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!
THREE fantastic units of work that focus on our students emotions, reactions and support for students. (1) EMOTIONS is about recognising different emotions, expressions and situations. (2) EMOTIONS & REACTIONS focuses on our reactions to situations both emotional and physical. (3) SUPPORT helps students be aware of different support options that exist at school, locally and nationwide.
Each 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.
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.
Each 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 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 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 (1) - SKILLS & THE WORLD is a 30 page workbooklet with 45 practical every day tasks, ideas, research skills to use. 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 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 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.
THREE fantastic units of work that focus on our students emotions, reactions and support for students. (1) SYMBOLS & SIGNS is about recognising different symbols and signs around you that will guide and keep you safe. (2) SEEKING HELP focuses on our finding different people that can offer help when you need it. (3) SUPPORT helps students be aware of different support options that exist at school, locally and nationwide.
Each 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.
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.
Each workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
SAFETY FIRST (1) - PERSONAL SAFETY workbooklet is 12 pages with 14 key tasks about keeping safe. This workbooklet is all about practical strategies for keeping safe every day. We often face hazards and have to react quickly to keep ourselves safe and it is often a good idea to have thought about solutions to problems before we have to act quickly. 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 SAFETY FIRST (2) - CYBER SAFETY, SAFETY FIRST (3) - ROAD SAFETY and SAFETY FIRST (4) - WATER & TRAVEL SAFETY 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.
FOUR fantastic units of work that focus on using, understanding and simple design with different materials. DESIGN IT - A PERFECT PLAN is technology focused for hard/soft materials, adapting materials simple design concepts, need/wants and planning projects. DESIGN IT (1) - HARD or RESISTANT materials has wood, metal, plastic projects. DESIGN IT (2) has SOFTER material projects like paper, fabric, wool, food etc. DESIGN IT (3) combines a lot of the ideas to upcycle and use simple craft skills with materials around us.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver all these workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning as they work through tasks.
Each workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
SAFETY FIRST (2) - CYBER SAFETY workbooklet is 12 pages with 12 great tasks about keeping safe. The CYBER SAFETY workbooklet is all about practical strategies for keeping safe every day for students needing simple, visual material to understand everyday challenges. As we face modern challenges with technology, it is important to learn ways to keep ourselves safe. It is often a good idea to have thought about solutions to problems before so we can act quickly. 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 SAFETY FIRST (1) - PERSONAL SAFETY, SAFETY FIRST (3) - ROAD SAFETY and SAFETY FIRST (4) - WATER & TRAVEL SAFETY 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.
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 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 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.
FOUR fantastic units of work that focus on keeping safe in the modern world. (1) PERSONAL SAFETY is about everyday challenges at school and home. (2) CYBER SAFETY focuses on using technology and keeping safe in modern times. (3) ROAD SAFETY helps students be aware and alert when on or near roads and with other drivers. (4) WATER SAFETY looks through different everyday and holiday water hazards and strategies for keeping safe.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver all these workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning as they work through tasks.
Each workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
EXPLORE IT (1) - is a 20 page workbooklet for Special Education students 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 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.
The EXPRESSING NEEDS & WANTS workbooklet is 12 pages of simple and interesting tasks about a student knowing & communicating their basic needs & wants. This workbooklet helps a student communicate what they need, basic communication tools, making requests 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.
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.
READ IT (1) - is a 26 page workbooklet with many practical every day reading tasks designed for special education needs students. READ IT is all about communicating with those around us in a range of ways. It is useful to be confident in using reading in everyday situations so that when it happens, students already have some ideas of what to do. Picking out key words, headings and ideas in notes, pictures, videos and text helps us all to quickly understand what key messages are.
Key topics include: types of reading, when we read, reading tools, everyday reading, reading comprehension, putting it all into practice. 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 WRITE IT (2) and SPEAK IT (3) 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 (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.
EXPLORE IT (2) - is a 23 page workbooklet for special education students filled with tasks about the films & documentaries. EXPLORE IT (2) 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 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.
SPEAK IT (3) - is an 16 page workbooklet with many practical every day speaking and listening tasks for students with special educational needs. 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 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.
SAFETY FIRST (1) - PERSONAL SAFETY workbooklet is 12 pages with 14 key tasks about students with special educational needs keeping safe. This workbooklet is all about practical strategies for keeping safe every day. We often face hazards and have to react quickly to keep ourselves safe and it is often a good idea to have thought about solutions to problems before we have to act quickly. 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 SAFETY FIRST (2) - CYBER SAFETY, SAFETY FIRST (3) - ROAD SAFETY and SAFETY FIRST (4) - WATER & TRAVEL SAFETY 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.
WRITE IT (2) - is an 18 page workbooklet with many practical every day writing tasks written for students with special educational needs. WRITE IT is all about communicating with those around us using writing. We often write small amounts of information to communicate with others and we often have to write/type short notes to share with others. Sometimes we combine both different skills and add reading, speaking to communicate with others.
Key topics include: types of writing, when we writing, writing tools, everyday writing, putting it all into practice. 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 READ IT (1) and SPEAK IT (3) 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.
FOUR fantastic units of work for SEN students focusing on using simple design ideas with different materials. DESIGN IT - A PERFECT PLAN is technology focused for hard/soft materials, adapting materials simple design concepts, need/wants and planning projects. DESIGN IT (1) - HARD or RESISTANT materials has wood, metal, plastic projects. DESIGN IT (2) has SOFTER material projects like paper, fabric, wool, food etc. DESIGN IT (3) combines a lot of the ideas to upcycle and use simple craft skills with materials around us.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver all these workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning as they work through tasks.
Each workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
IT'S ALL ABOUT ME (2) - GETTING READY unit of work and workbooklet has 25+ interesting tasks for SEN students about getting ready at home and at school. This workbooklet focuses on the routines you go through each day, or getting ready for a special event. It will help you create checklists to go through so you are organised and ready and to solve problems that may frequently occur. 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 IT'S ALL ABOUT ME (1) - HYGIENE. This theme also links to IT'S ALL ABOUT CARING workbooklets series - (1) SELF-CARE, (2) CARE FOR OTHERS, (3) CARE FOR PETS
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.
ORGANISE ME (1) - READING AND USING TIME is an active, visual and practical unit of work and workbooklet for students with special educational needs. It offers interesting and practical tasks that explore reading time, understanding time, when time is important, planning events and more. The workbooklet is flexible to deliver by different levels of staff, encourages self-directed learning and has learning checklists and learning feedbacks to provide evidence for assessments.
