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Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes jigsaw cards for children to match together the correct colour coded sentence with picture.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
30 jigsaw cards to match the picture to the correct colour coded sentence.
Children match CVC words to the corresponding pictures. 120 cards containing either a CVC word or picture and then with cards to match.
Why do you need this?
Matching pictures with corresponding CVC words helps students develop word recognition skills. By associating the visual image with the written word, students strengthen their ability to identify and read CVC words independently.
By engaging in activities that pair words with pictures, students develop reading comprehension skills. They learn to make connections between written text and its meaning, improving their overall understanding of the material.
How and when might you use this?
This activity could be used in a variety of way:
· Small group instruction to provide targeted support
· Independent work stations
· Early morning work
· Homework for additional practice
· Assessment
For continued use I would recommend laminating this resource and using Velcro to move the jigsaw pieces around.
What is included?
Included are 62 cards with CVC words on and corresponding pictures to match and 62 cards with pictures on and corresponding words to match.
Reinforce correct letter formation, letter recognition, and letter sounds.
The lines are large and perfect for beginning writers. This pack includes 27 worksheets with 2 versions of k.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator
54 Flash cards showing CCVC words with corresponding pictures.
Why do you need this?
Mastering CCVC words (Consonant-Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) is an important early reading milestone. These CCVC Word and Picture Flash Cards provide engaging practice to boost decoding, spelling and vocabulary skills. Working with these cards increases exposure to the common CCVC pattern, laying the foundation for decoding unfamiliar words.
How and when might you use this?
Teachers can use the cards for direct instruction, word walls, and reading games.
What’s included?
This set includes 54 printable flash cards with short CCVC words like frog, clip, plum, truck etc each paired with colourful illustrations.
Basic reading comprehensions based on pictures. Children have to read and follow instructions to both add things to the picture and color them correctly.
Why do you need this?
Picture-based reading comprehensions provide an alternative approach to traditional text-based activities, catering to diverse learning styles and abilities.
Pictures capture students’ interest and make the learning experience more engaging and enjoyable. By incorporating visuals into reading activities, teachers can create a more dynamic and interactive learning environment.
How and when might you use this?
These activities can be used in a variety of ways:
· Whole class instruction
· Homework and independent practice
· Assessment activities
· Reading interventions
What is included?
Included are 13 different comprehensions with different levels of difficulty.
These name the alien worksheets are a great way to get children used to the idea of nonsense words in a fun way.
Why do you need this?
Nonsense words, or “alien words,” are non-existent words that follow phonetic patterns. By practicing decoding these words, students strengthen their ability to apply phonics rules and sound out unfamiliar words encountered in text.
These worksheets are valuable for teaching phonics skills, particularly digraphs (two letters representing one sound) and trigraphs (three letters representing one sound). They help students recognize and decode complex letter combinations, enhancing their reading fluency and word recognition.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Whole class instruction
What is included?
27 worksheets each containing a digraph or trigraph - ck, nk, ng, sh, th, ch, ay, ee, ow, oo, ar, or, ir, ou, oy, oa, ur, aw, er, ea, oi, ai, ew, igh, are, ear
Play dough mats are a great way to practice fine motor skills while learning a variety of other skills. These particular mats can be used to help teach children high frequency words.
Although I have suggested play dough for these mats they would also work with various other sensory materials as well simply with whiteboard pens.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator
2 sets of jigsaws. One showing compound words with words and pictures and one set showing contractions.
Why do you need this?
Compound word jigsaws help expand students’ vocabulary by introducing them to new compound words and reinforcing their understanding of word formation. Engaging with compound word jigsaws supports the development of language skills such as word blending, segmentation, and phonics.
Contractions are common in the English language, and jigsaws provide a hands-on way for students to practice identifying and forming contractions. As students assemble the jigsaw pieces to form contractions, they reinforce spelling patterns and conventions associated with contraction formation.
How and when might you use this?
These jigsaws can be good for:
· Small group work focused on vocabulary development and spelling and phonics skills
· Group work during literacy lessons
· Review and reinforcement after whole class teaching
· Assessment of what has been learned
· Homework to reinforce what has been learned in class
What’s included?
· 30 compound word jigsaws
· 34 contraction word jigsaws
Writing jigsaws with images for words containing digraphs - ck, nk, ng, sh, th, ch, ay, ee, ow, oo, ar, or, ir, oo, ou, oy, oa, ur, aw, er, ow, ea, oi, ai, ew
25 different worksheets
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator
25 worksheets each with 6 different activities to support learning to read and spell high frequency sight words: reading, colouring, making the word with magnets, tracing, writing and putting the word into a sentence.
