Colorful Semantics - What Like, Who to, How and When Cards

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.

This set includes the black for ‘who to’ and ‘who with’, red for ‘what like’, purple for ‘how. and brown for ‘when’, this is to be used with children who have the basic concepts of sentence structure and are beginning to progress to more complex sentences.

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 5 sets of colour coded cards for what like, who to, who with, how and when. There are 332 cards in total. Children can use these cards to plan sentences either to then speak aloud or to write down.

Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator