This resource contains an autism awareness activity pack. It is an ideal resource for Autism Awareness Day / Week. The pack contains six activities. Sensory Sensitivity / Overload This activity begins with watching a short clip about sensory overload. There are two tasks that follow designed for pupils to experience sensory overload when attempting to complete tasks; one is more challenging than the other. Autism Discussion Cards These contain 4 statements about autism designed to provoke discussion and to get the pupils to think about and develop their awareness of autism. They are not true or false statements and there are no right or wrong answers. Communication Difficulties Exercise This is a task designed to simulate the difficulties that many people with autism encounter when trying to communicate. Pupils take part in an activity in which they have to think very carefully about the words they use and what they are saying. What is autism? How Can I Help? Pupils watch a video about autism in which a young man explains 5 things he thinks people need to know about autism and 5 things people can do to help people with autism. Pupils are asked to discuss the five things that the person felt people needed to know about autism and five ways that people can help. Pupils then complete a worksheet. Autism Acrostic Pupils complete an acrostic piece of writing using the word autism as a stimulus. Two acrostic autism posters are included to give the pupils some ideas. An autism acrostic template is also included. You may also be interested in: Autism Awareness Presentation This is a fully editable and interactive presentation on autism and Autism Awareness Day / Week. It includes sections on Social Communication Difficulties Social Interaction Difficulties Rigid Thought Processes Sensory Issues Repetitions and Rituals Obsessions Gifts and Talents Famous people With Autism / Asperger’s There are hyperlinks to videos and clips about: Sensory overload Autism Schools’ Awareness Week A young person and his autism Autism Awareness - Set of 22 Posters Save money and buy all three resources in a bundle at a discounted rate: Autism Awareness Bundle This resource contains an autism awareness activity pack. It is an ideal resource for Autism Awareness Day / Week. The pack contains six activities: Sensory sensitivity / overload simulation activity Autism discussion cards Communication difficulties simulation activity What is autism? How Can I Help? - Video link and follow up worksheet Autism acrostic task

This is a SENCO survival kit to help to implement a whole school approach to SEN. Included is: A staff SEND audit (along with descriptions) for you to audit your staff training needs and confidence in working with students with SEND. A quality first teaching SEND for you to use on learning walks / observations to identify good practice and areas for development. Two booklets for staff - one on supporting students with dyslexia / literacy difficulties, and one on supporting students with speech, language and communication needs. Focus is on quality first teaching in the mainstream classroom. A powerpoint about dyslexia to deliver to staff. A powerpoint about SLCN to deliver to staff. Suitable for primary, secondary and FE. The author is a senior advisory teacher, trainer and writer in the field of SLCN.

39 makaton signs - 1 per week.

This resource contains an editable, 115-slide PowerPoint presentation on autism, Autism Awareness Day (2nd April) and Autism Awareness Week. I had the privilege of teaching and working with many amazing young people on the autistic spectrum for twenty years. People with autism are often misunderstood. Hopefully, this presentation will help others to be more informed about, and more understanding of, autism. The presentation includes sections on: What is autism? Social Communication Difficulties Social Interaction Difficulties Rigid Thought Processes Sensory Issues Repetitions and Rituals Obsessions Gifts and Talents Famous people with Autism The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to: 1. A video that shows what it is like to experience sensory overload. 2. A short video on autism. 3. A short video about Schools’ Awareness Week by the National Autistic Society. 4. A video produced by a young person with autism who talks about five things he thinks it is important that people know about autism and five ways you can help him. A simple text version of this presentation, more appropriate for younger pupils / older SEN students, is also available: Simple Text Autism Awareness Presentation Please note that the watermark on the preview images is not present on the resource itself. If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, I would be extremely grateful if you could leave a review. As a token of appreciation, you can have a free resource of your choice up to the same value as your purchased resource. Just email inspireandeducate@aol.co.uk with your user name, the resource you have reviewed and the resource you would like for free. You may also be interested in: Autism Awareness Activity Pack Set of 25 Autism Awareness Posters Save money and buy all three resources in a bundle at a discounted rate: Autism Bundle

Small posters for each of the Zones of Regulation which help children to identify which zone they are in and strategies to support them in each zone. There are also Widgits to support understanding.

School Literacy Quiz Over 10 rounds and 70+ Questions. Literacy Quiz. A fun whole school english literacy quiz that tests a range of different skills with students working in teams to compete against each other. Let the best literacy team win! This resource contains: ☞ 1x PowerPoint with questions and answers laid out in a professional format (Literacy and essential English skills) ☞ 1x Student Answer Sheet double sided out of /70+ Marks (PDF and PPT Version) and all the answers!! ☞ Contains 10 Rounds: S.P.A.G, True or False, There Their or They’re, Link in Punctuation, Shakespeare Round, Design Challenge and more… ☞ 3 sets of certificates This quiz resource is perfect for lesson time, form time, extra curricular clubs, part of a drop down day or as a fun and educational treat for your class. ✿ A variety of different rounds and different challenges within this quiz for all types of learners to access (something fun no matter what ability) Product code: FUN/C8/QZ/24 ✿ This will last a full hour by the time you get students into small teams and run through the Quiz and the interactive way the answers appear. A tie-breaker is included . Why not check out some of our latest super bundles below: Personal Finance as a young Adult Online Safety + Staying Safe Y12 Survival Kit - Personal Safety Y11 Survival Kit - Revision + Exam Stress British Values Explored Bundle Society, Body Image + Peer Pressure Finance Risk + Online Safety Search ‘Cre8tive Resources’ for support with our library of resources or send us an email. Leave a review and email TheCre8tiveResources@gmail.com for a free resource as a thank you!! Explore all our resources on TES

This is the Teaching Assistant’s Survival Kit - a bumper bundle of resources and information useful for all teaching assistants, new and experienced, primary and secondary. This kit contains 21 different resources. Begin by reading the powerpoint ‘Teaching Assistant’s Survival Kit Overview and Instructions’ which outlines how to use each resource. Kit contains: Overview and Instructions Powerpoint. Task Management Boards Storyboards. Various Essay Planning Templates. Pupil Writing Checklist. Maths Mat or useful Maths facts. Ten Games to practise topic-specific and general vocabulary. Narrative bookmarks to aid reading comprehension. Times Tables fortune tellers - an activity pupils of all ages love. Working in a group powerpoint, discussion and poster - useful when delivering interventions or doing any group work. Plenary Dice - prompts to lead discussions about learning. Phonics / Visual letter recognition games - snap and pelmanism. Information booklet about how to support pre-reading skills. Information booklet about supporting reading skills. Information booklet about supporting spelling, punctuation and grammar. Learning Self-Audit Profile to support students’ independence. Blank wordsearch grid. Information Sheet and activity for students about revision and examination technique. Oral Presentations planning sheets and self-evaulations for students. Goal Setting Template to support students to work towards goals.

Contractions (PowerPoint and Worksheets) - Contractions are easy to teach when you use this entertaining and interactive contractions PowerPoint. Students discover what contractions are through fun games and exercises. 70 Contractions PowerPoint slides 4 Contractions worksheets The slides are fully animated and show how two words blend to form a contraction. This makes the correct placement of the apostrophe easy to understand and remember. By the end of this lesson your students will know exactly what contractions are and where to place the apostrophe when creating a contraction. This is a great PowerPoint for the review and introduction of contractions. Students are encouraged to use their whiteboards throughout the PowerPoint - interactive learning always produces better results. Common Core Aligned: L.2.2c Created by Lindy du Plessis 2016. Single classroom license. Please do not share or place on the internet.

Many children and young people have difficulties with social communication for various reasons. This is a staff CPD session which includes a presentation and corresponding activities. Looks at what we mean by social communication, which pupils have needs in these areas, how to identify needs and what can be done in the classroom. Final part of the powerpoint discusses interventions in this area and things to take into consideration. Links to further resources. Suitable for EY, Primary, Secondary and FE. Mainstream staff - teachers, teaching assistants and leaders. The author is a senior advisory teacher for speech, language and communication needs.

This form can be used to facilitate meetings with parents, set targets for students and review previous targets set. As outlined in the new SEND code of practice, this process has to take place 3 times a year for SEND students - this form evidences and tracks the whole cycle.

The 26 Emoticon/feelings cards are an ideal way to help your children to express their feelings or to recognise facial changes and read expressions. By using the ‘emoticons’ which children now understand through texting, social media and other sources, you can make an up to date version of ‘faces’ cards and children feel less conspicuous carrying them around. Print as large cards for home/school use and in a pocket sized version on a wrist twist which easily fit into a pocket or onto a key-ring. ​ ​​These cards are great for discussing how other people feel, exploring body language and facial expressions These are also available to purchase professionally made on a keyring from my Ebay store £4.99 inc delivery. EBay item number:132146215081

This is a great game for memory and sequencing with the addition of Makaton signs. How to play: One child or the adult starts by saying the sentence starter such as ‘I went to the farm and saw a…’ and adds one of the objects on the sheet (cow) to complete the sentence. The next person continues by saying the previous item (cow) and then something else (sheep). Continue around the group/class, adding one more item to the end of the list each time. The resource comes with 3 games in total, the shop, park and farm.

