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What to Expect

A Typical Full-Day Course

Our full-day Colourful Semantics course combines theoretical understanding, practical learning and implementation strategies to help you apply the approach confidently in your setting.

9.00am–3.00pm Full-day training
1

Understanding the Approach

  • What is Colourful Semantics?
  • Where does it come from?
  • Theoretical underpinning
2

Learning the Basics

  • Learning and practising the basics
  • Introduction to Core Level
3

Core Level Application

  • Applying the Core Level
  • Developing practical confidence
4

Broad and Narrow Levels

  • Broad Level application
  • Narrow Level application
  • Planning your next steps
5

Classroom Implementation

  • Whole-class implementation strategies
  • Embedding the approach consistently
Understanding the Approach

What Is Colourful Semantics?

Colourful Semantics is a speech and language therapy intervention that uses colour coding to break down the different parts of a sentence and make their meaning more visible.

Children work through the Colourful Semantics programme to develop their ability to create sentences. The approach begins with sorting and recognising colours before progressing towards an understanding of the different parts that make up a sentence.

The overall aim is to support children to produce sentences that are both grammatically correct and informative.

Colourful Semantics can support:

✓ Spoken sentence development
✓ Answering WH questions
✓ Use of nouns, verbs and prepositions
✓ Use of adjectives
✓ Storytelling skills
✓ Written sentence development
✓ Language comprehension
✓ Grammatical understanding
Building a Sentence

The Four Key Levels

The initial levels use four colour-coded questions to help children understand who is involved, what is happening, what is affected and where the action takes place.

Level 1 · Orange

Who?

The dog

Identifies the subject of the sentence.

Level 2 · Yellow

What Doing?

Is playing with

Identifies the verb or action.

Level 3 · Green

What?

The ball

Identifies the object of the sentence.

Level 4 · Blue

Where?

In the garden

Identifies the location.

Colourful Semantics Resources

Explore our range of downloadable resources created to accompany Colourful Semantics training and support practical implementation.

Our resources have been designed by our team of Speech and Language Therapists, with many organised around popular topics and curriculum themes used throughout the school year.

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Bring Colourful Semantics into Your School

ITS can place a therapist trained in Colourful Semantics within your school to establish whole-class approaches, small-group programmes and individual support.

We also offer remote support sessions to help schools create programmes and resources, implement targets and establish measurable goals.

On-site training is also available for teachers and teaching assistants who want to use Colourful Semantics confidently and consistently.

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Who can attend our Colourful Semantics Training Courses?

The main course is open to SENCos / Teachers / Teaching Assistants / Speech and Language Therapists – we are planning to run parent courses shortly

Terms & Conditions

  1. In booking a space all delegates agree to provide a minimum of 30 days notice of cancellation and acknowledge they will not be refunded their booking fee should notice not be received, a replacement delegate / colleague can be sent on the day should you not be able to attend.
  2. Your place will only be confirmed once ITS receives payment, if you elect to pay by invoice your space will be held until the due date of the invoice (7 days from receipt) – if payment is not made within the 7days your space may be released for sale.
  3. Joining instructions, including directions to the venue, will be emailed to you one or two weeks before the course commences. This will contain details of how to get to the venue and an up to date agenda.