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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Interactive book: emotions - sentence writing using colourful semantics
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Interactive book: emotions - sentence writing using colourful semantics

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Get students identifying different emotions and commenting on people’s emotions. This activity can be made into interactive books or used as task cards. 2 levels of sentence building: LEVEL 1: emotion. LEVEL 2: Person + emotions 8 emotions -Happy -Sad -Angry -Confused -Excited -Scared -Bored -Tired 4 pictures cards for each emotion. 32 pages per level. Title pages supplied for each emotion, as well as general “My Emotions Books” title page. Create different type of books. Create each different emotion book with 4 pages per book. OR Mix the emotions together in a book, to have students identifying different style. 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.
Prepositions interactive books - colourful semantics
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Prepositions interactive books - colourful semantics

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Learn prepositions and sentence construction at the same time. A range of fun pictures for students to comment on at three levels. Use as individual task cards or turn into books. Also includes 13 writing cards. 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
Inferences, reading, comprehension - Travel using colourful semantics
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Inferences, reading, comprehension - Travel using colourful semantics

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A fun individual or group activity based on looking at items in a suitcase to decide where people are travelling to. Reading skills available with and without symbols. Colourful semantics approach for composing and building sentences. 3 levels of reading skills. Level 1 - 2 key word sentences + symbols x 12 sentence strips. Level 2 - 3 key word sentences + symbols x 48 sentence strips. Level - 3 key word sentences, text only x 48 sentence strips. 2 levels of sentence building skills using colourful semantics Level 1: individual key words + symbols Level 2: individual key words, text only. Make inferences based on suitcase items, or decide what items need to go in the suitcase based on the holiday destination.
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
Transport writing BUNDLE - using colourful semantics
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Transport writing BUNDLE - using colourful semantics

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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
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.
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