Pesky Pets is a key word understanding game for individual students and groups. (21 pages in total.)
This set includes:
Instructions for key word understanding activities,
Two large bed pictures. two large chair pictures and two large pet bed pictures, all in different colours.
Seven different big and small dogs and seven different big and small cats.
36 cue cards.
Targets: Key word understanding, attention and listening, working memory, basic concepts (colour, pattern, shape, size, etc.) expressive and receptive language skills.
Suitable for: Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN, EAL
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This pack includes four seasons sorting boards and three sets of cards to enable the teaching of seasons and months of the year as a step by step process, beginning with a high level of support and gradually taking away visual prompts. Each season has three associated month cards, and backgrounds in different shades of the same colour. Winter – Blue Spring – Green Summer – Red Autumn – Orange- Set One cards have season coloured backgrounds and pictures depicting events, activities and weathers for each month.
- Set Two cards have season coloured backgrounds with written months
- Set Three cards have season coloured borders with written months
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When? Cause and Effect pack includes: 30 ‘When?’ cause and effect questions and 36 possible answer cards. Targets: Receptive and expressive language, vocabulary building, understanding and production of ‘what?’ questions. Sentence planning, ideation, and visual and auditory processing skills. The resource also builds upon categorisation skills and creating semantic links and understanding and expressing function. Written in British English Suitable for : Reception, KEY STAGE 1, SEN, and EAL -
The What's Wrong? - Picture and Activity Pack includes a colour, and black and white image and a set of work sheets to help children work out what's normal and not so normal. I've included: 9 worksheets with opportunities to express why something isn't quite right and how it could be changed to make it right. 8 worksheets of new pictures showing something quite normal where children have to use their creativity and imagination to make it not quite right. Targets: Attention and focus, expressive language and higher level language skills, ideation and creativity. -
This set is perfect for working on making inferences and forming judgements, justifying, problem solving and general higher level language skills. Each set contains 10 picture scenes, and 10 black and white worksheets to colour in and 'make it right'. Suitable for Pre-school, Reception, KS1, SEN, EAL and some adult populations. -
58 questions and picture cards to target ‘who’. Uses pictures of people in the community (strictly speaking, the tooth fairy, Father Christmas, aliens and astronauts aren't in every community, but you know what I mean...) Written in British English. Suitable for: Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN and EAL -
This set targets one of the first stages of learning to answer 'why' questions, focusing on what is currently happening. The pack contains 30 easy 'why...because' questions. I've made a simple 'why' question card with a written question e.g. 'Why is the dog barking?' with a blank background, and the corresponding answer cards provides an obvious answer with full background picture. Suitable for Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN and EAL Written in British English but suitable for US populations too -
The Top Spot is a game that can be played in one to one sessions and in groups. The aim of the game is for the players to think of the most commonly suggested answer to a question. 36 question cards and instructions included (a bit like a famous TV family based quiz show). Targets: categorisation skills, auditory processing, turn taking, attention and listening, reasoning skills, team working, negotiation, using expressive language to predict and explain logic. Can also be played just for fun!! Written in British English. Suitable for Key Stage 2, secondary and adult -
The Weather set is a sorting activity targeting categorisation skills, receptive and expressive language. It could also be used to target negation. This set includes:•2 sorting boards - one with visual support and one without•18 images of weatherThis pack can be combined with other categorisation packs, available on my website. Written in British English. Suitable for Early years, Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN, and EAL. -
The Musical Instruments set is a sorting activity targeting categorisation skills, receptive and expressive language. It could also be used to target negation. This set includes:•2 sorting boards - one with visual support and one without•18 Instrument imagesThis pack can be combined with other categorisation packs, available on my website. Written in British English Suitable for Early years, Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN, and EAL -
The Garden set is a sorting activity targeting categorisation skills, receptive and expressive language. It could also be used to target negation. This set includes:•2 sorting boards - one with visual support and one without•34 images of things found in the garden.This pack can be combined with other categorisation packs, available on my website. Written in British English Suitable for Early years, Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN, and EAL -
The Farm set is a sorting activity targeting categorisation skills, receptive and expressive language. It could also be used to target negation. This set includes:•2 sorting boards – one with visual support and one without•52 images of farm related items.This pack can be combined with other categorisation packs, available on my website. Written in British English Suitable for Early years, Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN, and EAL -
The Pets set is a sorting activity targeting categorisation skills, receptive and expressive language. It could also be used to target negation. This set includes:•2 sorting boards – one with visual support and one without•21 images of petsThis pack can be combined with other categorisation packs, available on my website. Written in British English Suitable for Early years, Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN, and EAL -
The Body Parts set is a sorting activity targeting categorisation skills, receptive and expressive language. It could also be used to target negation. This set includes:•2 sorting boards – one with visual support and one without•19 images of things associated with space.This pack can be combined with other categorisation packs, available on my website. Written in British English Suitable for Early years, Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN, and EAL -
