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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.

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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.
People Who Help - digital Pick and Choose reading books
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People Who Help - digital Pick and Choose reading books

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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
CVC  Spelling Snow theme BUNDLE: Digital PPT + Boom Cards
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CVC Spelling Snow theme BUNDLE: Digital PPT + Boom Cards

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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
Christmas Scene Prepositions - Digital PPT and BOOM Cards: Drag and Drop
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Christmas Scene Prepositions - Digital PPT and BOOM Cards: Drag and Drop

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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
Push and Pull - Sight Word books: symbol support and text only
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Push and Pull - Sight Word books: symbol support and text only

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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.
Christmas Sight Word Books - symbol support and text only
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Christmas Sight Word Books - symbol support and text only

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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.
Sight Word Book - Food: symbol support and text only
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Sight Word Book - Food: symbol support and text only

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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.
Sight Word Books - Animals: symbol supported and text only
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Sight Word Books - Animals: symbol supported and text only

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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.
Brag Bands
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Brag Bands

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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.
Make a Scene - Click and Drag PowerPoint
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Make a Scene - Click and Drag PowerPoint

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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
People Who Help - Colourful Semantics Interactive PowerPoint
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People Who Help - Colourful Semantics Interactive PowerPoint

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Interactive PowerPoint Read the clues to decide what job the description relates to. Click and drag the correct person into the box. Interactive book with easy to read clues. 10 Worksheets with diverse character cliparts for each job. Fully symbol supported text. JOB INCLUDES: Builder Chef Dentist Doctor Farmer Firefighter Nurse Pilot Police Postman Widgit Symbols used with permission
Leisure Time - Colourful Semantics Interactive PowerPoint
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Leisure Time - Colourful Semantics Interactive PowerPoint

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Digital Interactive PowerPoint presentation. Build Sentences using Colourful Semantics to say what the people are doing in each leisure time activity. 3 Key word sentences using “Who?” “is doing?” and “what?” questions to build the sentences. Click on the correct answer to progress to the next slide. Click on the wrong answer and get taken to a try again screen. Use on a desktop or download the PowerPoint app to use on a tablet. *NOTE: This Powerpoint is READ ONLY and cannot be modified. 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. INFORMATION PAGE ON HOW TO USE COLOURFUL SEMANTICS INCLUDED IN THE PACK 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. Widgit Symbols used with permission
Make Your Own Adventure Book - DIGITAL  interactive powerpoint
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Make Your Own Adventure Book - DIGITAL interactive powerpoint

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Fun symbol supported interactive book, where students get to choose a their own path and take a superhero on an adventure through the book . HOW TO USE: Each page has a sentence to say what is happening and two options of where to go. Students click on the choice they want and they are taken to that slide. At the end of the story you will be taken back to the beginning to try another adventure. 10 different stories in one book. Digital Interactive PowerPoint: Requires Powerpoint app to work. Play slide to make it interactive. NOTE This product cannot be edited and can be viewed as “Read Only” when asked to submit a password. Widgit Symbols used with permission
CVC spelling worksheets - no prep
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CVC spelling worksheets - no prep

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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.
Magic E- ing spelling activities
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Magic E- ing spelling activities

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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
Alphabet Workbooks
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Alphabet Workbooks

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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
Special Need Christmas Activity Bundle
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Special Need Christmas Activity Bundle

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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.
People who help - Who am I?
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People who help - Who am I?

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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
Comprehension cards - Symbol Supported
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Comprehension cards - Symbol Supported

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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
Counting books - Interactive, Symbol Supported
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Counting books - Interactive, Symbol Supported

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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”
Describing transport NO PREP - using colourful semantics
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Describing transport NO PREP - using colourful semantics

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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.