Whole-school specific learning difficulty resources

1 hour, fully resourced PSHE / Life Skills lesson which focuses on perseverance, procrastination, what these are, why we do them and how we can apply advice to improve our focus in study and the wider world . The lesson is most suitable for KS4 or KS5 (but has been left editable) and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHE, Life Skills or Tutor Time. The pack includes a 1 hour / 90 min long PowerPoint, differentiated challenge activities, worksheets, clips and literacy focus tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: MORE PSHE RESOURCES

Worksheets designed to encourage independent writing on topics of interest, using the colourful semantics approach and vocabulary support boards. Have students build full sentences around things they like and don’t like. 8 topics to choose from: Animals Colours Food Movies Sport Technology Transport Weather Colourful semantics is an exciting language intervention that indirectly works on developing a child’s grammar through the use of: •Spoken sentences •Answering W/H questions •Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Story telling skills •Written sentences and language comprehension Colourful semantics works particularly well in the special education classroom, helping students with difficulty in understanding language to compose sentences. These worksheets are designed to give students support to develop writing and composition skills. The sentence strips at the top of each worksheet demonstrate the sentence structure.

Starter and early finishers printable tasks BUNDLE for Literacy and Maths, ideal for Upper KS2 (Y5 and Y6), although they will suit many early KS3 too. These low prep activities are great to have on hand for the busy end of term / year for revision and as purposeful fillers. Some of my most popular resource packs are contained in this big value BUNDLE - 20 Creative Writing Story Prompt Cards, 6 Editing / Proofreading SPaG (spelling, punctuation and grammar) puzzles, 40 Complex Sentences Writing Cards, 8 Mental Maths Crossnumber Puzzles, 36 Maths Trail Cards and 200+ Mental Maths Question Cards. For full information and previews please see the detailed descriptions on the 6 individual resource pages. Alternatively, here are some other BUNDLES you might be interested in: [Literacy Starters Year 5 / 6 BUNDLE(https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/literacy-starters-year-5-6-11880756) Literacy Year 5 / 6 (End or Start of Term BUNDLE) Mental Maths Year 5 / 6 BUNDLE Maths Hidden Word Puzzles MEGA BUNDLE French Revision KS2 KS3 BUNDLE Thank you for your interest in my resources. I would be grateful for any reviews you are able to give me if you can spare a moment. For engaging, time-saving printables and presentations to help plan Primary Literacy, Maths and French lessons, visit FullShelf Resources

Some simple, adaptable tracking sheets for special needs / inclusion settings and for SEN Coordinators overseeing specific cohorts within larger mainstream schools. Might also be good for form tutors and pastoral managers in larger mainstream schools who wish to track progress of a specific class or cohort.

Printable Reading, Writing and SPaG Activities (low-prep) for end of term / year fun: A giant books crossword, 6 editing / proofreading SPaG puzzles and 40 Improving Sentence Structure Cards. UPLEVELLING SENTENCES TRAILS: 40 A4 sentence improving cards, with differentiation and worked examples, which can also be used as worksheets. These support learners to take boring sentences, changing vocabulary and sentence structure step-by-step to create a much more ambitious version. Ideal end of term activity in pairs to celebrate variety and creativity in sentence writing. Students love competing and supporting each other to create ambitious sentences with this resource. HIDDEN WORD PUZZLES: Editing and Proofreading Puzzles Worksheets for fun SPaG revision. Originally designed for KS2 Year 5 and 6, use for starters, early finishers activities, homework tasks, SATs practice etc. Fun alternative to standard worksheets with minimal preparation required (ideal for busy start of term). Spelling, punctuation and grammar concepts included are: homophones and other common spelling errors, full stops, capital letters, question marks, commas, colons, speech marks, proper nouns, missing words, repeated words, tenses, subordinate clauses and embedded clauses. Full answer keys provided. 2 PDF files are included within the Zip file. One file contains all 6 puzzles and answer keys with a pastel background, which can be printed in colour or in greyscale and could support some learners to view the sentences more clearly. The other file is the same, only with the background removed. These puzzles may be suitable for some KS3 classes for revision too. GIANT BOOKS CROSSWORD QUIZ: Celebrate books and reading with this giant puzzle, ideal for fun group completion at the end of term / year, which features over 100 quiz style clues related to well-known children’s books and authors in the UK (and probably in various other countries). Includes classics as well as books published right up to the last few months; most are novels or picture books. If being completed by a larger group, I suggest printing in A3 if possible but it works well in A4 too. It best suits 8 to 12 year olds (Key Stage 2 / KS2 or early KS3). It’s ideal for World Book Day, any other celebration of reading and authors or for some literary fun at the end or start of term. Alternatively it could be used as an early finisher activity that students / groups could come back to over a few lessons / weeks. It sparks off lots of fun informal book chat as children keenly compete against other groups to complete it. SOLUTION IS INCLUDED. There is also an Answer Sheet with all answers listed alphabetically, which could be given out for support where necessary.<br /> <br /> Here’s another of my popular literacy resources you might be interested in: <strong><a href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/super-sentences-ambitious-sentence-writing-activity-11534472”>Super Sentences Ambitious Sentence Writing Activity</a></strong><br /> <br /> Here’s a TES RECOMMENDED set of 20 dyslexia-friendly creative writing prompt cards: <strong><a href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/imaginative-story-writing-prompts-11648009”>Imaginative Story Writing Prompts</a></strong><br /> <br /> For engaging, time-saving printables and presentations to help plan Primary Literacy, Maths and French lessons, please visit <strong><a href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/FullShelf”>FullShelf Resources</a></strong>

