Colourful Semantics Starter Pack - updated!

Video lessons are now available on YouTube for this resource!

A complete starter pack to begin using colourful semantics in your classroom!

The pack covers stages 1-4 of the programme. A separate pack to teach stages 5-8 is available here.

This is an expanding pack. After downloading, you will be notified of any updates! The current update now includes past, present and future tense verbs.

Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently.

The video preview is an example of one of the ways I use the cards. Silly sentences gives children the opportunity to say lots of different sentences and practise using a/an are/is etc.

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 now contains the following:

36 who - noun/person cards

54 doing - verb cards (including past and present)

63 what - noun/object cards

18 where - noun/place cards