These resources help education settings support pupils with talking, understanding others and joining in. They include easy-to-use tools for learning new words, having conversations and using signs or pictures to communicate.
Most resources in this section are found on the following websites:
- TES - provides free and paid teaching resources, lesson plans, and classroom tools to help schools support learning and teaching.
- Elsa-Support – offers free and low-cost resources to help pupils’ emotional wellbeing. ELSA stands for Emotional Literacy Support Assistant.
Sentence structure and language development
TES colourful semantics resources use colour-coding to help pupils understand sentence structure and develop their language skills:
- Colourful semantics board
- Colourful semantics sentence board
- Colourful semantics question prompts
- Editable colourful semantics worksheets
- Colourful semantics mat
- Colourful semantics speech prompts
Conversation and social interaction
Games, prompts, and activities to help pupils have conversations, build confidence and develop social communication skills:
Getting to know you and personal sharing
- Elsa-Support - All about me rainbow craft
- Elsa-Support – Pre-school ‘Getting to Know You’ booklet
- Elsa-Support - Great to meet you
- Elsa-Support - Interesting things to share and ask – transition activity
- TES - All about me board game for SEN
Conversation starters and sentence building
- Elsa-Support - Conversation dice
- Elsa-Support - Question cards for friends
- Elsa-Support - Teen conversation starters
- Elsa-Support - Tell a story
- TES – Autism and reluctant speaker cards
- TES - Conversation starter questions
- TES - Scenes to start conversations
- TES – SEN English lesson: conversation starters
- TES - Talking cards
Visual communication
British Sign Language (BSL) resources
Makaton and visual aids
General support and therapy resources