This is a powerpoint presentation on word types - nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs and adverbs. Each word type is introduced with examples and there are activities for the whole class (group work or activities with a learning partner). There is then a worksheet for pupils to work through with a section on each word type. An answer sheet is also provided. This is designed for KS2 pupils as part of the Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG) curriculum. It can be used as a revision lesson as well as to introduce the topic. It would also be suitable as a revision activity for Key Stage 3 or Key Stage 4 pupils, including those with SEN. Everything within this resource is self-explanatory and answers provided so this would also be suitable to leave as cover work for a non-specialist to deliver. If all activities are completed there is enough work for two lessons. If pupils are being introduced to the topic for the first time, this resource can also be split up into individual sections (e.g. work on nouns for lesson, work on verbs for another).

Worksheets with 5 various sentences structures. + options to create own sentence strips. 36 pictures to use as writing prompts. Pictures are of various situations, cultural groups and include both single people and groups of people to write about. Colourful semantics is an exciting language intervention that indirectly works on developing a child’s grammar through the use of: •Spoken sentences •Answering W/H questions •Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Story telling skills •Written sentences and language comprehension Colourful semantics works particularly well in the special education classroom, helping students with difficulty in understanding language to compose sentences.

This NEW bundle includes x5 worksheets and is all about linking skills together for students that need support and support across subject areas. Perfect as stand alone lessons or to complement existing programmes. Five worksheets titled - Celebrate with, Think and Talk, Game It, Ready, Steady …, Create & Display It. Lots of practical, active, creative and visual tasks to have at your fingertips. For other worksheets and booklets for students needing adapted material or more support, look through Supporting Learning resources.

Font: CCW Cursive Dotted1 required. Twelve pages of Summer cursive handwriting sentences with correct word order based on the theme of circus and funfair. There is an emphasis on the space a word takes up and also the spaces between words in each sentence as well as a themed picture to color in.

Ideal for Head of Year, Senco or intervention Teacher. An Excel document to collate information about a pupil from KS2 information, to services involved with and everything inbetween. This document covers everything listed below: Pupil information KS2 SATs results PASS communication needs cognition and learning needs challenges and risk assessment Social, emotional and mental health issues numeracy literacy social skills OT YOT CAMHS Gangs Counselling Art therapy play therapy and OUTCOMES- to log actions put in place to support student needs

12x fully resourced, highly-rated PSHE lesson packs and units suitable for Year 11. From Revision and Study Skills, Living Independently, Finance and Careers to Body Image, The Dark Web and University Applications - this really is a comprehensive KS4 PSHE lesson bundle. All 12 lessons are complete with at least one hour-long powerpoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs and starters. All are well differentiated to three levels throughout to enable clear evidence of progress for all students. These resources have been highly-rated individually by TES users, follow the same consistent format and are easy to follow. There is zero extra work required, and the whole bundle follows PSHE Association topic recommendations and Ofsted latest SRE/ PSHE Association guidance for Year 11. I use all of these myself as a Head of PSHE and I really hope you find them excellent value. I’ve put literally months of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team. Please leave me a review and I’ll send you any other resource of your choice for free. Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop - where you can find my bundles for other year groups: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) You can also find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecteachresources/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ec_publishing and our website psheresources.com 20s5

