picture, symbol and word.
COMMUNICATION BOARDS
Use the communication boards to talk about the stories. Each book has an accompanying communication board, plus one board for all the sight and topic words.
3 different fun and interactive activities and worksheets to help students with spelling of long vowel sound words, when the e needs to be dropped to add -ing.
Sliding cards:
Choose a word - slide it across to hide the ‘e’ and reveal the ing spelling. Then find the picture to match to the word.
Folding strips:
Handing spelling helpers. Look at the picture and the long vowel word, fold the tab, hiding the ‘e’ and revealing the -ing word.
comes in full colour and black and white versions.
Cut and paste worksheets:
Match the words to the pictures. Create the -ing spelling of the words by cutting along the dotted lines to cut off the ‘e’
comes in full colour and black and white versions.
Widgit symbols used with permission
Multi activity CVC spelling worksheets.
On each worksheet:
Match the word
Spell the word
Trace the word
Write the word
Find the word
Colour the word
Colour the picture
Sets of worksheets for each middle vowel sound: a,e,i,o,u
131 worksheets in total!
UK and US spelling included for colour/color.
Black and White for low ink use. Print on white paper or coloured paper.
PowerPoint Activity!
Symbol supported reading and comprehension activity. Develop skills to follow a set of instructions to create a scene. Read the instructions on the slide, then click and drag the pictures into the scene.
NOTE This product is designed to be used in the edit mode of PPT, to enable click and drag. Can also be used with the PowerPoint app.
9 scenes to create:
Dinner Plate
Jungle Scene
Fish Bowl
Desert Scene
Classroom
Beach Scene
Park Scene
Night Sky
Ocean Scene
Build Sentences using Colourful Semantics to say what where the people and animals are in these Christmas scenes. PowerPoint and Boom Card Drag and Drop activities.
3 Key word sentences using “Who?” “is where?” and “what?” questions to build the sentences.
Drag the words/symbols into the boxes to make the sentences.
17 Scenes to write about.
PowerPoint: Stay in edit mode to drag the symbols.
Boom Cards: Drag the words into the boxes and click submit, correct words will stay in position, incorrect words will bounce back.
Use on a desktop or download the PowerPoint app to use on a tablet.
WHAT IS COLOURFUL SEMANTICS?
Colourful semantics is an exciting language intervention that indirectly works on developing a child’s grammar through the use of:
•Spoken sentences
•Answering W/H questions
•Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
•Story telling skills
•Written sentences and language comprehension
Colourful semantics works particularly well in the special education classroom, helping students with difficulty in understanding language to compose sentences.
These worksheets are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills. The sentence strips at the top of each worksheet demonstrate the sentence structure.
Please Note:
To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with “Fast Pins,” (play provides instant feedback for self-grading Boom Cards). Fast Play is always a free way for students to engage with Boom Cards decks. For additional assignment options you’ll need a premium account. If you are new to Boom Learning, you will be offered a free trial of our premium account. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial.
Widgit Symbols used with permission
Sight Word books and worksheets for special education and emerging readers.
Support students who do not read traditional text to access stories and sight words with these symbol supported reading books.
TOPIC: Push and Pull (science: force and movement)
BOOKS
Each book uses repetitive sight words and structure to consolidate reading of sight words.
2 Sets of book
SET A - With symbol support
SET B - Text only
3 Books per set
Book 1: “I can…” sentences - Sight words: I, can, push, pull
Book 2: Talking about position - sight words: towards, away, from, you, push, pull
Book 2: Talking about movement - sight words: move, it, the, push, pull
WORKSHEETS
Sight Word worksheets
Topic word match worksheets: matching picture, symbol and word.
COMMUNICATION BOARDS
Use the communication boards to talk about the stories. Each book has an accompanying communication board, plus one board for all the sight and topic words.
Sight Word books and worksheets for special education and emerging readers.
Support students who do not read traditional text to access stories and sight words with these symbol supported reading books.
BOOKS
Each book uses repetitive sight words and structure to consolidate reading of sight words.
2 Sets of book
SET A - With symbol support
SET B - Text only
3 Books per set
Book 1: “I see a…” sentences
Book 2: Talking about location - sight words: look, is, inside, outside
Book 2: Talking about position - sight words: is, sitting, standing
WORKSHEETS
Sight Word worksheets
Topic word match worksheets: matching picture, symbol and word.
COMMUNICATION BOARDS
Use the communication boards to talk about the stories. Each book has an accompanying communication board, plus one board for all the sight and topic words.
Pick and Choose reading books allow students to decide on the information they want to read about.
Pick from 12 different community helpers and read about what they do and how they help us.
Each community helper comes with 4 pages about them, each with a variety of diverse clip art characters.
Comes as Interactive PowerPoint and Boom Cards
Please Note:
To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with “Fast Pins,” (play provides instant feedback for self-grading Boom Cards). Fast Play is always a free way for students to engage with Boom Cards decks. For additional assignment options you’ll need a premium account. If you are new to Boom Learning, you will be offered a free trial of our premium account. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial.
Widgit Symbols used with permission
Digital interactive PPT and Boom Cards Spell CVC words by dragging and dropping the letters into the snowball.
Look at the picture in the sign the snowman is holding and spell the word.
This Bundle includes all 5 vowel middle sound
Middle a
Middle e
Middle i
Middle o
Middle u
129 words in total!!!
PowerPoint: Stay in edit mode to drag the symbols.
Boom Cards: Drag the words into the boxes and click submit, correct words will stay in position, incorrect words will bounce back.
Use on a desktop or download the PowerPoint app to use on a tablet.
Please Note:
To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with “Fast Pins,” (play provides instant feedback for self-grading Boom Cards). Fast Play is always a free way for students to engage with Boom Cards decks. For additional assignment options you’ll need a premium account. If you are new to Boom Learning, you will be offered a free trial of our premium account. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial.
Widgit Symbols used with permission