Supporting Learning (SL) believes education should be engaging, fun, creative and achievable for all. We want you focusing on building relationships and engaging your students rather than creating resources and curriculums, so our workbooklets are visual, active, practical and affordable and the SL themes are relevant, flexible and engaging. We make sure it is about the RIGHT resource, for the RIGHT student at the RIGHT time!!! Enjoy browsing!
Supporting Learning (SL) believes education should be engaging, fun, creative and achievable for all. We want you focusing on building relationships and engaging your students rather than creating resources and curriculums, so our workbooklets are visual, active, practical and affordable and the SL themes are relevant, flexible and engaging. We make sure it is about the RIGHT resource, for the RIGHT student at the RIGHT time!!! Enjoy browsing!
READ IT (1) - is a 26 page workbooklet with many practical every day reading tasks. READ IT is all about communicating with those around us in a range of ways. It is useful to be confident in using reading in everyday situations so that when it happens, students already have some ideas of what to do. Picking out key words, headings and ideas in notes, pictures, videos and text helps us all to quickly understand what key messages are.
Key topics include: types of reading, when we read, reading tools, everyday reading, reading comprehension, putting it all into practice. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also the corresponding literacy WRITE IT (2) and SPEAK IT (3) workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
SPEAK IT (3) - is an 16 page workbooklet with many practical every day speaking and listening tasks. SPEAK IT is all about communicating with those around us using verbal or speaking skills as well as understanding body language and listening skills. We often read or write small amounts of information every day and we often have to share with others. Sometimes we combine reading, writing and speaking skills and to help others understand our thoughts. We often use speaking skills without realising it, so this workbooklet will help you understand what skills you already use when speaking and learn some new ones!
Key topics include: types of speaking, when we speak or listen, speech tools, everyday speaking, putting it all into practice. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also the corresponding literacy READ IT (1) and WRITE IT (2) workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
IT'S ALL ABOUT ME (1) - HYGIENE workbooklet is 16 pages full of 20+ interesting tasks, ideas, personal hygiene, hygiene routines, organisation, products, self-care, female hygiene and problem solving tasks. HYGIENE is an important topic that can be different for everyone. This workbooklet focuses on how and why we shower or have a bath, brush our teeth and wash our clothes to make sure we are clean and smell great every day. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also IT'S ALL ABOUT ME (2) - GETTING READY. This theme also links to IT'S ALL ABOUT CARING workbooklets series - (1) SELF-CARE, (2) CARE FOR OTHERS, (3) CARE FOR PETS
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
DESIGN IT (3) - UPCYCLE IT is a fantastic 28 page workbooklet filled with simple, visual and active tasks all about re-purposing and re-designing objects around us using practical, fun tasks. The UPCYCLE IT workbooklet is all about seeing objects around us and working out how we can take some parts of it and change their purpose and change its look to a new or fresher object. The object often becomes more useful or nicer than it previously was. This fantastic new workbooklet helps students find some ideas for changing some objects and looks at different uses of an object. It is full of creative tasks and their imagination will enjoy exploring new ideas! And maybe they will even be able to make some cheap and fun gifts to give to people so they can enjoy UPCYCLING too!This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also DESIGN IT (1) - HARD (RESISTANT) MATERIALS and DESIGN IT (2) - SOFTER MATERIALS.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
DESIGN IT (1) - HARD or RESISTANT MATERIALS is a fantastic 29 page workbooklet filled with simple, visual and active tasks all about seeing objects around us and working out how they were made, with what materials and what each object’s purpose is. The booklet covers basic design ideas, use of objects, plastic/metal/wood sections and a special design project. Some of our everyday objects are simple and easy to use, and other objects can have fancier or special features made from HARD materials. Sometimes an object may look ordinary but have little buttons or switches we don’t notice at first. DESIGN IT (1) HARD MATERIALS is all about looking at the object carefully and what it has been designed to do. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also DESIGN IT (2) - SOFTER MATERIALS and DESIGN IT (3) - UPCYCLE IT.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
A NEW SEN literacy workbooklet that applies relevant literacy skills in day-to-day contexts. The USE YOUR WORDS (4) - WORK unit of work and student workbooklet is filled with a wide range of modern and young adult topics with embedded literacy skills focusing on work, pathways and work skills perfect for building pathways for SEN students. This workbooklet focuses on using literacy skills within work topics like work options, tertiary options, work skills & pathways, CV's, preparing for work (including non-verbal skills and visual literacy) all in a work related context.
