Easy News!

Ouch! the disability blog from BBC put me on to a free new current affairs resource.

United Response has just launched their first edition of Easy News  with the next edition planned for March 2013. It is a newspaper for people with a learning disability.
You can ask for the news to be sent by email,something I will encourage my students to do.

News-2-You covers the Isle of Wight Music festival

New-2-You is free until 30th June.This week's edition covers The Isle of Wight Music Festival.

Will it stop raining in time ?....

The local elections

The Children's society has an article in easy to read symbol form reporting the recent local election results.
For other resources  to support local government and politics see my blog entries on Politics

News-2-You Free until 30th June

http://www.news-2-you.co.uk/

http://www.news-2-you.co.uk/

News-2.you is free until June 3oth June 2012

Every fortnight, News-2-You readers connect with the world through their very own currents events newspaper. They read the story of the week and work with the related activities – games, puzzles, recipes, jokes and worksheets. News-2-You is published fortnightly throughout the school year and monthly during the summer break.

Included Every Fortnight:

• Newspapers
• World News

• Worksheets
• Current Events

• Vocabulary
• Assessments

• Skill Worksheets
• Joke

• Recipe
• Holidays

• Sports News
• Puzzles / Games

News-2-You uses SymbolStix, a symbol set of over 12,000 symbols that has emerged as a world standard in picture-based communication.

Review of the year 2011

Zeitgeist 2011: Year in Review

SymbolWorld relaunch.

The SymbolWorld website has been redeveloped

E live news a favourite feature of mine is  available again in a new format.

The website now include features which allow the user to
Change the size
Change the colours for high contracts
Change between scrolling and single screen views
Highlighted tabbing for switch users

Current Affairs

Image Inspired Services

  I WILL TRY AN UPDATE FOR THE NOV 19 ELECTION ! BUT NOT YET DONE 7.11.19
I will be using the whiteboard to look at news stories using my Sqworl links to news

Talking about Harry Patch and using page 4 Elive September   I WILL TRY AN UPDATE FOR THE NOV 19 ELECTION ! BUT NOT YET DONE 7.11.19

We will be doing a short quiz on UK Politics
These can be downloaded from my 4 shared file sharing space:
  I WILL TRY AN UPDATE FOR THE NOV 19 ELECTION ! BUT NOT YET DONE 7.11.19

Politics Quiz PDF

Politics Quiz Word

Accessible News

I have been using Sqworl to explore the news with my students with learning difficulties M7-E1. It allows me to create a series of picture links to news stories. See my blog entry In the News.
The new accessible newsreader from the BBC should cut out some preparation time .




It provides one click access to news stories which are in text and are spoken . You can read a review about this on the one switch blog and look at their list of news resources In my quest to keep the students informed I have also been using newspapers. We have been learning to

• Identify the name of the newspaper
• Understand the meaning of newspaper related words: headline, newspaper, article, broadsheet, red top and local newspaper
• Develop skills that help us read the newspaper and find articles of interest.

We have done this by:

• Cutting out a headlines, the newspaper name and adding key words to an information sheet.
  
• Finding one picture that we like and explaining why.
• Finding the weather forecast .
  
• Turning the newspaper pages one at a time. Some tried The Guardian without leaning on the desk!

In the News

I shall be looking at the news this week with my Life Skills Entry 1 group.Here are some links from My Sqworl.