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This multi-task resource, designed for children 6 years and upwards with language delay, specific language impairment and semantic/pragmatic disorder, targets the improvement of question formation, understanding idioms, homophones and discussing feelings.
The pack includes our trademark colourful and engaging illustrations.
The pack is ideal for small group work or one to one, to facilitate repetition, modelling and reinforcement.
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This Speech Bubbles resource aims to help improve question formation; help children understand idioms; discuss emotions; develop verbal reasoning skills and identify homophones. The Speech Bubbles pack consists of six pictures of familiar situations – the beach, the park, the playground, the classroom, the pet shop and the fast food restaurant – with four different scenarios on each picture. Full instructions are included for each of the related activities to be carried out with the picture.
Question formation
Many children have difficulty with question formation. This highly structured activity can be presented as a verbal/ written exercise or add role play to add extra meaning.
Understand Idioms
This section presents a wide variety of commonly used idioms and provides you with the opportunity to discuss the literal interpretation and the real meaning. For further work on this area, see ‘Idioms: People say the Funniest Things’
Discuss emotions
Children with limited language skills and those with pragmatic difficulties often have difficulty recognising and understanding other people’s emotions.
This pack provides the opportunity to discuss a wide range of emotions, from simple ones (‘It’s Usha’s birthday. How does she feel?’) to more complex feelings (Mrs Jones knows that she has to go to work but would rather stay in the park. How does she feel?)
Develop verbal reasoning skills
This area provides extensive questions that develop inferencing skills and deduction. There are also opportunities for the child to talk about their own experiences. For further work on this area see our other resources: Mr Goodguess and Explain, Predict, Imagine.
Identify homophones
Written exercises draw attention to the fact that some words sound the same as one another but they are written differently and they have different meanings. Full instructions are provided on the sheets that accompany the pictures.
Each person depicted in the pictures is shown with a speech bubble, which can be used for visual and written cues. You may wish to work through all of the targets for a particular picture, or you may wish to choose one particular target, for example, feelings, and then work through that section of each picture. It’s up to you! Instructions are provided for activities that address each area.
Age Range: 6yrs. – 11yrs. KS1/KS2. Particularly useful for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
Format: PDF file, 80 pages in total. Six full-page colour illustrations with 50 pages of related activities and instructions. Eight pages of (62) small idiom pictures. Black and white duplicates of all colour pictures are provided.
Snippet: Upgrade your account to send specially selected extracts of this resource, via our website, to parents and carers for homework exercises. The activities included in this snippet are designed to help improve question formation; help children understand idioms; discuss emotions; develop verbal reasoning skills and identify homophones. The pictured scenario included in the Snippet is: ‘In the Pet Shop’
5 to 7 years, 7 to 11 years