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sen bitesize - help your child with reading, spelling and maths

SEN Bitesize - Help Through Understanding How to help your child with home learning. Online courses for parents and carers of children with SEN. Discover how to motivate and engage your child in developing their reading, spelling and maths skills.

spellzone

Spellzone unlocks the mystery of English spelling and adapts to all abilities. Students can work on tailored learning pathways at their own pace and on any device.

the training space

The Training Space provide research informed training and resources to the primary sector. We develop and produce a wide range of current, practical and highly effective resources for use within the classroom. About Jane Considine Author of bestselling books, The Write Stuff. Hooked on Books and The Spelling Book, Jane Considine energises and inspires thousands of teachers every year with her unique blend of sparkling effervescence and clear, practical guidance. Approaching her 20th anniversary as an English consultant, Jane is still bringing a wealth of fresh ideas (and clarity) to the effective teaching of writing, reading and spelling. Her aim is always to deliver research informed CPD that makes a difference where it matters; in the classroom.

pure learning

It helps to have the last name "Pure" - it goes with so many nouns - and as a teacher, it made perfect sense to put "learning" after my name. Pure Learning started when my triplet children were four years old. As a reading specialist, who had experience in the classroom and in the private learning center arena, starting a small tutoring business seemed like the logical next step. I could set my own hours, focus on working 1:1 with students who had dyslexia and other learning issues, homeschool my own children, AND I could develop materials along the way - something I always enjoyed doing as a teacher. When I began working as a reading specialist at a Montessori school, I started implementing spelling lessons I had developed. Orton-Gillingham-based lessons with explicit skills instruction involving letters and sounds AND the use of three modalities - visual, auditory, and kinesthetic - were the most effective. Some of my students were strong in one area but weak in another. By presenting all three modalities in a lesson, each student could find their own strength and I could see how my student learned best. The teachers saw the difference the lessons I had created were making in their students' spelling and writing and craved a program that would teach them how to teach spelling AND make sense to the students. From that, Working with Words evolved. Fast forward 20+ years and, today, I can look back and know that this Orton-Gillingham-based, multisensory approach focused on phonics and the six syllable types has been successful with early, struggling, resistant, underconfident, AND strong readers and spellers. Teachers who have used Working with Words better understand the generalizations and rules that exist in spelling English words and how to teach them. What was consistent at the beginning of my teaching career and remains so today is my ener

i was gonnae charity

his week’s #iwasgonnae guest is Professor Eleanor Shaw OBE Associate Principal ( Pro Vice-Chancellor) at University of Strathclyde. Eleanor explains she is left-handed and reflects on her early days at school being told to ‘sit on her left hand and write with her right hand’ and consequently ending up in a remedial class for spelling and writing because of the effect this was having on her brain. Despite this, she ‘really enjoyed school’ but was unsure what #career direction she was wanting to take. She remembers thinking she would like to be an ‘English teacher or even more boldly a writer’. Eleanor tells us of how #Glasgow and the universities have always acted as magnets to her throughout her #life and career. Now as the Associate Principal (Pro Vice Chancellor) at University of Strathclyde she says

a.r.r.o.w. tuition ltd.

A.R.R.O.W.® Teaching Technology is a program that uses the Self Voice to rapidly improve literacy, numeracy, speech/communication skills, English laungage learning, short term memory, listening and attention. It is suitable for all ages and abilities from those with severe learning problems to high achievers. A.R.R.O.W.® is the fastest and most cost effective intervention in the UK, with average literacy improvements of 9 months in 4+ hours. A.R.R.O.W. has been the subject of extensive research since 1975. Results show the following: 1.  Reading and Spelling Skills can be quickly improved and maintained using Self-Voice techniques. 2. The Self-Voice can be used as a major platform for speech/language improvement work. 3. There is a clear link between the replayed Self-Voice and internal speech and/or memory processes. 4. Students listen most attentively to, and/or like, the sound of their own replayed voices. 5. The Self-Voice greatly aids memory recall. The population able to benefit from A.R.R.O.W. includes those with Reading, and Spelling problems, Dyslexia, Autism, Visual Impairment, Deafness, Speech and Language Disorder/Delay, Stroke, Brain Injury, Cerebral Palsy, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other learning and cognitive difficulties.

toe by toe

Keda spent almost all of her teaching career at one school - Sandal Road Primary School in Baildon, UK. She also almost exclusively taught just one age group, 6-7 year-olds; the age that most children pick up their reading skills. This was to become Keda’s great passion - the teaching of reading. Initially, she was baffled as to why a significant proportion of the children in her classes struggled to pick up basic reading skills. To Keda, they were just as bright as the other children but - for them - reading remained a mysteriously difficult skill. Keda always had a keen and inquisitive mind and this question of why some children had difficulties in learning to read nagged at her. She thought that she had somehow failed these students, so she made an offer to their parents. She asked their permission to teach their children at her home - without charge - at the end of the school day. As a result of this offer, Keda’s house was soon overflowing with struggling readers. Keda even designed an extension to her house to include a custom-built classroom and persuaded her doting husband Albert to build it. For the next 30 years, Keda’s house - literally, just a stone’s throw away from the school where she worked - was full of children. Between 4-5pm every school day she looked for ways to improve their reading skills. Keda's All-Consuming Passion At the time Keda began her research into children’s reading problems, few people had even heard of the term ‘dyslexia’. Keda became fascinated by the condition and her private research soon became an all-consuming obsession. She divided the children into two groups. A control group where conventional methods were used, and her ‘guinea pigs’, where Keda tried anything and everything to see what would work. This painstaking process of trial and error became the genesis of what later came to be known as Toe By Toe. Keda had no idea what was happening in the psychology departments of universities. She simply looked at the reading process and pared it down to the bare essentials necessary to crack the code of this ‘reading thing’. This is also why Toe By Toe is so refreshingly free of jargon and psychological gobbledygook. It certainly wasn’t a ‘quick fix’ process. Only after decades of this meticulous approach did Toe By Toe eventually become the fully functioning system we have now. Keda named the system ‘Toe By Toe’ after a grateful parent commented that she could see how it worked: “Progress by tiny steps – almost one toe at a time…”

henry maynard primary school

We just want to say a huge welcome to Henry Maynard Primary School and Nursery. We are a community school maintained by the London Borough of Waltham Forest.