What is Colourful Semantics? The parts of the sentence are colour coded like this: Who? (orange) A person, character or animal What Doing? (yellow) A verb or action word e.g. ‘running’, ‘eating’, ‘sleeping’ What? (green) An object e.g. ‘apple’, ‘car’ Where? (blue) A location or place e.g. ‘the park’, ‘outside’, the cinema’ When? (brown) Time, part of day or special […]
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I've been using Colorful Semantics quite a bit in therapy and want to share it with people who haven't used it or don't know about it. This program was devised by a Speech and Language Therapist from the UK, and it is free. There has also been some research done on its efficacy (Search Google…
YouTube Video lessons now available to teach how to use the cards!My Weekend News teaching pack. This complete set helps support children to write a recount about what they have done at the weekend. 26 new cards are included with weekend specific vocabulary to encourage a more detailed recount. A us...
This post is an extension of the previous one about Colourful Semantics, a program that color codes different parts of speech in a sentence. I have just done up some Colourful Semantics dice to go along with the program, and found them quite fun to generate silly sentences. And we all know how much the…
This is now available as part of our colourful semantics packages which you can purchase, click on the appropriate package below for further information: Colourful Semantics Pre School Resources Colourful Semantics Primary School Resources Colourful Semantics Secondary School Resources
A colourful and engaging set of picture scenes to accompany children with sentence construction using Colourful Semantics. Ideal for children with SEND.
The colourful semantics activity has 4 key colour-coded stages to expose the structure of a sentence & helps students organise their sentences into key levels.
BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! The animals are up to their usual antics, and they need your help! They want to write a message to their other friends, but they don't know how. Can you help them get a message to their mates? The Animal Antics Bundle allows children to learn all about sentence construction in a fun animal-themed environment! This bundle starts with basic sentence building with SV, SVO, SVOP, and SVAOP sentences. Intermediate decks focus on contrasting everyday conjunctions (and/or/but, because/as, etc.). Advanced decks include more varied subordinating, coordinating and correlating conjunctions for increased challenge and silly sentence builder decks to help generalise the skillset. Your students will quickly master SV, SVO, SVOP and SVAOP sentence building using the Animal Antics Bundle! Basics -SV, SVO, SVOP, and SVAOP sentences Intermediate -Simple coordinating conjunctions: and/but/or -Simple subordinating conjunction: because/as -Simple subordinating conjunctions: after/before Advance -Coordinating, subordinating, and correlating conjunctions -Build your own silly SV, SVO, SVOP and SVOAP sentences (these have NO right answers, it is intended that children will use them to make silly sentences). Variants included: -Desert Decisions -Sea Sentences -Jungle Jeopardy
Colourful semantics
With over 21,000 Widgit Symbols, 100s of templates and a range of powerful features, InPrint 4 is the perfect tool for creating visual supports and learning materials.
BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! The sea animals need your help again. They made a message to send to their friends in the desert, but don't know how to put it together into a letter! Can you help them put their messages together? Sea Sentences allow children to learn all about sentence construction in a fun environment! This deck has sentences where kids are asked to put two sentence parts together with subordinating conjunctions ('link words', after/although/as/when/while/until/before/because/if/since), to make a more complex sentence. A child will quickly master subordinating conjunction sentence building using Sea Sentences!
BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! The desert animals need your help again. They made a message to send to their friends in the sea, but don't know how to put it together into a letter! Can you help them put their messages together? Desert Decisions allow children to learn all about sentence construction in a fun environment! This deck has sentences where kids are asked to put two sentence parts together with correlative conjunctions ('link words', either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also, both/and, not/but, whether/or, just as/so, as much/as, no sooner/than, rather/than), to make a more complex sentence. A child will quickly master correlative conjunction sentence building using Desert Decisions!
BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! The sea animals need your help again. They made a message to send a message to their friends in the desert, but don't know how to put it together into a letter! Can you help them put their messages together? Sea Sentences allow children to learn all about sentence construction in a fun environment! This deck has sentences where kids are asked to put two sentence parts together with coordinating conjunctions ('link words', and/or/for/so/but/nor/yet), to make a more complex sentence. A child will quickly master coordinating conjunction sentence building using Sea Sentences!
BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! The jungle animals need your help! They want to get a message to their friends in the sea but don't know how. Can you help them? Jungle Jeopardy allows children to learn all about sentence construction in a fun environment! This deck has 10 photos where kids are asked to find the subject ('who?'), verb ('what doing?'), adverbial phrase ('what like?'), object ('what?') and prepositional phrase ('where?') to then form a complete sentence. A child will quickly master SVAOP sentence building using Jungle Jeopardy!
BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! The sea creatures need your help again! They have practised their sentences, and want to have a go at making their own to send to their friends. Can you help them by creating your own messages? Sea Sentences allow children to learn all about sentence construction in a fun environment! This deck has 10 cards where children are asked to pick a picture, then make their own sentence about it with a 'subject' (who?), a 'verb' (doing what?), and an 'object' (what?). It is intended that the sentence can either be accurate to the picture, or a silly sentence not entirely related to the picture. This was done to offer a teaching opportunity on incorrect syntax in a fun way. A child will quickly master SVO sentence building using Sea Sentences!
BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! The desert animals need your help again! They have practised their sentences, and want to have a go at making their own to send to their friends. Can you help them by creating your own messages? Desert Decisions allow children to learn all about sentence construction in a fun environment! This deck has 10 cards where children are asked to pick a picture, then make their own sentence about it with a 'subject' (who?), a 'verb' (doing what?), and an 'object' (what?). It is intended that the sentence can either be accurate to the picture, or a silly sentence not entirely related to the picture. This was done to offer a teaching opportunity on incorrect syntax in a fun way. A child will quickly master SVO sentence building using Desert Decisions!
BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! The jungle animals need your help again! They have practised their sentences, and want to have a go at making their own to send to their friends. Can you help them by creating your own messages? Jungle Jeopardy allow children to learn all about sentence construction in a fun environment! This deck has 10 cards where children are asked to pick a picture, then make their own sentence about it with a 'subject' (who?) and a 'verb' (doing what?). It is intended that the sentence can either be accurate to the picture, or a silly sentence not entirely related to the picture. This was done to offer a teaching opportunity on incorrect syntax in a fun way. A child will quickly master SV sentence building using Jungle Jeopardy!
BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! The jungle animals need your help again. They made a message to send to their friends in the sea, but don't know how to put it together into a letter! Can you help them put their messages together? Jungle Jeopardy allows children to learn all about sentence construction in a fun environment! This deck has 15 pictures where kids are asked to put two sentence parts together with subordinating conjunctions ('link words', because/as), to make a more complex sentence. A child will quickly master subordinating conjunction sentence building using Jungle Jeopardy!
