Colourful Semantics Baseline Assessment

Our Colourful Semantics Baseline Assessment pack provides structured scoring forms, picture stimuli and guidance for assessing sentence building skills.

What You’ll Find in the Baseline Pack

• Next-step planning tips
• Scoring form & blank sheet
• Assessment picture stimuli
• Detailed user guidance

Why Use This Baseline Assessment?

• Establish a clear starting point before intervention
• Monitor progress across sentence structure skill levels
• Guide lesson planning with informed next steps
• Suitable for classrooms, small groups, and one-to-one therapy

Benefits of Using This Assessment

• Structured scoring to compare progress over time
• Easy to administer in class or therapy settings
• Guides next-step planning with clear prompts
• Works alongside intervention resources

Why Colourful Semantics Matters

Colourful Semantics is an evidence-based language intervention approach that uses colour coding to show sentence structure. It helps learners understand and produce grammar more clearly. It supports vocabulary growth and spoken sentence building across ages and abilities.

This is an informal baseline assessment to give you a starting point for intervention. It can also be used for monitoring progress.

What is included in your pack?

• Note to user
• Who is it for?
• What do you need?
• How do you use it?

The pack includes guidance on who the baseline assessment is for, what you need, how to undertake the assessment, question prompts and target responses. This is a non-editable / non-printable document.

Watch this video with one of our therapists demonstrating the Baseline Assessment. The trainer talks your through the scoring and planning of lessons. Please Note: this is not a colourful semantics training session but a support video to help you use the informal assessment tool.

This shows the comparisons between the CS assessment and the EYFS/KS1 curriculum statements as well as an example of an F2 speaking intervention and using the EYFS Development Matters statements to assess the progress made.

We commissioned a fantastic artist to create our illustrations which we are sure will be loved by all!

PLEASE NOTE SOME ASPECTS OF THE PACK ARE NOT PRINTABLE: The download is a ZIP file which includes the instructions together on one document with the scoring form and images. The blank scoring form and the set of images are also supplied in the ZIP file as separate documents. The images files is non-editable / non-printable and should be presented to the client via a tablet / laptop or communication aid device. The blank scoring sheet allows you to input the client’s answers on each section directly on to the document which can also be printed.

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Please note: the pack will download as a Zip file – we recommend you download on to a PC as it may not download correctly via an iPad / phone. Please check your Spam / Junk folder for the email with download instructions which will timeout after 48 hours.

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