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.
TOPIC: Push and Pull (science: force and movement)
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: âI canâŚâ sentences - Sight words: I, can, push, pull
Book 2: Talking about position - sight words: towards, away, from, you, push, pull
Book 2: Talking about movement - sight words: move, it, the, push, pull
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.
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: âI see aâŚâ sentences
Book 2: Talking about location - sight words: look, is, inside, outside
Book 2: Talking about position - sight words: is, sitting, standing
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.
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: âI see aâŚâ sentences
Book 2: Talking about temperature - sight words: is, hot, cold
Book 2: Talking about mean - sight words: is, are, for, dinner, dessert
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.
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
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 âWho?â âis doing?â and âwhat?â 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 childâs grammar through the use of:
â˘Spoken sentences
â˘Answering W/H questions
â˘Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
â˘Story telling skills
â˘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
Multi activity CVC spelling worksheets.
On each worksheet:
Match the word
Spell the word
Trace the word
Write the word
Find the word
Colour the word
Colour the picture
Sets of worksheets for each middle vowel sound: a,e,i,o,u
131 worksheets in total!
UK and US spelling included for colour/color.
Black and White for low ink use. Print on white paper or coloured paper.
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 âeâ 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 âeâ 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 âeâ
comes in full colour and black and white versions.
Widgit symbols used with permission
Designed for students with special needs, these symbol supported Alphabet books contain a range of fun worksheets and activities to help learn and consolidate letter recognition. Little to no prep required.
26 workbooks
14 pages per book. Activities include:
Place in alphabet
Writing/tracing
Letter exploration
Initial sounds
Letter hunt in works
Cutting skills
Board game
Certificates for completing each workbook
Pages are un-numbered. Pick and choose the activities that are best for your students.
Can be printed as A4 or A5 size workbooks.
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 childâs grammar through the use of:
â˘Spoken sentences
â˘Answering W/H questions
â˘Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
â˘Story telling skills
â˘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.
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 childâs grammar through the use of:
â˘Spoken sentences
â˘Answering W/H questions
â˘Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
â˘Story telling skills
â˘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
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
âI haveâŚwho hasâŚâ 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 âsadâ)
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 âThe boy is feeling sadâ
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 donât 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 childâs grammar through the use of:
â˘Spoken sentences
â˘Answering W/H questions
â˘Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
â˘Story telling skills
â˘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.
Get students identifying different emotions and commenting on peopleâs 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 âMy Emotions Booksâ 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 childâs grammar through the use of:
â˘Spoken sentences
â˘Answering W/H questions
â˘Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
â˘Story telling skills
â˘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.
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 childâs grammar through the use of:
â˘Spoken sentences
â˘Answering W/H questions
â˘Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
â˘Story telling skills
â˘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.