Talkabout Pictures encourages pupils with poor listening skills to listen attentively. It is particularly helpful for those with poor expressive speech, poor receptive language or poor reasoning skills. This resource is extremely flexible: it can be used on a computer screen or interactive whiteboard, or to print out copies of the pictures. Talkabout Pictures is suitable for whole class, group and pair work and can be used by a wide age-range. There are 20 full-colour, detailed pictures and a comprehensive ‘booklet’ with questions. One further set with different pictures is available. Previously sold through Easylearn.

70+ worksheets over 15 sections (each section focuses on four/five graphemes/phonemes). These follow the Read Write Inc grapheme/phoneme learning order so they are a great way to provide additional activities that compliment the Read Write Inc learning scheme. As a stand-alone resource, they are excellent for SEN children or children that need extra opportunities to interact with letters and their sounds. These worksheets help the children to engage with each phoneme and give them the chance to practise blending words.

The Three Little Pigs themed colourful semantics. The cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a familiar tale, giving them more confidence when they write. Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. Colourful Semantics helps children to: •Develop a wider vocabulary •Make sentences longer •Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Improve story telling skills The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences. This pack contains fairy tale specific vocabulary, including: 4 who - noun/person cards 9 doing - verb cards 9 what - noun/object cards 4 where - noun/place cards

This booklet contains different cards for who, what doing, what, where, when, to who, how and describing words. Perfect for an introduction to colourful semantics. Ideal for a velcro pack to allow children to swap out different parts of their sentence to create a variety of different structures.

Colourful semantics to go with 23 CVC words. I split these into 4 words per week (one week, has 3 words) and we work on spelling these words and using them in sentences, but this can be easily adapted if you wanted to use more words per week. I have included colourful semantics boards, from the basic Who, What doing, What, to more complex Who, What doing, What, Where, Why. I have laminated these for my class and differentiate so some of the students complete only the 3 word sentences and some complete the 4 or 5 word sentences, but using the same pictures. I have included 3 pictures of examples of students using the boards and words (I hav blanked out student names)

This is a Power-Point with over 100 slides on Shakespeare's The Tempest. There are resources and activities included within this. It is aimed at low ability KS3 and was made for special needs groups (Autism, Dyslexia and ADHD, predominantly) but easily differentiated. Whilst a text can be read alongside, this unit focuses on very short extracts to help students understand character and theme - whilst making it as accessible as possible to those who struggle. It is recommended students watch the play initially to help develop their visual understanding and then re-watch clips to support what they read. The activities are included and worksheets can be printed as individual slides. This can easily be adapted to challenge students further - and some suggestions are made in the notes section.

Colourful Semantics adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions and negatives growing pack! This growing bundle has everything you need to move on to stages 5-8 of the colourful semantics programme. What’s included in this pack? 15 conjunction cards (coordinating and subordinating) 18 modal verb cards, including negatives 54 adjective cards 9 preposition cards 36 adverb and fronted adverbial cards Level 5 Adjectives: The purple ‘describe’ cards are the adjectives in a sentence. An adjective is a describing word. The ‘describe’ card can be placed at different points to describe different words in the sentence. Various strips are included. Level 6 Adverbs: Adverbs are words that change verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. They can modify (or change) a verb by making it more precise. This pack includes adverbs, fronted adverbials and prepositions. Level 7 Conjunctions: Conjunctions are used to join two clauses or expand an idea. This pack contains both coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. Level 8 Negatives: This pack includes modal verbs to show how possible something is, or how likely it is to happen/have happened. The cards help children learn how to indicate degrees of possibility and how to use them correctly in language. The cards can also be used to help children learn to form questions by inversion. For example: Statement = She can go to the park. Question = Can she go to the park? These cards are designed to be used in conjunction with the Colourful Semantics starter pack (stages 1-4), which can be purchased here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colourful-semantics-starter-pack-12121851 I update the packs regularly as I use them in my own classroom. You will be notified of any updates as they become available.

Talkabout Pictures encourages pupils with poor listening skills to listen attentively. It is particularly helpful for those with poor expressive speech, poor receptive language or poor reasoning skills. This resource is extremely flexible: it can be used on a computer screen or interactive whiteboard, or to print out copies of the pictures. Talkabout Pictures is suitable for whole class, group and pair work and can be used by a wide age-range. There are 20 full-colour, detailed pictures and a comprehensive ‘booklet’ with questions. One further set with different pictures is available. Previously sold through Easylearn.

A complete starter pack to begin using colourful semantics in your classroom! This is a growing pack. You will be notified of any updates. Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. Colourful Semantics helps children to: •Develop a wider vocabulary •Make sentences longer •Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Improve story telling skills The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences. This pack contains the following: 36 who - noun/person cards (including pronouns) 54 doing - verb cards (including states of being) 63 what - noun/object cards 9 where - noun/place cards

Develop writing and composition skills, by building sentences to say what people are feeling. 3 levels of worksheets: Level 1: 1 key word sentence - What emotion? (e.g “sad”) Level 2: 2 Key word sentence .- who? + what emotion? (e.g "the boy is sad" Level 3: 3 Key work sentence - who? + what doing + what emotion? (e.g “The boy is feeling sad” 4 picture cards at each level 32 picture cards in total. Full colour and white background worksheets and symbols. Worksheets are accessible for writers and non-writers Includes information on how to use the Colourful Semantics system.

