Developing Reading skills

There is always a debate about teaching reading at F.E level to students with a learning disability(i.e teach them to use the skills they already have rather than learning using phonics)

If you do want to have a go at using phonics and teaching tricky words here are some links to help you:

• A guide from DFES

Letters and Sounds guidance from Department of Education

• An introduction to synthetic phonics from dyslexics.org.uk

An over view of how and when to introduce the sounds and words can be found at:

• Phonics Play .

• DFES

A contibutor to the TES website has listed all the key words in phase order

• TES High Frequency Words in phase order

And here are a few resources for teaching phonics at the early stages.
Phase 1
An introduction to sound
Phonics Play has an explanation and some free to use games

Phase 2
Decodable words
Games for the interactive whiteboard from TES I board  (now have to pay to access) covering letter sounds in phase 1 and 2 developing Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence mainly as, at, pat, sat, tap





TES Letters and sounds phase 1 and 2 .
A PDF or publisher document. A collection of flashcards for phases one and two printed on pastel to assist dyslexic pupils with their phonics work as well as other pupils experiencing learning difficulties. The collection includes graphemes, tricky words and decodable words.
phonics play free during the Lockdown school closure April 2020
Username: march20
Password: home
 Another game is Picture match, a game Phase 1 and 2 words from Phonics Play




SEN teacher domino template can also be used to make your own word tiles

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

Early number work. Animal theme

Here are some resources for early number skills based on an animal theme suitable for students with a learning disability
Counting to 5 with Widgit. An interactive activity






Animals to Count from Tar Heel reader


Animal Worksheets -Farm theme count how many (needs Boardmaker software)
from Symbol resource.comCount farm animals (up to 2) PowerPoint from the maths section of The Whiteboard room




Also from The Whiteboard room a Smartnotebook Count the animals to 4

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

Coming soon

Diwali 26 - 30 Oct 2011
Halloween 31 st October
Bonfire night 5th November
Remembrance Day 11th November

Children in Need 18th November

Resources for Halloween

• A good list of symbol based resources from Symbol Resources.com
• Online activities from Symbol World
• Halloween signs and symbols from Makaton
• Happy Halloween resources from Sam's Cool tools for the classroom
  

Diwali

• Diwali pictures of Diwali sweets .A free PDF from Topic resources
• A free pack of activities from Widgit
• My list of resources for Diwali
• General list of resources from the TES
  

Remembrance Day
This year Remembrance Day falls at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month of 2011. More details from The British Legion website


Children in Need

• Their website
• My links about Children in Need

Fireworks

• Why we have fireworks a story from Symbol world
• Signs and symbols from Makaton
• Gunpowder plot a free PDF from Widgit
• Fireworks game to develop early mouse skills Mega Sparkles
  

A symbol based resource

Symbol resources.com

A new website with symbol resources to explore.

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