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.
“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
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.
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.
Digital Interactive PowerPoint presentation.
Build Sentences using Colourful Semantics to say what the people are doing in each leisure time activity.
3 Key word sentences using “Who?” “is doing?” and “what?” questions to build the sentences.
Click on the correct answer to progress to the next slide. Click on the wrong answer and get taken to a try again screen.
Use on a desktop or download the PowerPoint app to use on a tablet.
*NOTE: This Powerpoint is READ ONLY and cannot be modified.
WHAT IS COLOURFUL SEMANTICS?
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.
INFORMATION PAGE ON HOW TO USE COLOURFUL SEMANTICS INCLUDED IN THE PACK
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
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.
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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
These task cards have been developed as multi use learning tools. They teach key preposition words of before and after.
pictures/symbols depict everyday situations familiar to students.
the task cards double as interactive visual timetables to explain order of events.
task cards can also be used as simple social stories to explains that certain events have to happen before or after another.
2 SETS OF TASK CARDS
Velcro, choose and stick options
Clothes peg correct symbol
2 LEVELS OF TASK CARDS
task cards come as both clipart and simple symbol options
clipart easy to understand situations to help with reading
simple symbol task cards encourage slightly higher reading and deduction 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.
PowerPoint Activity!
Symbol supported reading and comprehension activity. Develop skills to follow a set of instructions to create a scene. Read the instructions on the slide, then click and drag the pictures into the scene.
NOTE This product is designed to be used in the edit mode of PPT, to enable click and drag. Can also be used with the PowerPoint app.
9 scenes to create:
Dinner Plate
Jungle Scene
Fish Bowl
Desert Scene
Classroom
Beach Scene
Park Scene
Night Sky
Ocean Scene
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
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.
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