I have been a special needs practitioner/teacher for ten years--it is my passion! I have taught students who range from profound to moderate to severe learning difficulties. I also have a lot of experience teaching students who are on the Autism Spectrum. Most of the content that I teach focuses in the area of functional life skills, social skills and behavior modifications.
I have been a special needs practitioner/teacher for ten years--it is my passion! I have taught students who range from profound to moderate to severe learning difficulties. I also have a lot of experience teaching students who are on the Autism Spectrum. Most of the content that I teach focuses in the area of functional life skills, social skills and behavior modifications.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
Colourful Semantics Level 4 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Developing the use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives.
Peppa pig Colourful Semantics pack is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (6 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (23 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (46 in total) are green and ‘place’ words (15 in total) are blue.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow, green and blue coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension.
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
‘‘Frozen’’ Colourful Semantics pack is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (5 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (15 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (30 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow and green coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Make maths fun with these Animal themed challenge word problems! (10 slides)
Each addition and subtraction word problem was designed to support students’ decoding skills, sight word vocabulary, and reading comprehension as they master math skills.
3 differentiated power points
Each slide features a different challenge featuring word problems to 20 with a lovely illustration to match.
1st ppt: Each slide includes the word problem, a number line and a ready equation template to support the learners thinking.
2nd ppt: Each slide includes, the word problem, a number line and a blank equation template.
3rd ppt: Each slide includes the word problem and a white box where the learner can build number sense and work with quantities.
MLD colourful semantics cut-up sentences activity.
Use this cut-up sentences activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange, ‘what doing’ words (verbs) are yellow , ‘what’ words are green ‘where’ words are blue, ‘to Whom’ words are purple. This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their writing.
Cut-up sentences are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence and will allow them to arrange it so it makes grammatical sense. This is a good activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
Peppa pig Colourful Semantics pack is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (4 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (17 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (33 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow and green coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Learning skills such as folding or hanging clothes can be challenging for learners who have special needs. Using visuals is a wonderful way to teach this daily living skill.
In this bundle there are 7 power points and 7 step by step worksheets with visuals and widgit symbolised descriptions showing how to complete each step.
Simply print out each worksheet, laminate the visuals, cut them and use hard and soft velcro .
You can place this visual next to your life skills area in your classroom, or use it at home!
This papercraft Christmas tree session is lots of fun for your children to do during your lessons before Christmas. Once they are complete, they’ll look adorable and will be perfect for brightening up your classroom or send them at home this festive season.
These paper Christmas trees are super simple for children to get along with too.
This activity is perfect for helping to improve fine motor skills and will help students to become more proficient at arts and crafts. It’s a perfect task to set students during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and is sure to help you add a dash of festivity to your lesson plans.
When your students have finished making their paper tree, you could hang them with string from the ceiling to turn your classroom into a winter wonderland. Alternatively, students could take them home.
Are you looking for a New Year’s Eve festive story for your SEN class? ‘‘The Night before New Year’s Eve’’ is the perfect story for the occasion!
It’s the night before New Year’s, and the whole family is determined to stay up until midnight! Everyone’s stocked up on sparkly streamers and festive party hats, but after a night filled with board games and too many cupcakes, the little ones are getting sleepy. . . Can they make it until the clock strikes twelve?
The Budle includes:
a simplified version of the story in widgit
a sentence building activity
a sequencing worksheet
comprehension activity
Enjoy!
This festive Christmas Story PowerPoint for children is perfect for using during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and will help to teach students about the story behind this exciting time of year.
The Budle includes:
a simplified version of the Christmas story in widgit
a sentence building activity
a comprehension activity widgit symbolised
a sequencing worksheet
Enjoy!
This papercraft 3D Christmas card session is lots of fun for your children to do during your lessons before Christmas. Once they’re complete, they’ll look adorable and will be perfect for brightening up your classroom or send them at home this festive season.
These paper Christmas 3D crads are super simple for children to get along with too.
This activity is perfect for helping to improve fine motor skills and will help students to become more proficient at arts and crafts. It’s a perfect task to set students during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and is sure to help you add a dash of festivity to your lesson plans.
When your students have finished making their paper tree, you could hang them with string from the ceiling to turn your classroom into a winter wonderland. Alternatively, students could take them home and use them as wishing cards.
Hot chocolate drink is a great way to get your children excited about drinking milk. Who does not love chocolate? It makes for a super yummy dessert! It is a great way to introduce your child to the essential life skill of cooking with this no cook recipe.
It is also a great recipe to use at home to teach essential life skills. Easy to implement in a life skills class.
You can find a visual step by step recipe in which the learners can read the steps and add the right visual.
Enjoy!
This is a Colourful Semantics activity discount bundle set Levels 2, Level 3, Level 4, Level 5
Learn to build sentences and develop your commenting skills.
Colourful semantics encouraging wider vocabulary and helps children to answer questions or generate responses to questions.
