What is Colourful Semantics?
- Colourful Semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan, a Speech and Language Therapist based in the UK.
- It is a method of teaching children how to understand and build sentences.
- It is aimed at helping children to develop their grammar, but it is rooted in the meaning of words (semantics).
- In Colourful Semantics, sentences are cut up into their thematic roles and these are colour coded:
- Who (Subject) – Orange
- What doing (Verb) – Yellow
- What (Object) – Green
- Where – Blue
