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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...

Sensory Preferences

A few months ago I went to a seminar that the CRAE (http://crae.ioe.ac.uk) autism team organised at UCL. It was part of their sensory preferences work that they have been doing. We got to make a brilliant sensory umbrella showcasing our own preferences, but the thing I loved more was the kit we used to make this. 'What Do You Like' Kingwood Sensory Preference Cards are a set of clear picture cards that you put in to categories avoid/dislike ok and like/seek. http://www.kingwood.org.uk/kingwood-web-shop/ As a pair we looked at our own preferences. This is a great tool that we are going to be using next year working with students and parents to support their understanding of the children's preferences. I urge you to check it out as gaining pupil voice is a key part of the work that we all do in SEND.

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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