Moderate Learning Difficulties

Present information in small chunks

Keep language simple, clear and precise

Ask the pupil to repeat instructions back

Keep to a regular routine

Scaffold the learning, ensuring opportunities for independence

Allow additional time for students to process information and instructions. 

Make use of writing frames

Ensure phonics are overtaught

Embed the concept of place value, number bonds to ten and times tables first

Ensure new teaching is revisited

Use pre teach or precision teach

Use concrete and visual objects in lessons

Ensure that new concepts are explicitly talked about in different scenarios

Use prompts, visually, verbally or written

Recap prior learning at the beginning of each lesson

Use examples of safe and unsafe items and situations.

Link new vocabulary to already learnt and understood words – use visual cues to help

Keep language clear and concise

Correct mispronunciations by repeating the sentence and enunciating correctly

Provide activities and games to promote motor skills.

Provide alternative means of recording eg: labelled pictures, diagrams, flow charts and mind maps

Provide easy use scissors

Consider using pen / pencil grips

Use verbal prompts to prepare for any motor skill use - shout the name before throwing a ball; use a cue word for finder spacing etc

Use paired learning with appropriate role models. 

Correct but use a restorative approach

Be consistent in boundaries

Use a buddy approach so the students feels included.

Agree on a time out strategy

Use the incredible 5 point scale so the pupil can identify their emotional response