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 Special Education Needs

  TEACHING STRATEGIES TO HELP WITH
SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS -

TEACHING PUPILS WITH MODERATE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES

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  • In some schools breakfast and lunch clubs appear to be effective.  Pupils are paired with volunteers from higher ability classes.  Special libraries of graded books are used and pupils work their way through them.  Records are kept and pupils/tutors make a note for each book read.  Certificates and progress awards are presented.

  • To teach spelling use techniques like finding the little words in the big one, breaking words into syllables, clapping the rhythm to work out syllables.

Tips for Students

It is important to get parent's written permission for child to attend a club

Keep a record of any notes sent to parents and also of phone calls etc.

  • Practise the look, cover, write, check method.

  • When writing Education Plans make the targets specific and related to general reading, writing, spelling tasks needed in all cross-curricular areas, e,g, improving certain aspects of punctuation, learning high frequency words, writing a story with a beginning, middle and end.

Useful techniques

Picking out key words/key facts in a written piece of information Brainstorming/Mind Mapping
Sequencing Subject dictionaries
Word walls Cloze procedure
Matching activities  

 

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