Something for everyone. Adaptable for differentiation. Plus help with making some similar resources yourself if you have the program.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. A social story originally inspired by several upsets suffered by a child with social communication problems. Makes a framework for looking at o'clock times and talking about similar irritating events. Clock faces for half-past times provided too, together with alternative events. Lots of ideas included for using the cards. Could be printed 2pp to A4 but cards will be easier to handle if file printed on A4.

Activity book with lots of different things to do. Suitable for differentiation. Learn animal and bird names and use the pictures for several games.

6 pictures each for sleeping, eating, sitting and walking. Print on A4 single-sided card, cut and use for sorting, labelling, taking turns to make sentences for the set for one verb etc. Or make word cards or printed sentences for the pictures (depending on level) and use them for a reading-for-meaning exercise where the child has to read and place the card on the correct picture. Several sleeping pictures for example are useful for forcing attention to more than just one word in the sentence!

Picture matching, spot the difference, odd one out, counting, reading for meaning and sequencing. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.

Lists of regular phonic spellings in short sequences. For ear-training. What has changed? One phoneme changes for each new word. Use with a good set of plastic letters where digraph consonants and vowels are presented as single units.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Sets of cards to use with coloured shapes you will probably have already. This is an example of making add-on activity cards to extend the usefulness of standard materials. You can match the pictures, give instructions to another person to make them, count shapes to match the dice/numbers, and even master Venn and Carroll diagrams in easy stages.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Halloween story (featuring planning ahead to grow a pumpkin for a Halloween party) and activities. Page of discussion suggestions about words, planting, and Halloween; and a page of Halloween pictures to talk about with less able children.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. A collection of different activities to promote naming, matching, odd one out, spot the difference, counting, and symbol reading. Suitable for young children and those in KS2 with e.g. Down's Syndrome. Some pages can be printed 2pp to the sheet but others for use in games will need to be printed A4 size for clarity and ease of handling.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Print the games sheets on A4 card. You can print the first page of suggestions on the back of one of the lotto boards or on a separate sheet. Cut the sheets which are filled with small pictures into cards for the suggested games (see suggestions page and notes on the sheets). You can play Lotto arranged as a grid, Pairs, sorting into the sort boxes, and use the discussion ideas.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Something for everyone. Adaptable for differentiation. Animal cards for matching and games; colouring page; spot the difference; A-Z fun alphabet (and Z-A); count the animals in Numicon shapes.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Print on A4 paper: SPACE VOCABULARY: 20 useful topic words (illustrated) on a sheet to file, and PLANETS WORD SEARCH. SPACE PICTURE DOMINOS (no words). Print on A4 card and cut as marked.

3 sets of 6 cards in 3 sizes: fish, birds, turtles. 3 sets of 6 cards: dinosaurs. Ideas for using these specifically could be incorporated into other work on language and early concepts. Print games sheets A4 single-sided on card.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Print both files on A4 paper, single-sided. Children could cut out job descriptions if appropriate. Match to alphabet pages and stick. Lots to talk about. Suitable for EAL.

For young children with delayed spoken language. Ideas for use given.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. A collection of rhyming words to sort to match the 'rimes' and another specifically with Vowel-Consonant-e (VCe or magic-e) endings. Cut up and sort. Use the words in making up spoken or written sentences. Provide sentences with missing words which can be completed with one of the cards etc.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Match, sort, group, choose, associate, exclude. Four examples of many basic categories. Additional set includes some early history and other topics. An ideas map outlines the development of language skills in this area for children in Preschool and Foundation and four books detail graded activities you can carry out with these cards or other card sets (e.g. topic pictures). Useful for children with or without language delay/disorder. Could also be used for EAL work.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. A selection of rainbows and upper and lower case letters. Print rainbows and letters on card (single-sided A4). Print Keyboard and Alphabet Rainbow cards 2-sided on A4 card, checking the pictures are the same way up as the letters on the reverse!

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Pages of pictures in sets of 10 for a variety of tasks. Adaptable for many levels - see Suggestions page. Matching, association pairs, categories, similarities, prepositions, opposites, and parts of the whole. Use for comprehension, naming, modelling sentences, cut and stick, writing, and games.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Print the WE LIKE PAINTING HOUSES story 2-up. Just for reading, you can use paper but there are additional activities described in the NOTES which would be easier with the story on card for strength. Designed to provide modelled short sentences for a child to use. Possibilities for making a good barrier game in the notes with EXAMPLES OF FOAM PICTURE photos as a guide.