The Dyslexia Maths Mats have been developed to support students with dyslexia, helping them to improve their numeracy skills. Designed to assist students with sequencing, automaticity and short-term memory difficulties. Used to supplement teaching in the classroom and as a supportive resource for homework tasks. The Dyslexia Maths Mats are ideal to be used in supporting students studying all Maths qualifications and to provide numeracy support across the broader curriculum. Differentiated to support higher and lower level students.

The Dyslexia English Mats have been developed to support students with dyslexia, helping them to improve their literacy skills. Designed to assist students with phonological awareness, sequencing, automaticity and short-term memory difficulties. Used to supplement teaching in the classroom and as a supportive resource for homework tasks. The Dyslexia English Mats are ideal to be used in supporting students studying all English qualifications and to provide literacy support across the broader curriculum. Differentiated to support higher and lower level students, these dyslexia friendly learning mats feature dedicated reading and writing sections, that can be used to help promote independence and improve self-confidence.

12 Summer cloze procedures with word banks of 6 or 8 words each. These words can be found/highlighted in sentences under three boxes for pupils to depict what they read with the same words to be filled in letter by letter underneath a main picture to color in.

A great resources for SENDCOs who are making the transition from IEP’s to more developed outcome based provision mapping.

Eleven very simple but effective playdough mats for developing fine motor skills and the imagination while exploring the topic of occupations/jobs.

A visual prompt to support students to type quicker and more effectively using both hands and all their fingers. I have used this successfully with the individual students that I teach. In fact, my husband saw a copy of this resource and wanted a copy for himself so that he can improve his typing.

Who can use it? Any student, any age, with a special benefit for reluctant readers, writers, or workers. What’s included? A step-by-step guide for students, a list of materials, explanation for the activity, and an example. Why is this useful? This is a fun twist on traditional biography reports that can be assigned in history, social studies, ELA, or writing classes. Instead of creating a typical report or poster, this is a much more hands-on activity that allows for creativity, while still including meaningful writing. You’ll be able to clearly assess a student’s comprehension with their completed project, and they’ll be engaged while creating it!

Lesson revolving around the idea of having a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset when it comes to tasks.

Summer Planner Templates 2018 Calendars for the summer holidays for boys and girls Weekly planners for the summer holidays to help plan activities for your family or use in a holiday club. The days are visually represented and split into morning and afternoon. Add your own pictures, photos, symbols and text. Help prepare children for upcoming events, changes in routine and summer activities. Created by Kirby Woods. This resources was created in InPrint 3 Widgit Symbols supports vocabulary development across the primary curriculum for all students, as well as helping individuals with special needs, autism or speech and language difficulties.

This worksheet asks learners to write down what they know about time. A perfect assessment tool for measuring learners knowledge and retention.

Ramadan 2018 - with Widgit Symbols Resources for Islamic Holy month of Ramadan. 13 activities including a Ramadan calendar, story, flashcards word search and information on Ramadan. This resource was created in InPrint 3 Widgit Symbols supports vocabulary development across the primary curriculum for all students, as well as helping individuals with special needs, autism or speech and language difficulties.

Simple sorting boards offering opportunity for fine motor development coupled with phonics and oral language development for words on the topic of holidays/transport sorted according to category. Boards and words can be either laminated for use in station work or used as a cut and paste sorting exercise.

Series of 4 interactive matching books My Farm Animals Book My Pets Book My Jungle Animals Book My Ocean Animals Book Each book contains 4 pages of animals to match and an “I see…” reading sentence with text and symbols. Books come as two levels: LEVEL 1 picture to picture matching LEVEL 2 sorting using symbol and sentence prompts

Use this Classroom Accommodation Chart to keep track of all of the needs for each of your students. Just print out one for each of your students and keep it with your IEPs. Its a one stop shop for all of the accommodations that should be offered to your students with special needs!

