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Anxiety Worksheets
Two well organised and visually appealing anxiety worksheets that encourage positive thinking and mindfulness. Perfect to use individually or with intervention / nurture groups.
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Social Skills Workbook
Tutor Time Activity Booklet
Under the Sea Activity Booklet
ELSA / Social Skills Game
A fun and engaging game that is perfect for ELSA / Friendship Support / Mindfulness / Social Skills intervention groups etc.
Can be played with two or more players - all you will need is a dice and some counters. Students work their way around the board by answering question about themselves, the first student to reach the finish is the winner of the game!
Game mat can be printed laminated for future use.
SEN Focused Teaching
Differentiation can sometimes feel like an overwhelming task that can complicate teaching, lesson planning and simply make our lives far more difficult. This useful A4 document details several strategies to use within your lesson in order to meet target many areas of difficulty for SEN students.
How to use a TA effectively in the classroom mat
An A4 document for staff reviewing how they can use a TA effectively within the classroom.
40 Hobbies and Interests Cards
40 hobbies and interests cards.
Students can choose the cards that represent their own hobbies and interests. Fantastic for a social skills intervention.
Listening Skills Worksheets / Activities
These worksheets are prefect for students with poor auditory / concentration skills, along with those with difficulties with working memory. This download includes ten worksheets to practice and develop student’s listening skills through colouring and drawing activities. Detailed teacher instructions are provided, along with individual instructions for each of the ten worksheets.
These worksheets are perfect for use in small groups, EAL / SEND interventions and one-to-one work.
Teaching Strategies for ADHD
A well presented and useful A3 document that lists a number of teaching strategies for students with ADHD. Strategies are given to specifically target and support each area of difficulty.
Christmas Activity Booklet / Worksheets
The perfect end to a term! This 20 page booklet is perfect for the run up to Christmas and is a great way to keep students amused and engaged with learning. Activities include:
Wordsearches
Mazes
Maths Activities
English Activities
Designing / Drawing
And more!
Can be used as a booklet or individual worksheets.
Teaching Strategies for Students with Dyslexia
A well presented and useful A3 document that lists a number of teaching strategies for students with dyslexia. Strategies are given to specifically target and support each area of difficulty. These are:
Reading
Spelling
Handwriting
Copying
Processing
Maths
Focus
Time management
Homophone Cards - Spelling, Phonics
**Fantastic value **
This set of 72 cards contains 32 pairs of homophones. Each card also includes an image, along with a sentence to illustrate each homophone in context.
This resource is suitable for a wide range of ages and abilities and is perfect for use within spelling / phonics interventions, during 1:1 teaching, as a classroom resource or for lower ability / SEND / EAL group teaching.
Understanding and Differentiating for SEN
Two A3 Documents included in this download. These can be used separately or printed back-to-back to create a fantastic double-sided A3 SEN ‘cheat sheet’.
Differentiation can sometimes feel overwhelming, with the need to adjust or modify your lesson to ensure that every student’s needs are met. We are also often told to ‘differentiate’ - but without much clue of how to actually do this. This document is here to help! This resource contains:
An overview of all four areas of needs
Basic teaching strategies for each area of need
An explanation of what ‘SEN’ means
Detailed, specific strategies for differentiation for ASD, ADHD and Dyslexia
It is important to be aware that each child is different and not every strategy with work for every student in every lesson. This resource aims to give you a clear and detailed list of a range of strategies that you can use to help support students in class.
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Teaching Strategies for Down Syndrome
A informative and well organised A3 document that aims to support teachers in differentiation for students with Down syndrome. This document includes:
A definition of Down syndrome
Common symptoms for Down syndrome
Preferred language
Classroom strategies
Physical support strategies
Communication and Language strategies
Bundle
SEN Strategies and Advice
Items included:
**Teaching Strategies for ADHD: **
A well presented and useful A3 document that lists a number of teaching strategies for students with ADHD. Strategies are given to specifically target and support each area of difficulty.
**Teaching Strategies for ASD: **
A well presented and useful A3 document that lists a number of teaching strategies for students with autism. Strategies are given to specifically target and support each area of difficulty. These are:
Communication
Fine Motor Skills
Processing
Social Skills
Coping with Change
Unstructured Times
Sensory Difficulties
Teaching Strategies for Dyslexia:
A well presented and useful A3 document that lists a number of teaching strategies for students with dyslexia. Strategies are given to specifically target and support each area of difficulty. These are:
Reading
Spelling
Handwriting
Copying
Processing
Maths
Focus
Time management
SEN Focused Teaching:
Differentiation can sometimes feel like an overwhelming task that can complicate teaching, lesson planning and simply make our lives far more difficult. This useful A4 document details several strategies to use within your lesson in order to meet target many areas of difficulty for SEN students.
