Colourful Semantics: The Three Billy Goats Gruff

A practical EYFS/KS1 resource to support sentence building, storytelling and oracy using the Colourful Semantics approach.

Children build sentences step-by-step using:
Who → Doing → What → Where

What’s included:
Colour-coded sentence strips
Progressive boards
“Who?” character cards (three goats + troll)
“Doing?” action cards (e.g. trip-trapping, eating, pushing, hiding, falling, shouting)
“What?” object cards (bridge, river, grass, meadow)
“Where?” positional/adverb cards (e.g. on the bridge, under the bridge, in the river)
Preposition cards (e.g. over, under, across, beneath)
Progression poster

Perfect for:
Nursery & Reception
KS1 intervention
SEND & speech and language support
Continuous provision & small world play