Teaching tools to help sts with SEN handout

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MSD 7, Dickens Institute
Teaching Techniques:
Tools for helping students with special
educational needs
General accommodations:
 give more time
 give short, concise, linear instructions, one task at a
time
 give handout of whiteboard work
 materials should be well-structured / clear / linear with
logical, predictable progression
 involve a minimum of jumping about (eg backwards
and forwards, from box A to box B etc)
 have sentences on single lines where possible
 keep new language to a minimum
 provide review and consolidation
 avoid too much contrastive word input (eg their /
there / they’re )
 avoid tasks designed to ‘catch out’ or ‘test’
 be multi-sensory and multi-media where possible
 have larger, dyslexic-friendly font / larger spacing /
darker background
Vocabulary
Use colour code rather than terminology (Noun=red, verb=Green, adjectives=blue for
example)
Word formation games
Vocabulary box
Rhymes
Word search games
Other ideas:
Contact Information
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Online resources
www.ldao.ca
www.dyslexia-teacher.co.uk
www.interdys.org
www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
www.dyslexia-parent.com

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Grammar
Use PPP (Presentation, practice, production)
Contextualised in a short text
From manipulative practice to freer practice
Grammar games
Other ideas:
Reading
Break down text in smaller units
Pre-reading: work on previous knowledge and vocabulary from text
While reading: short answers questions, multisensory tasks
Don’t ask them to read aloud!
Other ideas:
Writing
Pre-writing tasks: brainstorming and outline
Use model texts and analyse them
Review vocabulary and structures needed for that writing task
Other ideas: