Inclusion in Tower Hamlets
Do enjoy your summer break. Please click below for Linda’s guide on supporting communication at home over the holidays.
We look forward to working with you all again in September!
Here is our latest PowerPoint from our 5 minutes for Inclusion Series. We’re looking at the browser extension, Helperbird, which brings personalised support to web pages apps and PDFs to make them more accessible.
Here is our latest PowerPoint from our 5 minutes for Inclusion Series
We wanted to showcase some of the great information, resources and advice available from the NAPLIC website to support communication in your classroom. NAPLIC is a national organisation of professionals which supports language and communication development. We hope you find it useful.
Download the PowerPoint below.
Have a look at the latest PowerPoint from our 5 Minutes for Inclusion Series.
Understanding Blanks levels of questions helps you to ask questions which are at the right level for the pupils you teach. Language comprehension skills are precious and important to a child’s development – they’re foundational to most areas of our lives – so noticing any areas where a child appears to be struggling early on can be extremely helpful.
Download this weeks PowerPoint below.
As part of our “5 Minutes for Inclusion” series, here is a short PowerPoint introducing Immersive Reader, a powerful and free tool built into Microsoft products.
It’s effective at increasing the reading fluency and comprehension of your learners, supporting students with learning differences like Dyslexia, and helping emerging readers build their confidence.
Click below to download the PowerPoint:
As part of our “5 Minutes for Inclusion” series, a short PowerPoint to support a training session containing tips for working with children who have poor memory. Strategies such as
Many thanks to Neil MacKay and “The Memory Lite Classroom” from which these ideas are taken.
Click below:
Why can spelling be so hard for those with dyslexia?
Spelling can be challenging because people with dyslexia can have difficulty in:
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The Learning Advisory Service are marking this week with some online training. We have a session on 4th October from 4 pm
Here is the zoom link:
If you want a copy of the presentation, you can down load it here:
There is also session for parents on ‘Supporting Struggling Readers’ on Thursday 6th October at 10.30 a.m.:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82324191647?pwd=RXRnOXpXekRWRGVnQVY4WEpjMnQrUT09
You can download the slides here
Dyslexia Awareness Week 2022 starts on October the 3rd.
At our last SENCo Conference, Anita Devi talked about how to provide short regular training to improve SEND throughout school. The Language. Literacy and Communication Team will be sharing regular 5 minute training presentations for you to use. The PowerPoints have notes to help with delivery. We are suggesting you use these and then review the following week to see how it has been put into practice.
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Our first “5 Minutes for Inclusion” resource can be downloaded by clicking on the link below.
Make sure that you’ve checked out the other posts in our 5-minutes-for-inclusion series.
Immersive Reader is a powerful reading support tool built into many Microsoft programs, including Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams and Edge. The tool provides a set of features that support reading that are particularly useful for people with literacy difficulties. Best of all, it’s bundled with 365 for free!
The features available within Immersive Reader varies between programs, and you can see them on the Microsoft Immersive Reader webpage. They generally fall into:
Turn on Immersive Reader
Click on “View” and then “Immersive Reader”
Access text preferences
Try the different text preferences.
Grammar options
And the grammar options…
Reading Preferences
As mentioned – Immersive Reader is available in all the office apps. It’s also within the Edge browser on websites that have enabled it. Look out for the Immersive Reader icon in the right-hand side of the address bar. 
Enjoy!