The Very Hungry Caterpillar book is just brilliant for so many reasons. Key phrases are repeated throughout, the lifecycle of a butterfly, sequencing numbers and days of the week, healthy foods...the list is endless.
I am teaching a small class each afternoon and the children have really varying levels of communication and understanding. My aim was to begin developing 4 key word sentences to begin teaching sentence structure and increasing vocabulary. Our topic book was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Very-Hungry-Caterpillar-audio-cd-Eric-Carle/0141380934/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492595858&sr=1-9&keywords=the+very+hungry+caterpillar and I decided to create a colourful semantics literacy lesson using the story.
Colourful semantics is aimed at teaching children grammar by teaching them the meaning of different words (semantics) through colour, created by Alison Bryan. You can find out more by googling this term. This chapter is also really useful as an introduction.
The colours are key and if you do any book, they need to remain consistent. The best advice I can offer is to seek out your speech and language therapist and ask them for advice. I am sharing it in this blog, as sometimes I feel that we don't always know what exists, so how can we ask for it?
Orange- who
Yellow- what doing
Green- what
Blue- where
For this story
Orange- who (the caterpillar)
Yellow- what doing (eats)
Green- what (one apple)
Blue- where- (on Monday)
I have created some resources to accompany the story and if you would like us to send them to you, tweet us @wearetheSENco Below are some google images that show how this strategy can be used, in your classroom, alongside the work that other children are doing.
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