This workshop will introduce a technique for following a child’s lead within a small group structure and for developing practitioners’ skills in talking with children. The approach allows practitioners to interact in a playful way using a variety of media (actions, objects, pens, and paper) which can develop a range of communication and PSE skills.
Learn how to support students to code their sentences using shapes to support their expressive language skills and how to implement the strategy within classroom practice.
This workshop provides in-class strategies to support you to make your information, instructions and questions as accessible, inclusive and easy to understand and follow as possible.
Attendees will learn how to use colour-coded sentence building strategies as a Universal approach in the classroom, as well as how to set up a Targeted Sentence Building intervention.
This workshop provides in-class strategies to support you to make your information, instructions and questions as accessible, inclusive and easy to understand and follow as possible.
Promoting oracy in the classroom will lead to better reading and writing. This course will discuss the importance of teaching active listening skills, how storytelling can promote better reading skills
This workshop provides guidance on Universal ‘whole-class’ strategies for teaching vocabulary. You will also learn how to set up a Targeted Intervention for pre-teaching vocabulary.
Learn how to support conversation skills within an everyday context within a primary setting.
Helicopter Stories is a powerful, evidence-based technique for developing children’s confidence, curiosity, creativity, and communication skills.
This workshop will introduce this technique in which children dictate their stories to an adult and later the same session or day the children act out their stories from their place round the circle, with no props. In the session you will learn how to run effective Helicopter Stories sessions which have been proven by the Open University to develop confidence and communication skills in children aged 2-5. ?
Support the development of joint attention skills in young autistic children within a small group.
