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Bilingual Pupils with SEN

If bilingual pupils are having difficulty accessing the curriculum it is important that schools are able to establish if the difficulty is because of a possible learning difficulty or a language difficulty due to their lack of experience in using English.

The following publication 'Bilingual Pupils with Special Educational Needs - Assessment and Intervention' written by Raz Alpren and Judith McCall is a very good resource which will help teachers to carry out different assessments of bilingual pupils and provides photocopiable resources and lots of useful strategies for whole school approaches, parents, expressive language difficulties, comprehension difficulties, reading and writing difficulties.

This publication can be ordered by phoning 01462 618628.

For further information on bilingual pupils:

• Bilingual - MECSS

Primary National Strategy. Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and Teaching for Bilingual Children in the Primary Years

These materials are designed to support primary schools in developing effective teaching and learning strategies for bilingual pupils. All of the materials are available to download or can be ordered by clicking on the link below.

• www.blss.portsmouth.sch.uk/resources/pns_ealtoolkit.shtml

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Inclusive Teaching and Learning Checklists

The following inclusion checklists, although from the Primary National Strategy, have also been found to be very useful for secondary schools. They can be used in a number of ways: focused lesson observations, school self-evaluation, the sharing of good practice, audit of strengths and areas for development in terms of staff training and development needs, as an ‘aide memoire’ for lesson planning, to identify a whole school/subject focus for improving inclusive teaching and learning.

Checklist for inclusive classroom practice

• Word 2003, 48kb/2pages, 22/05/2007,

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Whole Class checklist

• Word 2003, 66kb/4pages, 22/05/2007

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Dyslexia Friendly Schools

The following document provides guidance on how to achieve a dyslexia friendly school.

• Acrobat pdf, 52kb/7 pages, 25/05/2006, dys_frndly_schls_guid03.pdf