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Making semantic links is a vital skill in a child’s vocabulary development. This highly engaging selection of full colour word association illustrations and games is suitable for use in speech and language clinics, in the classroom and for home programmes too.
The bank of word association games and activities target the development of semantic linking skills and more logical and meaningful word retrieval.
Ideal for one-to-one and small group settings.
For more information see below:
‘Semantics’ refers to the meaning of words and phrases, and how a range of levels of meaning can be attached to a single word. Making these semantic links is an important part of vocabulary development.
This semantic links resource includes coloured photographic images of objects which can each be paired semantically – for example “hand/glove” or “knife/fork”. Advice is included to help when children are having problems selecting the correct association or explaining why pictures go together. Ideas are also included to vary the difficulty of each task. The pack contains an additional 30 pictures pairs of black and white line drawings.
Activites include:
The pack is suitable for children ages 3-7 and in early years/KS1. The pack includes activities pages and suggestions for use for therapists, teachers and parents alike.
The resources are also suitable for a range of other therapy and teaching targets, like verbal reasoning, introducing the conjunction ‘because’, sequencing, and signing practice.
Aims: To help children learn to recognise similarities and differences between common objects; to develop categorisation and early verbal reasoning skills: to understand semantic links.
Additional Targets: Vocabulary development; answering ‘Why’ questions; using conjunctions ‘and’ ‘because’; signing practice.
Age Range: 3yrs. – 7yrs. Early Years: KS1.
Snippet: Upgrade your account to send specially selected extracts of this resource, via our website, to parents and carers for homework exercises. Included with this snippet is the activity the ‘odd one out’ and four pages of picture cards.
3 to 5 years, 5 to 7 years
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