Use recommended approaches to support literacy
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Supporting literacy, social interaction, and communication’
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Model reading strategies
Model reading strategies
Sandra Gillies uses think aloud strategies to model the process of decoding unknown vocab.
Teach phonological awareness
Teach phonological awareness
The Sounds and Words online resource developed by the Ministry of Education provides support in four areas:
Source: Sounds and Words, Literacy Online (opens in a new tab/window)
Utilise rhyme and repetition
Utilise rhyme and repetition
Chant and repeat familiar stories, songs and rhymes to give students frequent opportunities to deepen their understanding and become familiar with language patterns and features. This is especially useful for developing self-confidence for students with speech, language and communication difficulties.
Use a reciprocal teaching approach
Use a reciprocal teaching approach
An approach to support students to connect what they already know to new concepts.
Closed Captions
Use recommended writing approaches
Use recommended writing approaches
- Support a student by providing a scribe or using speech-to-text so they can communicate their ideas effectively.
- Use a recording device to record ideas orally.
- Use planning tools and strategies such as brainstorms and mind maps.
- Use storyboards to organise ideas and provide a structure.
- Use images and word or blends charts to support vocabulary.
- Use a checklist to focus on sentence structure or grammar.
Useful resources
Useful resources
Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR): Improving secondary students’ reading comprehension skills
Read time: 17 min
Reading comprehension is a critical skill for secondary students with disabilities.It facilitates participation in mainstream content-area classes. This article introduces a research-based practice.
Publisher: University of Minnesota
Special iApps
Apps designed to be suitable for typically-developing children and those with learning difficulties or poor fine motor control.
Publisher: Special iApps
Universal Design for Learning iPad strategies: Text-to-speech
A video introducing text-to-speech to access digital text.
Publisher: Kit Hard
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