Supporting Learning (SL) believes education should be engaging, fun, creative and achievable for all. We want you focusing on building relationships and engaging your students rather than creating resources and curriculums, so our workbooklets are visual, active, practical and affordable and the SL themes are relevant, flexible and engaging. We make sure it is about the RIGHT resource, for the RIGHT student at the RIGHT time!!! Enjoy browsing!
Supporting Learning (SL) believes education should be engaging, fun, creative and achievable for all. We want you focusing on building relationships and engaging your students rather than creating resources and curriculums, so our workbooklets are visual, active, practical and affordable and the SL themes are relevant, flexible and engaging. We make sure it is about the RIGHT resource, for the RIGHT student at the RIGHT time!!! Enjoy browsing!
The LITERACY SKILLS (1) - READING TO UNDERSTAND unit of work and workbooklet for SEN students is filled with a wide range of modern and young adult topics to engage students in reading a variety of short and longer texts. The workbooklet offers visual, active, practical tasks that you can pick and choose from to look at different texts, when and why we read, samples of texts, finding information, a writer's purpose, describing ideas, why text is useful and ideas are valid etc.
This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for SEN students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also LITERACY SKILLS (2) - WRITING TO COMMUNICATE and LITERACY SKILLS (3) - SPOKEN INTERACTIONS workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes an Assessment for Learning feedback sheet.
SPEAK IT (3) - is an 16 page workbooklet with many practical every day speaking and listening tasks. SPEAK IT is all about communicating with those around us using verbal or speaking skills as well as understanding body language and listening skills. We often read or write small amounts of information every day and we often have to share with others. Sometimes we combine reading, writing and speaking skills and to help others understand our thoughts. We often use speaking skills without realising it, so this workbooklet will help you understand what skills you already use when speaking and learn some new ones!
Key topics include: types of speaking, when we speak or listen, speech tools, everyday speaking, putting it all into practice. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also the corresponding literacy READ IT (1) and WRITE IT (2) workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
EXPLORE IT (1) - is a 20 page workbooklet filled with tasks about the sounds and music around us. EXPLORE IT is all about how we use multi-media and technology around us to explore different ideas, themes, events using different sounds and music and how it can make us aware of our surroundings and encourage us to listen.
Key topics include: every day sounds, sounds & emotions, memories, music styles, song lyrics, favourite songs, artists, visuals etc. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also the corresponding literacy EXLORE IT (2) - FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES and EXPLORE IT (3) - TECHNOLOGY & APPS workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
EXPLORE IT (2) - is a 23 page workbooklet filled with tasks about films & documentaries. EXPLORE IT is all about how we use multi-media and technology around us to explore different ideas, themes through watching or making films and documentaries. There are different ways we can find out information by viewing material and we can pick up facts and opinions, as well as explore lots of different ideas and emotions.
Key topics include: different styles of film, popular films, actors/actresses, making documentaries, documentary ideas etc. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also the corresponding literacy EXLORE IT (1) - SOUNDS & MUSIC and EXPLORE IT (3) - TECHNOLOGY & APPS workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
The ABOUT OUR BODIES (1) - BODY PARTS workbooklet is 19 pages of simple and interesting tasks about our body parts and body functions. This workbooklet helps a student identify key body parts and how we use them every day as well as explore different organs, muscles and functions. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
The ABOUT OUR BODIES (2) - MOVING AROUND workbooklet is 17 pages of simple and interesting tasks about how we move around familiar and unfamiliar spaces and our spatial awareness. This workbooklet helps a student identify their immediate surroundings, their wider surroundings, different movements and instructions and noises or props to be familiar with. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
CHANGING FACES (2) - EMOTIONS & REACTIONS is a workbooklet with over 21 practical every day tasks, ideas, research about our emotions and reactions for students with special educational needs. This workbooklet introduces how we react in our life every day and deal with others people’s emotions too. Sometimes it’s hard to communicate how we feel and what makes us feel a certain way. There are lots of things that can combine to make us feel a certain way. These can be symptoms or triggers. It can be useful to identify situations that trigger stress, anger, fear and grief and the symptoms that are created. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also CHANGING FACES (1) - EMOTIONS and CHANGING FACES (3) - SUPPORT workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
PRESENT IT (2) - TOOLS & PROJECTS is a 15 page workbooklet with practical every day tasks, ideas, basic presentation skills for students with special education needs to use. It is all about what we do with information after we have found it and how we communicate it with other people! Every day there is new information around us that we hear for the first time, we link to what we know or it adds to our knowledge. There are different ways we can present our information and in the modern world, there are many different tools and apps to help us. This workbooklet is going to help link ideas to the world around us and then present ideas in a variety of ways.
This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also RESEARCH IT (1) - SKILLS & THE WIDER WORLD and LITERACY (3) - SKILLS MAKING SENSE workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
RESEARCH IT (1) - SKILLS & THE WORLD is a 30 page workbooklet with 45 practical every day tasks, ideas, research skills to use especially designed for students with special educational needs. It is all about how we find out information and then what we do with it! Every day there is new information around us that we hear for the first time, we link to what we know or it adds to our knowledge. There are different ways we can find out information like talking to people, interviewing experts, listening to coaches, reading information, watching videos etc.
