Colourful semantics activities

The Very Hungry Caterpillar book is just brilliant for so many reasons. Key phrases are repeated throughout, the lifecycle of a butterfly, ...

This post is an extension of the previous one about Colourful Semantics, a program that color codes different parts of speech in a sentence. I have just done up some Colourful Semantics dice to go …

Help children come up with simple sentences with these brilliant, colourful semantic cards. Easy to download and print, whenever you need them.

How does this resource excite and engage children's learning? Cut out the cards to practise making sentences with who, what doing, to what, where and when parts. The colours on the cards match those on the Question Words resources allowing them to be used together e.g., for students working on understanding answering and asking questions. This resource can be used in multiple ways to support word order, questions, etc.

Teaching elaboration in writing seems nearly impossible sometimes, as kids often take that to mean that you want them to describe every little detail. However, this engaging paper link activity helps kids understand what true elaboration means. Read all a

Learning with Legos: teach sentence structure with this simple sentence activity using Lego Duplo blocks; also work on parts of speech