This course will address the common reasons pupils with SEND struggle with writing. Including:
• Motivation to write,
• Development of motor skills for handwriting,
• Sentence structure: grammar and punctuation,
• Organisation of ideas,
• A range of practical strategies to inform provision.

This brand new course is aimed at schools who use PIVATS to assess small steps of progress and who want to develop effective practice for pupils who are struggling with their writing.

This session will consider how to motivate pupils to write and how to support them with developing sentence structure. Being able to write a sentence demands many skills. Even at its most basic level, sentence writing involves thinking a sentence, saying a sentence, holding the sentence in memory, applying phonics to segment words, using word (’finger’) spaces between words, writing along the line from left to right, re-reading to check it makes sense, etc. The list must seem endless to a pupil struggling with this process! This session will consider practical ideas to support pupils who may still be on the journey of mastering the skill of writing in sentences. A toolkit for modelling how sentences are formed allowing children to practise this skill will be demonstrated in order to support pupils across key stages.

SPECIAL OFFER - Delegates who attend PIV407 PIVATS: Supporting Pupils Struggling with Reading, will be charged £150 for both courses