Key Points
This strategy is about supporting your student by breaking tasks and activities up into smaller chunks. Children who struggle to pay attention do better when they have less to remember at any one time.
Plan
- Watch the video and complete the short quiz on chunking learning
- Use the suggestions sheet to think about what you are already doing, and to get some new ideas for what you could change in order to chunk work into smaller bites
- Thinking about the child that you are using the toolkit with, use one of the planning sheets (here is a second option) to think about the different types of work they are asked to do, and suggest how you could chunk this for them using ideas that you put on the suggestions sheet
- Look at your lesson plans for the week and note where those formats of work come up; use stickers or labels, or our reminder icons to highlight where you could include more chunking for the child
Do
- Each day, use your new chunking ideas with the student
- Use the reflection template to note which ones go well and which don’t
Assess
- After a few days, look at the reflection template and decide what changes you might need to make to your first chunking plan, use the review sheet to formalise this
- Include these changes in your lesson plans for the next few days
- Keep filling in the reflection template to see if this makes any further difference
Review
- Review again and make a plan for building in chunking long-term. Consider when will you prepare this (as you make your lesson plans? Every Monday morning?)
- Decide how you will remember or remind yourself to do this
Resources
Editable PDFs
Video & Quiz
Planning sheet (layout 1)
Planning sheet (layout 1)