Teaching Students with Learning Difficulties

Knowing how to use ICT safely

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:39:32 PST

Here are some resources for teaching about keeping personal information safe everyday and on the internet.

Safe
A widgit resource from Childnet about Personal Information.

Two short films from BBC Learning Zone which can be used to discuss the information given out and the consequence

online safety part 1

online safety part 2

Personal Information Powerpoints and workbook about information we should share from Communication 4 all ( look under ICT)

Behaving appropriately at Work

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:37 PST

Here are some resources for teaching about behaviour and attitude at work for
OCR Life and Living Entry 3 unit Behaving appropriately at Work.

Northern Ireland Curriculum

Key stage 3 Education for Employability Book 4 page 4.
A work sheet which can be used to record appropriate behaviour and attitudes at work

Thematic unit : Nothing stays the Sam e
Employability .Its up to me Resource 20 : Things to remember page 50,51
2 pages of scenarios to discuss attitude and behaviour at work.

Buses

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:46:37 PST

TES I board
Phase 2 Tricky wo rds

Count us in
Tar heel Reader: We Love buses

A bus joke

A website about buses

Keyboard games

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:15:27 PST

Splat the Clown from Help Kidz Learn
Unfortunately you now need to register before you can play this free games on Help Kidz learn.

Frog Game

Balloon Bang! from Shiny learning

Coin recognition

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:54:41 PST

Some coin recognition activities
from Crickweb

Money snap level 1 from BBC

Art Competition theme: world music festival

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:26:12 PST

The brief is to come up with an image to use on The Wild Things website. The image will help to launch the next Wild Things compilation featuring new music made by musicians with learning disabilities from around the world.
The image needs to be of an imaginary ‘world music festival’ and will be the main feature of the project on the website, along with a compilation CD.

Further Information here

and Easy read here

Relationships

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:35:54 PST

Jump Cuts have a new film:

Moving On (Relationships & Sexuality training DVD)

5 real life stories about relationships and sexuality from people with a learning difficulty. The stories cover different issues in relationships:

Michael wants a girlfriend but is stuck in the grey zone.

Phil and Ali are moving in together.

Jo has never talked about it, since it happened.

Anton says it’s just a label.

Dan thinks they’re ready but Sue is not so sure.

Includes a menu of specially devised questions to accompany each story and promote discussion.

Review of the year 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:22:33 PST

Zeitgeist 2011: Year in Review

It was great. Oh yes it was !

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:09:36 PST

image: ARASAAC PICTOGRAMS
My colleague Phil and the Entry 2/1 students have just performed Cinderella as part of their Wednesday afternoon enrichment . There were no lights,scenery, stage or parents and in parts the performance was a little shaky but overall it was a triumph.The students have so enjoyed preparing the performance. It has been the highlight of the term and a fine example of embedding learning into a meaningful context. We have seen students writing cast lists, writing out the story, script reading, memorising lines, talking in sentences, contributing ideas, actively listening, working with others,learning about story structure and the tradition of pantomime. All done with lots of laughter. Thank you Phil !

Christmas Very fast mouse skills !

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:19:49 PST

Christmas games for those with fast mouse skills.

TES i board
sort the presents by shape colour or number

Click on the reindeer noses to play a tune.

Christmas Mouse skills

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:59:03 PST

Press to reveal ! a demo game (2 screens, santa and presents) from
Shiny Learning Click the mouse or use with a switch or space bar.

Also from Shiny learning singing sheep

Help Kidz learn What's behind th e present (no need to register)

REGISTER to play . REGISTER to play . REGISTER to play .

Christmas Presents from Help Kidz learn . REGISTER to play . Use switch or mouse

Rudolph

Can you put Rudolph back together. Drag and drop activity from NGFL

REQUIRES ADOBE SHOCK WAVE REQUIRES ADOBE SHOCK WAVE

Decorate the Chr istmas Tree A drag and drop activity from Funranch.com
requires Adobe shockwave

Extras:

Some You Tube Xmas videos on My Sqworl

Art Attack Christmas theme video

A resource for the interactive whiteboard

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:20:41 PST

Have you explored TES iboard ? There are lots of games for literacy, numeracy, ICT as well as some useful resources under science.

Safety Poster Competition

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:21:02 PST

AOSEC Competition for learners with learning difficulties and / or disabilities

Students with a learning disability who study at colleges in the South East of England can now enter a poster competition on the theme 'Keeping safe'

Further details on the AOSEC website
Closing date 1st December 2011.

1st PRIZE £100.00 Love to Shop Vouchers

Changes on Help Kidz Learn . WARNING !

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:33:04 PST

I have recommended lots of games on Help Kidz learn. Unfortunately you now need to register before you can play the free games. You also have to sign in to access the games which will make using the games more difficult. So be prepared . Register now and be ready to sign in all your students every time!

Developing Reading skills

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:42:48 PST

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 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.

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:15:53 PDT

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

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:16:14 PDT

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

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:59:00 PDT

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

Coming soon

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:33:55 PDT

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

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:31:48 PDT

Symbol resources.com

A new website with symbol resources to explore.

Keyboard game

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:35:07 PST

Splat the Clown from Help Kidz Learn
Unfortunately you now need to register before you can play the free games on Help Kidz learn. You also have to sign in to access the games which will make using the games more difficult. So be prepared . Register now and be ready to sign in all your students every time!

Animal theme for literacy

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:01:33 PDT

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

Computer Skills and Music

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:34:20 PST

Music which can be activated using a switch or the space bar

Madagascar

Chicken Little

Eastenders

More Music Videos from Priory Woods

Music using the mouse
Peeping Musician from Help Kidz learn
Unfortunately you now need to register before you can play the free games on Help Kidz learn. You also have to sign in to access the games which will make using the games more difficult. So be prepared . Register now and be ready to sign in all your students every time!
Useful for developing mouse skills

Retail

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:47:00 PDT

Here is a quiz worksheet on Shop logos.

And an answer sheet

Here is a quiz sheet on supermarket logos

Easy version also available

Online shopaholic quiz opens as an Excel document. Entry3

See my other blog entries on shopping

Key words for Gardening

noreply@blogger.com (Vienna) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:21:12 PDT

Gardening Key words on My Box net