Quick-Sheet of Ideas for Students with Disabilities

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Reading Instruction & Literature Study

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• Enlarge the text or font.

• Add pictures or rebus symbols to text.

• Use highlighting tape to draw attention to key words or phrases.

• Provide digital text and an electronic text reader.

• Provide an audio version of the text.

• Have the student listen to and retell what was read.

• Provide a summary of the text.

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• Use words from the student’s daily experience.

• Ask the student to write the first letter only during a spelling test.

• Provide magnetic letters, letter stamps, or letter cards for practicing new sounds and letters.

• Have the student use an electronic communicator rather than spelling words orally.

• Teach the spelling strategy: Say the word.

• Try a recognition-only spelling test.

• Have the student match words and pictures.

• Give students small dry-erase boards for practicing sounds, letters, or words.

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Comprehension

• Give students sticky notes to mark main ideas, answers to their predictions, and more.

• Use prediction strategies (“What do you think will happen?”)

• Provide story maps with labeled spaces for setting, characters, problem, and solution.

• Have a student give oral responses, draw pictures, or use AAC to answer questions.

• Ask a student only factual questions—who, what, where, and when.

• Have a student sequence pictures of story events rather than writing or answering oral questions.

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Written Language Tasks

• Give students pictures or illustrations as writing prompts.

• Provide stimulus questions such as “What person..."

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• Provide sentence starters and fill-in-the-blank sentences.

• Pair student with a scribe who can write what the student dictates.