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.
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 speed - sight words: the, is. speed words: fast/slow
Book 2: Talking about size - sight word: are, size words: big/small
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 PowerPoint
Read the clues to decide what job the description relates to.
Click and drag the correct person into the box.
Interactive book with easy to read clues.
10 Worksheets with diverse character cliparts for each job.
Fully symbol supported text.
JOB INCLUDES:
Builder
Chef
Dentist
Doctor
Farmer
Firefighter
Nurse
Pilot
Police
Postman
Widgit Symbols used with permission
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
ead the clues to decide what job the description relates to.
Interactive book with easy to read clues.
10 Worksheets with 6 diverse character cliparts for each job.
Fully symbol supported text.
JOB INCLUDES:
Builder
Chef
Dentist
Doctor
Farmer
Firefighter
Nurse
Pilot
Police
Postman
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
Use colourful semantics to describe types of transport and where they are.
2 Levels of worksheets
Level 1 : What and Where
Level 2: What, is doing, where
No prep - circle correct key words to compose sentences.
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 are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
This tasty bundle is full of wonderful Easter egg related activities at a huge discount!
Includes:
No prep prepositions using colourful semantics.
Interactive Easter Egg counting book - numbers up to 10
Make a scene - reading comprehension
Easter Egg Hunt interactive flip and find board with 3 levels of comprehension reading pages.
Where are the Easter Eggs hiding? Interactive flip and find board and 2 levels of colourful semantics worksheets.
Describe the Easter Egg using colourful semantics.
worksheets include both UK and US spellings
Widgit Symbols used with permission
Use colourful semantics to describe where the Easter Bunny is in relation to different objects.
Build you own sentence worksheets and NO PREP circle to answer worksheets.
PLUS Make a scene, reading comprehension.
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
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
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.
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
Use colourful semantics to describe everyday objects, using size, colour/color and object.
NO PREP worksheets: Circle the correct word in each part of the sentence to build a sentence.
Each object comes in at least 3 colours and two sizes.
64 task cards cards for objects of different size and color
UK and US versions [colour/color] included in folder.
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 are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
Wigit Symbols used with permission
This exciting and fun stocking (bundle) is filled with different Christmas activities for the classroom, including reading, writing and motor control/crafts activities. All activities are supported with Widgit symbols.
Included in this bundle:
Holiday Choices - reading activity developing independent choice making. Studens read holiday options and students decide where they want to spend Christmas and answer multiple choice questions about their choice. 2 levels
Interactive/adapted book - book about Christmas trees. Read the sentence on each page, then complete the instruction at the top of the page.
Paper Chain Making - follow simple set of instructions to make Christmas paper chains. Patterned paper included.
Make a Beard for Santa - motor control skills / arts and crafts activity
Describe the Christmas Tree - use colourful semantics to compose sentences to describe the Christmas tree. 3 levels
Christmas PECS symbols - + “I see…” symbol and sentence strip
Decorate the Christmas Tree - read the instructions to decorate a Christmas tree. 2 levels
Widgit symbols used with permission.
Product Description
Two interactive books about shopping
“It’s Shopping Time” a story about what you do at the shop. Written in first person. With symbols to match and items to put in shopping carts and bags.
“What’s the shop” and interactive book with photos of different shop. Complete the “I can buy…” sentences with the correct symbols.
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.
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.
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
“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
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.
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.