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Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes cards to help children build sentences, it includes cards that describe ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘what doing’.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
· 94 Who Cards
· 161 What Cards
· 52 Where Cards
· 86 What Doing Cards
These cards can be used in conjunction with what like, who to, who with, how and when cards
36 Fine motor skills activity cards for improving hand strength, pencil grip and handwriting.
Printable support resources for fine motor skills activities.
Including:
Gingerbread men to tweezer buttons onto
Large numbers to place sequins on
Hole punch activity
Jellybean jars
Geoboard number templates
Gumball machines
Muffin tray templates
Tags for padlocks and keys
Pompom ice creams
Pompom pictures
Numbers for threading
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art and Krista Wallden Creative Clips
Children match CVC words to the corresponding pictures. 120 cards containing either a CVC word or picture and then with cards to match.
Why do you need this?
Matching pictures with corresponding CVC words helps students develop word recognition skills. By associating the visual image with the written word, students strengthen their ability to identify and read CVC words independently.
By engaging in activities that pair words with pictures, students develop reading comprehension skills. They learn to make connections between written text and its meaning, improving their overall understanding of the material.
How and when might you use this?
This activity could be used in a variety of way:
· Small group instruction to provide targeted support
· Independent work stations
· Early morning work
· Homework for additional practice
· Assessment
For continued use I would recommend laminating this resource and using Velcro to move the jigsaw pieces around.
What is included?
Included are 62 cards with CVC words on and corresponding pictures to match and 62 cards with pictures on and corresponding words to match.
Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes jigsaw cards for children to match together the correct colour coded sentence with picture.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
30 jigsaw cards to match the picture to the correct colour coded sentence.
Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes sentence making boards for children to plan and write sentences using the cards. It also includes all 4 sets of colour coded cards for who, what doing, what and where. There are 354 cards in total.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
· 354 Cards for ‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘Where’ and ‘What doing’
· 4 different versions of sentence support cards with lines to write sentences
· 4 different versions of sentence support cards with handwriting lines
45 Flash cards showing CVCC words with corresponding pictures.
Why do you need this?
Mastering CVCC words (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant-Consonant) is an important early reading milestone. These CVCC Word and Picture Flash Cards provide engaging practice to boost decoding, spelling and vocabulary skills. Working with these cards increases exposure to the common CVCC pattern, laying the foundation for decoding unfamiliar words.
How and when might you use this?
Teachers can use the cards for direct instruction, literacy centers, word walls, and reading games.
What’s included?
This set includes 45 printable flash cards with short CVCC words like sand, bank, ring, fish etc each paired with colorful illustrations.
5 worksheets in which children need to read a simple sentence containing CVC words and then draw a corresponding picture when they have read and understood the sentence.
Why do you need this?
Engaging in activities where students read a sentence and then draw a picture encourages the integration of reading and writing skills. Students not only decode the text but also express their comprehension through visual representation. Drawing a picture to represent a sentence promotes language development by encouraging students to think creatively and express their ideas visually. It helps them expand their vocabulary and reinforce their understanding of CVC words in context.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations or literacy centers
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
5 PDF worksheets
5 worksheets in which children need to look at a picture and think about what the short vowel sound would be in the middle of that word, they then need to colour the correct letter.
Why do you need this?
Understanding short vowel sounds is fundamental to strong literacy skills, it lays the foundation for their early literacy skills and paves the way for successful reading and spelling. These worksheets give students focused practice isolating vowel sounds in simple CVC words. The ability to recognise and differentiate between short vowel sounds helps children sound out words, enabling them to read new and unfamiliar words with accuracy.
How and when might you use this?
Each page displays 6 pictures along with a choice of 3 different vowel sounds, children have to work out what CVC word the picture is representing and then colour in the correct middle vowel sound for that word. For example, seeing a picture of a pig would cue colouring the “i” as the middle vowel sound in “pig”.
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
5 PDF worksheets
25 worksheets each with a different high frequency sight word to support children with with reading and recognising words. Children can pick out the given word and only colour clouds with the correct word.
Why do you need this?
Instantly recognising common sight words is a milestone of early reading fluency. These 25 worksheets provide targeted practice for students to recognise and memorize high-frequency sight words, which are commonly encountered in text and essential for fluent reading. By repeatedly encountering and identifying sight words in context, students develop fluency in reading, as they can quickly recognise these words without having to decode them letter by letter.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
25 PDF worksheets
Sequencing pictures for children to cut out and order of events.
Why do you need this?
Sequencing pictures can help children understand the chronological order of events in a story or narrative. Teachers can use them to reinforce storytelling skills and support comprehension.
Working with sequencing pictures encourages critical thinking as children analyse the sequence of events and identify the correct order. It promotes problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Sequencing activities promote language development by encouraging children to describe the events depicted in the pictures. It provides opportunities for vocabulary expansion and oral language practice.
How and when might you use this?
This activity could be used in a variety of ways such as:
· Early learning independent work
· Small group instruction to provide targeted support
· Speech and language support
· Independent work stations
For continued use I would recommend laminating this resource and using Velcro to move the jigsaw pieces around.
What is included?
