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DLD and information and Resources for schools 

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DLD and information and Resources for schools 

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Gross Motor Skills Development Checklist

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Gross Motor Skills Development Checklist

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Phonological Awareness Skills Test (P.A.S.T.)

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Phonological Awareness Skills Test (P.A.S.T.)

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Two Peas Phonological Awareness Assessment

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Two Peas Phonological Awareness Assessment

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Activities to Develop Expressive Language Skills

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Activities to Develop Expressive Language Skills

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Activities to Develop Expressive Language Skills

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receptive and expressive language activities

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Jolly Phonics guides that explain the programme.

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The Parent/Teacher Guide provides background information on the Jolly Phonics programme and also suggests products that would be suitable for use in the home.
Click below to view on screen and download the PDF:

Find out everything you need to know about Jolly Music and how it can benefit your students and your school in this handy FREE guide for Teachers.
Download the Jolly Music Teacher Guide here.
See how key musical skills can be nurtured in the classroom.

To order your FREE printed copies of the Parent/Teacher guide and the Jolly Music Teacher's Guide, please email info@jollylearning.co.uk and provide your address.

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Jolly Phonics guides that explain the programme.

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The Parent/Teacher Guide provides background information on the Jolly Phonics programme and also suggests products that would be suitable for use in the home. Click below to view on screen and download the PDF: Find out everything you need to know about Jolly Music and how it can benefit your students and your school in this handy FREE guide for Teachers.

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High Frequency Words infographics - Phonic Books

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High Frequency Words infographics - Phonic Books

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Resource bank for teachers and parents - Jolly Phonics

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Based on Jolly Phonics, Cartoonito activity sheets are a perfect resource to help support children while they are learning to read and write. Each sheet provides activities for letter sound learning, letter formation, blending and segmenting. Split into 7 groups, the worksheets contain all 42 letter sounds taught in Jolly Phonics.
To download FREE phonics activity sheets, click on the following: Group 1 Activity Sheets: s,a,t,i,p,n Group 2 Activity Sheets: ck,e,h,r,m,d Group 3 Activity Sheets: g,o,u,l,f,b Group 4 Activity Sheets: ai,j,oa,ie,ee,or Group 5 Activity Sheets: z,w,ng,v,oo,oo Group 6 Activity Sheets: y,x,ch,sh,th,th Group 7 Activity Sheets: qu,ou,oi,ue,er,ar

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Resource bank for teachers and parents - Jolly Phonics

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Based on Jolly Phonics, Cartoonito activity sheets are a perfect resource to help support children while they are learning to read and write. Each sheet provides activities for letter sound learning, letter formation, blending and segmenting. Split into 7 groups, the worksheets contain all 42 letter sounds taught in Jolly Phonics.

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Research shows that many children with trouble learning at school or communicating with others have an undiagnosed condition called DLD.

Imagine making a new friend, learning a new subject, or negotiating yourself out of a tough spot if your ability to use or understand language were a life-long challenge.

On average 2 students in every class of 30 have a neurodevelopmental condition called Developmental Language Disorder or DLD.

Friday 15 of October 2021 is DLD Awareness Day and this year's campaign is asking teachers to #ThinkLanguage #ThinkDLD.

Students with DLD can succeed at school when they are identified and access the right support. But first they need our help.

Please find our FREE Teacher's Kit resources below! You can download a Zipped Folder with all of the Teacher Kit resources or access them individually below.

TEACHER KIT

OR access the resources individually here:

dld Fact Sheet

DLD Bubble Resource

Posters
2021 DLD Awareness Day A3 Posters 2021 DLD AWARENESS DAY A4 POSTERS
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Research shows that many children with trouble learning at school or communicating with others have an undiagnosed condition called DLD. Imagine making a new friend, learning a new subject, or negotiating yourself out of a tough spot if your ability to use or understand language were a life-long challenge.

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Sightwords.com is a comprehensive sequence of teaching activities, techniques, and materials for one of the building blocks of early child literacy. This collection of resources is designed to help teachers, parents, and caregivers teach a child how to read. We combine the latest literacy research with decades of teaching experience to bring you the best methods of instruction to make teaching easier, more effective, and more fun.

Sight words build speed and fluency when reading. Accuracy, speed, and fluency in reading increase reading comprehension. The sight words are a collection of words that a child should learn to recognize without sounding out the letters. The sight words are both common, frequently used words and foundational words that a child can use to build a vocabulary. Combining sight words with phonics instruction increases a child's speed and fluency in reading.

