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Colourful Semantics

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. Th...

What Goes In My Bucket?

Attention Autism is a brilliant 'tool' in your SEND tool kit. I call it a tool, as when working with children with learning differences, we need to have many strategies that we feel confident in using, as a one size fits all approach just doesn't work. There are lots of videos and resources on Attention Autism that you can look at, Gina Davis who coined the term 'attention autism' has a great Facebook page full of new ideas and resources. We have also made some videos to suggest some ideas as to how you can incorporate maths content into the sessions. But, how to keep stage 1: The Bucket! fresh and exciting for your students. Here are some of my favourite resources that the children cannot wait to be pulled out! All of them can be found on amazon.

Whatever Next! Colourful Semantics

I was asked to create some visual resources for a child in Reception who was working on three key word targets. The class Role Play area was based on the book 'Whatever Next' (brilliant!) and so we chose that as the focus. Here is a link to the PDF of the visuals that I made, all you need is to print and laminate and use a sentence strip to go along with the book.

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