8 Individual Gymnastics Lesson Plans to be taught to students with SEN (Mild Learning Difficulty). The 8 sessions can be spread over a whole term and look at steadily increasing the complexity of Gymnastics week on week. Each session includes a resources guide.

A social story with spaces to add your own photos. We make one for the class and also make individual ones for children with SEN or Social and Emotional needs who we feel will need more support with the transition to next year. Use to prepare children for their new teacher, new classroom etc.

This one-page “Quick IEP” document. It is great for your students general education and resource teachers. It allows teachers to easily see what accommodations your IEP students have. Included is a printable PDF file as well as an editable Google Doc. You can easily change the accommodations to fit your student’s IEP.

The Tes Research series: volume one - 60 pages of interviews with acclaimed academics - providing you with the information you need to know about: Being a research-informed professional: Dylan William, emeritus professor of educational assessment at UCL Institute of Education, talks about the usefulness of the research that’s out there and how teachers are currently consuming it. How memory works: World-renowned memory researchers Professors Robert and Elizabeth Bjork explain how to match teaching to what we know about how memory works, and why linking learning to a student’s interests and group work is key. Dyslexia: Professor Margaret Snowling, president of St John’s College Oxford, is one of the world’s leading dyslexia researchers. Here, she addresses myths around the condition and warns that education is still missing opportunities to help support students at an earlier stage. Growth Mindset: Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton professor of psychology at Stanford University, is the creator of the highly popular growth mindset theory. Here she embraces the intense scrutiny that the theory has been subjected to and delves headfirst into the questions behind its validity. The use of play in education: Dr Sara Baker is trying to change perceptions of play in the classroom with her work at Cambridge’s Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) Centre. She conducts research into the use of play in schools and believes that we might have been getting it wrong. How we learn to read: Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and one of the world’s leading experts on research into reading, talks through the three processes children need to get right to become successful readers and why teachers need to overcome the fact that phonics resources tend to be ‘boring’. Autism: Uta Frith is one of the world’s leading experts on autism and emeritus professor of cognitive development at UCL. She began studying autism in 1966 when it was an emerging field of research, and says we’re now a much more autistic-aware society, but that myths and misunderstandings still remain, particularly in schools.

A simple poster for learning to tell the time. A poster used within Primary Maths, SEN Education, ALN Education and ILS Education.

Symbols, pictures and words, differentiated to be used as worksheets or printed and laminated for use with whiteboard pens, letter and number blocks, magnetic letters/ numbers/ shapes, real objects etc. Practice recognition of basic colour, number and shape concepts. Practice writing numbers and words, writing names of colours and shapes and drawing shapes through copying, tracing and independent writing. Build sentences to say what you can see, using PECS style sentence structures.

A set of 4 editable PowerPoint Menus that you can use to quickly and easily plan an entire lesson’s worth of activities. Each menu can be printed for the class or can be displayed on the white-board, like any standard PowerPoint lesson. This set includes A stylish café style menu with room for up to 11 different lesson tasks, activities or homework assignments. A minimalist design with lots of room for information, this menu is suitable for KS4 and higher ability learners. There is plenty of space on this activity sheet to push students with extension goals and independent research information. A bold, diner style menu with room for up to 9 activities. This retro-looking menu works well with mixed ability KS3 and 4 groups and features a prominent center panel that draws the eye and can be used to present crucial information to your students. A colourful, fast-food style menu with room for 4 activities. This vibrant menu is full of bright imagery and large text, making it ideal for KS3 students, or those with SEN/differentiation needs; it offers a more focused choice of activities for students to work through. A modern, bistro style pamphlet with room to set 5 homework tasks. This A5 homework tracker can be printed two-to-a-page and handed out to students at the beginning of the week or before study-leave and half-term breaks. Suitable for all ages and ability groups. These editable menus provide teachers with a quick and easy method to create fun, independence-focused lessons with differentiation built in to the structure itself. They’re also great for providing a quick cover lesson to leave with your cover teachers. The lessons come in the standard PowerPoint format and are completely editable. Though suitable for any subject, they are particularly useful for English, Humanities and MFL departments. Sets include printer-friendly black and white printables as well.

