I have been a special needs practitioner/teacher for ten years--it is my passion! I have taught students who range from profound to moderate to severe learning difficulties. I also have a lot of experience teaching students who are on the Autism Spectrum. Most of the content that I teach focuses in the area of functional life skills, social skills and behavior modifications.
I have been a special needs practitioner/teacher for ten years--it is my passion! I have taught students who range from profound to moderate to severe learning difficulties. I also have a lot of experience teaching students who are on the Autism Spectrum. Most of the content that I teach focuses in the area of functional life skills, social skills and behavior modifications.
This is a Colourful Semantics activity set Level 3 (Subject-Verb-Object).
Colourful Semantics Level 3 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (10 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (15 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (39 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow and green coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Please see below the sentences:
The bear is eating the cake
The boy is playing drums.
The boy is cutting a banana
The boy is cutting an apple
The bear is reading a book.
The girl is cutting a paper.
The lady is washing a dog.
The boy is eating a sandwich
The boy is shopping bananas.
The girl is eating an ice-cream.
The boy is riding a bike.
The baby is drinking milk.
The man is reading a book.
The monkey is eating a banana.
The lady is giving a letter.
The girl is playing with the ball.
The man is giving a box.
The monkey is eating a peanut.
The girl is eating an apple.
The boy is washing his face.
The big is eating an apple.
The lady is writing a letter.
The girl is eating a cake.
The boy is eating a bagel.
The lady is eating an orange.
The man is reading a newspaper.
The lady is reading a letter.
The girl is smelling a flower.
The lady is drinking juice.
The baby is drinking water.
The lady is smelling a perfume.
The baby is playing with the bricks.
The man is cleaning the table.
The lady is cleaning the table.
The lady is riding a horse.
This is a Colourful Semantics activity set Level 2 (Subject-Verb).
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (9 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (19 in total) are yellow .
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a good activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order.
Learn to build sentences and develop your commenting skills.
There is an orange and yellow coloured strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured strip under the picture and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Please see the sentences below:
The girl is jumping.
The dog is sleeping.
Te man is riding.
The girl is drinking.
The man is sleeping.
The girl is riding.
The lady is riding.
The girl is playing.
The boy is riding.
The dog is swimming.
The man is drinking.
The lady is drinking.
The boy is drinking.
The cat is playing.
The girl is climbing.
The man is giving.
The dog is eating.
The lady is walking.
The cat is eating.
The girl is walking.
The boy is painting.
The lady is giving.
The boy is singing.
The girl is swimming.
The monkey is drinking.
the girl is writing.
The lady is dancing.
The bear is eating.
The baby is playing.
The man is dancing.
The man is cooking.
The girl is reading.
The baby is crying.
The lady is running.
Enjoy!
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
‘‘Bluey and Friends’’ Colourful Semantics pack Level 2&3 is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (10 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (50 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (54 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow and green coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Enjoy!
This is the Peppa Pig & Friends Colourful Semantics activity Level 2 & 3 pack
Colourful Semantics Level is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Developing the use of nouns verbs, prepositions and adjectives.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colorful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (22 in total), ‘doing what’ words (verbs) (39 in total) are yellow and ‘what’ words (50 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction and supports communication in general.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow or and orange, yellow and green C.S. sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use Velcro onto them. Use hard Velcro onto the C.S. sentence strip and soft Velcro behind each symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Enjoy!
This festive Christmas Story PowerPoint for children is perfect for using during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and will help to teach students about the story behind this exciting time of year.
The Buddle includes:
a simplified version of the Christmas story all beautifully symbolised
a sentence building activity ( 11 sentences)
a comprehension activity symbolised (14 questions)
a 5 step sequencing worksheet (First, Next, Then, After, Last)
Enjoy!
This papercraft 3D Christmas card session is lots of fun for your children to do during your lessons before Christmas. Once they’re complete, they’ll look adorable and will be perfect for brightening up your classroom or send them at home this festive season.
These paper Christmas 3D crads are super simple for children to get along with too.
This activity is perfect for helping to improve fine motor skills and will help students to become more proficient at arts and crafts. It’s a perfect task to set students during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and is sure to help you add a dash of festivity to your lesson plans.
When your students have finished making their paper tree, you could hang them with string from the ceiling to turn your classroom into a winter wonderland. Alternatively, students could take them home and use them as wishing cards.
This papercraft 3D Christmas card session is lots of fun for your children to do during your lessons before Christmas. Once they’re complete, they’ll look adorable and will be perfect for brightening up your classroom or send them at home this festive season.
These paper Christmas 3D crads are super simple for children to get along with too.
This activity is perfect for helping to improve fine motor skills and will help students to become more proficient at arts and crafts. It’s a perfect task to set students during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and is sure to help you add a dash of festivity to your lesson plans.
When your students have finished making their paper tree, you could hang them with string from the ceiling to turn your classroom into a winter wonderland. Alternatively, students could take them home and use them as wishing cards.
This is a Colourful Semantics activity set Level 5 (Subject-Verb-Object- Place -Describe)
Colourful Semantics Level 5 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Developing the use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (10 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (12 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (23 in total) are green, ‘place’ words (17 in total) are blue and ‘describe’ words (10 in total).
