Literacy support for students with SEN

Activities, writing support mats, reading skills cards, spelling tasks and vocabulary sheets to provide literacy support to students with special educational needs

Tes Resources Team

Student in the classroom showing SEN literacy reading and writing support resources

Practical ideas to help pupils with special educational needs improve their literacy skills

To help you support your SEN learners with developing their literacy skills and confidence with reading, writing and spelling, we’ve gathered together a collection of helpful resources, with everything from letter formation tasks and writing frames to literacy starters, inference skills cards and spelling rules activities. So, why not take a look?

Resources for young learners

A collection of resources for younger learners with basic pencil control practice tasks, writing support and planning mats and a full set of literacy starters covering spelling, grammar, reading and writing skills.

Sentence Writing: High-Frequency Word Frames
Krazikas

Sentence Writing: High-Frequency Word Frames

£3.00
(2)
This resource involves pupils creating sentences with the use of writing frames that contain many of the first one hundred high-frequency words. Writing sentences and reading them back helps pupils to embed and consolidate these words which they will then be able to use freely in their writing. ...
Pencil Control Sheets EYFS SEN
Apple For The Teacher applefortheteacher.co.uk

Pencil Control Sheets EYFS SEN

£2.85
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Support children in their pencil control when beginning the early stages in writing. Use alongside motor skills activities such as threading, painting, cutting and sticking etc, to build up muscles and build up control. Great for learners with SEN who have difficulty with writing and EYFS learners.
Literacy Mats | Support Writing
Pagecraft

Literacy Mats | Support Writing

£1.50
(1)
Aimed at Years 5-11, this resource includes two Literacy Mats for general writing support in middle and high school. They come in both colour and black and white PDFs. Best stuck in exercise books or to desks as tools for improving students' written work! Each mat covers... * Common errors * Apostr...

Resources for older learners

For older learners, why not have a look at these helpful support resources, focusing on spelling rules, developing confidence when discussing inference in reading, as well as comprehension activities and paragraphing effectively?

50 Short Literacy Tasks / Starters
creativesquirrel

50 Short Literacy Tasks / Starters

£3.00
(3)
This PowerPoint contains 50 short activities based around punctuation, grammar and spelling. This includes: * Word sorting * Spelling rules * Plurals * Tenses * Punctuation * Sentence structure * Much more! Perfect for lower ability, SEN, EAL or intervention group and could also be used as a ban...
English skills workbook
cldance94

English skills workbook

FREE
(19)
I made this workbook to help my SEN year 11 group develop their understanding of basic English skills and techniques. Some topics we studies straight from the workbook, others were used before or after a targeted lesson on a specific topic. Some pages link specifically with Entry English contro...
Spelling - Silent letters - Consonants
gykinga

Spelling - Silent letters - Consonants

FREE
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A list of silent letters - that cause a problem so often for the pupils. The list is logically organised, the patterns become visible for understanding. This resource can be a reference for teachers or students as well.
5 Inference Task Cards -LOWER ABILITY - SEN - INTERVENTION
creativesquirrel

5 Inference Task Cards -LOWER ABILITY - SEN - INTERVENTION

£2.00
(0)
5 cards containing 12 mini inference tasks. Students are asked to read a short extract and answer two or three short questions that test their inference skills. * Short extracts to support struggling readers * Single word analysis * Focus on emotion and social cues. Sheets can either write out t...