People Who Help | Sentence Building | SEND Speech & Language

Colourful Semantics People Who Help | Sentence Building | SEND Speech & Language

DESCRIPTION

Support children to build clear, complete sentences while developing vocabulary around people who help us.

This 20-page visual resource uses a Colourful Semantics-style sentence-building approach to help learners identify WHO is involved, what they are DOING, WHAT is happening and WHERE it is taking place.

The familiar People Who Help Us theme provides meaningful opportunities to develop expressive language, vocabulary, sentence structure and speaking confidence.

The resource is particularly useful for learners who benefit from visual structure and repeated language practice.

WHAT CHILDREN PRACTISE

• Building complete sentences
• Identifying WHO is in a sentence
• Identifying actions and verbs
• Adding WHAT information
• Adding WHERE information
• Expanding simple sentences
• Developing expressive language
• Developing topic vocabulary
• Speaking in full sentences
• Oral rehearsal before writing
• Early grammar skills
• Sentence sequencing
• Communication skills

PEOPLE WHO HELP US VOCABULARY

The activities can support discussion and sentence building around familiar community helpers and occupations, helping learners understand who different people are, what they do and where they work.

This can support vocabulary linked to:

• Community helpers
• Jobs and occupations
• Workplaces
• Actions and verbs
• Everyday situations
• People in the local community

COLOUR-CODED SENTENCE STRUCTURE

The activities support learners with:

• WHO?
• DOING?
• WHAT?
• WHERE?

The clear visual structure helps children understand how different parts of a sentence work together.

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

• 20 colourful visual activity pages
• People Who Help Us themed scenes
• Sentence-building prompts
• Colour-coded visual support
• Community helper vocabulary
• Speaking and listening opportunities
• Sentence expansion activities
• Oral language support
• Child-friendly illustrations
• Ready-to-use printable resources

IDEAL FOR

• EYFS and KS1
• Ages 5–7
• SEND learners
• Speech and language support
• EAL learners
• Autism support
• Communication and interaction needs
• Expressive language development
• Vocabulary development
• People Who Help Us topics
• 1:1 intervention
• Small-group work
• Speech and language groups
• Classroom literacy activities
• SEN support
• Home learning

KEYWORDS / TAGS

Semantics, sentence, people who help us, community helpers, community helpers activities, occupations for children, jobs vocabulary, sentence building, sentence structure, speech and language, speech therapy resources, expressive language, oral language, vocabulary development, SEND resources, SEN resources, autism resources, EAL resources, KS1 literacy, early years literacy, speaking and listening, visual sentence prompts, who doing what where, communication skills, language intervention, sentence cards, early grammar, speech and language activities