[SENco-forum] Reduced price resources

Peter Bryant's research, Oxford Dept of Psychology, found that children who
used plain, uncoloured wooden letters did better.  The only difference
between b, d, p and q in some fonts is the orientation.  The handling of
wooden letters without cues is a very instructive tool.  We use this idea to
build the wooden rainbow then have the child compare their effort against an
alphabet card.  It is self correcting that way.

Philippa

On 10/26/07, SEN at tringham.net <SEN at tringham.net> wrote:
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> Giant Calculator - I know someone was asking and this company are selling
> A4
> sized calculators for £4.99 (page 25 if viewing 8 per page)
>
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> http://www.yellowmoon.org.uk/category.asp?src=NHS251007_14&cat_id=VIEW_SPEC&
> pf_id=&jump=192&sfile=1
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> Also Letterland magnetic letters £2.99 and wooden uppercase letters for
> £1.99.
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> I can recommend that you colour one side of the wooden letters to make
> sure
> that they get correctly orientated (i.e. Q) or get the student to make a
> card set for and they can colour the ones that they have difficulties
> with.
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> Sharon
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