[senco-forum] Wave 3 intervention

I am a primary SENCO in a one form entry school. I am currently looking to

Hi Karen

An excellent review of this subject, giving you a wide and "what works"
range of interventions and resources is

*Special Educational Needs and School Improvement: Practical Strategies for
Raising Standards (Paperback) *
by Jean Gross<http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-uk&field-author=Jean%20Gross>(Author),
Angela
White<http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-uk&field-author=Angela%20White>(Author)

It omits Numicon, which I think is a fabulous tool for numeracy teaching -
see www.numicon.com  where you can read articles about it - such as research
that shows it brought whole school standards up so high that SATs KS1 were
completely transformed and 50% of children attained a level 3. It has a
structured, cumulative system (in the teaching binders) which is easy to
follow .

Ruth Miskin is an excellent reading scheme.  Published by OUP.  It has
transformed reading levels at our school for those children where there are
no barriers to learning other than the teaching methods used.

Dyslexia Guidance by Turner and Bodien might be of use to you.  That goes
over what has worked for us in our dyslexia unit in a primary school in
detail, refers to resources you can buy and has many practical activities
and a photocopiable resource bank.

Martin Turner pointed me towards:
What works for slow readers? The effectiveness of early intervention
schemes  ...This book is about intervention schemes that have been devised
to help children read satisfactorily.  www.nfer.ac.uk which is well worth
getting.

Philippa

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Karen <karen_thomson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> I am a primary SENCO in a one form entry school. I am currently looking to
> collect a list of available wave 3 intervention programmes for literacy
> and
> any recommendations for what really works. (I know that this varies for
> every child but at the moment I feel as if I'm  constantly re-inventing
> the
> wheel). I also want to start a wave 2 intervention at the beginning of
> year
> one as an early intervention to gently  support children who seem to be
> having difficulties in literacy. I have heard the "5 minutes a day" is
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> effective. Any suggestions?
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