This activity pack includes:
• 124 pictures (34 Level 2, 34 Level 3, 34 Level 4, 22 Level 5)
Elmer the colourful patchwork elephant has been a nursery favourite since this first book was published in 1989. A modern classic, this picture book is known to millions, and continues to be the strongest seller of the whole series, having sold over 2 million copies around the world. The subtle message is that it is OK to be different, and combined with the vibrant colour and cheeky humour of the main character.
The Budle includes:
A simplified version of the story widgit symbolised
a word mat
a sequence activity
a comprehension activity
a counting Elmer activity
a document that includes images of Elmer and jungle animals (you can print them and use them as puppets or decorate your class)
Enjoy!
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A popular book that is enhancing the wild animals vocabulary, through listening, singing, reading and discussing with the help of the book ‘‘Walking through the jungle’’ by Stella Blackstone, illustrated by Debbie Harter and sung by Fred Penner.
The resource includes:
ppt ‘‘Walking through the jungle’’ story widgit symbolised
Visuals to stick on the book
Story mat
Colourful semantics activity
Building sentences activity
Find the initial letter acivity
all widgit symbolised!
Enjoy!
8 Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt , provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
This file contains:
’‘Kipper’s Diary’'
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (10 questions widgit symbolised - 3 possible answers for each question)
’‘Picnic Time’'
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (10 questions widgit symbolised-3 possible answers for each question)
’‘New Trainers’'
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (8 questions widgit symbolised - 3 possible answers for each question)
Colourful semantics activity
’‘By the stream’'
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (8 questions widgit symbolised-3 possible answers for each question)
’‘On the Sand’'
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (12 questions widgit symbolised-3 possible answers for each question)
Colourful semantics activity
’‘The cold day’'
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (10 questions widgit symbolised)
’‘House for sale’'
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (11 questions and answers all widgit symbolised)
1 C. Semantics activity’’
’‘Look Smart’'
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (13 questions and answers all widgit symbolised)
Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt , provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
This file contains:
House for sale:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (11 questions and answers all widgit symbolised)
Comprehension activity -no symbols
Look Smart:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (13 questions and answers all widgit symbolised)
Comprehension activity -no symbols
Everyone loves Eric Carle and the Very Hungry Caterpillar! This adapted and interactive book is modified for the accessibility of all students.
The bundle includes
-the story ppt
-the story in widgit programme ppt
-a word mat
-Building sentences activity widgit symbolised
-What did the caterpillar eat? - sorting activity widgit symbolised
-a comprehension activity widgit symbolised
-Find the initial letter activity
-The very hungry caterpillar counting activity
Match the picrure with the word activity
The life cycle of the butterfly activity
Enjoy!
This time-saving pack contains a set of worksheets relating to buying different items.
This resource is for countries using the Pound Sterling.
Each activity shows a combination of coins up to a particular value which pupils add up and match the total in the space provided.
Coins used are 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p,
£1 and £2 coins
Notes used are £5, £10, £20, £50 notes
Content
• A ppt presentig all coins and notes.
• 2 British Money word mats/ 1 Coins Mat and 1 Coins and Notes mat
• 23 Task- activities for all levels and abilities:
Simple matching activities for SLD Learners (1 worksheet),
Money recognition -Match the value of the coin(s) and note (s) (3 worksheets)
make the correct amount using 1p coins -up to 5 (1 worksheet)
count mixed coins (2 worksheets)
find the right note and buy new clothes (1 worksheet)
matching coins activities/ Find the right coin and match it on the price tag (4 worksheets).
maximising matching coins activities (5 worksheets)
addition knowledge - add the total amount spent (2 worksheets)
• 3 Interactive Digital Activities
Laminate
You can print, laminate and cut out the activities and money for pupils to practice adding up coin values. Ideal for, SEN learners early finishers and for those pupils who need more practice in adding up coins.
**** Print off, cut out and glue into workbooks****
You may wish to record learners’ work and so this resource is great for cutting out and sticking into worksheets or onto plain paper. Whatever ability the pupil is at, you can choose the appropriate activity.
Looking for new ideas working on SLD Learners communication skills?
My Half Term (October) News session is a great resource, allowing your children to communicate and build sentences about their weekend news using symbols.
The resource includes:
-a ppt that you can use in circle time. Add your team’s picture and make it more interactive for your learners.
8 questions all widgit symbolised
a great selection of answers for your students to choose from, all widgit symbolised.
Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt , provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
This file contains:
Keeper’s Diary:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (10 questions widgit symbolised - 3 possible answers for each question)
Picnic Time:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (10 questions widgit symbolised-3 possible answers for each question)
New Trainers:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (8 questions widgit symbolised - 3 possible answers for each question)
Colourful semantics activity
By the stream:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (8 questions widgit symbolised-3 possible answers for each question)
On the Sand:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (12 questions widgit symbolised-3 possible answers for each question)
Colourful semantics activity
The cold day:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (10 questions widgit symbolised)