10 activities to support reading comprehension, support in creating simple sentences 10 activities support the use of who, doing what for basic colourful semantics. This could be adapted to only use who if required. This is based on The Three Little Pigs: Ladybird First Favourite Tales

24 different activities/questions to support reading comprehension using widget symbols. 6 feature colourful semantics with a focus on where 18 focus on simple reading comprehension and sentence building. Based on the Ladybird book: Little Red Riding Hood Ladybird Picture Books

2 simple retrieval activities using widgit symbols to support children with SEN to locate the UK on a map along with remembering key facts.

4 classification keys Is it a reptile? Is it an amphibian? Mammals, birds, fish and reptiles mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. Progressive classification keys allow children to build confidence in using them without being overloaded with information. When I used it with my class, they really struggled to identify reptiles and amphibians (hence why they had their own key). Focusing on all 5 whilst learning how to use the key was cognitive overload for a lot of my class, so I made the classification using 4 groups for them until they felt more confident.

I used these symbols whilst teaching The Smartest Giant in Town. It is a simple matching activity and symbols to help with sentence structure about key parts of the story.

This resource includes the different ways of adding 1 more for numbers to 10 using Numicon. Children can record the number sentence in different ways to show understanding.

This resource has the widget symbols from Communicate in Print 3, to teach and assess the first 100 words. I use it as a speech and language baseline assessment.

Symbols and sentence building activity to support the teaching of Freddy the Frog.