Kindergarden - Stories

Stories: Supplemental Guide | Preface xv

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

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2. Franzone, Ellen L. Overview of Task Analysis. Madison, WI: National
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3. Hall, Tracey, Anne Meyer and Nicole Strangman. Differentiated
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4. Hirsch, Jr., E. D. and Alice K. Wiggins, Core Knowledge Preschool
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