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.
Different leisure time worksheets and task cards to comment on using symbol supported colourful semantics sentence building. Real photos and clipart versions of each activity for students to comment on familiar situations and activities.
NO PREP worksheets: Circle the correct word in each part of the sentence to build a sentence.
Bonus task cards: Cut, laminate, circle with dry erase pens and wipe clean. Perfect for task boxes and independent work stations.
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.
Widgit symbols used with permission
Compose sentences to say where the animals are using colourful semantics.
No prep worksheets - circle the correct answer then read the sentence back.
Task cards: laminate, circle, wipe dry. Perfect for independent and table work tasks.
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.
“I have…who has…” loop cards of 6 categories. Fun and engaging speaking and listening activity. Great way of developing core vocabulary.
2 levels of cards
WITH WRITTEN NAMES OF OBJECTS- students read the sentence and use the picture to say what they have and ask the next question.
WITHOUT WRITTEN NAMES: Students develop vocabulary knowledge by having to fill in the end of the sentence using the picture cue.
5 categories
Transport
Sport
Fruit
Vegetables
Clothes
Animals
12 cards for each category. 144 cards in total
Compose sentences to say how people are feeling are using colourful semantics.
Learn emotions and gender. 8 emotions to learn.
No prep worksheets - circle the correct answer then read the sentence back.
Task cards: laminate, circle, wipe dry. Perfect for independent and table work tasks.
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.
Widgit symbols used with permission
Develop writing and composition skills, by building sentences to say what people are feeling.
3 levels of worksheets:
Level 1: 1 key word sentence - What emotion? (e.g “sad”)
Level 2: 2 Key word sentence .- who? + what emotion? (e.g "the boy is sad"
Level 3: 3 Key work sentence - who? + what doing + what emotion? (e.g “The boy is feeling sad”
4 picture cards at each level
32 picture cards in total.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Worksheets designed to encourage independent writing on topics of interest, using the colourful semantics approach and vocabulary support boards.
Have students build full sentences around things they like and don’t like.
8 topics to choose from:
Animals
Colours
Food
Movies
Sport
Technology
Transport
Weather
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.
3 set of matching task cards to learn emotions. 8 emotions with 4 pictures for each emotion.
Set 1
Picture to symbol matching
Set 2
Symbol to symbol matching
Set 3
Word to picture or symbol matching
Clip cards
8 emotions with 4 pictures each
Clip cards have 3 word options to choose from.
12 fully symbolised instructional worksheets, instructing students to give objects to different people. Students develop reading and comprehension skills, along with object and gender and age recognition of people.
12 worksheets at different levels.
Level 1:
Instruction asks for 1 object. Instructions are in line with corresponding people. Object differentiation only.
Level 2:
Instruction asks for 2 objects. Instructions are in line with corresponding people. Object differentiation only.
Level 3:
Instructions ask for 1 object. Instructions are not in line with corresponding people. Object and person differentiation. Different gender and age of people.
Level 4:
Instructions ask for 2 objects. Instructions are not in line with corresponding people. Object and person differentiation. Different gender and age of people.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.