Teacher Resources

Permit controlled movement

Change classroom setup - move student away from distraction

Allow student to act as time manager

Permit doodling when appropriate

Allow use of tactile objects- silly putty, string, etc.

Have student sit near the teacher

Give headphones, study carrels

Frequent monitoring by teacher

Reminder wall charts and cards

Permit breaks to relieve fatigue

Capitalize on strongest modality

Work with parents to try to establish consistent sleep pattern

Give graphic organizers, outlines

Medication

Different School Setting

• Cue student in to directions (eg. "This is important…")

• Teach/allow student to move away from distractions and find a place where he can manage

• Encourage eye contact

• Have student repeat directions

• Have student exercise or move around before sitting and attending

• Give warning before transition

• Referral to a psychologist, neurologist, pediatrician

• Teach/encourage note-taking during discussion

• Behavior modification - charts, stars

• Give examples of standards of work

• Monitor & record "on-off" times

• Cue operational signs, decimal points, negatives, etc.

• Use of calculator to check answers correction

• Exercises in editing/proofreading; challenges to locate errors

• Teach student to underline significant "little words" or tricky syntax in word problems

• Teach student to draw visual image of math problem prior to beginning

• Partial credit given for each error found and corrected

• Give student total number of errors to find

• Give proof-reading chart for checking writing

• Use alarm clock, watch, timer

• Break process into manageable parts

• Post schedule

• Consistency in scheduling

• Teach prioritizing, list-making

• Positive recognition & credit for task completed successfully

• Give & teach use of assignment book

• Post time line

• Computer software - interactive games

• Teach key words signaling time order (first/second; in the beginning, finally, yesterday, after that, etc.)

• Give oral directions one step at a time

• Post homework, schedule

• Teacher/parent monitor student's organization; help them become accustomed to being organized

• Computer software (Inspiration) to brainstorm ideas and organize into outline before writing

• Have student repeat directions before beginning activity - use verbal cues

• Demonstrate an activity by orally explaining and visually showing

• Drill students in skip-counting as a way of remembering math facts

• Teach use of mnemonics for remembering ordered events

• Put directions into a song

• Use Time & Accomplishment Record

By-Pass Strategy

Intervention

• Allow student to make his own patterns rather than following given pattern

• Eliminate copying from the board

• Teach /encourage keyboarding

• Supply special lined paper

• Supply ruler or other devise for organizing writing

• Have student "talk himself through" a visual/spatial problem

• Use words to describe motions in letter formation

• Provide incentives / prizes/ privileges for writing

• Teach student to use spell checker or Franklin Ace

• Practice to "over-learn" high-frequency sight words

• Practice spelling by teaching student to recognize correct word among choices

• "Sentence Doctor" or other proof-reading practice

• Teach student phonics patterns and show how to proof-read, using phonics

• Write spelling words on partner's back

• Teach technique for practice: see it, say it, write it

• Software: Inspiration

• Teach semantic mapping

• Teach visualization, imaging

• Supply student with alphabet strip as a model for writing letters

• Provide verbal input to "talk through" a pattern

• Teach / show by analogy (cat Þ bat)

• Use magnetic or movable letters to show relationships between words

• Use tape-recorder to record and practice recalling information

• Allow student to write in his book as he reads, highlighting important facts

• Give math chart or grid to use while solving story problems

• Allow use of calculator

• Teach mnemonics to memorize facts

• Teach rhymes, songs to help remember

• Have student over-learn facts

• Teach student to connect new knowledge to prior knowledge

• Help student cross-index new data

• Give student warning / time to practice his presentation or input

Use tape recorder to practice / monitor reading with phrasing & fluency

• Use flash cards for high frequency sight words and math facts

• Computer games, instructive & practice software

• Remind student, "This is important."

• Supply outline of course / subject

• Teach techniques to preview chapters and questions before starting to read

• Teach student to read questions before starting passages on a comprehension test

• Teach student to make list of questions before starting to read

• Teach student reporters' questions: who, what, where, when, why, how

• Teach underlining

• Stimulant medication

• Alter chunk size

• Present new material in more than one format

• Preferential seating, eye contact, repetition of input

• Classmate's notes or teacher handout

• Teach note-taking skills

• Teach outlining, list-making skills

• Practice paraphrasing & summarizing

• Mnemonic self-testing techniques while studying

• Emphasize making charts, tables, diagrams while studying

• Stimulant medication

• Stress doing one thing at a time

• Use checklists for multi-step tasks

• Use of advance organizers during reading

• Teach self-monitoring skills (i.e. "What have I left out?")

