This activity is great for supporting the teaching of prepositions in, on and under. Many children struggle with the concepts of preposition and I always begin with in, on and under, ensuring that they are confident with these before moving on. It is often a speech and language target given by speech therapists and sometimes needs a lot of practise before children become confident. When using this activity I always encourage the children to practise sentence building using the prepositions so they can ultimately produce a sentence such as ‘The girl is in the brown box’ or ‘The grey rabbit is sitting on the chair.’

A great activity to reinforce the teaching of different sentence types. It can be played in a small group or as a whole class starter/plenary. Cut up the sentences, put them in a bag and then the children take turns to pick a card and then say what type of sentence it is. I left the punctuation off on purpose!. There are 10 commands, exclamations, questions and statements. There are also 4 prompt cards as a reminder!

This activity is ideal for practicing the four different sentence types. It can be enlarged onto A3 paper and used as a small group activity, or printed on A4 and used as a cut and stick task.

A good small group or 1:1 activity when working with children who need to develop their sentence building, particularly useful for EAL and SEN children. A common target set by SALTs for children who have speech and language difficulties is to work on developing their subject + verb + object sentences, and this is a good way to approach it. There are 36 cards showing various subjects (boy, girl, dog, cat etc) doing various verb actions such as sitting, walking, drinking, jumping, writing, reading, eating and sleeping. I usually place all the cards face down on the table and get the children to pick a card and then describe the picture (ie The boy is sleeping in bed) and then post them into one of my home made post boxes, or alternatively, they can see how many cards they can collect. I have found this an excellent way of practicing sentence building and once confident you can encourage them to expand sentences to include adjectives.

This activity is ideal for SEN and EAL children who need to work on their early sentence building skills working on subject + verb. Children pick a card and then say WHO is the picture and WHAT they are doing. They then choose the correct subject and verb phrase from the selection to make a sentence such as ‘The girl is eating’ or ‘The horse is jumping.’ There are 24 different picture cards which correspond with the sentences : The girl, The boy, The dog, The cat, The horse … is eating, is sleeping, is running, is jumping, is walking.

This worksheet was compiled for small group work with EAL children to support their learning of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

This is an excellent speaking and listening activity for practising minibeast vocabulary, as well as working on prepositions and following instructions. You will need two copies of the garden scene, preferably enlarged to A3, and two copies of the small pictures on A4. Ideally this activity works best with 2 children (or 2 teams). The children sit on opposite sides of the table, each with a copy of the garden scene and minibeast pictures, and a barrier between them. They then have to take turns giving instructions to the players on the other side of the barrier, such as ‘Put the snail next to the red flower’. Once all the instructions have been given the barrier is removed to see if the pictures correspond. The resource includes 2 sets of minibeast pictures, and an additional set of big/small minibeast to make the activity more challenging.

A great activity when working with EAL and SEN children who are struggling with the concept of the pronouns he and she. This is often a target set by speech and language therapists for children who have delayed speech and language. The activity can be completed as a sorting activity or as cut and stick.

This is an excellent speaking and listening activity for practising preposition, as well as working on following instructions. You will need two copies of the table picture, preferably enlarged to A3, and two copies of the small pictures on A4. Ideally this activity works best with 2 children (or 2 teams). The children sit on opposite sides of the table, each with a copy of the table and food pictures, and a barrier between them. They then have to take turns giving instructions to the players on the other side of the barrier, such as ‘Put the apple on/under/next to the table’. Once all the instructions have been given the barrier is removed to see if the pictures correspond. The resource includes 2 sets of food pictures, one which as big/small food to make the activity for challenging.

A useful word mat for supporting Jack and the Beanstalk. Particulary good for giving EAL and SEN children visual support for writing.

This activity is great for teaching the concept of long and short to SEN or EAL children. The first part of the activity can be laminated and used to introduce the concept, and then the second part can be used as a follow up cut and stick activity as evidence of understanding.

A fantastic game to play in a small group or with a whole class when covering the topic of minibeasts. In addition to supporting topic vocabulary, it is also a good activity to target speaking and listening, as well as encouraging children to develop their use of adjectives when describing. Put all the cards into a feely bag (There are 18 different minibeast cards and I laminated mine first) and then children take turns picking a card from the bag and then describing it for the other children to guess. When working with EAL/SEN children I also usually put the master copy of all the minibeast on the table to support them with guessing the minibeast being described.

A great activity for small group work to support the teaching of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. The sorting grid can be enlarged onto A3 paper and then the children can sort the words into the correct categories. It can also be used as a cut and stick activity.

A great activity to reinforce the teaching of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. It can be played in a small group or as a whole class starter/plenary. Cut up the words, put them in a bag and then the children take turns to pick a card and then say what it is. There are 20 nouns, 20 verbs, 20 adjectives and 10 adverbs. There are also 4 prompt cards as a reminder!

These writing frames are an excellent resource when covering the topic of minibeast. I have used them with both reception and year one children. They have the picture of the minibeast for a visual clue, and key words relating to the individual minibeast to help with sentence writing. I usually play a What’s in the Bag? Activity first to get them thinking about describing minibeast, and then practice saying sentences using the relevant vocabulary. They then have a go at writing some of their sentences. There is a frame for ladybird, spider, snail, caterpillar, butterfly and bee.

This is a good activity for working on minibeast vocabulary, especially for small group work with EAL or SEN children. There is a set of four lotto boards, with corresponding cards to cut out, and it can be laminated to make it more durable.

These cards are a great sentence building activity to help children practice expanding sentences using adjectives. Once they are confident expanding their sentences verbally, then I get them to practise transferring this skill into writing sentences. For example ‘The tall brown and yellow spotty giraffe was eating the delicious small green leaves.’ There are 18 different cards and I have successfully used these with both EAL and SEN children to help them develop and improve their writing skills, as well as with EYFS children to develop their speech and language.

This activity is great for helping to teach EAL/SEN children about past and present tenses and contains 29 words in the past and present form. Turn all the words face down and then ask the children to take turns picking the words and sorting then into past or present. It’s also a good idea to get them to say a sentence using the word to practice using them in the right context. This is also a good ‘What’s in the Bag?’ activity to play as a whole class. The children pick a word from the bag and then have to say an interesting sentence using the word they have picked and then say if it past or present tense.

This activity is great for small group work teaching the concept of tall and short to SEN or EAL children . The first part of the activity can be used to introduce the concept of tall and short , and then the second part can be used as a cut and stick activity as evidence of their understanding. I have laminated a copy so that it is more durable and it is used regularly in my intervention sessions. A great multi sensory approach to teaching concepts.

This activity is great for teaching the concept of big or small to SEN or EAL children. The first part of the activity can be used as a small group activity to introduce the concept, and the children can sort the pictures into big or small. The second part can be used as a follow up cut and stick activity as evidence of understanding.