What is Colourful Semantics?

This is a technique which uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence, and how to join them together in the correct order.

Why we use Colourful Semantics

• Encourages wider vocabulary
• Makes sentences longer
• Helps answer questions or generate responses to questions
• Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives
• Improves story telling skills
• Develops children’s reading skills
• Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
• Can be carried out individually or in small groups
• Encourages independence during lessons

The Colourful Semantics programme

Each stage in the Colourful Semantic programme starts with a different stage. This increases are children’s sentence skills and structure as they progress through the programme.

Orange-Who?

Yellow-What Doing?

Green-What?

Blue-Where?

Brown-When?

White-Tell me more?