Literacy
Great Free Handwriting Tips from the National Handwriting Association
Before starting any intervention to improve handwriting, please have a read of this useful 9 page free guide from the NHA. Some great ideas!
Good-practice-for-handwriting- a toolkit for teachers
The website for further information is – National Handwriting Association website link
Writing Support – sentence games
What works for children and young people with literacy difficulties?
Evidence Based Interventions
Most children learn to read and write satisfactorily first time through home support and/or high-quality classroom teaching, but what of those children who haven’t?
How are they to be helped? This book reviews intervention schemes that have been devised to help struggling readers and writers, and is intended to inform schools’ and other providers’ choices among such schemes.
The book addresses the following questions:
What intervention schemes are there which have been used in the UK in an attempt to boost the reading, spelling or overall writing attainment of lower-achieving pupils between the ages of 5 and 18, and have been quantitatively evaluated here?
What are those schemes like, and how effective are they?
Click on the link to find out – What-Works for Children with Literacy Difficulties Fifth Edition – Gregg Brookes
The Communication Trust
The Communication Trust is a coalition of over 50 not-for-profit organisations. Working together we support everyone who works with children and young people in England to support their speech, language and communication
A campaigning voice for children with speech, language and communication needs.
