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25 April 2024
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Support processing and planning

Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Using whole-class strategies to support students with speech, language and communication needs in years 1–8’

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Use visual timetables

Use visual timetables

Linda Ojala uses visuals in a whole range of contexts across her classroom.

They are a key part of supporting students to know what is happening and organise themselves.

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Support attention, focus and independence

Support attention, focus and independence

Aim to increase student independence by providing just enough support. Build these approaches into the way you teach.
  • Break learning into short, focused and clearly defined tasks.
  • Vary the level of demand from task to task.
  • Provide clear instructions that are visually displayed and can be easily returned to.
  • Vary the level of support as necessary and teach buddies how to provide support.
  • Provide a variety of technologies to support learning, for example, an iPad or a computer.
  • Create an activity box for times when the student needs a change of activity or time out.

Support thinking

Support thinking

Tools and approaches to help students to recognise patterns, critical features, big ideas and relationships.

  • Explain new concepts clearly; take the time to order or sequence information simply and clearly.
  • Reinforce abstract concepts with visual and concrete materials.
  • Use a mixture of telling, explaining and directing to convey information and instructions.
  • Highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas and relationships using visuals, mind maps, 3-D manipulatives, outlines, flow charts and real objects.
  • Give students multiple opportunities to engage with new ideas and concepts.
  • Use mind maps to brainstorm ideas and make connections.
  • Support group and class discussions with visual annotations to prompt later recall of key ideas.
  • Offer students a variety of graphic organisers and flow charts to support thinking in all curriculum areas.

Useful resources

Useful resources

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Representation

This series of pages lists free tools, with details about each option. Use them for inspiration as you seek to increase the number of ways information is represented.

Publisher: British Columbia Ministry of Education

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Free graphic organiser templates

Free graphic organiser templates in pdf format.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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