This SEN literacy workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical literacy tasks for students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
See also other SEN literacy USE YOUR WORDS workbooklets such as (1) - DAILY LIVING, (2) RECREATION, (3) COMMUNITY, (5) EDUCATION and (6) - CULTURE & TRADITIONS workbooklets for more LITERACY workbooklets or as the USE YOUR WORDS workbooklet bundle package.
THREE fantastic units of work that focus on keeping safe in the modern world. (1) PERSONAL SAFETY is about everyday challenges at school and home. (2) CYBER SAFETY focuses on using technology and keeping safe in modern times. (3) ROAD SAFETY helps students be aware and alert when on or near roads and with other drivers.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver all these workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning as they work through tasks.
Each workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
THREE fantastic units of work that focus on keeping safe in the modern world. (2) HEALTH & WELL-BEING is about taking care of ourselves everyday and being aware of how we can move around. (2) BODY PARTS & FUNCTIONS focuses on basic anatomy, functions, movement & spatial awareness. (3) CAREERS & OPTIONS helps students be aware of different options that reflect their interest in sport and recreation.
Each workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
Each workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
EXPLORE IT (1) - is a 20 page workbooklet for Special Education students filled with tasks about the sounds and music around us. EXPLORE IT is all about how we use multi-media and technology around us to explore different ideas, themes, events using different sounds and music and how it can make us aware of our surroundings and encourage us to listen.
Key topics include: every day sounds, sounds & emotions, memories, music styles, song lyrics, favourite songs, artists, visuals etc. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also the corresponding literacy EXLORE IT (2) - FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES and EXPLORE IT (3) - TECHNOLOGY & APPS workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
SAFETY FIRST (4) - WATER SAFETY workbooklet is 12 pages with 18 great tasks about SEN students keeping safe in or near water. The WATER SAFETY workbooklet is all about practical strategies for keeping safe every day for students needing simple, visual material to understand everyday challenges. We hear many stories about people getting into trouble in the water or when they are boating. We want to make sure people think first about situations that could get them into trouble in the water and have the right skills and equipment to keep themselves and others safe. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also SAFETY FIRST (1) - PERSONAL SAFETY, SAFETY FIRST (2) - CYBER SAFETY and SAFETY FIRST (3) - ROAD SAFETY workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
LEAVE IT TO ME is a collection of FIVE free worksheets that can be used at any time with SEN students and are perfect as stand alone lessons or to complement existing programmes. This bundle of worksheets has FIVE quick and focused lessons that make students think about themselves, work independently and use literacy, numeracy, thinking and decision making skills. The worksheet bundle is filled with active learning tasks with excellent visual layout for supporting all types of SEN learners. Perfect as stand alone lessons or to complement existing programmes and can be delivered by any staff.
Worksheets included are: I Am What I Eat, I Like It Like This, Days & Months, Clean Me & Mine, If I Could ...
Other worksheet bundles are:
WORK IT OUT (x10 worksheets - Birthday Bingo, Sports Scramble, Sum It Up, Take It Away, Signs & Symbols, Mood Board, Count Me In, Making Music, Reading Recipes, Fitness Log)
LINK ME (x10 worksheets - Sensational Smoothies, Talk It Up, Travel It, Family Ties, ICE - In Case of Emergencies, It's All News, Colour Me Purple, Map It. Walk It., A Special Day, Techno Guru)
OUTSIDE THE BOX (x5 free worksheets - Hunt For It, Virtual Reality, Design & Model It, Experiment It, 101 Ways With ...)
