Hello Educators!
This is a simple file to show you which colours I use in my Colourful Semantics Resources!
Feel free to ask me for specific ones, as I know each school is different!
Best
Naya
Colourful Semantics is a fun and creative way to help students structure their sentences in a way that makes sense and is interesting to read or hear. It helps them understand the different parts of a sentence and how they work together.
With over 100 vocabulary cards, this pack is a great starting point for children who are starting to build sentences and develop independence in writing.
These cards are best suited to children working at a Year 1 or Year 2 level, children who have English as an additional language or children who have additional learning needs.
Pack includes:
How to use colourful semantics.
Labelled cards
20 x Who?
20 x What doing?
20 x What?
20 x Where?
20 x Describe?
100 wordless cards
8 templates to support building sentences
This is a digital download.
This items work best when printed on to card and then laminated for repeated use.
Alternatively, the pictures will fit into a school exercise book.
A set of 11 editable writing frame worksheets to practise using conjunctions to join two clauses.
The worksheets help children to structure the sentence with space to draw a picture to show comprehension.
I use these as an independent English workstation activity for one of my pupils with SEN.
Colourful Semantics cards avaiable here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colourful-semantics-starter-pack-12121851
6 pictures and 6 basic sentences to be created using colourful semantics. I have included a template of the colours in order that can be stuck in books for students who need to use the colours to identify which words should go where.
PLEASE NOTE: You have to extract the downloaded files, otherwise the software will not work.
The Three Little Pigs story software that children can use to familiarize themselves with the story and learn to answer Who questions in a fun and engaging way. Drag and drop the cards to complete a sentence.
The program offers instant feedback- it is also not possible to drop the wrong card.
A great way to assess understanding.
This program has lots of Who questions and some What questions. The program works** best in Google Chrome**.
Clipart images by Whimsy Clips
Create your own Colourful Semantics worksheets to use with any text.
Create Sentence frames to laminate and use with symbols, print and laminate sentence strips to allow learners to create their own sentences and add your pictures to worksheets which scaffold learners to construct and write sentences.
See my shop for ready made colourful semantics story workbooks.
This Elf on the Shelf Colorful Semantics cut and stick activity is designed to support children in answering “WH” questions while building simple sentences.
The resource includes 10 festive picture scenes featuring Santa or the Elf, each showing a clear action in a clear place. Children describe each picture by cutting and sticking symbols or words to build sentences using the structure:
Who – What doing – Where
This activity is ideal for supporting:
early sentence building
understanding and answering Who questions
expressive language development
Colourful Semantics teaching and intervention
The cut and stick format encourages hands-on engagement and is well suited to EYFS, KS1, SEN, and speech and language support, including children working at an early communication level. Perfect for Christmas-themed lessons, intervention groups, or independent work.
Originally made for a KS3 SEN class studing the book, Lost and Found. I read the description of the penguin and the students had to draw and guess the animal. The students then read the description underlined the adjectives and made thier own word mat full of adjectives and phrases to describe the penguin.
The colourful semantics was used to put the description into sentences, I have uploaded an example of sentences they made. I also printed white words so they could write in full sentences.
This pack has been created to support writing linked to the story The three little pigs.
Colourful Semantics is a fun and creative way to help students structure their sentences in a way that makes sense and is interesting to read or hear. It helps them understand the different parts of a sentence and how they work together.
These cards are best suited to children working at a Year 1 or Year 2 level, children who have English as an additional language or children who have additional learning needs.
Pack includes:
How to use colourful semantics.
Labelled cards
Who? What doing? What? Describe?
Unlabelled cards
8 templates to support building sentences
This is a digital download.
This items work best when printed on to card and then laminated for repeated use.
Alternatively, the pictures will fit into a school exercise book.
A starter pack to colourful semantics
To help make and create a display board.
Includes headers for a display, a sheet of who cards, what doing cards, what cards, when cards and where with some joining words also.
Also includes sentence strip templates for children to use to help support putting together simple sentences.
Colourful semantics help develop and teach simple sentence structure.