This website includes a detailed curriculum outline to give you an overview of how the individual lessons fit together. It provides detailed instructions and techniques to show you how to teach the material and how to help a child overcome common roadblocks. It also includes free teaching aids, games, and other materials that you can download and use with your lessons.

Many of the teaching techniques and games include variations for making the lesson more challenging for advanced students, easier for new or struggling students, and just different for a bit of variety. There are also plenty of opportunities, built into the lessons and games, to observe and assess the child's retention of the sight words. We encourage you to use these opportunities to check up on the progress of your student and identify weaknesses before they become real problems.

Help us help you. We want this to be a resource that is constantly improving. So please provide us with your feedback, both the good and the bad. We want to know which lessons worked for your child, and which fell short. We encourage you to contribute your own ideas that have worked well in the home or classroom. You can communicate with us through email or simply post a response in the comments section of the relevant page.

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Sightwords.com is a comprehensive sequence of teaching activities, techniques, and materials for one of the building blocks of early child literacy. This collection of resources is designed to help teachers, parents, and caregivers teach a child how to read.

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Handwriting without Tears - Letters and Numbers for me

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Handwriting without Tears - Letters and Numbers for me

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The Jolly Phonics Pupil/Student Checklist is a handy End of Year checklist that can be used in class for assessing the progress of each pupil. Enables teachers to identify at a glance any potential gaps in the children's Jolly Phonics knowledge.
Click here to download your Jolly Phonics Pupil/Student End of Year checklist
Topics covered:

- Check if pupil/student knows the 42 letter sounds

- Check if pupil/student can blend & write regular words with letter sounds

- Check if pupil/student knows capital letters & lower-case letters (sound, name & formation)

- Check pupil/student's ability to read & spell tricky words

- Check pupil/student's ability to read age-appropriate books

- Check pupil/student's ability to write a short story independently

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Resource bank for teachers and parents - Jolly Phonics

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The Jolly Phonics Pupil/Student Checklist is a handy End of Year checklist that can be used in class for assessing the progress of each pupil. Enables teachers to identify at a glance any potential gaps in the children's Jolly Phonics knowledge.

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Two Peas Phonological Awareness Assessment 

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Dyscalculia - Manipulatives - Popits! | Dyscalculia Network

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Manipulatives to use with pupils with dyscalculia and maths difficulties

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Step 1
Contact your childs school to get the application form.

If your school has not received the paperwork they must email the DES quoting their Roll No. asap. The e-address to use is...
homebasedsummerprogram@education.gov.ie

Step 2
The school Principal must sign Part 1 of the form to confirm your childs eligibility.

Step 3
You need to secure the services of a Registered Teacher or SNA who meets the schemes qualification and child protection criteria. The linked page that follows outlines the DES criteria tutors must meet and also how to find a tutor -> Who Can Tutor and how can I find a tutor?

Step 4
Parents must complete Part 2 of the application form.

Step 5
The teacher/SNA must complete Part 3 of the application form.

Step 6
All Teachers/SNAs in advance of tuition starting must complete the Form of Undertaking declaration at appendix 2.

Step 7
All Teachers/SNAs in advance of tuition starting must complete the statutory declaration at appendix 1.

Step 8
The timetable at section 4 should be updated after each days tuition has been completed.

If your child was eligible for the Supplementary Spring Programme, but could not avail of it they are entitled to a 5th week of tuition. Download the additional grant diary sheet from this link.... Grant Diary Sheet for 5th Week

Step 9
The completed paperwork returned after the tuition has been completed.

Step 10
The return address for paperwork is:

Department of Education,
Home-Based Summer Programme,
Special Education Section,
Cornamaddy,
Athlone,
Co. Westmeath,
N37 X659

If you have any questions Contact Us and we'll be happy to assist you further.

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Step 1 Contact your childs school to get the application form. If your school has not received the paperwork they must email the DES quoting their Roll No. asap. The e-address to use is...homebasedsummerprogram@education.gov.ie Step 2 The school Principal must sign Part 1 of the form to confirm your childs eligibility.

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Jigsaw- School Transition Toolkit Primary to Post Primary 

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Jigsaw- School Transition Toolkit Primary to Post Primary 

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School transition toolkit - primary to post-primary - Jigsaw

School transition toolkit - primary to post-primary

School transition toolkit - primary to post-primary
The transition from primary to post-primary school is a milestone in a young person's life.
While exciting it can also bring its own challenges. Jigsaw has developed a toolkit for primary schools to support teachers to prepare young people for the change ahead.

