All-Except, Concepts in Pictures

It is recommended that, when a new concept is introduced, a ‘hands on’, concrete approach should always be the initial teaching method. However, some children will require a higher level of repetition and reinforcement. Our colourful Concept in Pictures All-Except pack provides these additional activities and can be used in one to one, or small group settings with children of a wide ability range. They are suitable to be used by speech and language therapists and teaching staff and, because each activity is accompanied by clear instructions, they are also ideal for home programmes of work.

Formal research and anecdotal evidence clearly indicates that increasing numbers of children are entering Foundation Stage with poor language skills. (The Cost to the Nation of Children’s Poor Communication’ ICAN Hartshorne 2006.)Therefore, many speech and language therapists and teachers are having to provide specific interventions and focused support to address this issue.

The Concepts in Pictures series provides packs of worksheets which explicitly teach a wide range of concepts important for language development, as knowledge of concepts is essential for a child to be able to understand routines, follow instructions, learn new vocabulary and support literacy and numeracy skills.

Contents

The All-Except pack worksheets and exercises include:

• Finding games – for example, can you pick up all the balloons … except the yellow ones
• Barrier games for use in a one-to one or a group session to check comprehension and encourage use of ‘all’ and ‘except’.
• All-except pictures – for example, do all the dinosaurs have long necks? Are all the children playing football?
• All-except odd one out
• Meet Mickey Monster in our All-except story

Age Range: Foundation Stage – KS 1+, 4years – 7years+

Format: PDF file, 3 pages of introduction and instructions 17 pages of colour pictures and 1 colouring page with black and white duplicates. Available as a download.

Related Products:  All other concept packs

Snippets: Upgrade your account to send specially selected extracts of this resource, via our website, to parents and carers for homework exercises. The snippets for this resource include colour worksheets and the following:

• Practice the concepts of all and except, by finding out whether all the children have an ice cream or is it all of them except…?
• A series of activities to help the child understand all/except. This includes the ‘finding game’ (for example, ‘find all the cars, except the red ones’).