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Additional Support Who do the learning support team work with?

Discover how we provide additional support to students in literacy, numeracy, study skills, and emotional needs, and collaborate with them to improve their learning experience. Explore effective strategies, practice activities, direct instruction, and vocabulary development to enhance their skills. Together, let's make additional support better for our students.

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Additional Support Who do the learning support team work with?

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  1. Additional Support • Who do the learning support team work with? • What do students do during additional support? • Vocabulary • Reading • How can we work together to make additional support better?

  2. Who we support… what we do. Literacy Vocabulary Key words Spelling / SPaG Reading skills Writing Lexia Spellzone Numeracy Times tables Maths Whizz Dyslexia ASD ADD / ADHD Processing difficulties Anxiety Social / Behavioural difficulties Speech & Language difficulties EAL Study Skills Revision Overlearning Pre-learning Organisation Strategies to support memory – (Mind Maps) Supporting Emotional Needs Strategies for dealing with anxiety Self-esteem Developing independence Giving students ‘a voice’ Homework Un-picking tasks Explaining Supporting understanding “complete what we did in class”

  3. Vocabulary see it say it hear it write it • Practice Activities • Direct Instruction • Break the word down – syllables, patterns, colours • Teach / test each other • Quiz / Boardgame • Pelmanism • Cloze sentences / texts • Students produce their own sentences / text • Use visuals and memory hooks • Drilling and modelling • Word maps

  4. Vocabulary – What we do… finite definite definitely peristalsis eschatology es / cha / tol / o / gy eschatology eschatology

  5. evangelical counsels initiation vocation catechism vow

  6. Reading – What we do… Develop language skills • Practice Activities • Speed reading (fluency) • Reciprocal Reading (comprehension) • Paired reading (fluency, confidence) • Age and reading level appropriate texts (confidence) • Manipulating texts (comprehension, skimming, scanning) • - cloze passages, ordering texts, highlighting texts, summarising Develop fluency Avoid social pressure Develop independence Develop confidence Motivate

  7. Reading – What we do… Reciprocal Reading Speed Reading Paired Reading

  8. How can we work together to make additional support better? • Key words / subject specific vocabulary • Exam instructions • Texts used in class • What else?

  9. Command words • What command words are used in your subject? • Do describe / evaluate / explain have the same meaning in Science and Geography? • What exactly are the students expected to do to effectively respond to the command?

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