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.
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
Series of 4 interactive matching books
My Farm Animals Book
My Pets Book
My Jungle Animals Book
My Ocean Animals Book
Each book contains 4 pages of animals to match and an “I see…” reading sentence with text and symbols.
Books come as two levels:
LEVEL 1 picture to picture matching
LEVEL 2 sorting using symbol and sentence prompts
Get students identifying different emotions and commenting on people’s emotions. This activity can be made into interactive books or used as task cards.
2 levels of sentence building:
LEVEL 1: emotion.
LEVEL 2: Person + emotions
8 emotions
-Happy
-Sad
-Angry
-Confused
-Excited
-Scared
-Bored
-Tired
4 pictures cards for each emotion. 32 pages per level.
Title pages supplied for each emotion, as well as general “My Emotions Books” title page.
Create different type of books.
Create each different emotion book with 4 pages per book. OR
Mix the emotions together in a book, to have students identifying different style.
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.
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.
Product Description
Two interactive books about shopping
“It’s Shopping Time” a story about what you do at the shop. Written in first person. With symbols to match and items to put in shopping carts and bags.
“What’s the shop” and interactive book with photos of different shop. Complete the “I can buy…” sentences with the correct symbols.
This exciting and fun stocking (bundle) is filled with different Christmas activities for the classroom, including reading, writing and motor control/crafts activities. All activities are supported with Widgit symbols.
Included in this bundle:
Holiday Choices - reading activity developing independent choice making. Studens read holiday options and students decide where they want to spend Christmas and answer multiple choice questions about their choice. 2 levels
Interactive/adapted book - book about Christmas trees. Read the sentence on each page, then complete the instruction at the top of the page.
Paper Chain Making - follow simple set of instructions to make Christmas paper chains. Patterned paper included.
Make a Beard for Santa - motor control skills / arts and crafts activity
Describe the Christmas Tree - use colourful semantics to compose sentences to describe the Christmas tree. 3 levels
Christmas PECS symbols - + “I see…” symbol and sentence strip
Decorate the Christmas Tree - read the instructions to decorate a Christmas tree. 2 levels
Widgit symbols used with permission.
Use colourful semantics to describe everyday objects, using size, colour/color and object.
NO PREP worksheets: Circle the correct word in each part of the sentence to build a sentence.
Each object comes in at least 3 colours and two sizes.
64 task cards cards for objects of different size and color
UK and US versions [colour/color] included in folder.
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 are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
Wigit Symbols used with permission
Use colourful semantics to describe where the Easter Bunny is in relation to different objects.
Build you own sentence worksheets and NO PREP circle to answer worksheets.
PLUS Make a scene, reading comprehension.
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
This tasty bundle is full of wonderful Easter egg related activities at a huge discount!
Includes:
No prep prepositions using colourful semantics.
Interactive Easter Egg counting book - numbers up to 10
Make a scene - reading comprehension
Easter Egg Hunt interactive flip and find board with 3 levels of comprehension reading pages.
Where are the Easter Eggs hiding? Interactive flip and find board and 2 levels of colourful semantics worksheets.
Describe the Easter Egg using colourful semantics.
worksheets include both UK and US spellings
Widgit Symbols used with permission
Use colourful semantics to describe types of transport and where they are.
2 Levels of worksheets
Level 1 : What and Where
Level 2: What, is doing, where
No prep - circle correct key words to compose sentences.
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 are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
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
This exciting and fun stocking (bundle) is filled with different Christmas activities for the classroom, including reading, writing and motor control/crafts activities. All activities are supported with Widgit symbols.
Included in this bundle:
Holiday Choices - reading activity developing independent choice making. Students read holiday options and students decide where they want to spend Christmas and answer multiple choice questions about their choice. 2 levels
Interactive/adapted book - book about Christmas trees. Read the sentence on each page, then complete the instruction at the top of the page.
Interactive counting book - read the sentence and put the correct number of presents under the tree. (numbers up to 10) includes addition and subtraction word problems. 2 Levels
Paper Chain Making - follow simple set of instructions to make Christmas paper chains. Patterned paper included.
Make a Beard for Santa - motor control skills / arts and crafts activity
Describe the Christmas Tree - use colourful semantics to compose sentences to describe the Christmas tree. 3 levels
Christmas PECS symbols - + “I see…” symbol and sentence strip
Decorate the Christmas Tree - read the instructions to decorate a Christmas tree. 2 levels
Ispy Worksheets - find the Christmas pictures and tick them off. 3 levels of worksheets. In Colour and Black and White
Where is Santa prepositions - using colourful semantics - Build sentences to say where Santa is. Includes NO PREP version of worksheets.
Widgit symbols used with permission.
ead the clues to decide what job the description relates to.
Interactive book with easy to read clues.
10 Worksheets with 6 diverse character cliparts for each job.
Fully symbol supported text.
JOB INCLUDES:
Builder
Chef
Dentist
Doctor
Farmer
Firefighter
Nurse
Pilot
Police
Postman
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 speed - sight words: the, is. speed words: fast/slow
Book 2: Talking about size - sight word: are, size words: big/small
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 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.
Let students show off their achievements with these wearable Brag Bands.
OR build a Brag Band paper chain, hang it up and see all of the fantastic achievements grow over time.
44 different awards - Master list of awards and pages included
9 Colour pallets of bands.
Age appropriate colour options for older students including: leather look, gold and silver.
Include black and white version to print on colour card.
Learn numbers up to 10 with these fun interactive, symbol supported counting books.
Read and symbol supported sentence and put that number of items in the scene.
4 different books to use:
Superheroes In the City
Cookies in Jar
Flowers in Garden
Apples in the Tree
2 levels for each book
Level 1 - with dots to help beginner counters
Level 2 - no doubts
PLUS: Addition and subtraction word problem inserts.
36 addition and subtraction inserts for each book. Put the inserts over the pages of the answer. Read the word problem, create the scene and check your answer by lifting the insert away.
Work problem examples:
PLACE INSERT ON PAGE 5 "There are 7 cookies in the jar. 2 are eating"LIFT INSERT “There are 5 cookies in the jar”
PLACE INSERT ON PAGE 7 “There are 3 superheroes in the city. 4 more fly in.” LIFT INSERT “There are 7 superheroes”
An interactive book that is 3 books in one.
Counting, adding and subtracting.
64 addition and subtraction inserts that can be added on top of the number sentence in the book to make it into interactive addition and subtraction. See video for how it’s used.
Designed for students with special needs, these symbol supported Alphabet books contain a range of fun worksheets and activities to help learn and consolidate letter recognition. Little to no prep required.
26 workbooks
14 pages per book. Activities include:
Place in alphabet
Writing/tracing
Letter exploration
Initial sounds
Letter hunt in works
Cutting skills
Board game
Certificates for completing each workbook
Pages are un-numbered. Pick and choose the activities that are best for your students.
Can be printed as A4 or A5 size workbooks.
Widgit Symbols used with permission