Colorful Semantics Boards

Colorful Semantics is a Speech and Language therapy technique which uses color coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence,and how to join them together in the correct order. Colorful semantics breaks down sentences into their thematic roles and then color codes them to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence,and how to join them together in the correct order. The approach initially has 4 key color codes: subject is orange, verb is yellow, object is green and place is blue. As children progress in their understanding there are further stages for adverbs, adjectives and time.

Colorful semantics is perfect for use with young children learning correct sentence formation or in specialist settings with children with special educational needs. This resource can be used as a learning aid during whole class literacy or on a small group or 1:1 basis.

This resource is 4 boards that children can use to select their choice of cards from for each section of the sentence. You can laminate the resource and use velcro to make it reusable and easy for the children to select which card they need.

4 Boards and a selection of 395 cards showing ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘what doing’.

Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator