Literacy
Literacy – strategies, provisions and interventions
- Improving Literacy in key stage 1 – Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
- Improving Literacy in key stage 2- EEF
- Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools – EEF
- EEF – Promising Projects – reviewed literacy and learning interventions
- Effective educational intervention database – Evidence 4 Impact – reviewed literacy and learning interventions
- Choosing a Phonics Teaching Programme – GOV.UK – Department for Education
- Validated Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme Providers – GOV.UK – Department for Education
- Call Scotland – iPad Apps to Support Literacy difficulties 2023 (PDF), free to access
Literary Assessment
Reading
Strategies, provisions and interventions
- Teach your Monster to Read – iPad-based intervention, free phonics, reading and mathematics games
- Education Recovery Interventions – National Literacy Trust
Reading assessment
New PiRA– Progress in Reading Assessments for key stage 1 and key stage 2 – Hachett Learning – at a cost
Reading training
- Teaching English: How to teach reading – British Council
- Courses for educators – Helen Arkell
- Primary Reading: Inspire a Love of Reading – The National College, needs a subscription
- Raising Standards in Reading Comprehension- National Literacy Trust
- Reading for Learning – Secondary Online CPD – National Literacy Trust
- Primary Reading: Develop Reading Comprehension Skills The National College, needs a subscription
- Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Ready for Secondary School – The National College, needs a subscription
Spelling
Spelling: Why we need to ditch spelling lists – TES, subscription required
Spelling training
- Practical Solutions Plus – Spelling (Virtual and eLearning) – British Dyslexia Association, £120 online training
- Spelling – BBC Teach – lots of short videos for different spelling patterns and rules
See the videos below for more information:
Writing
Strategies, provisions and interventions
- Outstanding Teacher Training – Talk for Writing – at a cost
- Spelling Rules, Riddles and Remedies: Advice and Activities to Enhance – Routledge by Sally Raymond
- Big Writing – Andrell Education – Big writing intervention by Andrell Education, at a cost
- Write Dance – handwriting for early years and infants, at a cost
- Writing Beach – Nessy – games, videos, printable resources, develop writing skills in a structured step-by-step system, for ages 7 and over, at a cost
Writing Assessment
GAPS: Progress in Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Assessment – Hachett Learning – Rising Stars
More information
You can find out more on the Dyspraxia Foundation website.
Writing training
- Improving writing in key stage 2 – National Literacy Trust
- CPD: Supporting struggling writers – TES, for supporting 14 to 16-year-olds
Numeracy
Education Education Foundation (EEF) resources
- Improving Mathematics in the Early Years and key stage 1 – Education Endowment Foundation
- Improving Mathematics in key stages 2 and 3 – Education Endowment Foundation
- EEF blog: Promoting high-quality talk in Maths – Education Endowment Foundation
Numeracy Assessments
- Dyscalculia Screener – GL Assessment
- The Dyscalculia Assessment – Jane Emerson, Patricia Babtie – Google Books
- More Trouble with Maths – Steve Chinn
- New PUMA – Progress in maths assessments for key stage 1 and key stage 2 – Hachette Learning
Numeracy training
- Number Sense and Place Value – University of Cambridge, nrich
- Top Tips to Teach Number Sense Well – Rainbow Sky Creations
- Number Sense Activities for the Classroom – WeAreTeachers
- Teaching Number Sense – Over 50 Free Hands-on Learning Activities – Sea of Knowledge
- What is Number Sense? The Key to Strong Math Skills – Teaching with Jillian Starr
- Modular CPD (Recognised Teacher): Introduction to dyscalculia – Nasen
Cognitive Barriers
- Guide to Executive Function – National Center for Learning Disabilities e-Book, free to access
- Understanding how Working Memory Problems Impair Classroom Learning – University of Cambridge, free to access
- Working Memory in the Classroom – Gathercole and Alloway, 2007 (PDF)
Strategies, provisions and interventions
- Developing Memory Skills in the Primary Classroom – Routledge, at a cost
- Sensory Processing Handbook, free to access
Cognitive barriers training
- Working Memory Training – Support Services for Education, on-demand, at a cost
- Executive Function Training – Support Services for Education – e-learning, an overview of Executive Function Skills – Working Memory, Planning and Prioritising, Organisation, Metacognition, Impulse Control, Emotional regulation, Task Initiation, Flexibility
Who else can help
Somerset Inclusion Advice Line 0300 123 2224.
Talk to your child or young person’s class teacher, they may be able to offer support and advice. Every school has a SENCO and you can arrange to discuss your concerns with them.
A team of advisory teachers with specialism in Specific Learning Disabilities (SpLD), and cognition and learning difficulties can be contacted by email at accesstoinclusion@somerset.gov.uk.
Training
- Somerset Access to Inclusion Training– Support Services for Education – Training
- Webinar: Teaching Children with Cognition and Learning Needs – Whole School SEND, free with login