Welcome to Jigsaw's school transition toolkit

The final year of primary school prepares and supports young people to come to terms with the changes that lie ahead and to develop their own coping strategies. This year young people may have missed out on opportunities to develop some of these skills in the classroom due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Young people's ability to respond to change is often related to their coping skills, personal resources, relationships with family and friends and the school environment itself.

What you will find

We have incorporated strategies in a number of engaging resources for you and your class. These include a mix of methodologies including classroom discussions, animations, scenarios, reflective exercises and worksheets.

We hope this toolkit will support young people to feel more prepared for some of the changes they may experience in post-primary school and to support them in developing their own coping strategies to deal with these changes.

School transition toolkit - primary to post-primary

Our partners

Jigsaw's school transition toolkit is supported by Rethink Ireland through the Innovate Together Fund, a collaboration between Rethink Ireland and the Department of Rural and Community Development (via the Dormant Accounts Fund).

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School transition toolkit - primary to post-primary - Jigsaw

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School transition toolkit - primary to post-primary - Jigsaw The transition from primary to post-primary school is a milestone in a young person's life. While exciting it can also bring its own challenges. Jigsaw has developed a toolkit for primary schools to support teachers to prepare young people for the change ahead.

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The following resources were developed to support the home and school based Summer Provision 2021, focusing on student well-being, technology, learning to learn, literacy, numeracy and academic core skills. Some resources cross different key areas and thus can be accessed in multiple locations.

The aim of the NCSE Summer Provision 2021 resources is to support tutors to provide fun and engaging learning experiences for students that focus on consolidating relationships with their schools, supporting physical, social and emotional well-being, developing resilience, building their confidence as learners and developing skills and routines to support successful transition into the next stage of their schooling.

For detailed guidance information from the Department of Education on Summer Provision 2021, see https://www.gov.ie/summerprovision

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The following resources were developed to support the home and school based Summer Provision 2021, focusing on student well-being, technology, learning to learn, literacy, numeracy and academic core skills. Some resources cross different key areas and thus can be accessed in multiple locations.

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101 activities for building self worth

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Indicators of expressive language difficulties in the classroom 

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Indicators of expressive language difficulties in the classroom 

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Free Printables The following freebies are designed for personal classroom use only. Please read my Terms and Conditions.Thank you. Download here. Download here. Download here. Download here. Download here. Download here. Download here. Download here. Popular Resources Check out the full range of fine motor resources here.

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Helping children learn & achieve!

Talking Matters is proud to offer the following resources for your selected category. Simply select any link to download the assocated resource. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please return to our main resource listing page and select another category.

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Transitioning from pre school to primary School 2021

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Transitioning from pre school to primary School 2021

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2021: Transitions support materials for parents | NCCA

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2021: Transitions support materials for parents

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Activities to develop attention and listening skills

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Activities to develop attention and listening skills

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Understanding and Supporting your Childs ADHD

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Understanding and Supporting your Childs ADHD

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Approaching Text with a learner with Dyslexia 

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Approaching Text with a learner with Dyslexia 

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A checklist cannot tell you if someone is dyslexic. It is a tool used to help understand whether there is a likelihood of dyslexia, and whether further investigation should take place.

Dyslexia can only be diagnosed through a formal Diagnostic Assessment. Find out more on the BDA Assessment webpage.

Adult checklist

The Adult Dyslexia Checklist contains questions that help predict dyslexia. The scores for each answer show the relative importance of that question.

Alongside each line you can keep a tally of your score and at the end find your total.

Checklists for learners

Checklists can't tell you whether a learner is dyslexic. They are useful because they outline your learner's strengths and weaknesses, and can help to inform a supportive teaching strategy.
Understanding Neurodiversity: A Guide to SpLD (2nd edition)
Appropriate support should be put in place as soon as a need is identified. A formal diagnosis is not required for support in the classroom. However, a formal diagnosis would help to give a clearer picture of your learner's areas of strength and weakness.

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Dyslexia checklists - British Dyslexia Association

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A checklist cannot tell you if someone is dyslexic. It is a tool used to help understand whether there is a likelihood of dyslexia, and whether further investigation should take place. Dyslexia can only be diagnosed through a formal Diagnostic Assessment. Find out more on the BDA Assessment webpage.

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30  Great accommodations for children with ADHD 

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30  Great accommodations for children with ADHD 

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Top 10 tips for parents of Dyscalculia Children 

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Top 10 tips for parents of Dyscalculia Children 