Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book Bumper Picture Pack NO BOOK

Picture Resources: Snap cards with question cards + single pictures of 8 toys + location cards of a red and blue chair and table + 32 picture instruction cards + Story Sequencing Baseboard strips with 16 matching pictures + Colourful Semantics baseboard with 42 matching colour-coded pictures.

This pack was designed to be used with “Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book” but the activities can be used without the book as well.

There are 2 sets of 8 Snap cards with 6 ‘Who’ question cards for guessing games. These cards show 8 of the characters named in the story.

There are 6 toys attached to a baseboard with Velcro ( a big and little pirate, knight, dragon and ghost), and 4 location cards (A5 size, backed in card) of a red chair, a blue chair, a red table and a blue table, with Velcro to indicate ON and UNDER. There are 32 picture instructions showing the 8 toys in different positions.

There is also an advice sheet to support using these games with children.

These resources are designed to support understanding and use of words for size, position and place, up to the 5 word level e.g. ‘put the BIG GHOST UNDER the RED CHAIR’, ‘put the LITTLE PIRATE ON the BLUE CHAIR’ etc.

All the above picture resources are laminated in non-reflective Matt plastic, and fit into an A5 bag labelled with a brown parcel tag.

The Story Sequencing Baseboard is 4 strips of 4 pictures, backed with card and attached with treasury tags so it can be folded. It comes with 16 matching single pictures.

The Colourful Semantics Baseboard is A4 size and has a box for placement of 1 of the story pictures, and a colour-coded 4-part sentence strip underneath with the appropriate prompt questions: subject(orange ‘Who?) - verb (yellow -‘What doing?’- object (green - ‘What?’) and place (blue -‘Where?’). There are 42 colour-coded pictures to place onto these strips: 13 x subjects, 8 x verbs, 7 x objects and 14 x places.

These resources are designed to support children to sequence the events of a story, and to make 4 word sentences to describe each stage of the story.

All the colours are taken from the most recent and widely-used ‘Colourful Semantics’ theory.

All the picture resources and the book fit into an A4 size bag, labelled with a brown parcel tag.