# Quick-Sheet of Ideas for Students with Disabilities

## TO HELP WITH

## Reading Instruction & Literature Study

## Try this!

- 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.

## TO HELP WITH

- 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.

## TO HELP WITH

## 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.

## TO HELP WITH

## Written Language Tasks

- Give students pictures or illustrations as writing prompts.
- Provide stimulus questions such as “What person”

## Try this!

- Provide sentence starters and fill-in-the-blank sentences.
- Pair the student with a scribe who can write what the student dictates.