The Three Little Pigs themed colourful semantics. The cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a familiar tale, giving them more confidence when they write.
Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently.
Colourful Semantics helps children to:
•Develop a wider vocabulary
•Make sentences longer
•Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
•Improve story telling skills
The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences.
This pack contains fairy tale specific vocabulary, including:
4 who - noun/person cards
9 doing - verb cards
9 what - noun/object cards
4 where - noun/place cards
Handy one-page worksheets to help children structure sentences.
I use these as early morning work or a Guided Reading carousel activity. Simply print and laminate for an easy go-to activity to practise sentence writing.
These are a real time saver if you do not want to use the individual cards, or don’t have the resources to print and laminate the individual cards.
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt colourful semantics! Great for speaking and listening and/or writing intervention, these cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a familiar story, giving them more confidence when they write. A brilliant tool to support children with EFL - ESL - ELD - EAL - SEN!
Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. The cards help children to:
•Develop a wider vocabulary
•Make sentences longer
•Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
•Improve story telling skills
This pack contains story specific vocabulary, including:
9 who - noun/person cards
18 doing - verb cards
13 what - noun/object cards
5 where - noun/place cards
18 how/when - preposition/adverb cards
18 adjective cards
9 different strips to structure sentences
Little Red Riding Hood themed colourful semantics. The cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a familiar tale, giving them more confidence when they write.
Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently.
Colourful Semantics helps children to:
•Develop a wider vocabulary
•Make sentences longer
•Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
•Improve story telling skills
The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences.
This pack contains story specific vocabulary, including:
5 who - noun/person cards
9 doing - verb cards
8 what - noun/object cards
3 where - noun/place cards
My Weekend News teaching pack! This complete set helps support children to write a recount about what they have done at the weekend. 26 new cards are included with weekend specific vocabulary to encourage a more detailed recount. A useful set of seven differentiated writing templates will help your children to write about their weekend.
I use this set as both a speaking and listening activity and as an independent writing task. They work perfectly as Monday morning ‘News Writing’ learning area in Early Years and Key Stage One.
This pack includes:
7 differentiated writing frame worksheets
5 exclusive talk frames
18 noun (who) cards
18 verb (doing) cards
36 noun (what) cards
9 noun (where) cards
12 adverbs and preposition cards
9 adjective cards
9 conjunction cards
Additional prepositions, adverbials, adjectives and conjunctions can be found in this pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colourful-semantics-adverbs-adjectives-conjunctions-and-negatives-12263900
This pack is designed to work alongside the Semantics starter pack, available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colourful-semantics-starter-pack-12121851
Goldilocks and the Three Bears themed colourful semantics. The cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a familiar tale, giving them more confidence when they write.
Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently.
Colourful Semantics helps children to:
•Develop a wider vocabulary
•Make sentences longer
•Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
•Improve story telling skills
The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences.
This pack contains story specific vocabulary, including:
4 who - noun/person cards
5 doing - verb cards
9 what - noun/object cards
5 where - noun/place cards
UPDATED Large-sized colourful semantics to use as an interactive display or carpet activity.
Cards can be printed to the exact size needed by adjusting the printer settings.
A brilliant learning tool to support children with EAL and SEN!
The cards help struggling speakers and writers gain independence and confidence when they write.
Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently.
Colourful Semantics helps children to:
•Develop a wider vocabulary
•Make sentences longer
•Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
•Improve story telling skills
The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences.
This pack contains story specific vocabulary, including:
14 who - noun/person cards
15 doing - verb cards
14 what - noun/object cards
12 where - noun/place cards
Colourful Semantics adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions and negatives growing pack!
This growing bundle has everything you need to move on to stages 5-8 of the colourful semantics programme.
What’s included in this pack?
15 conjunction cards (coordinating and subordinating)
18 modal verb cards, including negatives
54 adjective cards
9 preposition cards
36 adverb and fronted adverbial cards
Level 5 Adjectives: The purple ‘describe’ cards are the adjectives in a sentence. An adjective is a describing word. The ‘describe’ card can be placed at different points to describe different words in the sentence. Various strips are included.
Level 6 Adverbs:
Adverbs are words that change verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. They can modify (or change) a verb by making it more precise. This pack includes adverbs, fronted adverbials and prepositions.
Level 7 Conjunctions:
Conjunctions are used to join two clauses or expand an idea. This pack contains both coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
Level 8 Negatives:
This pack includes modal verbs to show how possible something is, or how likely it is to happen/have happened. The cards help children learn how to indicate degrees of possibility and how to use them correctly in language.
The cards can also be used to help children learn to form questions by inversion. For example:
Statement = She can go to the park.
Question = Can she go to the park?
These cards are designed to be used in conjunction with the Colourful Semantics starter pack (stages 1-4), which can be purchased here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colourful-semantics-starter-pack-12121851
I update the packs regularly as I use them in my own classroom. You will be notified of any updates as they become available.
A complete starter pack to begin using colourful semantics in your classroom! This is a growing pack. You will be notified of any updates.
Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently.
Colourful Semantics helps children to:
•Develop a wider vocabulary
•Make sentences longer
•Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
•Improve story telling skills
The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences.
This pack contains the following:
36 who - noun/person cards (including pronouns)
54 doing - verb cards (including states of being)
63 what - noun/object cards
9 where - noun/place cards
This complete Lego Slow Writing Pack contains everything you need to engage students in a creative writing challenge!
Suitable for KS2 (simply use the grammatical areas you have covered).
Pack includes:
Lego block display pack
Lego Slow Writing word mat
10 x picture prompt sheets with examples to support less confident learners.
PowerPoint with picture prompts
The most popular way I have used this resource is with a ‘mystery bag’ of real Lego pieces in the corresponding colours. Have students reach in and select however many pieces they need (easy differentiation). They can then use the blocks to create a short creative writing piece, linked to your current theme, or use the picture prompts included for inspiration.
Alternatively, you can laminate the brick cards and have children select a number from a bag/pack.
A great resource for supply teachers or last minute lesson fillers!