Cognition & Learning Toolkit

This toolkit provides information on how to support the needs of pupils with SEN/EHCPs in the classroom as part of a quality first teaching approach. Each section links to one of the four broad areas of need.

You will find:

Cognition & learning

• Categories of potential difficulty within that need.
-Memory
-Task Organisation, Maintenance and Completion Skills
-Concentration
-Transferring/Generalising Learning
-Time Management
-Self-Assessment Skills
-Information Processing
-Letter and/or Number Recognition and Recording
-Phonic Application
-Spelling:High Frequency Words and Phonetically Irregular Words
-Reading Accuracy
-Reading Comprehension
-Learning and Application of Number Facts
-Organising Ideas for Writing
-Developing Writing (Letter Formation)

• What that area of difficulty might look like in the classroom.
• Supportive quality first teaching strategies that will offer support.

Each list of ‘What it might look like?’ and ‘Supportive Quality First Teaching Strategies’ are not exhaustive but may provide a useful starting point to help you help your pupils access learning. At the end of each section are resources linked to some of the strategies.

The Toolkit can be edited and new needs and provisions can be added to meet the needs of your students.