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.
Match, lift and reveal books develop book handling and reading skills.
The interactive books actively engage students in the reading process by allowing them to match or choose pictures and then reveal sentences.
CORE VOCAB:
Learn the names for rooms in the house
2 LEVELS:
Level 1: Decorated rooms: match picture to picture.
Level 2: Empty rooms: add pictures to the empty books
USE AS BOOKS OR TASK CARDS:
Turn into an interactive books
OR use as task cards where students are given options of different furniture and have to choose the correct furniture for each room.
Worksheets designed to encourage independent writing on topics of interest, using the colourful semantics approach and vocabulary support boards.
Have students build full sentences around things they like and don’t like.
8 topics to choose from:
Animals
Colours
Food
Movies
Sport
Technology
Transport
Weather
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.
3 set of matching task cards to learn emotions. 8 emotions with 4 pictures for each emotion.
Set 1
Picture to symbol matching
Set 2
Symbol to symbol matching
Set 3
Word to picture or symbol matching
Clip cards
8 emotions with 4 pictures each
Clip cards have 3 word options to choose from.
12 fully symbolised instructional worksheets, instructing students to give objects to different people. Students develop reading and comprehension skills, along with object and gender and age recognition of people.
12 worksheets at different levels.
Level 1:
Instruction asks for 1 object. Instructions are in line with corresponding people. Object differentiation only.
Level 2:
Instruction asks for 2 objects. Instructions are in line with corresponding people. Object differentiation only.
Level 3:
Instructions ask for 1 object. Instructions are not in line with corresponding people. Object and person differentiation. Different gender and age of people.
Level 4:
Instructions ask for 2 objects. Instructions are not in line with corresponding people. Object and person differentiation. Different gender and age of people.
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
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
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.
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 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.
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