Stone Age Boy themed colourful semantics. The cards help lower attaining speakers and writers to respond to the story, giving them more confidence when they write. This pack contains text specific vocabulary, including: 6 who - noun/person cards 18 doing - verb cards 16 what - noun/object cards 7 activity sheets to support writing Pictures from the story to use as writing prompts Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently.

2 weeks of lesson plans and resources based around waste and recycling: Can I explain what waste is and how it is created? Can I collect data to answer a question? Can I make relevant observations and present results in drawings and bar graphs? Can I explain the process of waste disposal? Can I sort and describe different materials? Can I explain how to reduce, reuse and recycle? Can I describe how paper is recycled? Can I make recycled paper? Activities include: Trash detectives Making recycled paper Bar charts All activities differentiated using chili challenge

A set of 11 editable writing frame worksheets to practise using conjunctions to join two clauses. The worksheets help children to structure the sentence with space to draw a picture to show comprehension. I use these as an independent English workstation activity for one of my pupils with SEN. Colourful Semantics cards avaiable here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colourful-semantics-starter-pack-12121851

The Three Little Pigs themed colourful semantics. The cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a familiar tale, giving them more confidence when they write. Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. Colourful Semantics helps children to: •Develop a wider vocabulary •Make sentences longer •Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Improve story telling skills The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences. This pack contains fairy tale specific vocabulary, including: 4 who - noun/person cards 9 doing - verb cards 9 what - noun/object cards 4 where - noun/place cards

A set of 4 comic strip templates to support different abilities. PDF and editable file included.

Handy one-page worksheets to help children structure sentences. I use these as early morning work or a Guided Reading carousel activity. Simply print and laminate for an easy go-to activity to practise sentence writing. These are a real time saver if you do not want to use the individual cards, or don’t have the resources to print and laminate the individual cards.

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt colourful semantics! Great for speaking and listening and/or writing intervention, these cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a familiar story, giving them more confidence when they write. A brilliant tool to support children with EFL - ESL - ELD - EAL - SEN! Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. The cards help children to: •Develop a wider vocabulary •Make sentences longer •Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Improve story telling skills This pack contains story specific vocabulary, including: 9 who - noun/person cards 18 doing - verb cards 13 what - noun/object cards 5 where - noun/place cards 18 how/when - preposition/adverb cards 18 adjective cards 9 different strips to structure sentences

I made this for my reception class but have also used it in Year 1 and Year 2. It’s a workbook for children to complete throughout the year to show their progress and record milestones from their year at school. Lots of activities to complete each term, to show just how far the children have come in the year! My class parents loved it!

A set of 6 differentiated lesson plans for Early Years writing.

Made for my reception children to introduce them to reading alien words. The aliens zoom past the space rocket window and the children have to read the words!

Little Red Riding Hood themed colourful semantics. The cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a familiar tale, giving them more confidence when they write. Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. Colourful Semantics helps children to: •Develop a wider vocabulary •Make sentences longer •Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Improve story telling skills The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences. This pack contains story specific vocabulary, including: 5 who - noun/person cards 9 doing - verb cards 8 what - noun/object cards 3 where - noun/place cards

UPDATED Large-sized colourful semantics to use as an interactive display or carpet activity. Cards can be printed to the exact size needed by adjusting the printer settings. A brilliant learning tool to support children with EAL and SEN! The cards help struggling speakers and writers gain independence and confidence when they write. Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. Colourful Semantics helps children to: •Develop a wider vocabulary •Make sentences longer •Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Improve story telling skills The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences. This pack contains story specific vocabulary, including: 14 who - noun/person cards 15 doing - verb cards 14 what - noun/object cards 12 where - noun/place cards

This complete Lego Slow Writing Pack contains everything you need to engage students in a creative writing challenge! Suitable for KS2 (simply use the grammatical areas you have covered). Pack includes: Lego block display pack Lego Slow Writing word mat 10 x picture prompt sheets with examples to support less confident learners. PowerPoint with picture prompts The most popular way I have used this resource is with a ‘mystery bag’ of real Lego pieces in the corresponding colours. Have students reach in and select however many pieces they need (easy differentiation). They can then use the blocks to create a short creative writing piece, linked to your current theme, or use the picture prompts included for inspiration. Alternatively, you can laminate the brick cards and have children select a number from a bag/pack. A great resource for supply teachers or last minute lesson fillers!

A complete starter pack to begin using colourful semantics in your classroom! This is a growing pack. You will be notified of any updates. Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. Colourful Semantics helps children to: •Develop a wider vocabulary •Make sentences longer •Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Improve story telling skills The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences. This pack contains the following: 36 who - noun/person cards (including pronouns) 54 doing - verb cards (including states of being) 63 what - noun/object cards 9 where - noun/place cards

Goldilocks and the Three Bears themed colourful semantics. The cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a familiar tale, giving them more confidence when they write. Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. Colourful Semantics helps children to: •Develop a wider vocabulary •Make sentences longer •Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Improve story telling skills The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences. This pack contains story specific vocabulary, including: 4 who - noun/person cards 5 doing - verb cards 9 what - noun/object cards 5 where - noun/place cards

One week of differentiated instruction writing activities, based around a skittles experiment. Download includes: full planning for the week Lesson PowerPoints Differentiated writing frames Lesson word bank resource Homework task

My Weekend News teaching pack! This complete set helps support children to write a recount about what they have done at the weekend. 26 new cards are included with weekend specific vocabulary to encourage a more detailed recount. A useful set of seven differentiated writing templates will help your children to write about their weekend. I use this set as both a speaking and listening activity and as an independent writing task. They work perfectly as Monday morning ‘News Writing’ learning area in Early Years and Key Stage One. This pack includes: 7 differentiated writing frame worksheets 5 exclusive talk frames 18 noun (who) cards 18 verb (doing) cards 36 noun (what) cards 9 noun (where) cards 12 adverbs and preposition cards 9 adjective cards 9 conjunction cards Additional prepositions, adverbials, adjectives and conjunctions can be found in this pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colourful-semantics-adverbs-adjectives-conjunctions-and-negatives-12263900 This pack is designed to work alongside the Semantics starter pack, available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colourful-semantics-starter-pack-12121851

Three weeks worth of lessons and activities based on the story Smiley Shark by Ruth Gallowway. Lessons include: Powerful verbs Character and setting description Retelling the story Planning and writing a story in the same style

English and Maths morning work. Made for my Year 2 class for morning word work and place value practise. Children need to find the word in the dictionary then complete the activity. They partition the magic number, practise writing it in words and add/subtract different amounts.

A complete set of home learning sheets for Phase 2. No prep needed, just print and go! FOUR differentiated levels of activity for every sound: Set 1 - s, a, t, p; Set 2 - i, n, m, d; Set 3 - g, o, c, k; Set 4 - ck, e, u, r; Set 5 - h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss. The worksheets are based on the Ruth Miskin scheme and DFE letters and sounds. They will work alongside all major Phonics programmes. Every level provides children with the opportunity to write the sound and develop their vocabulary using the images. The activities are progressive, moving from initial sound recognition to reading comprehension using drawing. Every page includes images with the initial/final digraph sound to help children to remember them. These have been tried and tested in my own classroom and work well as both home learning or as an independent activity.