This NEW bundle includes x5 worksheets and is all about linking skills together for students that need support and support across subject areas. Perfect as stand alone lessons or to complement existing programmes.
Five worksheets titled - Celebrate with, Think and Talk, Game It, Ready, Steady …, Create & Display It.
Lots of practical, active, creative and visual tasks to have at your fingertips. For other worksheets and booklets for students needing adapted material or more support, look through Supporting Learning resources.
A 31 page workbooklet for secondary science or special education students. Filled with active, visual and practical tasks about animal cells, human reproduction, male and female reproduction, puberty, menstruation cycle, fertilisation, pregnancy and more.
Workbooklet also includes Additional Teaching Suggestions, Learning Checklists, Learning Feedback sheets.
A 33 page workbooklet for secondary science or special education students. Filled with active, visual and practical tasks about reactions, changes, physical changes, chemical changes/reactions, experimenting with reactions (range of mini-modules), experimenting with science (range of mini-modules), putting it all together and more. With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist science teacher can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, science teachers can add ideas, and many student will self-direct their learning.
Workbooklet also includes Additional Teaching Suggestions, Learning Checklists, Learning Feedback sheets.
GROWING UP (1) - FRIENDSHIPS workbooklet is 10 pages full of interesting tasks, ideas, research about friendships and growing up. GROWING UP is an important topic that can be different for everyone. We all experience different feelings and relationships and this workbooklet is a start to think about growing up for each student. We all have a range of different friends that we interact with, and these friends can change over years or as we move around. Sometimes it is good to appreciate what being a good friend is and how we can improve friendships. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also GROWING UP (2) - RELATIONSHIPS and GROWING UP (3) - CONVERSATIONS
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
FRIENDSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS, CONVERSATIONS - three workbooklets. The GROWING UP bundle are an important topics. We all experience different feelings and relationships and each workbooklet is a start to think about growing up for each student. We all have a range of different friends that we interact with and need to be aware of different relationships and conversations we can have. Sometimes it is good to appreciate what being a good friend is and how we can improve friendships. Each workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed.
RESEARCH IT (1) - SKILLS & THE WORLD is a 30 page workbooklet with 45 practical every day tasks, ideas, research skills to use. It is all about how we find out information and then what we do with it! Every day there is new information around us that we hear for the first time, we link to what we know or it adds to our knowledge. There are different ways we can find out information like talking to people, interviewing experts, listening to coaches, reading information, watching videos etc.
Key topics include: research skills, current and social events, the wider world, presentations skills and 3+ research projects. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also PRESENT IT (2) - SKILLS & SPECIAL PROJECTS and LITERACY (3) - SKILLS MAKING SENSE workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.
SAFETY FIRST (1) - PERSONAL SAFETY workbooklet is 12 pages with 14 key tasks about keeping safe. This workbooklet is all about practical strategies for keeping safe every day. We often face hazards and have to react quickly to keep ourselves safe and it is often a good idea to have thought about solutions to problems before we have to act quickly. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also SAFETY FIRST (2) - CYBER SAFETY, SAFETY FIRST (3) - ROAD SAFETY and SAFETY FIRST (4) - WATER & TRAVEL SAFETY workbooklets.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can also deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning.
This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
FOUR fantastic units of work that focus on keeping safe in the modern world. (1) PERSONAL SAFETY is about everyday challenges at school and home. (2) CYBER SAFETY focuses on using technology and keeping safe in modern times. (3) ROAD SAFETY helps students be aware and alert when on or near roads and with other drivers. (4) WATER SAFETY looks through different everyday and holiday water hazards and strategies for keeping safe.
With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver all these workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self-direct their learning as they work through tasks.
Each workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning feedback sheets.
PLANTING ROOTS is a active, visual and practical workbooklet for students with special educational needs. It offers interesting tasks that explore different seeds and plants, growing plants, recording growth and more. The workbooklet is flexible to deliver by different levels of staff, encourages self-directed learning and has learning checklists and learning feedbacks to provide evidence for assessments.