School Age & Post 16 Training – Supporting Progress with Reading and Reading Comprehension for Pupils with Down Syndrome

This session will look at how to work with the strengths of the specific learning profile associated with learners with Down syndrome so as to maximise success around:

• building sight vocabulary
• enabling progress with reading comprehension
• scaffolding progress with comprehension and sentence composition using the Colourful Semantics approach: teachers share their experiences
• creating access to whole-class reading

We will have input from teaching staff who will share their experience of using Colourful Semantics as teaching strategy for pupils with Down syndrome and will also be looking at how literacy targets can offer access to whole-class content across the curriculum.

As these principles apply at varying stages of progress in literacy, this session is suitable for staff working at Key Stage 2 to 4.