See and Learn Sentences 1 vs Shape Coding

See and Learn Sentences 1 provides resources and activities to teach children to use words to make simple sentences. It includes everything you need to implement a program for teaching early language and literacy skills. See and Learn Sentences 1 includes a series of graded reading books illustrating new vocabulary in a variety of sentences. It provides matching, selecting and naming activities to teach and test your child’s understanding of new vocabulary, sight words and sentences. A sentence building activity is also included to teach your child to put words in the correct order to make sentences. See and Learn Sentences 1 teaches: • a vocabulary of 174 words and sight words, including nouns, adjectives, verbs and prepositions, selected from the words commonly learned at this stage of development • 277 sentences in 25 reading books, using the taught vocabulary and sight words with frequent repetition of individual words and sentence structures • carrier phrases, including "I am…", "I like…", "Here is…", "Look at" and "This is…" • three-keyword sentence structures, including agent-action-object • early grammar rules, including plural -s, plural is/are, personal pronouns (he/she/they/I) See and Learn Sentences 1 features: • pre-selected vocabulary that is developmentally appropriate for children at this stage of language development • 25 carefully structured short books that are taught in sequence to introduce new vocabulary and grammar and to rehearse and consolidate vocabulary and grammar previously taught • 10 teaching activities: Reading Books, Matching Pictures, Selecting Pictures, Naming Pictures, Matching, Sight Words, Selecting Sight Words, Reading Sight Words, Understanding Sight Words, Understanding Sentences, Building Sentences • 433 bright, clear photographs showing natural and realistic representations of new vocabulary and sentences • simple design to avoid distraction and focus attention on the learning tasks • a teaching program that advances in small steps and offers lots of opportunities for practice and consolidation • a detailed guide with step-by-step instructions • record forms that can be printed to track your child’s progress and plan the teaching activities • resources for teaching in any English dialect (optional spoken prompts are included with UK and US accents) See and Learn Sentences 1 supports parents and educators to adopt an evidence-based approach to teaching vocabulary and sight words, simple sentences and early grammar rules. It is designed to meet the needs of children with Down syndrome and children with similar learning difficulties (language delay, working memory impairments and verbal processing difficulties). To accommodate working memory and verbal processing difficulties, language is given visual representations through photographs, written words and sentences. This can help your child by enabling them to see how words can be combined to express meanings without necessarily having to hold all the verbal representations of the words in their mind at once. See and Learn Sentences 1 is designed and supported by internationally recognized experts. The teaching approaches are consistent with the current scientific understanding of the developmental and learning needs of children with Down syndrome and children with similar learning difficulties. See and Learn Sentences 1 is suitable for children who: • understand at least 150 words • can say or sign at least 60 of the words that they understand • use some two keyword phrases when talking (or signing) Children who have completed the activities in See and Learn Vocabulary 1, 2 and 3 and in See and Learn Phrases 1, 2 and 3 will be ready to start the activities in See and Learn Sentences 1. For further advice, guidance and support, please visit our web site.

Please try the free Lite version before purchase to ensure all functionality will work on your device. SHAPE CODING® by Susan Ebbels is a flexible app designed for teachers and speech and language therapists / pathologists to use with children and young people who are having difficulties producing and understanding English sentence structure and grammar. It uses the SHAPE CODING® system which has been shown in several research projects to help children and young people with language disorders increase the length and complexity of sentences they can understand and use and to improve the accuracy of their sentence production. The SHAPE CODING® system uses a visual coding system to show the rules for how words are put together in sentences, to develop the child’s understanding of spoken and written grammar and to develop their ability to use grammar successfully to express themselves. The system includes use of colours (word classes), arrows (tense and aspect), lines (singular and plural) and shapes (syntactic structure). These are all included in the app, but the professional controlling the app can choose which features display for individual students. Multiple “teachers” can use the app and each “teacher” can have multiple students. The app is personalised for each student. The app is designed to be flexible so that professionals can adapt the levels and information displayed to suit the current levels and targets of individual students. The default first setting for each new student includes only basic sentence structures. Further complexity can be turned on (and off) by the “teacher” and individual settings are preserved for each student between uses. The app is equipped with a basic set of words which can be inserted into the shapes to make sentences. However, additional words can be added for individual students, or indeed for all students working with a particular “teacher” (this can be useful for names and topics which are common across a class of students for example). These can either be added before a session with a student, or during a session and can be saved for future use if desired. The app uses text-to-speech, so that students who struggle to read can also use the app. This app assumes a certain degree of familiarity with the SHAPE CODING® system. For more information see www.shapecoding.com. Training on how to use the SHAPE CODING® system is available from https://training.moorhouseinstitute.co.uk/. For a demonstration of some of the features of the app see https://shapecoding.com/demo-videos/, and for Frequently Asked Questions see: https://shapecoding.com/app-info/faqs/. Follow us on Twitter @ShapeCoding, Facebook @ShapeCoding and Instagram @shape_coding or if you have any problems or feedback, please contact us at training@moorhouseschool.co.uk Please review our privacy policy https://shapecoding.com/privacy-policy-apple/