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. Supporting Emotional Needs
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’
Experienced and well qualified team – NPE trained counsellor, qualified teachers, strengths in different subjects – languages, music, geography, maths…
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. peristalsis finite definite definitely Vocabulary – What we do…
eschatology
es / cha / tol / o / gy
Oral cues – say as write – use different senses
the part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind. – the kingdom of God
eschatology
eschatology

5. evangelical counsels initiation vocation catechism vow
Pictures, drilling, f/up practice activities – matching definitions, spelling..

6. Develop language skills
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
1:1 avoids social pressure
Age and reading level appropriate texts Motivation / purpose
Discussion – for motivation and develop language skills
Cognitive demand – many skills involved in reading -
Decoding – phonics, segmenting, blending
Word recognition
Skills – skimming, scanning, reading for specific information
Reading fluency
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Activate schemata
Identify purpose for reading
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?
Example – RE dept. Department folders – key words?
Google drive?
point of contact re. topics / specific students

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?