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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.
Describing objects using colourful semantics
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Describing objects using colourful semantics

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Use colourful semantics to describe everyday objects, using size, colour and object. Compose 3 key words sentences. 34 task cards and matching writing cards for objects of different size and colour. 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/taskcards are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
Transport sentence buliding using colourful semantics
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Transport sentence buliding using colourful semantics

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Develop writing and composition skills, by building sentences to say describe modes of transport, their action and place. UK and US spelling of colour/color included on separate worksheets. 3 levels of worksheets: 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? 11 simple and bright clipart picture to comment on. Full colour and white background worksheets and symbols. 1 and 2 picture per page worksheets Worksheets are accessible for writers and non-writers Includes information on how to use the Colourful Semantics system. 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
Shopping sentence buliding using colourful semantics
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Shopping sentence buliding using colourful semantics

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Develop writing and composition skills, by building sentences to say what people are buying. 2 levels of worksheets: Level 1: 3 key word sentence with ONE object to identify Level 2: 4 key word sentence with TWO objects to identify. 12 double object shopping cart pictures 24 single object shopping cart pictures Full colour and white background worksheets and symbols. Worksheets are accessible for writers and non-writers Includes information on how to use the Colourful Semantics system. *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/taskcards are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
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.
Likes and Dislikes - writing using colourful semantics
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Likes and Dislikes - writing using colourful semantics

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Worksheets designed to encourage independent writing on topics of interest, using the colourful semantics approach and vocabulary support boards. Have students build full sentences around things they like and don’t like. 8 topics to choose from: Animals Colours Food Movies Sport Technology Transport Weather 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.
Emotions task cards and clip cards
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Emotions task cards and clip cards

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3 set of matching task cards to learn emotions. 8 emotions with 4 pictures for each emotion. Set 1 Picture to symbol matching Set 2 Symbol to symbol matching Set 3 Word to picture or symbol matching Clip cards 8 emotions with 4 pictures each Clip cards have 3 word options to choose from.
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.
Prepositions at home IN AT ON
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Prepositions at home IN AT ON

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This product can be used as individual task cards or make into an interactive book. KEY VOCABULARY Learn key vocabulary for furniture and rooms in the house Learn prepositions: in, at, on 1ST PERSON WRITING: Neutral silhouette images of people to encourage students to compose sentences in 1st person. Option to sticks students pictures on the worksheets. 2 LEVELS OF SENTENCE BUILDING: Level 1: Who? is doing? Where? preposition word is embedded within the location. Level 2: Who? is doing? Where? What? preposition word is own exclusive part of the sentence. USING COLOURFUL SEMANTICS TO WRITE: 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 “I see…” 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
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
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: “I see a…” 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.