Moderate Learning Difficulties

A learning difficulty that  is used to describe pupils with global delay (learning delay across all areas).

Students typically have difficulties with:

•  Attention and listening

•  Concentration and on task behaviour

•  Literacy and numeracy skills

•  Self-organisation

•  Making links between different areas of learning and generalising to everyday experience

•  Visual, practical and spatial/physical learning

Examples of Resources and Classroom-Based Provision

• Resources, equipment, homework book/diaries make use of consistent symbol and colour coding

• Use of ICT programs and apps to reinforce and revise what has been taught

• Use small whiteboards and pen for notes or to try out spellings, record ideas etc. to support short term memory

• Range of coloured overlays/ reading rulers available

• Coloured paper for worksheets/ workbooks and coloured background on smart board

• Use coloured pens to support learning spellings, identifying different sections of text, one colour for each sentence etc.

• Mark starting point for each line with green/coloured dot or symbol

• Extra reading practice

• Additional writing practise – dictation

• Improve working memory playing memory games

• Cloze procedure exercises to vary writing tasks and demonstrate understanding

• Regular spelling tests

• Focus on high frequency words

• Inform parents/guardians of any new words/spellings so that they can be worked on at home

• Google forms/ quizzes to test new knowledge