Why do you need this?
Instantly recognising common sight words is a milestone of early reading fluency. These 25 worksheets provide multi-sensory practice reading, spelling, tracing, and using frequently encountered vocabulary like “the”, “and”, “is” and more. With six activities per page, students gain repeated exposure through varied formats. Tracing and writing build motor skills and proper letter formation. Fun exercises like forming the words in magnets and filling in blanks allow practical application.
How and when might you use this?
Each worksheet focuses on six different high-frequency words. Students will read the word, color in the word, arrange letter magnets to form the word, trace the word, write them from memory, and use them in sentences. These techniques reinforce sight word recognition through visual, kinesthetic, and cognitive learning styles.
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
25 PDF worksheets
Jigsaws showing CVC word pictures with words to match.
Why do you need this?
Matching pictures with corresponding CVC words helps students develop word recognition skills. By associating the visual image with the written word, students strengthen their ability to identify and read CVC words independently.
Jigsaw activities provide a hands-on and interactive approach to learning CVC words. Students manipulate puzzle pieces, which enhances their fine motor skills while actively engaging with the material.
How and when might you use this?
This activity could be used in a variety of way:
· Small group instruction to provide targeted support
· Independent work stations
· Early morning work
· Homework for additional practice
· Assessment
For continued use I would recommend laminating this resource and using Velcro to move the jigsaw pieces around.
What is included?
Included are 49 pictures and corresponding word jigsaw cards.
CVC word bingo with 2 different versions – one with words and one with pictures.
Why do you need this?
Bingo games provide an engaging and interactive way to reinforce phonics skills, including decoding and blending CVC words. Playing bingo helps students practice recognising common letter-sound correspondences and blending them into words. CVC word bingo introduces students to a variety of simple, high-frequency words that are essential for early reading development. By playing the game, students expand their sight word vocabulary and become more proficient readers.
How and when might you use this?
This game can be used in a variety of ways:
· Whole class instructions as a fun and interactive way to reinforce phonic skills
· Small group activities for targeted practice of decoding CVC words
· Children can play independently or in pairs
· Homework to reinforce learning of CVC words
What’s included?
Included in this resource is:
· 7 bingo game boards with pictures on
· 7 bingo game boards with words on
· 56 picture cards
· 56 word cards
· 14 colour cards
Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes cards to help children build sentences, it includes cards that describe ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘what doing’.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
· 94 Who Cards
· 161 What Cards
· 52 Where Cards
· 86 What Doing Cards
These cards can be used in conjunction with what like, who to, who with, how and when cards
Colourful Semantics is a Speech and Language therapy technique which uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence,and how to join them together in the correct order.
This resource is 4 sets of colour coded cards for who, what, where and what doing. There are 395 cards in total. Children can use these cards to plan sentences either to then speak aloud or to write down.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art
Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes cards to help children build sentences, it includes cards that describe ‘who to’, ‘who with’, ‘how’, ‘what like’, and ‘when’.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
There are 5 sets of cards included in this set:
· 94 Who to Cards
· 94 Who with Cards
· 36 What Like
· 46 How Cards
· 54 When Cards
These cards are best used in conjunction with Who, What, Where, what doing Cards (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12234006)
Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes sentence making boards for children to plan and write sentences using the cards. It also includes all 4 sets of colour coded cards for who, what doing, what and where. There are 354 cards in total.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
· 354 Cards for ‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘Where’ and ‘What doing’
· 4 different versions of sentence support cards with lines to write sentences
· 4 different versions of sentence support cards with handwriting lines
Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes boards with pictures on and spaces for children to build sentences using the relevant ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘what doing’ cards.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
What’s included?
34 Sentence building boards and 96 corresponding who, what, where and what doing cards to build sentences.
This is a reading intervention aimed at young children learning to read and those struggling with reading. It will mostly be helpful for children in reception or year 1 however it will also help support children with special needs. It helps teach and secure learning in letter identification and sounds, CVC words, blending, sight words and nonsense words and fluency and comprehension.
What are the sections included?
Letter Recognition
Initial and Final Sounds
Short Vowel Sounds
Blending and Fluency
Nonsense Words
Sight Words
Comprehension
This pack is perfect for individual or small group work to help fill gaps in previous learning and secure skills needed for reading.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art
Colourful Semantics is a Speech and Language therapy technique which uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence,and how to join them together in the correct order.
This bundle includes:
Visual Cue cards
Who, what, where, what doing cards
What like, who to, who with, how and when cards
Sentence support
Sentence and picture jigsaw match
Who, what, where, what doing choice boards
Sentence building boards