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Blanks 3: What is it? Semantic feature analysis – describing objects by key attributes

$4.99 including GST

With a scripted introduction, a colourful scaffold, and 30 examples, this 43-page no-preparation pack is designed to give students plenty of structured practice describing common objects. Once completed, students can use the scaffold to describe any object, including curriculum specific nouns.

SKU: BLKS-7 Categories: Language Therapy Resources, Therapy Products Tags: Blanks 3, Describing objects, Semantic feature analysis
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In the early years of school, we want students to learn to look beyond what they see and to rework their experiences using language. One way to help children to this is to teach them to describe the information they see by reference to key attributes – the qualities or features regarded as characteristic or as inherent parts – of the things around them.

Semantic feature analysis – describing objects by key attributes – is an evidence-based strategy to learn new vocabulary and word meanings. It can deepen students’ understanding of words they already know. The strategy can also help children with word-finding or other language or learning difficulties, e.g. by giving them a way of describing what they mean when they can’t find the word.

This no-preparation pack is designed to help students of all abilities to learn the strategy of semantic feature analysis. To make it accessible to all students, we have chosen easily pictured objects from Odgen’s high frequency, functional Basic English Word List.

We have selected attributes that we have found clinically to be of the greatest use in describing, defining and understanding common objects, namely:

  • function (what you do with it, or what it does);
  • location (where you find it);
  • object parts (to help students to look closely at objects);
  • colour;
  • size; and
  • category/group (to stimulate semantic knowledge and associations between objects).

With a scripted introduction, a colourful scaffold, and 30 examples, this 43-page pack is designed to give students plenty of structured practice describing common objects. Once completed, students can use the scaffold to describe any object, including curriculum specific nouns.

For more information and free resources about vocabulary support and instruction, check out our article: How to help your school-age child learn new words: the nuts and bolts of how I actually do it therapy.

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