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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.
Writing colourful sentences
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Writing colourful sentences

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Worksheets with 5 various sentences structures. + options to create own sentence strips. 36 pictures to use as writing prompts. Pictures are of various situations, cultural groups and include both single people and groups of people to write about. 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.
Shopping interactive books
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Shopping interactive books

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Product Description Two interactive books about shopping “It’s Shopping Time” a story about what you do at the shop. Written in first person. With symbols to match and items to put in shopping carts and bags. “What’s the shop” and interactive book with photos of different shop. Complete the “I can buy…” sentences with the correct symbols.
Christmas activities bundle
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Christmas activities bundle

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This exciting and fun stocking (bundle) is filled with different Christmas activities for the classroom, including reading, writing and motor control/crafts activities. All activities are supported with Widgit symbols. Included in this bundle: Holiday Choices - reading activity developing independent choice making. Studens read holiday options and students decide where they want to spend Christmas and answer multiple choice questions about their choice. 2 levels Interactive/adapted book - book about Christmas trees. Read the sentence on each page, then complete the instruction at the top of the page. Paper Chain Making - follow simple set of instructions to make Christmas paper chains. Patterned paper included. Make a Beard for Santa - motor control skills / arts and crafts activity Describe the Christmas Tree - use colourful semantics to compose sentences to describe the Christmas tree. 3 levels Christmas PECS symbols - + “I see…” symbol and sentence strip Decorate the Christmas Tree - read the instructions to decorate a Christmas tree. 2 levels Widgit symbols used with permission.
No Prep - describing objects using colourful semantics
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No Prep - describing objects using colourful semantics

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Use colourful semantics to describe everyday objects, using size, colour/color and object. NO PREP worksheets: Circle the correct word in each part of the sentence to build a sentence. Each object comes in at least 3 colours and two sizes. 64 task cards cards for objects of different size and color UK and US versions [colour/color] included in folder. 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 are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills. Wigit Symbols used with permission
Where is the Easter Bunny - prepositions using colourful semantics
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Where is the Easter Bunny - prepositions using colourful semantics

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Use colourful semantics to describe where the Easter Bunny is in relation to different objects. Build you own sentence worksheets and NO PREP circle to answer worksheets. PLUS Make a scene, reading comprehension. 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
Easter bundle
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Easter bundle

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This tasty bundle is full of wonderful Easter egg related activities at a huge discount! Includes: No prep prepositions using colourful semantics. Interactive Easter Egg counting book - numbers up to 10 Make a scene - reading comprehension Easter Egg Hunt interactive flip and find board with 3 levels of comprehension reading pages. Where are the Easter Eggs hiding? Interactive flip and find board and 2 levels of colourful semantics worksheets. Describe the Easter Egg using colourful semantics. worksheets include both UK and US spellings Widgit Symbols used with permission
Describing transport NO PREP - using colourful semantics
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Describing transport NO PREP - using colourful semantics

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Use colourful semantics to describe types of transport and where they are. 2 Levels of worksheets Level 1 : What and Where Level 2: What, is doing, where No prep - circle correct key words to compose sentences. 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 are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills.
Comprehension cards - Symbol Supported
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Comprehension cards - Symbol Supported

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Comprehension task cards that promote emerging literacy reading skills and picture/text relationship understanding. Pictures related directly to the symbol supported sentences students have to match to the cards. All cards contain 2 symbolised key words in the sentence. This system supports using information in a text to find meaning in a picture. 8 different categories of cards: Animals Clothing Colours/Colors (labels with both spellings) Fantasy Food People Space Stationery OVER 70 TASK CARDS! Task box/folder labels for each category and instructions on how to make the cards. Widgit Symbols used with permission
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.
Magic E- ing spelling activities
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Magic E- ing spelling activities

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3 different fun and interactive activities and worksheets to help students with spelling of long vowel sound words, when the e needs to be dropped to add -ing. Sliding cards: Choose a word - slide it across to hide the ‘e’ and reveal the ing spelling. Then find the picture to match to the word. Folding strips: Handing spelling helpers. Look at the picture and the long vowel word, fold the tab, hiding the ‘e’ and revealing the -ing word. comes in full colour and black and white versions. Cut and paste worksheets: Match the words to the pictures. Create the -ing spelling of the words by cutting along the dotted lines to cut off the ‘e’ comes in full colour and black and white versions. Widgit symbols used with permission
People Who Help - Colourful Semantics Interactive PowerPoint
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People Who Help - Colourful Semantics Interactive PowerPoint

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Interactive PowerPoint Read the clues to decide what job the description relates to. Click and drag the correct person into the box. Interactive book with easy to read clues. 10 Worksheets with diverse character cliparts for each job. Fully symbol supported text. JOB INCLUDES: Builder Chef Dentist Doctor Farmer Firefighter Nurse Pilot Police Postman Widgit Symbols used with permission