Help autistic and neurodiverse learners understand and communicate WHERE an action is happening with this practical Level 4 Colourful Semantics teaching pack.
The WHERE layer adds location and context to a message, helping learners connect an action with a meaningful place through real experiences, familiar environments and visual support.
For example:
The girl → is reading → in the library.
WHERE can be introduced once learners have some understanding of WHAT DOING and does not always need to wait until they are confidently using the WHAT layer. As learners develop, WHERE can also be added to a fuller sentence:
The girl → is reading → a book → in the library.
What’s Included?
This printable resource includes teaching guidance, WHERE visual supports, location resources and structured sentence-building activities.
The resources support a gradual progression from real experiences and familiar locations towards photographs, symbols and more structured sentence-building activities.
A Meaningful Approach to Teaching WHERE
Start with places learners know and experience every day. Talk about where activities are happening, model the language naturally and provide opportunities to experience different locations before introducing picture-based sentence building.
The teaching guidance supports progression from adult modelling to choices, sentence completion, open questions and increasingly independent communication.
Learners can communicate WHERE using speech, AAC, signing, gesture, pointing, photographs, symbols or another communication method.
The aim is to help learners understand the connection between an action and where it is happening, rather than simply naming locations.
Building the Sentence
WHERE can be added to a sentence the learner already understands:
WHO + WHAT DOING + WHERE
The girl + is reading + in the library.
It can then be added to a fuller four-part sentence:
WHO + WHAT DOING + WHAT + WHERE
The girl + is reading + a book + in the library.
Who Is It For?
Ideal for SEN/SEND teachers, teaching assistants, Speech and Language Therapists, Early Years practitioners, autism specialist settings and primary classrooms supporting autistic and neurodiverse learners.
Use it for individual teaching, small-group language sessions, classroom activities, everyday communication opportunities or speech and language therapy.
Created by Alison Garza, Specialist Teacher and founder of Elevating Neurodiversity, drawing on almost 20 years in education and specialist experience supporting autistic learners.
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