Rainbow Sentences

Tap the WHO card that matches the picture.

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A boy kicking a red ball in a sunny park

Your sentence

Who
Who— Who is in the picture?
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Tense progress

Based on the last 10 tries on the yellow "what doing" card.

PresentPractise next
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Past
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Future
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Suggested order: Present → Past → Future

For grown-ups: Rainbow Sentences uses the Colourful Semantics approach (Bryan, 1997) — a language therapy method that helps children build grammatical sentences by giving each part of the sentence its own colour.

🟠 Orange · Who

The person or animal doing the action. Ask: "Who is it?"

🟡 Yellow · What doing

The action (verb). Ask: "What are they doing?"

🟢 Green · What

The object the action happens to. Ask: "What?"

🔵 Blue · Where

The place the action happens. Ask: "Where?"

How to use it together

  1. Look at the picture and name the colours out loud together.
  2. Ask the colour question (Who? What doing? What? Where?) and tap the matching card.
  3. Read the finished sentence back, pointing to each colour as you go.
  4. Start with one colour at a time, then add more as confidence grows.

Colourful Semantics was developed by speech and language therapist Alison Bryan to support children with developmental language disorder, autism, and other language difficulties — but the visual, playful structure helps any child learning to build longer, clearer sentences.