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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.

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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 - Animals: symbol supported and text only
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Sight Word Books - Animals: symbol supported and text only

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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: ā€œI see aā€¦ā€ 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.
TENSES: sentence building using colourful semantics
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TENSES: sentence building using colourful semantics

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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
Interactive book: Rooms in the house
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Interactive book: Rooms in the house

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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.
Reading instructions - give people objects
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Reading instructions - give people objects

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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.
Modes of transport sentence building using colourful semantics
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Modes of transport sentence building using colourful semantics

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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. . 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.
Choose your own adventure (SEN interactive book)
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Choose your own adventure (SEN interactive book)

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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.
Interactive/adapted books: animals
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Interactive/adapted books: animals

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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 ā€œI seeā€¦ā€ 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
Shopping interactive books
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Shopping interactive books

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Product Description Two interactive books about shopping ā€œIt’s Shopping Timeā€ 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. ā€œWhat’s the shopā€ and interactive book with photos of different shop. Complete the ā€œI can buyā€¦ā€ sentences with the correct symbols.
Christmas activities bundle
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Christmas activities bundle

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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 - + ā€œI seeā€¦ā€ symbol and sentence strip Decorate the Christmas Tree - read the instructions to decorate a Christmas tree. 2 levels Widgit symbols used with permission.
People who help - Who am I?
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People who help - Who am I?

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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
Magic E- ing spelling activities
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Magic E- ing spelling activities

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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 ā€˜e’ 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 ā€˜e’ 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 ā€˜e’ comes in full colour and black and white versions. Widgit symbols used with permission
No Prep emotions sentence building using colourful semantics
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No Prep emotions sentence building using colourful semantics

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Compose sentences to say how people are feeling are using colourful semantics. Learn emotions and gender. 8 emotions to learn. No prep worksheets - circle the correct answer then read the sentence back. Task cards: laminate, circle, wipe dry. Perfect for independent and table work tasks. 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. Widgit symbols used with permission