ColorCards Activities

Compact and practical, this handbook contains 101 teaching and therapy ideas for using ColorCards photographic cards to develop language skills.

• The activities are easy to set up, effective and highly motivating.
• They are written in an easy to read style. Many include word lists and tips.
• Organised into ten skill areas:
  • Attention
  • Listening
  • Understanding
  • Auditory memory
  • Sequencing
  • Turn-taking
  • Classification
  • Expression
  • Using language
  • Life skills.

Suitable for children or adults; in groups or for individual work. All the ideas are adaptable for specific therapy or teaching aims, and for different ages, interests and ability levels.

This hands-on manual gives further ideas for working with this versatile and fun resource, and will be invaluable for speech language therapists, teachers and early years professionals, special needs teachers, EFL/ESOL teachers, occupational therapists, psychologists and other professionals working with language. With guidance, the activities can also be used by classroom assistants, students and carers. 

All Ages