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!

This handy pack of 54 fronted adverbials and prepositions helps support struggling writers when writing more complex sentences. The fronted adverbials are used at the beginning of a sentence to give more information about the action in the main clause. The difference in colour helps to remind children that they are separate from the main clause and must include a comma. The pack includes the following: 9 adverbial cards to describe manner (how) 27 adverbial cards to describe time (when) 9 adverbial cards to describe place (where) 9 preposition cards to describe position

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

The Very Hungry Caterpillar themed colourful semantics. The cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a 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. 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: 3 who - noun/person cards 3 doing - verb cards 18 what - noun/object cards 9 time conjunction cards 9 adjective cards 2 where - noun/place cards

A perfect resource to teach children how to use prepositions and prepositional phrases! This pack contains a teaching PowerPoint and 10 differentiated worksheets at different levels of progression: 2 preposition match pages - draw a line to match the preposition to the picture 2 preposition multiple choice - circle the preposition to match each picture 2 read and draw - draw a picture to complete the sentence 2 semantics sheets - write the sentence to match the cards 2 sentence writing sheets - write a sentence to match the picture Prepositions covered in this pack: in, on, under, between, next to, in front of, beside, behind, around, above, below. Please leave a review or tag me on instagram @simply_semantics, I’d love to hear what you think of this resource!

This pack contains: SPaG PowerPoint lesson to teach using commas to separate items in a list 36 colourful semantics cards related to shopping at the supermarket 12 shopping list game cards 4 speech/writing frames to use with the cards This activity can be used in at least 4 different ways! I have used it for the following: teaching food vocabulary: This can be done either in the context of shopping or as expressing likes, dislikes. Both options are included in this resource. using commas to separate items in a list: Use the game cards for children to use as a writing prompt. They can record what each person bought at the supermarket to practise using commas. Shopping list memory game: Give each child a shopping list and lay out the green cards on the table. Give them a moment to look at their list then turn it over. They must try and remember which items they need to buy in the correct order! speaking and listening to describe someone’s shopping list: Children could use real life experiences to recall a visit to the shops with family. What did each member buy? If you find another use for the cards, please leave a review or tag me on Instagram @simply_semantics - I’d love to see how you’re using them! *

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

Help your class remember the irregular forms of past tense verbs with I have… Who Has? Game. Great as an English lesson warm up activity or Grammar review.

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

Past tense verb cards! This set of 45 verb cards can be used with other colourful semantic sets to add more variety to your students’ sentence writing. Perfect for teaching children to use irregular past tense verbs in their writing.

Colourful Semantics adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions and negatives growing pack! This growing bundle has everything you need to move on to stages 5-8 of the colourful semantics programme. What’s included in this pack? 15 conjunction cards (coordinating and subordinating) 18 modal verb cards, including negatives 54 adjective cards 9 preposition cards 36 adverb and fronted adverbial cards Level 5 Adjectives: The purple ‘describe’ cards are the adjectives in a sentence. An adjective is a describing word. The ‘describe’ card can be placed at different points to describe different words in the sentence. Various strips are included. Level 6 Adverbs: Adverbs are words that change verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. They can modify (or change) a verb by making it more precise. This pack includes adverbs, fronted adverbials and prepositions. Level 7 Conjunctions: Conjunctions are used to join two clauses or expand an idea. This pack contains both coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. Level 8 Negatives: This pack includes modal verbs to show how possible something is, or how likely it is to happen/have happened. The cards help children learn how to indicate degrees of possibility and how to use them correctly in language. The cards can also be used to help children learn to form questions by inversion. For example: Statement = She can go to the park. Question = Can she go to the park? These cards are designed to be used in conjunction with the Colourful Semantics starter pack (stages 1-4), which can be purchased here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colourful-semantics-starter-pack-12121851 I update the packs regularly as I use them in my own classroom. You will be notified of any updates as they become available.

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

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.

A set of 15 help sheets for parents of children in Early Years. Sheets cover everything from blending to number formation, with some writing tasks. Really useful to send weekly to encourage helping at home!

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

Editable Alien words zoom past the spaceship window and children practise reading the fake words! PowerPoint already has all Phase 2 alien words but can be edited to include any words you need.

Editable PowerPoint game where the children have to splat the alien words. Mix of real words and fake words for the children to read. Works really well if used on an interactive whiteboard, as an independent activity! Just edit using the words you want.

4 differentiated levels of poetry response sheets. Used in Year 2 but can be adapted for other year groups. Differentiated using chili challenge

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.

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