Semantic skills – Can You Get Home?

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This is one of a series of resources devised by Felicity Durham, a specialist speech and language therapist, and developed by Helen Rippon. Felicity identified the need for attractive, simple activities in a game format, to develop semantic skills, problem solving, verbal reasoning, turn taking & attention & listening skills. Additional targets include vocabulary enrichment and use of prepositions.

A  fun set of games and activities  help develop these semantic skills by encouraging discussion on how to cross a range of barriers in order to “get home”. The activities continue to build on new vocabulary and sentence structure and provide opportunities for the children to participate in verbal reasoning tasks and to use descriptive and imaginative language

Suitable for small group & one-to-one settings for children aged 4yrs – 7yrs.

For more information see below.

 

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This fun pack, with colourful illustrations, includes a wide range of activities to develop semantic skills:

  • travelling through many different kinds of places (seaside, desert and so on) and finding the right kind of transport to do so (for example, motorbike, helicopter,skateboard, hot air balloon)
  • asking each child to describe in detail a journey they regularly make, for example, to school, to visit their grandparents, or to their local shops and to draw a ‘map’ of their journey.
  • describing an imaginary journey to a dinosaur island or an alien planet and to discuss who might live there, what the animals would be like, what it would be like to travel across the place, what kind of vehicles there might be, and what kind of animals they ride on.

The activities continue to build on new vocabulary and sentence structure and provide opportunities for the children to participate in verbal reasoning tasks and to use descriptive and imaginative language. As the games develop, children are encouraged to make more imaginative decisions. For example, a horse has long legs and can swim, so you could choose him to get you across a river or a hot-air balloon goes really high in the sky, so it could actually take you into space.

Full instructions are provided, along with suggestions for extension work to develop semantic skills. Suitable for small group work & one-to-one settings.

Age Range: 4yrs. – 7yrs : Early Years – KS1.

Format: 5 pages of instructions, 4 colour activity pages and equivalent B&W picture pages.

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Development Age

3 to 5 years, 5 to 7 years

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