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What are two skills that word study interventions often focus on?
Letter sounds, decoding, syllable-type instruction, spelling, reading nondecodable words, and text reading
Name two intervention strategies that can promote better reading comprehension?
Self-monitoring, graphic organizers, intensive instruction, select texts of high-interest
What is the first step in completing a function-based assessment?
Identify the function of the child's behavior
What is RTI an acronym for?
Response to Intervention
What is UDL an acronym for?
Universal Design for Learning
What is an approach that can be used to promote literacy for CLD students?
Supplemental materials in the student's native language
What is the most pervasively challenging and difficult-to-remediate writing skill?
Spelling
What two aspects of professional development is needed for teachers to be successful in implementing newly learned strategies?
Initial PD session and then follow-up support
Three
What is a nonresponder?
A student who is believed to have a disability
What is one type of vocabulary instruction that can be used during shared storybook reading?
Rich instruction, basic instruction, or incidental instruction
What are three of the six stages of Self-Regulated Strategy Development?
development of background knowledge, discussion, memorization, modeling, guided practice, independent practice
3rd grade
What are these RTI tiers?
General evidence-based education
Small group interventions
Intensive, long-term support, sometimes special education
If needed, more/most intensive intervention
How did UDL originate?
From architecture and the need for physical accessibility, which translated to education access eventually
How does vocabulary growth occur for students?
by encountering words in oral and written language.
What are two parts of the functional assessment process?
interviews, direct observation, rating scales, or experimental manipulations
What is RTI?
It is a framework to ensure that students have adequate and effective instruction that is increasingly responsive to their needs before the presence of disability is assumed.
Why is UDL difficult to research?
Highly individualized, different paradigms, ambiguous definition of UDL, inclusion of digital, etc
What instructional components can help students with disabilities to succeed in math?
Explicit instruction
Visual representation
Sequence/examples
Student verbalizations
Ongoing feedback
What has the research on co-teaching focused on?
Barriers to collaboration
What is one knowledge gap the authors recommend addressing for educating students with disabilities?
How interventions can fit in an RTI framework to help students achieve content standards.
Create better Universal Design tools and how to use these tools with effective interventions.
Understand the perceptions of teachers and students to promote collaboration between general and special ed
What is an example of how living in poverty can place students at greater risk of being identified for special education services?
Possible answers: students living in poverty are more likely to have mothers who are less educated than the mothers of their more affluent peers; students have fewer opportunities for language exchanges, etc
Name one UDL principle
Multiple means of representation; multiple means of action and expression; multiple means of engagement
What kind of dynamic assessment or intervention can we use to help students with disabilities for mathematics?
No specific answer here: just curious to see what you come up with, since research has not been able to determine what best solutions there are!