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Learning Disabilities Handout

This document provides teaching strategies for improving student attention, reading comprehension, writing skills, mathematics abilities, and oral expression. It recommends techniques like encouraging physical activity and technology use to boost attention, using graphic organizers and self-questioning for reading, breaking writing into steps and using feedback for improvement, practicing math subskills through games and multiple representations, and providing outlines or cues to aid oral expression. The overall strategies focus on engagement, comprehension, practice of skills, and self-monitoring for academic growth.

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Learning Disabilities Handout

This document provides teaching strategies for improving student attention, reading comprehension, writing skills, mathematics abilities, and oral expression. It recommends techniques like encouraging physical activity and technology use to boost attention, using graphic organizers and self-questioning for reading, breaking writing into steps and using feedback for improvement, practicing math subskills through games and multiple representations, and providing outlines or cues to aid oral expression. The overall strategies focus on engagement, comprehension, practice of skills, and self-monitoring for academic growth.

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Chapter 7 Notes

Attention

Mental energy
o ____Seating________
o Physical activity

processing
o Provide ongoing reference
o ___Use technology______
o Review notes after instruction

___Production_____
o Encourage self-assessment

Correct your own papers

Reading

Play word games

Read aloud everyday

____Model reading as enjoyable_______

Put learning to use

Decoding
____reinforce site words_________

Comprehension
o Focus on important information and use self-questioning strategies

Retention
o Use re-reading for remembering

___Production___
o C.O.P.S.

Capitalization, organization, punctuation, spelling

Writing

____Graphomotor___
o Help child find right writing instrument
o Provide technology
o ____Practice Forming Letters____
o Make not taking more manageable

Attention
o Emphasize key information
o Use the P.L.A.N. strategy

___Preview assignments. List main topics. Assign an order for topics. Note
ideas.______
o Help children stay focused

___Language___
o Read writing aloud
o Practice elaboration

Memory
o Break writing assignments into steps
o Teach mnemonic strategies

High order cognition


o ___Encourage brainstorm_____
o Graphic organizer
o Use sentence starters

Production
o Set goals and record progress
o Provide consistent feedback

Mathematics

Memory
o Practice sub skills
o __Use games and objects
o Teach math in more than one mode

Visually, verbally, experientially

Language
o Mnemonic strategies

____T.I.P.S._____

Think (read and paraphrase), Information (what numbers and


information do you need in order to solve the problem), Problem,
Solve

o Problems into childs own words

Attention
o Self-checking
o __Self -motitoring____
o Isolate steps

Focus on one step at a time

o Use technology

Online math games

____Production_____
o Use step wise approaches
o T.I.P.S.
o Provide models of assignments
o __Use assignment books_____

SpecificTeachingStrategiesforOral
Expression

for students who use only simple sentences/have grammar


errors:
_____Repeat and correct them_______
______Expand their sentence_______________

for students who frequently respond and appear anxious to


speak:
provide nonverbal methods of response to increase their
confidence provide sentence completion sam was happy
because he got ______
_______Difficulty organization what they need to say___________:

provide an outline
give time to prepare their response
students who have word finding problems:
emphasize ____vocab task___
suggest a word the student might be trying to think of
students who have poor social communication skills:
pair them with a mature peer
have written or picture cues for behavior or __Classroom rules___

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