Here are 9 top tips for teaching pupils with special educational needs and disabilities:
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Start with spoken language – we want to be understood!
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Centre grammar around a text – let children discover aspects within their reading.
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Encourage investigation and thought – “why did the author write like that?”
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Teach explicitly when you need to.
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Know the curriculum – what is relevant for your year group and what foundations is it built on?
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Allow pupils time to experiment and try out new knowledge in their writing.
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Challenge students to think like a reader as well as a writer.
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Remind children that writing is full of choices, e.g. a carefully chosen noun could be more impactive than a noun with two modifiers.
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Use correct terminology consistently across the curriculum to embed meaning.