This session explores how to deliver high-impact one-to-one literacy intervention for pupils with SEND at Targeted Plus level. Drawing on real-world practice, it will share practical, evidence-informed strategies to engage reluctant and neurodivergent learners through personalised teaching, meaningful texts and structured approaches that accelerate reading, spelling and writing progress.
With a strong trauma-informed lens, the session highlights how relationships, consistency and emotionally safe environments unlock learning. Attendees will leave with clear, adaptable strategies and insights that can be implemented immediately across schools and alternative provision settings.

Target audience: SENCO’s / Leaders, Practitioners / Support staff, Parents & Carers, Local Authority Staff

Target Key Stage: Key Stage 1-4

Settings Targeted: School, Alternative provision
SEND Focus: Co-occuring conditions - teaching the whole child
Related Policy: 

SEND Code of Practice (2015: 0–25); Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE); Teacher Standards; Equality Act (2010); Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018); SEND and AP Improvement Plan (2023) including Right Support, Right Place, Right Time; Alternative Provision guidance/framework; and the SEND reform white paper Achieving and Thriving (anticipated to be in legislation by October 2026).

Audience Stage: Level 1-3
Learning outcomes: 

• Identify key features of effective one-to-one literacy intervention for pupils with SEND at Targeted Plus level
• Apply practical, evidence-informed strategies to engage reluctant and neurodivergent learners in reading, spelling and writing
• Implement trauma-informed approaches that create emotionally safe environments and support readiness to learn
• Adapt teaching using personalised pathways, meaningful texts and structured resources to accelerate progress