The Where We Work set set is a sorting activity targeting categorisation skills, receptive and expressive language. It could also be used to target negation. This set includes:•2 sorting boards – one with visual support and one without•34 images of buildings that we work in.This pack can be combined with other categorisation packs, available on my website. (Please note that there may be a cross over with other sets such as 'where we buy things') Written in British English Suitable for Early years, Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN, and EAL -
The Where We Work set set is a sorting activity targeting categorisation skills, receptive and expressive language. It could also be used to target negation. This set includes:•2 sorting boards – one with visual support and one without•16 images of buildings that we could live in.This pack can be combined with other categorisation packs, available on my website. Written in British English Suitable for Early years, Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN, and EAL -
The Regular Verbs -/ɪd/ Allomorph card set includes: 30 verbs in total 3 sets of all verbs – 90 cards in total Set 1: single pictures Set 2: pictures with words (unmarked for tense) Set 3: words Use to target: receptive and expressive language. Can be used to support understanding of past and present verb endings and can accompany Colourful Semantics sentence construction activities among many other activities. Suitable for Early years, Reception, Key Stage 1, EAL and SEN -
The Regular Verbs -/d/ Allomorph card set includes: 60 verbs in total 3 sets of all verbs – 180 cards in total Set 1: single pictures Set 2: pictures with words (unmarked for tense) Set 3: words Use to target: receptive and expressive language. Can be used to support understanding of past and present verb endings and can accompany Colourful Semantics sentence construction activities among many other activities. Suitable for Early years, Reception, Key Stage 1, EAL and SEN -
The Preposition ‘in’ and ‘on’ set includes 48 picture cards depicting character and objects in the ‘in front’ and ‘behind’ position. I’ve also included sorting boards and cue cards. Suitable for Early Years, Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN and EAL. -
The Preposition ‘through’ set includes 15 picture cards showing characters and objects demonstrating 'through'. I’ve also included sorting boards and cue cards. Suitable for Early Years, Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN and EAL -
A huge bundle of all the sound loaded scenes! 42 black and white scenes in total. Targeting speech sounds in single words, phrases and sentences. Sentence construction, expressive and expressive language. These scenes are also great for barrier games and prepositions. -
The Pronoun Picnic game includes pictures of two male and two female characters, three pictures of pairs of characters and 48 picnic items to work on understanding and production of pronouns.It can be used to target 'he, she, him, her, his, hers, they, them, theirs' but it can also target so many other areas: descriptive language; following instructions; auditory processing. You could even use it as a barrier game.I've also added a selection of different coloured plates, drinks, cakes etc. meaning this set can also be used to target key word understanding.Written in British English. Suitable for: Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN and EAL -
‘Have you seen my dog?’ is a deduction activity which can be used to target deduction, inferencing skills, key word understanding, attention and listening, receptive and expressive language, and working memory. This pack contains:- 1 large scene filled with dogs
- 5 question cards showing owners describing their dogs
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This pack contains:- 10 ‘Which unicorn is/does/can not…’ question worksheets
- 5 negation sorting boards
- 10 unicorn cards for making up your own questions
- 20 symbol cards
- Activity ideas
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Helping children to understand abstract language using Blank Levels of Questioning is a 51 page document containing 8 picture scenarios and question ideas formed around the Blank Model. To ensure you can use this pack flexibly I’ve given you options to use informally with just a list of questions, or more formally with a recording sheet so that you can record your observations and data. I’ve also included colour coded question cards so that you can play a game in a group. Written in British English Suitable for Pre-school, Reception, Key Stage 1 EAL, SEN. -
There are 29 mice running loose in the kitchen! Can you find them? Targets prepositions - in, on, behind, under, into. Colour, and black and white version included. -
This is a lovely, bumper pack targeting 'first, second, third and last'. It has 57 pages supporting the teaching of the concepts, and worksheets, and visual prompts to help carryover. Each concept is dealt with individually. It supports the subtests ‘Basic Concepts’ and 'Concepts and Following Directions' targeted in the Pre-School CELF. Other concepts are available on my website. Written in British English but suitable for American English too. A fun and interactive activity pack suitable for Reception, Key Stage 1, SEN, and EAL -
The When? Seasons set is a sorting activity focusing on the early stages of the meaning and the use of 'when'. The set contains 48 questions based around the events of the the four seasons and four sorting boards. Written in British English. Suitable for Reception, Key Stage 1, EAL and SEN. -
I've created this pack as a go to set for teachers, support staff, Speech and Language Therapists and parents. I've included packs to support the areas of language that are assessed in the language screens that are commonly completed in the first few weeks of the new academic year. All of the activities are developmentally appropriate for children in Reception. This set includes 17 packs supporting: when and why questions, comparatives and superlatives, prepositions, categorisation, pronouns, before and after, and first, second, and last. All 17 sets would usually sell at £55 -
'They Are..' is a 29 page set of activities and prompts targeting 'they are' and its contrast '... is'. Plenty to keep you going and supports the generalisation of the 'little' words that are sometimes so hard to master. Suitable for Reception, Key Stage 1, EAL and SEN Written in British English, but great for American English too! -
Helping children to understand abstract language using Blank Levels of Questioning is a 15 page document containing 4 sequencing scenarios and question ideas formed around the Blank Model.- Stuck on the roof (5 pictures)
- Holiday Chaos (6 pictures)
- Runaway Donkey (5 pictures)
- Serendipity (4 pictures)
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Using Colourful Semantics and some elements of Shape coding, this game of Guess Who works on forming closed questions 'Is it...?' and 'Does it have ...?' I've added word cards and sentence prompts to help support children who find this concept tricky.