**SEN Teaching Advice: **
The 0-25 SEND Code of Practice (2015) identifies ‘four broad areas of special educational need and support’:
Communication and interaction;
Cognition and learning;
Social, emotional and mental health;
Sensory and/or physical needs.
This A3 document gives a brief explanation of each area of need, along with several points of teaching advice for those looking to support students with SEN. These strategies are by means an exhaustive list, but aim to provide teachers with some basic methods of support.
SEN Strategies Takeaway Menu:
A handy document that can be used by teaching staff. This document provides a list of teaching strategies that could be used to differentiate for SEN.
SEN Teaching Advice
The 0-25 SEND Code of Practice (2015) identifies ‘four broad areas of special educational need and support’:
Communication and interaction;
Cognition and learning;
Social, emotional and mental health;
Sensory and/or physical needs.
This A3 document gives a brief explanation of each area of need, along with several points of teaching advice for those looking to support students with SEN. These strategies are by means an exhaustive list, but aim to provide teachers with some basic methods of support.
Teaching Strategies for Autism (ASD)
A well presented and useful A3 document that lists a number of teaching strategies for students with autism. Strategies are given to specifically target and support each area of difficulty. These are:
Communication
Fine Motor Skills
Processing
Social Skills
Coping with Change
Unstructured Times
Sensory Difficulties
Feelings / Emotions Cards
A set of 32 feelings/ emotions cards. Perfect for use with SEN - reluctant speakers etc, along with social skills interventions.
Spelling and Phonics Cards
This pack contains 18 spelling cards (two per each page) that can be used as part of a spelling/ phonics intervention, starter, plenary or as part of a planned lesson. This pack contains the words that my students have consistently struggled to spell.
Each card contains three sections:
Make - Students have to make the word out of Play-Doe, sand, etc within the outline provided.
Look- The word is then used in a sentence with an image.
Write- Students write the word between the handwriting guide lines.
Write- Students write the word without the help of the guide lines.
These cards should be printed, cut out and then laminated in order for them to be re-used. All you will need is a dry-wipe pen and a tub of Play-Doh (or similar.) This activity works well as a more active alternative to the standard ‘look, cover, write’ method of teaching spellings.
Under the Sea Activity Booklet
This booklet contains 20 fun and engaging tasks coving a range of topics and tasks such as:
Crosswords
Designing
Spelling
Telling the Time
Pattern Making
Graphs
Story Writing
and much more!
Can be used as a booklet or pages can be printed as individual worksheets. Perfect for KS1 /2 / SEN children.
Rhyme Bingo Game (Phonics)
**Teach phonics in a fun and engaging way with this rhyme Bingo game! **
This well designed and visually appealing set contains 22 individual bingo cards, each with nine images. You will also receive a word list (or caller’s card). Simply read out each of the words, ticking off each as you go, and ask the students to check off any images on their card that rhyme with these words. Students win by achieving a line or full house. Counters may be used, or alternatively cards can be laminated for future use and written on in a dry-wipe marker.
Can be used for all ages and groups. Works very well for a phonics intervention / SEN / EAL work.
Phonics Worksheets
A range of worksheets designed to help students to improve their knowledge of letter-sound relationships and patterns, along with their decoding abilities to improve reading accuracy.
This bundle includes:
Rhyming words - 8 worksheets
Identifying beginning sounds - 8 worksheets
Identifying end sounds - 8 worksheets
Building words - 13 worksheets
decoding three syllable words - 3 worksheets
A fantastic resource for SEN / Lower ability/ EAL students, along with those with difficulties associated with dyslexia. Perfect for in class differentiation, homework/ prep work tasks or interventions.
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Phonics Display / Cards
Rhyme Bingo Game (Phonics)
[Synonyms Starter / Plenary Tasks - Vocabulary (http://https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/synonyms-starter-plenary-tasks-vocabulary-12083511)
Bank of Literacy Starters (Two Bonus Social Skills Activities!)
Comprehension and Inference Worksheets (SEN/ Intervention)