Included are 11 boards showing first, next, then, last. Each board has 4 sequencing pictures to order. Sequencing pictures include:
· Doing laundry
· Making the bed
· Making breakfast cereal
· Making a sandwich
· Washing the dishes
· Making a sundae
· A snowman melting
· Carving a pumpkin
· Building a sandcastle
· Baking cookies
Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes cards to help children build sentences, it includes cards that describe ‘who to’, ‘who with’, ‘how’, ‘what like’, and ‘when’.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
There are 5 sets of cards included in this set:
· 94 Who to Cards
· 94 Who with Cards
· 36 What Like
· 46 How Cards
· 54 When Cards
These cards are best used in conjunction with Who, What, Where, what doing Cards (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12234006)
Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes visual cue cards to remind children of the colours for each type of word. It has the four standard colourful semantics colours for who, what doing, what and where but then also has four extra cards for how, who to, when and what like.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
8 Visual cue cards for ‘who’, ‘what doing’, ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘what like’, ‘who to’, ‘how’ and ‘when’.
Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes boards with pictures on and spaces for children to build sentences using the relevant ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘what doing’ cards.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
34 Sentence building boards and 96 corresponding who, what, where and what doing cards to build sentences.
Alphabet Flash Cards showing capital and lower case letters and corresponding picture for that sound. These could be used as flash cards for a lesson or as a display.
Why do you need this?
Learning the alphabet is important for children because it is the foundation for developing reading and writing skills. Displaying the alphabet in a classroom can be useful for young students who are just learning to read and write. It helps them to visually recognise the letters and their order, and can make it easier for them to learn the alphabet song or recite the letters in order. It also serves as a reference for students who are working on spelling or writing tasks.
What’s included?
Included in the resource are 13 PDf pages with 2 flash cards per page each showing both upper and lower case versions of the letter and a corresponding picture beginning with that letter.
CVC word bingo with 2 different versions – one with words and one with pictures.
Why do you need this?
Bingo games provide an engaging and interactive way to reinforce phonics skills, including decoding and blending CVC words. Playing bingo helps students practice recognising common letter-sound correspondences and blending them into words. CVC word bingo introduces students to a variety of simple, high-frequency words that are essential for early reading development. By playing the game, students expand their sight word vocabulary and become more proficient readers.
How and when might you use this?
This game can be used in a variety of ways:
· Whole class instructions as a fun and interactive way to reinforce phonic skills
· Small group activities for targeted practice of decoding CVC words
· Children can play independently or in pairs
· Homework to reinforce learning of CVC words
What’s included?
Included in this resource is:
· 7 bingo game boards with pictures on
· 7 bingo game boards with words on
· 56 picture cards
· 56 word cards
· 14 colour cards
This is a reading intervention aimed at young children learning to read and those struggling with reading. It will mostly be helpful for children in reception or year 1 however it will also help support children with special needs. It helps teach and secure learning in letter identification and sounds, CVC words, blending, sight words and nonsense words and fluency and comprehension.
What are the sections included?
Letter Recognition
Initial and Final Sounds
Short Vowel Sounds
Blending and Fluency
Nonsense Words
Sight Words
Comprehension
This pack is perfect for individual or small group work to help fill gaps in previous learning and secure skills needed for reading.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art
25 worksheets each with 6 different activities to support learning to read and spell high frequency sight words: reading, colouring, making the word with magnets, tracing, writing and putting the word into a sentence.
Why do you need this?
Instantly recognising common sight words is a milestone of early reading fluency. These 25 worksheets provide multi-sensory practice reading, spelling, tracing, and using frequently encountered vocabulary like “the”, “and”, “is” and more. With six activities per page, students gain repeated exposure through varied formats. Tracing and writing build motor skills and proper letter formation. Fun exercises like forming the words in magnets and filling in blanks allow practical application.
How and when might you use this?
Each worksheet focuses on six different high-frequency words. Students will read the word, color in the word, arrange letter magnets to form the word, trace the word, write them from memory, and use them in sentences. These techniques reinforce sight word recognition through visual, kinesthetic, and cognitive learning styles.
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
25 PDF worksheets
6 worksheets in which children need to read a simple CVC word and then draw a corresponding picture when they have read and understood the word.
Why do you need this?
Engaging in activities where students read a word and then draw a picture encourages the integration of reading and writing skills. Students not only decode the word but also express their comprehension through visual representation. Drawing a picture to represent a word promotes language development by encouraging students to think creatively and express their ideas visually. It helps them expand their vocabulary and reinforce their understanding of CVC words.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations or literacy centers
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
6 PDF worksheets
5 worksheets in which children need to look at a picture and then fill in the missing short vowel sound from the middle of a CVC word.
Why do you need this?
Filling in missing vowel sounds reinforces phonics rules and reading readiness. With cute animals and objects, learners practice deciphering familiar CVC vocabulary. Parents and teachers can use these pages to assess and develop critical vowel comprehension.
How and when might you use this?
Each page displays 10 illustrated words with the vowel missing. Looking at the picture clue, students fill in the blank to complete the word, applying knowledge of short vowel sounds. For example, seeing a picture of a c_t would cue writing an “a” to spell “cat”.
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
5 PDF worksheets
11 Worksheets with different activities to recognise and find nonsense words. Nonsense words are an important part in assessing phonics and decoding because a student can only decode and read the word if they understand the phonic sounds within the word.