Key topics include: research skills, current and social events, the wider world, presentations skills and 3+ research projects. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also PRESENT IT (2) - SKILLS & SPECIAL PROJECTS and LITERACY (3) - SKILLS MAKING SENSE workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
CHANGING FACES (3) - SUPPORT for emotions is a workbooklet with 16 practical every day tasks, ideas, research about our emotions, reactions and who can support us. This workbooklet introduces how we react in our life every day and deal with others people’s emotions too. Sometimes it’s hard to communicate how we feel and what makes us feel a certain way and we may need some support and guidance to help us manage our emotions. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also CHANGING FACES (1) - EMOTIONS and CHANGING FACES (2) - EMOTIONS & REACTIONS workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
RESEARCH IT (3) - SKILLS MAKING SENSE s a 21 page workbooklet with 25 practical research tasks, and research skills to use. It is useful to know the different ways we can search for information to answer our questions or to look up facts and evidence to back up a point. The tasks in this booklet help you to identify and show your knowledge about searching for information, identifying sources, gathering and selecting information and reviewing it.
Key topics include: ideas to research, information gathering and organisation, sources, referencing and reviewing research as well as some research projects. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also PRESENT IT (2) - TOOLS & SPECIAL PROJECTS and RESEARCH IT (1) - SKILLS & THE WIDER WORLD workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
DESIGN IT (1) - SOFTER MATERIALS is a fantastic 34 page workbooklet filled with simple, visual and active tasks all about seeing objects around us and working out how they were made, with what materials and what each object’s purpose is. The booklet covers basic design ideas, use of soft material with paper/fabric/wool/food sections and a special design project. Some of our everyday objects are simple and easy to use, can save us money and other objects can have fancier or special features made from SOFT materials. Sometimes an object may look ordinary but simple design elements we don’t notice at first. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also DESIGN IT (1) - HARD (RESISTANT) MATERIALS and DESIGN IT (3) - UPCYCLE IT.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
WORK IT OUT is a collection of TEN worksheets that can be used at any time with SEN students and are perfect as stand alone lessons or to complement existing programmes. This bundle of worksheets has TEN quick and focused lessons that make students work out solutions and use literacy, numeracy, thinking and decision making skills. The worksheet bundle is filled with active learning tasks with excellent visual layout for supporting all types of SEN learners. Perfect as stand alone lessons or to complement existing programmes and can be delivered by any staff.
Worksheets included are: Birthday Bingo, Sports Scramble, Sum It Up, Take It Away, Signs & Symbols, Mood Board, Count Me In, Making Music, Reading Recipes, Fitness Log
MEASURE IT (2) - LENGTH/DISTANCE is a unit of work with for SEN students using practical every day measuring tasks where we use measurements to identify the length of different items or distances etc. We measure length and use estimations in everyday activities like building, travel sport, design etc. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also MEASURE IT (1) - WEIGHT and MEASURE IT (3) - VOLUME.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
GROWING UP (2) - RELATIONSHIPS unit of work and workbooklet is written for SEN students with interesting tasks, ideas, research about friendships and growing up. GROWING UP is an important topic that can be different for everyone. We all experience different feelings and relationships and this workbooklet is a start to think about growing up for each student. There are many types of relationships we form over our lives, from friendships, to family or work relationships or it could be romantic relationships. It is useful to think about what are positive aspects of relationships and areas we can improve over time. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also GROWING UP (1) - FRIENDSHIPS and GROWING UP (3) - CONVERSATIONS
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
The LITERACY SKILLS (3) - SPOKEN INTERACTIONS unit of work and student workbooklet is filled with a wide range of modern and young adult topics to help students work through speaking and interaction skills. The workbooklet has a variety of tasks for active participation, contributing ideas to interactions, holding dialogues, non-verbal behaviours, feedbacks, one-to-one situations, small group situations, thinking about behaviour, language and tone in conversations and who and when we interact with etc.
This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also LITERACY SKILLS (1) - READING TO UNDERSTAND and LITERACY SKILLS (2) - WRITING TO COMMUNICATE workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes an Assessment for Learning feedback sheet.
HELP ME (1) - SYMBOLS & SIGNS unit of work and SEN workbooklet is 17 pages with a wide range of interesting tasks about symbols and signs at home and at school for students with special educational needs. This workbooklet helps you get familiar with what you see each day, or when you are out in the community. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also HELP ME (2) - SEEKING HELP and help me (3) - SUPPORT workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
ADD IT UP (2) is 13 pages full of practical every day calculations tasks where we use calculations to work through problems and find solutions etc. We use calculations in many ways including grouping them together so we can work things out quickly either using a calculator or simple tools. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also ADD IT UP (1) - USING NUMBERS and ADD IT UP (3) - BASIC SHOPPING
LEAVE IT TO ME is a collection of FIVE worksheets that can be used at any time and are perfect as stand alone lessons or to complement existing programmes. This bundle of worksheets has FIVE quick and focused lessons that make students think about themselves, work independently and use literacy, numeracy, thinking and decision making skills. The worksheet bundle is filled with active learning tasks with excellent visual layout for supporting all types of learners. Perfect as stand alone lessons or to complement existing programmes and can be delivered by any staff.
Worksheets included are: I Am What I Eat, I Like It Like This, Days & Months, Clean Me & Mine, If I Could ...
EXPLORE IT (3) - is a 20 page workbooklet filled with tasks about using technology around us. EXPLORE IT is all about how we use technology, apps and software to explore different ideas and how it can help us listen and watch more easily. This workbooklet helps show how you can find out information by watching and listening, as well as exploring using new technology and comparing it to technology in the past.
Key topics include: different styles of film, popular films, actors/actresses, making documentaries, documentary ideas etc. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also the corresponding literacy EXLORE IT (1) - SOUNDS & MUSIC and EXPLORE IT (2) - FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.