Print on A4 card and cut AS SPECIFIED for the listening and speaking game. Designed for practising sounds that are often difficult and need generalisation work. Guide gives more detail.

Four pages of vocabulary pictures with labels. Three cover different types of transport and the fourth has items to do with transport or journeys, plus nine small pictures of possible scenarios for making a journey. Print vocabulary pages on card for making games or cutting up, or on paper for a folder. Guide has suggestions for use.

Intended for repetitive practice of newly acquired speech-sounds, these two games could also be used to draw attention to the different ways we spell these sounds. (The games will not teach a child how to make the sounds - that can be quite difficult!)

Cards to sequence and say sentences of graded complexity to include a when-phrase with days or months, a who-pronoun (he/she/they), and a verb. Virtually no reading required. Practise present/future/past. Suggestions for use included.

Ten large pictures of well-known items (e.g. house, bike, car) each with six parts to name on smaller pictures. Target specific vocabulary for components or related items. Ten suggestions for language activities for 1-1 or small group work. No text on children's pictures. Games pages better if printed A4 single-sided on card.

5 pages of cartoons with a selection of verb possibilities to use instead of ‘said’. A writing column requires an event and some actual speech in a bubble. My other resources which link to this are (1) Match Speech Bubbles to Pics, (2) Punctuation – Mark the End of Sentences; and (3) Punctuation II – Putting in the Speech Marks.

Resource to draw attention to a variety of verbs which can stand for ‘said’. Practise picking out the actual words spoken to write in a speech bubble. Mark up speech marks and missing punctuation correctly on the sentences by pictures. Illustrated with ClipArt. Mind-map created with Widgit’s Communicate Ideas about different types of sentences, the punctuation mark each ends with, and how we mark direct speech.

A mind-map (designed using Widgit's Communicate Ideas) and a table showing some of the grammatical names of types of words and their functions.

A page of pictures with and without labels (also provided as text only) to place according to word function: verbs, nouns or adjectives. They are all words - but what sort of words? Designed using Widgit Communicate Ideas and CIP and illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.

For improving recognition of the CVCe shape. Three sets of cards for playing Pairs where a pair will have one word of the CVC shape (e.g. ROD) and the other of the CVCe shape (RODE). Suggestions for including work on using the words to make sentences, as well as reading them. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.

A variety of activities with ideas for sorting, talking, selecting and colouring. Includes basic materials plus some tasks based on hard, soft, transparent, cold, and paper things. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.

A set of ClipArt pictures and word cards. The activity is to ask questions in a barrier game and select word cards to match the replies and build sentences. Other suggested activities plus thoughts about asking questions orally or with worksheets to target different developmental levels. Two files. Mat with word cards made with Widgit’s CIP.

For children with number skills and reasonable reading skills who have difficulty sorting out what the word sum means they have to do. 8 pages of questions about a situation, working towards 2-step problems. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols in Numicon layout.

Designed for children who can read and do simple calculations but who struggle to make sense of word sums and need to learn to spot the key words which help.

Days, months, seasons, 1-20 words, alphabet, coins. Learn and practise these sequences we need to know. Hints about related skills. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.

Link to Maths Concept Words and Phrases. 2: all, some, none, pair, first, last. 3: bigger, smaller, lots, a few, too many, not enough. 4: equal. 5: all, some, only one. 6: all except one, both, the other one. 7: whole, half, quarter. 8: place in row. 10: some, more, the most, less. 11: 1st,2nd,3rd. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.

Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols. A game focusing on where water we see goes to on its journey on the water cycle. An opportunity for discussion of things seen and unseen. Relevant illustrated vocabulary and suggestions for activities. Sentences to complete.

Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols. Based on Incy Wincy spider. Advance up your 'spout' if you land on evaporation or go down again for precipitation. Includes the cycle of the seasons. Opportunity for fairly simple reading and repeating relevant vocabulary during the game.

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

Featuring relevant nursery rhymes, picture-word matching, information text, spot the difference and more. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.