Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

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xiv Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide | Preface


Instructional Strategies
The following evidence-based strategies can assist students with
disabilities in learning content (Scruggs et al. 2010):


  • Mnemonic strategies are patterns of letters and sounds related to
    ideas that enhance retention and recall of information. They can be
    used as a tool to encode information.

  • Spatial organizers assist student understanding and recall of
    information using charts, diagrams, graphs, and/or other graphic
    organizers.

  • Peer mediation, such as peer tutoring and cooperative learning
    groups, can assist in assignment completion and enhance
    collaboration within the classroom.

  • Hands-on learning offers students opportunities to gain
    understanding of material by completing experiments and hands-on
    activities that reinforce content.

  • Explicit instruction utilizes clear and direct teaching using small
    steps, guided and independent practice, and explicit feedback.

  • Visual strategies (e.g., picture/written schedules, storymaps, task
    analyses, etc.) represent content in a concrete manner to increase
    focus, communication, and expression (Rao and Gagie 2006).
    References



  1. Biemiller, Andrew. Words Worth Teaching. Columbus: SRA/
    McGrawHill, 2010.

  2. Franzone, Ellen L. Overview of Task Analysis. Madison, WI: National
    Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders,
    Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, 2009.

  3. Hall, Tracey, Anne Meyer and Nicole Strangman. Differentiated
    Instruction and Implications for UDL Implementation. National Center
    on Accessing the General Curriculum: 2003

  4. Hirsch, Jr., E. D. and Alice K. Wiggins, Core Knowledge Preschool
    Sequence and Teacher Handbook. Charlottesville, VA: Core
    Knowledge Foundation, 2009.

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