Colorcards
About the Book Series
This bestselling series contains inspiring, professional materials designed to help develop both language and social skills. Uniquely created for use by professionals including speech and language therapists and educators, colorcardsยฎ are designed to support students of all ages and abilities.
Each box comes with an instruction booklet and flashcards which are designed to:
- Improve attention, language and observation skills, including listening, understanding, vocabulary, writing skills, expressive language, auditory memory, sequencing, turn-taking, classification, logical thought and problem solving
- Encourage and inspire visual and kinaesthetic learners
- Develop emotional literacy
- Create a five minute warmer or filler, or form the main part of a session
The images of real objects, people, situations and activities are chosen and photographed with great care to maximise the educational benefit for students from early years through mainstream education and special education, to adult learning and ESOL.
Listening Skills Outdoor Sounds: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
April 28, 2014
"Outdoor Sounds" is a sound and picture matching activity. It offers 40 cards and sounds to enhance language development. Arranged in four groups of ten, this set includes forty commonly heard sounds. New cards and sounds include: mobile phone, car alarm and skateboarding; animals & birds - bee...
Early Objects: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
March 05, 2014
These pocket sized sets of flashcards, comparable in size and quality to a good pack of playing cards - are designed to support teaching and therapeutic input in the clinic, school and home. To develop a naming vocabulary through play. Opens up many language opportunities with a variety of easily ...
How's Teddy?: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
November 13, 2013
These pocket sized sets of flashcards, comparable in size and quality to a good pack of playing cards - are designed to support teaching and therapeutic input in the clinic, school and home. It introduces feelings in a simple and lively way. There are 18 different attitudes, each illustrated on two...
Listening Skills Indoor Sounds: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
November 13, 2013
This title offers 40 cards and sounds to enhance language development. This Indoor Sounds matching activity includes ten sounds each witin four groups: human sounds - whistling, singing, snoring, laughing, yawning; everyday sounds - telephone, knocking, clock, bell, eating an apple; activity sounds...
Animals & Birds ColorLibrary: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
August 23, 2013
This title features 96 cards featuring a selection of living creatures from all over the world. Use these cards as a starting point for conversation or ask the user to sort them into their categories. The difficulty can be varied, for example, 'Point at the bird' or 'Which lays eggs?'. The ...
Sequences: Colorcards: 6 and 8- Step for Children
1st Edition
By Speechmark
January 23, 2013
This title features a more complex set including both 6 and 8-step sequences of a variety of activities photographed in both indoor and outdoor locations. These sequences provide excellent opportunities for more advanced language work including syntax, grammar, vocabulary and time concepts. Some ...
What's Inside?: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
November 06, 2012
One card of each pair shows the outside of a storage place or container, while the second card reveals the many and varied objects found inside. Designed to develop attention and concentrate skills, observation skills, comprehension, classification, expressive language and vocabulary, this set has ...
Everyday Objects: Colorcards: 2nd Edition
2nd Edition
By Speechmark
April 30, 2012
Everyday Objects, 2nd Edition, features fully updated new images for 2016. This set of professionally-photographed cards include objects found in both indoor and outdoor settings. The cards are arranged in categories, for example, food, household objects, personal items, clothes, outside objects. ...
Basic Sequences: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
February 24, 2012
This title offers 48 cards illustrating everyday activities in 3-step sequences. Use these three-step sequences to demonstrate simple sequentially related actions which will help establish basic concepts and encourage an understanding of order and direction. The set of 16 three-step sequences ...
Basic Verbs: Colorcards: 2nd Edition
2nd Edition
By Speechmark
March 28, 2011
Basic Verbs, 2nd Edition has been fully updated for 2016, featuring 48 professionally-photographed cards that illustrate frequently used verbs in simple settings. Each card can be selected to be used independently or grouped with others for use to encourage discussion and consideration ...
Emotions & Expressions: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Sioban Boyce
March 03, 2011
Emotions and Expressions Colorcards Understanding facial expressions. A comprehensive set of cards which provide an opportunity to explore through discussion the likely emotions and responses that are shown in faces and accompanying body language. This is particularly helpful for children who fail ...
Familiar Verbs: Colorcards: In Context
1st Edition
By Speechmark
March 29, 2010
The second of two verbs sets, the first being 'Basic Verbs'. These 48 cards show images of further frequently used and easily recognised verbs. Associated objects have been added to the images to give an idea of place and to encourage expressive language. Actions shown include empty (bucket), pour ...