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.
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.
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
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.
Learn numbers up to 10 with these fun interactive, symbol supported counting books.
Read and symbol supported sentence and put that number of items in the scene.
4 different books to use:
Superheroes In the City
Cookies in Jar
Flowers in Garden
Apples in the Tree
2 levels for each book
Level 1 - with dots to help beginner counters
Level 2 - no doubts
PLUS: Addition and subtraction word problem inserts.
36 addition and subtraction inserts for each book. Put the inserts over the pages of the answer. Read the word problem, create the scene and check your answer by lifting the insert away.
Work problem examples:
PLACE INSERT ON PAGE 5 "There are 7 cookies in the jar. 2 are eating"LIFT INSERT “There are 5 cookies in the jar”
PLACE INSERT ON PAGE 7 “There are 3 superheroes in the city. 4 more fly in.” LIFT INSERT “There are 7 superheroes”
Learn prepositions and sentence construction at the same time.
A range of fun pictures for students to comment on at three levels. Use as individual task cards or turn into books.
Also includes 13 writing cards.
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
15 different leisure time activity cards to comment on. Real photos and clip art bundle for students to comment on familiar situations and activities.
Turn into an interactive book or use as individual task cards. Each card comes with the colorful semantics questions strip of “who?” “Is doing?” “What?” and symbols for each picture.
15 writing cards with colorful semantics question prompts to aid composition.
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. The sentence strips at the top of each worksheet demonstrate the sentence structure
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
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.
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.
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.
An exciting interactive story designed for the special needs classroom.
Choose Your Own Adventure book encourages interaction and engagement in reading, by students making choices that influence their reading experience.
Students choose their own superhero character that they take on the adventure through the story.
10 different stories in 1 book.
PDF includes instructions on how to put the book together.
Series of 4 interactive matching books
My Farm Animals Book
My Pets Book
My Jungle Animals Book
My Ocean Animals Book
Each book contains 4 pages of animals to match and an “I see…” reading sentence with text and symbols.
Books come as two levels:
LEVEL 1 picture to picture matching
LEVEL 2 sorting using symbol and sentence prompts
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.
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.
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. Students 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.
Interactive counting book - read the sentence and put the correct number of presents under the tree. (numbers up to 10) includes addition and subtraction word problems. 2 Levels
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
Ispy Worksheets - find the Christmas pictures and tick them off. 3 levels of worksheets. In Colour and Black and White
Where is Santa prepositions - using colourful semantics - Build sentences to say where Santa is. Includes NO PREP version of worksheets.
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
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 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.
Let students show off their achievements with these wearable Brag Bands.
OR build a Brag Band paper chain, hang it up and see all of the fantastic achievements grow over time.
44 different awards - Master list of awards and pages included
9 Colour pallets of bands.
Age appropriate colour options for older students including: leather look, gold and silver.
Include black and white version to print on colour card.
An interactive book that is 3 books in one.
Counting, adding and subtracting.
64 addition and subtraction inserts that can be added on top of the number sentence in the book to make it into interactive addition and subtraction. See video for how it’s used.
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