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.
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.
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.
Worksheets with 5 various sentences structures. + options to create own sentence strips.
36 pictures to use as writing prompts. Pictures are of various situations, cultural groups and include both single people and groups of people to write about.
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.
Series of 4 interactive matching books
My Farm Animals Book
My Pets Book
My Jungle Animals Book
My Ocean Animals Book
Each book contains 4 pages of animals to match and an “I see…” reading sentence with text and symbols.
Books come as two levels:
LEVEL 1 picture to picture matching
LEVEL 2 sorting using symbol and sentence prompts
An exciting interactive story designed for the special needs classroom.
Choose Your Own Adventure book encourages interaction and engagement in reading, by students making choices that influence their reading experience.
Students choose their own superhero character that they take on the adventure through the story.
10 different stories in 1 book.
PDF includes instructions on how to put the book together.
Use colourful semantics to describe modes of transport and their movement style. 3 levels of sentence building. UK and US versions of colour/color included in folder
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?
BONUS:
Writing sheets with multi level writing options.
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Includes symbols with both full colour and white background with coloured borders.
Information page is provided on how to use the colourful semantics system.
*Colorful 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
Colorful semantics works particularly well in the special education classroom, helping students with difficulty in understanding language to compose sentences.
These worksheets/taskcards are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
Match, lift and reveal books develop book handling and reading skills.
The interactive books actively engage students in the reading process by allowing them to match or choose pictures and then reveal sentences.
CORE VOCAB:
Learn the names for rooms in the house
2 LEVELS:
Level 1: Decorated rooms: match picture to picture.
Level 2: Empty rooms: add pictures to the empty books
USE AS BOOKS OR TASK CARDS:
Turn into an interactive books
OR use as task cards where students are given options of different furniture and have to choose the correct furniture for each room.
This product can be used as individual task cards or make into an interactive book.
KEY VOCABULARY
Learn key vocabulary for furniture and rooms in the house
Learn prepositions: in, at, on
1ST PERSON WRITING:
Neutral silhouette images of people to encourage students to compose sentences in 1st person. Option to sticks students pictures on the worksheets.
2 LEVELS OF SENTENCE BUILDING:
Level 1: Who? is doing? Where?
preposition word is embedded within the location.
Level 2: Who? is doing? Where? What?
preposition word is own exclusive part of the sentence.
USING COLOURFUL SEMANTICS TO WRITE:
Colorful 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
Colorful semantics works particularly well in the special education classroom, helping students with difficulty in understanding language to compose sentences.
These worksheets/taskcards are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
Use colourful semantics to compose sentences in past present and future tense.
Colourful semantics questions and colour coding helps students to understand verb conjugations in different tenses.
2 TYPES OF WORKSHEETS:
All 3 tenses per page OR single tense per page.
worksheets come in full colour symbols and white background symbols.
CLIPART: With and without time indicators
Clipart of people doing various activities. Clipart can be used with time indicators to help students understand which tense they are using.
Higher level with no time indicators
TASK CARDS:
Verb task cards: choose a clipart picture and have students correct order the verbs into past, present and future.
2 levels of task cards: with colour coding to prompt and without.
INCLUDES information page on how to use colourful semantics
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.
Develop writing and composition skills, by building sentences to say describe modes of transport, their action and place. UK and US spelling of colour/color included on separate worksheets.
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
Includes information on how to use the Colourful Semantics system.
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
Develop writing and composition skills, by building sentences to say what people are buying.
2 levels of worksheets:
Level 1: 3 key word sentence with ONE object to identify
Level 2: 4 key word sentence with TWO objects to identify.
12 double object shopping cart pictures
24 single object shopping cart pictures
Full colour and white background worksheets and symbols.
Worksheets are accessible for writers and non-writers
Includes information on how to use the Colourful Semantics system.
*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/taskcards are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
Use colourful semantics to describe everyday objects, using size, colour and object. Compose 3 key words sentences.
34 task cards and matching writing cards for objects of different size and colour.
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/taskcards are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.