Useful links for teachers and adults
Resources:
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- Look at the Learning Support options on the home page of Te Kete Ipurangi
- Universal Design for Learning from TKI shows you how to plan efficiently to be sure to cover everyone’s learning needs.
- Everyone’s in is an inclusive planning tool from TKI
- Responding to Individual Needs gives a detailed description to identify and meet your student’s special literacy needs.
- The Myth of the Average explains why it is necessary to plan for a variety of learners.
- Special Assessment Conditions from NZQA covers everything you need to know about using special assessment conditions.
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Science of Reading: how the brain learns to read.
- Great starts for regular teachers: ( both were sent free to schools early 2020) firstly The New Zealand Dyslexia Handbook Tom Nicholson and Susan Dymock. NZCER Press 2015 Also About Dyslexia: Supporting literacy in the classroom. MOE Wellington 2020.
- Dyscalculia – a good explanation of how the brain counts.
- The Sounds of New Zealand English.Watch the videothat demonstrates NZ sounds! A video from spelfabet.com.auclearly demonstrates the 44 phonemes.
- Breakfast show television interview withJohn Campbell: ‘How can our literacy learning improve?’ interview with Lifting Literacy chairperson Alice Wilson and Kaiapoi Primary School principal Jason Miles. 3 August 2021
- An article from the International Dyslexia Association:Structured Literacy: Effective Instruction for Students with Dyslexia and Related Reading Difficulties.
- A study looking at the factors believed to influence Maori student literacy learning: Smallbone, Catherine. SpLD- Silent Learning Difficulties? Factors influencing literacy lerning of Maori students, as identified by teachers, SENCo, and parents. A thesis submitted to Victoria University, Wellington, 2019. The study investigates the possibility of SpLD being overlooked in favour of socio-cultural understandings of low literacy achievement among Maori students.