Colourful Semantics: Food & Shopping Pack

A practical, ready-to-use EYFS & KS1 resource designed to support sentence building, vocabulary development and Oracy through a familiar real-life context: shopping.

Using the Colourful Semantics approach, children build sentences step-by-step:
Who → Doing → What → Where

What’s included:
“Who?” character cards (diverse, child-friendly illustrations)
“Doing?” verb cards (buying, will buy, bought, shop)
“What?” food vocabulary cards (e.g. fruit, vegetables, snacks, cupboard items)
Pre-made shopping list cards with “I need…” sentence starters
Colour-coded sentence strips (Who / Doing / What / Where)
Blank boards for building and recording sentences
Simple game boards for interactive learning
Clear progression visual

Editable PowerPoint slides to teach the grammar rules behind using commas in a list.

Ways to use:
Build and say simple sentences: “I need apples”
Extend to full sentences: “The boy is buying apples at the shop”
Create and read shopping lists
Play memory and matching games
Use as a writing prompt (including commas in lists)
Link to real-life experiences and role play

Perfect for:
Nursery & Reception speech and language support
KS1 writing and language development
SEND & speech and language intervention
Continuous provision (home corner / role play / small world)

Supports children to develop vocabulary, sentence structure and confidence in speaking through meaningful, engaging contexts.

Please consider alternatives to laminating (e.g. plastic wallets or reusable sleeves).