Colourful Semantics

Name: Colourful Semantics
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367210502
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A Resource for Developing Children’s Spoken and Written Language Skills

By NHS Forth Valley

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Purchasers of this book can access additional online resources at www.routledge.com/cw/speechmark

This comprehensive resource pack, developed with education staff and based on Alison Bryan’s original Colourful Semantics approach, offers a dynamic, visual method to support children’s language development by coding sentences with colours, symbols, and signs. It helps teach question words, develop vocabulary, increase sentence and verb complexity, and improve written language skills.

The pack includes a printed book with session plans, vocabulary cards, and worksheets, alongside online versions featuring different colour coding systems. Suitable for children aged four to nine, it can be adapted for individuals, small groups, or whole classes.
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This resource is ideal for teachers, Speech and Language Therapists, and other professionals working with children aged four to nine who seek effective, adaptable tools to enhance language development in individuals and groups.

This pack draws on the principles of Alison Bryan’s Colourful Semantics approach to provide professionals with an engaging, dynamic way to support language development. The printed book is accompanied by two online resources: one using the current colour coding system, and one using the system used by NHS Forth Valley therapists.

Description

Purchasers of this book can access additional online resources at www.routledge.com/cw/speechmark

This comprehensive resource pack, developed in conjunction with education staff, draws on the principles of Alison Bryan’s original Colourful Semantics approach to provide professionals with an engaging, dynamic way to support children’s language development. By coding sentences using colour, symbols and signs, this visual approach aims to:

Teach understanding of question words
Develop vocabulary and increase sentence complexity
Increase range and complexity of verbs (children with delayed or disordered spoken language skills often overuse simple verbs such as do, go or get)
Improve children’s written language skills

This practical resource consists of three parts: a printed book containing ready-made session plan ideas, black and white vocabulary cards and worksheets; an online version using the current Colourful Semantics colour coding system, and an online version using the colour coding system used by Speech and Language Therapists from NHS Forth Valley.

This is an essential pack for teachers and professionals looking to work on language development with children aged four to nine. The flexible session plans can be used with individuals, small groups and whole classes, and can be easily adapted by Speech and Language Therapists, teachers and other practitioners.

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"Colourful Semantics is a highly valued approach to developing children's language skills. This resource pack notably saves preparation time by providing all materials and step-by-step session plans, easily adaptable for varying ages and abilities. It is especially useful for busy practitioners." - Alexis Doyle, Child Language Teaching and Therapy

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367210502

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 June 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 3 Tables, color; 970 Line drawings, color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 810g

Pages: 264

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Education & Reference NHS Forth Valley Non-Fiction

About the Author

NHS Forth Valley would like to thank the following members of staff for their hard work and dedication in the design and development of this pack; Anna Blackburn, Glenn Carter, Cara Chalmers, Katie Clark, Mary Coleman, Louise Illingworth, Jen Keating, Niamh Murphy, Ruth Kerr and Stephanie Wood. Forth Valley would also like to thank Alison Bryan for developing the original idea and for suggesting improvements to the pack. Thank you to all the many teachers from across Forth Valley who were instrumental in designing a pack that can be effectively used in the context of education.

NHS Forth Valley provides a large number of health services across Central Scotland including Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling. The Children’s Speech and Language Therapy team in Forth Valley are an innovative group of staff who understand the importance of transformational change, collaboration and compassionate, person centre care in order to improve outcomes for the children and young people they serve.