• Use of assignment books and checks

• Practice mental math problems

• Repeat question several times before trying to answer it

• Practice summarization skills for reading, listening, and experiential activities

• Provide more time for recall

• Substituting recognition memory for recall

• Open book tests, portfolios, other alternative means of assessing knowledge & skill

• Allow use of calculator in math

• Use of word processor for writing

• Use of computer for graphic representation of material to be consolidated

• Tutorial support that stresses material learned months earlier, to fortify consolidation

• Drill and practice, especially of paired association

• Do activities that stress searching for familiar patterns

• Training in systematic study and self-testing techniques to enhance strength of consolidation

• Opportunities to create tests involving memory of recently learned material

• Greater stress on experiential learning

• Practicing categorizing & classifying

• Time studying for optimal consolidation (before sleeping, early morning, etc.)

• Encourage use of visuals to help conceptualize

• Use graphic organizers - flow charts, etc.

• Use problem-solving strategy sheets

• Provide multiple examples of abstract concepts

• Teach age-appropriate concepts directly

• Review concepts frequently

• Build on student's prior experiences or schema - use scaffolding techniques

• Use field trips to reinforce concepts

• Teach use of graphic organizers

• Accept either cursive or printing- whichever is the most legible

• Accept typewritten papers, reports, etc.

• Allow oral presentations with diagrams

• Place material close by to copy from

• Provide copies of pages to be used rather than forcing hand copying

• Computer, AlphaSmart Pro, etc. to circumvent handwriting difficulty

• Practice at the board to improve wrist arm movements

• Use tactile materials to improve grip and finger movement

• Sit at desk and chair which is appropriate height

• Maintain proper posture

• Practice letter formation until it becomes automatic

• Use proper writing implement to maintain firm grip

• Learn keyboarding skills ASAP

• Use visual memory

• Use controlled vocabulary books

• Supply sound/symbol "dictionary" as a guide

• Put alphabet / sound chart in room

• Hearing evaluation

• Rhyming games and pig Latin

• Drill on sound-symbol associations

• Teach application of phonics generalizations

• Break words apart and exaggerate individual phonemes

• Teach "word families" by analogy

• Delay taking foreign language

• Make flash cards for vocabulary

• Make word maps

• Teach affixes, roots, morphology

• Teach dictionary and thesaurus skills

• Teach sentence diagramming

• Vocabulary games - scrabble, etc.

• Have students invent new words

• Teach associations with known words

• Teach analogies / metaphors / similes / proverbs

• Teach vocabulary in categories

• Grammar instruction from programmed book

• Read writing aloud; How does it sound?

• Provide cloze activities

• Sentence formulation: simple to complex

• Find parts of speech in others' writing

• Memorize tenses of words

• Practice editing and error detection

• Sentence completion activities

• Provide small-group discussion groups to help clarify meanings in reading

• Personal copy of literature book to write in

• Practice summarizing

• Provide exercises in identifying main idea, topic sentences, etc.

• Teach previewing, review skills (eg SQ3R)

• Have students read small sections of a book silently with a stated purpose

• Teach students to "prove" their perceptions by referring to the text

• Teach student reporters' questions: who, what, where, when, why, how

• Audio tape: listen and follow along

• Meet reading level of student

• Provide audio tape to get content from book that is frustration level

• Allow more time on tests

• Lessen quantity of reading

• Use audio tapes to improve phrasing & fluency

• Model & practice reading with fluency and expression

• Shadow reading; reading along with faster reader

• Teach skimming techniques

• Show flow of ideas through cartoons or film strips, art, storytelling

• Have adult take dictation to get ideas down; use type recorder to record ideas

• Use laptop computer to enable rapid thought production

• Give separate grades for content and mechanics

• Shorten some written assignments

• Make allowances for grammar in the first draft; edit together

• Use dictaphone / voice-activated software for story writing

• Provide story-starters to activate story

• Practice telling story into tape recorder

• Have "what if" conversations to stimulate imagination

• Review of grammar rules

• Break writing down into various stages

• Teach use of Inspiration or another computer software to help organize thoughts