Welcome to our on-line resource. Use this site to find helpful learning strategies and resources to use when working with students with disabilities.
To be a successful learner, each student needs to have mastered certain basic skills in the areas of reading, writing, math, and spelling. Below are a list of some strategies in each of these areas. |
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*Practice identifying grade level sight words.
*When reading unfamiliar words, use decoding strategies.
1. Picture walk.
2. Chunk words into parts.
3. Use context of sentence to identify
unknown words.
*Ask questions about the story before, during, and after reading.
*Create pictures in your mind about what you are reading. Use your senses: get a picture in your head, how does it sounds,
how does it smell, how does it taste, and how does it feel.
*Retell the story in shortened form. |
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*Keep a journal at home.
*Write letters to family members or write letters to a pen pal.
*Write beginning, middle, and end of a story or TV show.
*Write about a photograph you took.
*Write a daily journal while on a vacation.
*Organize your thoughts about what you want to write using a web or graphic organizer. |
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*Learn basic addition, subtraction and multiplication facts.
*Cook with your child using recipes to help understand measurement.
*Sort and count money.
*Practice telling time. |
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*Stretch word to help spell.
*Break words into word chunks.
*Look at word, cover word, spell word, check to see if right.
*Note letter patterns in words. |
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STUDENT LINKS TO ON-LINE TUTORIALS |
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PARENT/TEACHER LINKS TO TEACHING STRATEGIES |
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LINKS TO INFORMATION AND BOOKS RELATING TO DISABILITIES |
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Each of us is unique, one of a kind, with special strengths, and sometimes, special needs.
Author Unknown |
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