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction and supports communication in general.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange yellow, green, blue and purple coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
This papercraft Christmas tree session is lots of fun for your children to do during your lessons before Christmas.
Once they are complete, they’ll look adorable and will be perfect for brightening up your classroom or send them at home this festive season.
These paper Christmas trees are super simple for children to get along with too.
This activity is perfect for helping to improve fine motor skills and will help students to become more proficient at arts and crafts. It’s a perfect task to set students during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and is sure to help you add a dash of festivity to your lesson plans.
When your students have finished making their paper tree, you could hang them with string from the ceiling to turn your classroom into a winter wonderland. Alternatively, students could take them home.
Enjoy!
This is the volume 2 of the Colourful Semantics activity Level 5 (Subject-Verb-Object- Place -Describe)
Colourful Semantics Level 5 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Developing the use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (17 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (20 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (40 in total) are green, ‘place’ words (20 in total) are blue and ‘describe’ words (15 in total) are purple.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction and supports communication in general.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange yellow, green, blue and purple coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Enjoy!
This is the volume 3 of the Colourful Semantics activity Level 5 (Subject-Verb-Object- Place -Describe)
Colourful Semantics Level 5 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Developing the use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (10 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (30 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (43 in total) are green, ‘place’ words (23 in total) are blue and ‘describe’ words (15 in total) are purple.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction and supports communication in general.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange yellow, green, blue and purple coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Enjoy!
‘The Colour Monster’ is here to teach children about feelings, as each beautiful colour leads to an emotion. It will also help children build understanding and empathy towards others, as in the story the emotions are attached to deep descriptions of how the little Monster feels inside and how he is able to cope:
Here is a snippet of what each colour means in this story:
YELLOW – HAPPY
BLUE – SAD
RED – ANGER
BLACK – FEAR
GREEN – CALM
PINK – LOVE
The Buddle includes:
A simplified version of the story
a matching activity - Place the right jar and colour symbol
a sentence building activity
The colour monster Maths - Interactive Digital Activity
a document that includes images of the monster in the 7 different colours (you can print them and use them as puppets or decorate your class)
Enjoy!
This is a Colourful Semantics activity set Level 3 (Subject-Verb-Object).
Colourful Semantics Level 3 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (10 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (15 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (39 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow and green coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Please see below the sentences:
The bear is eating the cake
The boy is playing drums.
The boy is cutting a banana
The boy is cutting an apple
The bear is reading a book.
The girl is cutting a paper.
The lady is washing a dog.
The boy is eating a sandwich
The boy is shopping bananas.
The girl is eating an ice-cream.
The boy is riding a bike.
The baby is drinking milk.
The man is reading a book.
The monkey is eating a banana.
The lady is giving a letter.
The girl is playing with the ball.
The man is giving a box.
The monkey is eating a peanut.
The girl is eating an apple.
The boy is washing his face.
The big is eating an apple.
The lady is writing a letter.
The girl is eating a cake.
The boy is eating a bagel.
The lady is eating an orange.
The man is reading a newspaper.
The lady is reading a letter.
The girl is smelling a flower.
The lady is drinking juice.
The baby is drinking water.
The lady is smelling a perfume.
The baby is playing with the bricks.
The man is cleaning the table.
The lady is cleaning the table.
The lady is riding a horse.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
Peppa pig Colourful Semantics pack is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (4 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (17 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (33 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow and green coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
Colourful Semantics Level 4 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Developing the use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives.
Peppa pig Colourful Semantics pack is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (6 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (14 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (26 in total) are green and ‘place’ words (15 in total) are blue.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow, green and blue coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension.
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
This is the Colourful Semantics activity Level 6 pack (who, doing what, what, where, when)
Colourful Semantics Level 6 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Developing the use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (10 in total), ‘doing what’ words (verbs) (20 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (47 in total) are green, ‘where’ words (32 in total) are blue and ‘when’ words (7 in total) are brown.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction and supports communication in general.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange yellow, green, blue and purple coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
‘‘Superheroes’’ Colourful Semantics pack Level 3 is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (8 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (43 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (87 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow and green coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Enjoy!
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
‘‘PJ Masks and Friends’’ Colourful Semantics pack Level 2&3 is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (14 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (46 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (58 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow and green coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Enjoy!
Looking for new ideas working on SLD Learners communication skills?
My Weekend News session is a great resource, allowing your children to communicate and build sentences about their weekend news using symbols
Add your team’s picture and make it more interactive for your learners.
The resource includes:
-a ppt that you can use in circle time
-a ppt activity that you can use as a workstation task in which you will find:
7 questions all symbolised
a great selection of answers for your students to choose from.
Enjoy!
Are you looking for a New Year’s Eve festive story for your SEN class?
‘‘The Night before New Year’s Eve’’ is the perfect story for the occasion!
It’s the night before New Year’s, and the whole family is determined to stay up until midnight! Everyone’s stocked up on sparkly streamers and festive party hats, but after a night filled with board games and too many cupcakes, the little ones are getting sleepy. . . Can they make it until the clock strikes twelve?
The Buddle includes:
a simplified version of the story
a sentence building activity symbolised
a 5 step sequencing worksheet
an 8 step sequencing worksheet
comprehension activity (11 questions, answers: 3 options to choose from - for each question) symbolised
Enjoy!