This project focused on how to promote a culture of inclusivity by supporting practitioners in learning more about neurodiversity with a view to generating a resource that would enhance learners’ reading skills.

This guide has been created by specialist English practitioners with considerable experience of delivering GCSE English Language across a wide range of abilities, including low-level learners, in the further education sector. 

The aim of this guide is to provide resources and ideas that will encourage low-level learners, with a grade two or below at GCSE, to read fluently and write effectively. 

This resource focuses on the basic skills required for low-level learners to be able to improve their skills in:

Through storytelling, people with different perspectives can come together and share their common humanity, hopes and goals. The act of telling stories, listening and being listened to in itself, has a positive impact on those learning and working in the SEND system.  This publication,  Small, powerful everyday things – conversations of humanity in the SEND system, gives us an opportunity to read stories from the perspective of learners, their families and professionals working in the SEND system and to think about how storytelling might inform your work.

This guide, developed with and for colleges will help you to self-evaluate the effectiveness of your provision for learners with special educational needs and disabilities.