On completion of this course participants will be enabled to:

 

- Understand the key elements involved in effective literacy instruction

- Model key comprehension strategies - prediction, visualization, making connections, questioning, clarifying, inferencing, determining importance and 

  synthesizing with appropriately challenging picture books

- Model comprehension process motions

- Construct "Anchor Charts" as an aide memoire to the individual strategies

- Facilitate children's comprehension through the application of Transactional Strategies Instruction in the classroom

- Apply a range of appropriate comprehension strategies to diverse text genres

- Apply a range of assessment for learning approaches including sharing the learning intention and self-assessment

The course will include:

- Key intervention strategies for developing Speech, Language and Communication for children with SEN

- Developing Social Skills
- In-class support for children with SEN

- Teacher collaboration

- Conflict Resolution Skills - Salt Programme

- Strategies to help with Sensory Processing Disorders

- Strategies to help overcome Handwriting Dysfunction

- Strategies to help Children's comprehension of diverse text genres.