Colourful Semantics resource for the text ‘Mrs Noah’s Pockets’ by Jackie Morris - using who, doing, what, when, where, and describe elements of colourful semantics. Great for use as part of literacy lessons on sentence structure or as explicit colourful semantics interventions.

This lesson is suitable for Year 3-4 pupils and focuses on giving/receiving change, giving the opportunity for role play. It works through giving change from 10p/20p for significantly below expected level learners, up to buying multiple items within £10. The lesson includes a PowerPoint presentation, a task sheet (differentiated 4 ways) and answer sheets.

PDF of set of colourful semantics for Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark story. This set contains the characters, verbs and other key parts of the picture book version of the story.