Celebrate the 2018 Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle with this symbol supported story and activity pack. This free pack contains Royal Wedding themed activities as well as a symbol supported Royal Wedding information pages. Activities include: Timeline - A time line of the wedding day itself Royal Wedding Vocabulary - Print and use as a communication board or cut up to make flashcards Matching - Match the words to the pictures Hidden Words - Find the hidden words in the title Colouring - Colour in the wedding themed images This resource was created in InPrint 3 Widgit Symbols supports vocabulary development across the primary curriculum for all students, as well as helping individuals with special needs, autism or speech and language difficulties.

The file included is an updated/new IEP template which is renamed ‘Pupil Learning Passport’. It is used successfully in conjunction with face-to-face parental meetings once per term. We allocated 20-25 minutes each for the Autumn term parental meetings and 10-15 minutes each for the Spring and Summer term meetings, although longer may be needed depending on the nature of the outcomes, progress made as well as the individual circumstances surrounding the pupil . Pupil Learning Passports (PLPs) can be used for SEND, LAC and disadvantaged pupils. What does it do? Outlines personal details and SEND category/categories Links to SEND ranges Outlines the pupil’s strengths, achievements and interests ( pupil discussions are held once a year prior to the first parental meeting). Outlines external agencies involved Outlines background information (status, medical and external agencies) Incorporates pupil voice - ‘barriers to learning’ and ‘I learn best when’ States outcomes and learning targets (Autumn, Spring and Summer) Outlines provision (intervention, resources, strategies and what I can do at home to help Tracks attainment and progress data Reviews outcomes Incorporates parent views Includes details of transition Why is it more effective? One document that is updated each term for one year and the follows the pupil into future year groups One document that tracks pupil progress for their whole school career from Reception to Y6, or whenever they join your school In-line with the SEND Code of Practice 2015, incorporating parent and pupil voice and views Sections are written in conjunction with the pupil It combines IEPs and Pupil Passports removing the need for two separate documents Links directly to SEND Provision Map Saves teachers time having ‘tick box’ options in various sections All relevant information needed for referrals is in one place All relevant information in one place to ensure all staff involved with the child is aware of provision, needs, resources and strategies Acts as a transition document (class to class/teacher to teacher, across Key stages and to new schools) Overall, it replaces a lot of singular documents and creates one meaningful and multi-purpose document for SEND pupils.

This resource bundle is perfect for **low ability Yr7/8. • **Two writing frameworks: **supports pupils, enabling them to independently plan each step of their story. • Learning map: have basic rules for Literacy and numeracy. • Punctuation flash cards: perfect to have on a desk during writing activities to remind pupils how to use different types of punctuation.

This A3 Power of Yet Poster is set to empower your students with their positive thinking. It is bright and colorful. I have included the file as both a PDF and a PNG depending on your printing requirements. If you would like the poster in a different size then simply shrink it with you printer settings or adjust the PNG file. I have not included a black and white version as it looks best in color.

Letter reversals, such as confusing p, q are common among young learners. This worksheet set will help your kids with P-Q reversals. Included in this packet are the following: WORD SORT with 30 word cards and 4 answer sheets. (pages 4-8) Print the word cards and the answer sheets, laminate then cut out the word cards. Or you can just print it out on regular paper and use it as a cut-and-paste activity instead. Give your students the word cards and the answer sheets to sort the words (you can differentiate using uppercase or lowercase answer sheets) READ & DAB or color the circles with the missing letter. (page 9) FIND YOUR WAY through the maze by dotting the letter Pp. (page 10) answer key included (page 19) FIND YOUR WAY through the maze by dotting the letter Qq. (page 11) answer key included (page 20) SPIN & WRITE - Spin the spinner. Write a letter that matches your spin. (page 12) CUT AND PASTE the words in the right box. (page 13) TRUE or FALSE - Color the circles according to the color code. (page 14) _ PLAY DOUGH MATS - Laminate the pages or put them in protective sleeves. Children make snakes with their play dough then form the letters. They can write the letters using dry erase markers. (pages 15-18) ANSWER KEY - (pages 19-21)

This powerpoint presentation provides a list of famous people who are thought to be autistic. This has been used as printed cards for discussion when helping individuals to understand autism and feel more empowered regarding their diagnosis.

Understanding the mixture of mixed neuro-developmental disorders, how these interact and the best way to support

Information on specific SEN needs (East of England Specific)

How to support children and young people who actively avoid school

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