An interesting website

www.john-paul.org.uk  is a website 'for people who like science but find reading and writing difficult.'

It has lots of picture links (on more than science) and uses Widgit symbols.

The best find  for me was the Makaton page and the link to the
 Inclusive Communication page from Essex which has lots of Makaton videos.

Makaton Signs

Something Special a C beebies programme from The BBC has some useful Makaton signs.


www.john Paul.org has a Makaton page 

Free resources from the Makaton website

Animal theme for literacy

BSL alphabet test yourself from HelpKidz learn

Animal Alphabet from Tar Heel Reader

Millionaire Spell Animals from The Whiteboard Room Reading section
Make an animal word dominoes set using a SEN TEACHER template

Animal word search

Simple animal wordsearch both from Worksheet Genius

BSL signs Animals from London City university

Old Macdonald had a farm - A free resource from Makaton. It has Makaton signs for sheep,pig,cow,horse and children.

Animal Makaton signs from BBC Something Special

Animals, transport and vehicles book of signs Makaton £19.99

Free signs from Makaton for Halloween and Nov 5th

from Imagine symbols

The Makaton Charity
is offering 2 free PDF downloads of

Halloween signs
and
Firework Night signs

on their website.

Easter

Makaton has a free download available

Easter Signs and Symbols

Makaton for Christmas

Free Christmas Signs and Symbols are available from the Makaton website

See also my blog entries Christmas and Makaton.

Signing resources

Some resources for signing-

(Makaton /Total Communication)

I use these with my adults with learning difficulties (milestone 4-8 Pre-entry students).

Something Special Makaton signs from C beebies

BSL signs

from Widgit Software

e.g colours, alphabet

To Buy : Signalong

Makaton online shop

Using your college library to buy resources.

I mentioned in my last blog that in my experience College libraries often don't spend a lot on resources for students with learning difficulties and are always pleased when you find a useful resource they can buy. Our Learning Resource Centre ( Library) has recently ordered us some new resources and were very keen to do this . The benefit for our department was that this didn't come out of our budget and we gained some resources available to the whole teaching team.

I have a few suggestions :

Makaton Christmas Carols

Teach yourself Makaton

Shape Up -The Movie

Safety First

The list could be longer but I'll save it for another day. Have you found any good DVDs/Cd's, books or journals to recommend?