To summarize and
show the major events that led up to the Revolutionary War, you might choose a
time line.
2. Advanced
Organizer- can be an introduction to a new topic, with the goals of
giving students an overview, connecting new information to what the students
already know, and illustrating the organization of the new concept or
information to be processed and learned. Advance organizer can be a task
planner designed to orient the learner to a task by providing organizational
cues, like a sequence of steps to complete the task or a list of components of
the task, or by showing what a product should look like (LEARNet).
Example: Advanced
or Graphic Organizers used for solving math word problems
This website has some good math graphic organizer diagrams to use with student when solving word problems.
3. 3. Test
Taking Skills- is giving students strategies that they can use before, during
and after when dealing with a test.
Example: Test Taking
Skills use that could be used in all core content class such as creating a
study guide.
Scholastic has a lesson on it website that offers test-taking strategies that develop vocabulary, reading comprehension, and language arts mechanics that would be a good tool test taking.
4. 4. Adapting
Textbooks- is a technique that involves making changes to or adding to an
existing text to make it more comprehensible for students with or without
special needs (Vaughn).
Example: Study Guide used for all core content areas
Example: Adapting tests used during a spelling test for a
young student.
The student circles which word they believe is spelled right.
1. tail taile trail
2. maine main moan
3. sei soa say
4.weat wait wat
5. away awai awaiy
Reading Rocket is one of my favorite websites for reading ideas for struggling students. This link is an article on "Introducing Text before Reading" gives teacher ideas on teaching comprehension.
7. Understanding in the classroom text in user-friendly- Teacher needs to evaluate the instructional materials they intend to use in teaching the unit to make adaptations so that students can access the content. (Vaughn).
Visuword is an online graphical dictionary
P-Pick your topic + writing format
L- List in formation ideas to be used in writing.
E - Evaluate - Is the list correct
A - Activate the paragraph with a topic sentence
S - Supply a supportive sentence
E - End with concluding sentence, evaluate your writing.