This unit of work is several weeks for your TA to deliver for a small group of pupils. I have written it for children who need to develop friendships and friendship skills. I hope you find it useful. A TA can pick this up with no explanation or support and should be able to deliver with just an hour or so to familiarise herself, print resources etc. I have also made a game in case your school doesn't have friendship type games. Enjoy your weekend. I hope it saved you some time and energy and that your children learn some friendship and social skills. Thank you for buying from me. I would appreciate a friendly review as I have kept the cost down, please bear in mind the amount of work when you leave my review. All pictures are from Dreamstime Phil17, copyrightfreephotos.com where no naming is required but came from sunmaster or from clipart and are all copyright free.

This is a pupil passport template including anonymised completed examples. Ideal for SEN students. If completed alongside the student it is far more effective and becomes person centered as set out in the SEND code of practice. Sections include: I would like you to know that... I find it difficult to.... It would help me if you could.... etc I started off using these with my SEN students, however, now most students in my school have these and take control of these passports - very powerful tool.

DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) Assembly to support DLD awareness day on Friday 20th October 2023.

Use to break down tasks and instructions. Can be used by a teaching assistant and laminated for easy use.

This is a short presentation on autism. You may also be interested in: Autism Awareness Presentation This resource contains an editable, 120 slide PowerPoint presentation on autism and Autism Awareness Day (2nd April) and Autism Awareness Week. I had the privilege of teaching and working with many amazing young people on the autistic spectrum for twenty years. People with autism are often misunderstood. Hopefully, this presentation will help others, both staff and pupils, to be more informed about, and more understanding of, autism. The presentation includes sections on: What is autism? Signs of autism Social Communication Difficulties Social Interaction Difficulties Rigid Thought Processes Sensory Issues Repetitions and Rituals Obsessions Gifts and Talents Famous people With Autism / Asperger’s The predentation contains hyperlinks to: A video which shows what it is like to experience sensory overload. A short video on autism. A short video about Schools’ Awareness Week by the National Autistic Society. A video produced by a young person with autism who talks about five things he thinks it is important that people know about autism and five ways we can help him. You may also be interested in: Autism Awareness - Set of 25 Posters Autism Awareness: Activity Pack The pack contains six activities. Sensory Sensitivity / Overload This activity begins with watching a short clip about sensory overload. There are two tasks that follow designed for pupils to experience sensory overload when attempting to complete tasks; one is more challenging than the other. Autism Discussion Cards These contain 4 statements about autism designed to provoke discussion and to get the pupils to think about and develop their awareness of autism. They are not true or false statements and there are no right or wrong answers. Communication Difficulties Exercise This is a task designed to simulate the difficulties that many people with autism encounter when trying to communicate. What is autism? How Can I Help? Pupils watch a video about autism in which a young man explains 5 things he thinks people need to know about autism and 5 things people can do to help people with autism. Pupils discuss the five things that the person felt people needed to know about autism and five ways that people can help. Pupils complete a worksheet. Autism Acrostic Pupils complete an acrostic piece of writing using the word autism as a stimulus. Save money and buy all three resources in a bundle at a discounted price: Autism Awareness Bundle

This is a seasonal worksheet that involves pupils making as many words as possible from the longer word ‘reindeer’ to help improve their spelling, writing and reading skills . The resource is appropriate for Years 1-6 as pupils and older SEN students. Different degrees of challenge can be set. For example more able pupils could be limited to 5, 6 letter words, a greater number of words to be found, a timed challenge etc . It could be a team activity too. You may also be interested in: [Christmas Activity Advent Calendar](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/awesome-advent-calendar-take-a-peep-11165176<br /> ) This resource is an awesome Advent Calendar – jam packed full with fun and educational activities. Appropriate for Year 1-6 and older SEN students. All activities can easily be adapted to suit the needs of learners as the PowerPoint is fully editable. There are 14 days to open – all the school days in December before Christmas. The activities can be used as starters, main lessons or plenaries. Also great Christmas armoury for supply teachers, large groups etc. The resource contains a fully editable, colourful and interactive PowerPoint with many literacy based activities including: - Word making activities - Anagrams - Elfabetical – oops sorry – alphabetical order! - Word searches / Crosswords - Santa Stop The Sleigh - Memory Game - word game - Adjectives - Parts of Speech – verbs, adverbs, nouns, conjunctions, - Christmas jokes / riddles - Compound Words - Antonyms - Capital Letters and full stops - Carols and lyrics quiz Most activities contain accompanying worksheets, many with extension activities. More Christmas Resources Thinking of publishing your own resources or already an author and want to improve your resources and sales? Check out this step-by-step guide. How to Become a Successful TES Author: Step by Step Guide To be kept informed of new resources click here and follow!

This is a lovely way for groups of children to join in and learn BSL signs for colours through this popular song. The signs accompany the words to give a form of Sign Supported English (SSE) using BSL sign vocabulary. An inclusive resource and ideal for concerts and school assemblies.