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Mindmapping™CurriculumeveningThursday17th2016

DeliveredbyLauraHoulihanandShelly

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JanBalletandIundertooktheElklanlevel3SpeechandlanguagecommunicaIoncourselastyearinordertosupportallchildrenwithcommunicaIon.WearenowtrainingstaffaspartoftheLevel4courseandweareaimingasaschoolfor‘ThecommunicaIonfriendlyschoolsstatus’.Aspartofthiscourse,wehavetrainedallTeachingstaffatRaglan.WeareallconsistentlynowusingthesameapproachtoscaffoldandproducemindmapstosupportlearningandcommunicaIon.

Mindmapping™isausefulrevisiontoolforallchildren.However,withthenewSAT’sbeingknowledgebasedandtrickyconcepts/vocabularytolearnusingsuchasimple,buteffecIvestrategycanhelpthechildrenretainkeyinformaIonneeded.Waystouseforrevision:-  Wordclasses(nouns,adjecIves,verbs,adverbs(-  Sentencetypes

-  quesIons,statements,commandsandexclamaIons–beginwithhoworwhat

-  Simple,compoundandcomplex-  Sciencetopicwords–NewNCfocusesonlearningsubjectrelatedvocabulary

andspellingthisaccurately.Usingthesecansupportwhatwearedoinginclassathome.

-  Topicwords–Allclasseshavetheseondisplayandareusedthroughouttheirlearningjourney,sousingthismindmapwillhelpdeveloptheirconfidenceinusingthesewords.

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