by Sadie Lewis

Semantic Steps is a series of activities that help children to remember and learn words.

Semantic Steps explores the meaning of words in terms of:

• Functions
• Locations
• Categories
• Parts
• Attributes

The resource is organised into two levels (steps) to meet the children with different needs and abilities.

The words are explored as the child plays one of five highly motivating dice games:

• Flying
• Seaside
• Car Race
• Ancient Egypt
• Outer Space

Once the supporting adult has learnt how to explore words through Semantic Steps, the same ideas can be used to help a pupil to learn about other new words that are introduced during lessons at school.