Support literacy and numeracy using recommended approaches
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Key areas students may need support’
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Use recommended reading activities
Use recommended reading activities
Examples of recommended activities to support reading for students with Down syndrome.
- Make short phrases of 2–3 words using previously-learned words. Select words that will have high interest for the student.
- Create sentence strips or Velcro-backed cards. Students can copy a sentence structure to make their own sentences in response to an image.
- Create books with students based on the sight words and sentences they are learning. Give students frequent opportunities to read them.
- Play games using sight words; practise in relevant settings.
- Emphasise and provide practice reading connecting words – for example, “and”, “or” and “but”.
- Use repetitive sentence patterns to help match words to pictures, sequence, predict and expand on their sight words – for example, “I like …”.
Adopt practical hands-on approaches
Adopt practical hands-on approaches
Strategies and practical ideas to support beginning readers with Down syndrome.
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Build phonics skills
Build phonics skills
Activities to support the development of phonics skills and reading fluency.
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Build auditory memory
Build auditory memory
Reading strategies for building auditory memory and sound discrimination for students with Down syndrome.
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Take a multi-sensory to teaching numeracy
Take a multi-sensory to teaching numeracy
Allow students to develop concepts using all their senses.
Connect activities to real life whenever possible.
- Use concrete materials and hands-on activities.
- Maximise the use of visuals and support learning with visual materials, cues and supports where possible.
- Break tasks into small component steps and provide lots of practice and reinforcement.
- Find extra activities to practise and consolidate skills in a range of contexts.
- Revisit and consolidate previously-learned skills before introducing new material that builds on them.
- Relate mathematics to daily living skills wherever possible.
- Use simple language – explicitly teach the language of mathematics alongside the concepts.
- Use app games for skills practice – they increase motivation and allow intensive repetition of skills.
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