Description
Colourful Semantics WHERE Pack | Level 4
Help learners understand and communicate WHERE an action is happening with this practical Level 4 Colourful Semantics teaching pack.
The WHERE layer adds location and context to a message. It can be introduced once a learner has some understanding of WHAT DOING and does not always need to wait until they are confidently using the WHAT layer.
For example:
The girl → is reading → in the library.
As learners develop their understanding, WHERE can also be added to a fuller sentence:
The girl → is reading → a book → in the library.
The focus is on helping learners connect an action with a meaningful location through real experiences, familiar places and visual support.
What’s Included?
This printable resource includes teaching guidance, WHERE visual supports, location resources and structured sentence-building activities.
The resources are designed to help learners move from real experiences and familiar locations towards photographs, symbols and more structured activities.
How Can You Use It?
Start with places that learners know and experience as part of their everyday lives. Talk about where activities are happening, model the language naturally and give learners opportunities to experience different locations before moving towards picture-based sentence building.
The teaching guidance supports a gradual approach from adult modelling through choices, sentence completion and open questions towards more independent communication.
Learners can communicate WHERE through speech, AAC, signing, gesture, pointing, photographs, symbols or another communication method.
The aim is to help learners connect the action with where it is happening and gradually build more detailed messages.
Building the Sentence
WHERE can be added to a sentence the learner already understands:
WHO + WHAT DOING + WHERE
The girl + is reading + in the library.
It can then be added to a fuller four-part sentence:
WHO + WHAT DOING + WHAT + WHERE
The girl + is reading + a book + in the library.
Who Is It For?
This resource is suitable for SEN and SEND teachers, teaching assistants, Speech and Language Therapists, Early Years practitioners, autism specialist settings and primary classrooms supporting autistic and neurodiverse learners.
It can be used for individual teaching, small-group language sessions, classroom activities and speech and language therapy.
Created by Alison Garza, Specialist Teacher and founder of Elevating Neurodiversity, drawing on almost 20 years in education and specialist experience supporting autistic learners.
Want all four Colourful Semantics levels in one place?
The complete Colourful Semantics Bundle includes WHO, WHAT DOING, WHAT and WHERE, giving you the full set of teaching resources at a saving of £6.