Colourful Semantics Workbook - Level 4 - Who - What’s doing? - What? - Where? Visual support to help learners to make sentences correctly. Worksheet and symbols. Make a workbook by printing and laminating the pages and symbols to be attached with velcro. Remember to review it! Thanks!

242 Phonics worksheets! Phonics worksheets which can be used with any phonics scheme Covers all phonics blends, digraphs, trigraphs and diphthongs. For each phonics sound, blend, digraph, etc. there are 5 or 6 phonics pages: Add the blend or digraph to the word and connect to the matching picture Clear clip-art (black and white - perfect for colouring) phonics labeling page using 9 carefully chosen example phonics words/clip-art followed by a fun read and draw page Write the blend or digraph and read the words with the aid of sound buttons and lines under each grapheme. Find, highlight and write the words containing each specific blend (or digraph, trigraph etc.) then a cloze page of decodable sentences which have been carefully sequenced to progressively incorporate words that are consistent with the letters and corresponding phonemes that have been taught to the new reader/speller in previous pages of the book (plus sight words) Could be made into a 242 page phonics workbook, or individual pages can be printed off and photocopied. (I have uploaded two versions of the book - the original 168 page standard version, and a 242 extended version) Perfect for beginner readers and spellers. Also great for EAL students to help build vocabulary alongside reading and spelling skills. Made by an experienced phonics teacher, and used in classrooms weekly. Phonics cooperative partner activity Phase 3 Set 1 Worksheets Phase 3 Set 2 Worksheets Phase 3 Set 3 Worksheets Spelling Mats Phase 3 and Phase 5

A game I made for my small class of learners with autism. Suitable for any small group introduction - e.g. intervention group, speech and language, attention and listening. Learners throw a dice and move around the board. When they land on a question, they answer the question. I like to ask another member of the group a question relating to the answer, to encourage learners to pay attention to each other's answers - my children tend to have very little interest in each other! Supports social skills, attention and listening, turn taking. Used for specialist autism group but appropriate for any mainstream KS1 / KS2 group or older SEN group.

This resource contains an editable, 100-slide PowerPoint lesson on the National Curriculum Year 5 and 6 homophones / near homophones and confusing words list - licence, license, practice, practise, prophecy, prophesy, father, farther, guessed, guest, heard, herd, lead, led, morning, mourning, past, passed, precede, proceed, principal, principle, profit, prophet, stationary, stationery, steal, steel . The PowerPoint provides an explanation of the meaning of the homophones with examples and opportunities for pupils to decide which is the correct homophone. This resource is appropriate for year 5 and 6 students and older Special Education students. You may also be interested in: Year 5 and 6 Homophones - Set of 15 Worksheets This resource contains a set of 15 worksheets on the National Curriculum Year 5 and 6 homophones / near homophones and confusing words list. Tasks include choosing the correct homophones in sentences, correcting homophones in sentences and composing sentences containing the homophones. There are also five spelling practice worksheets. Save money and buy both resources in a bundle at a discounted rate: Year 5 and 6 Homophones - Set of 15 Worksheets More Homophone Resources Thinking of publishing your own resources or already an author and want to improve your resources and sales? Check out this step-by-step guide: How to Become a Successful TES Author: Step-by-Step Guide

Originally made for KS3 SEN class for students of pre key stage level (p scale). Sentences to go with each page of the book to describe what is happening. Images from the book or photocopies can be used to sequence parts of the story and describe what the character’s are doing. I have also included a template that can be used alongside images from the book to create a sentence, with the colours there as a guide for lower level students, or students new to colourful semantics. I have included a page of ‘little words’ or white words that can be cut up and slotted into the colourful semantics to create full sentences for students of a higher level. There are also communicate in print supports for adjectives that can be used for higher levels as well. Eg: The brave mouse climbed on the dragon’s tail.

I used this with a small intervention group to encourage discussion and develop their speech and language skills. Also this resource is a great way of helping students write independently. I hope this resource is useful to you.

PDF conversation starters for sharing/tea time - 8 pages. Promotes social skills, turn taking, and skills towards preparing for adulthood (Life Skills). Visual content and Widgit visuals for young people with special education needs (SEN/SEND).

These 4 ready to print pages may help with the understanding of 'Who, What and Where' Symbols can help many children and young people who struggle with reading or understanding. (This free resource is part of my paid for Classroom and Pupil Support Resource Pack where you will find other useful materials for your classroom and pupils) All of my resources are created using the Widgit software program ‘Communicate in Print’ Permission has been granted for me to use their symbols and pictures. Please rate if you download Thank you for looking

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. A resource under development aimed at children with fair reading skills who do not pick up on all the meaning behind the words. Three stories with suggested activities based on published research as to what helps children focus on implied information. Feedback comments welcome.