Strategies
Approaches to Learning
Writing & Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension
Alphabet Soup
100
Giving students a budget amount to promote written expression.
What is Summary on a Budget?
100
A group of students is either reinforced or loses a reinforcement.
What is group contingency?
100
Determining the type and pattern of student spelling errors
What is error analysis?
100
This strategy provides students with a framework for retelling the key points of a narrative texts.
What is story retelling?
100
T.I.P.
What are terms, information, and pictures?
200
The student thinks about the topic, gets together with a group to discuss the topic, and then they share with the class.
What is Think/Jot, Pair Share?
200
Removing a student from the opportunity to receive any reinforcement.
What is time out?
200
A portfolio that displays student work, skills mastered, and writing samples.
What is individual writing folder?
200
This is used to compare and contrast two topics.
What is a Venn diagram?
200
I.E.P.
What is Individualized Education Plan?
300
When reading, a student selects letters to stand for something and uses these codes to distinguish between points.
What is coding strategy?
300
A record of frequency or duration of the behavior before implementing the intervention.
What is baseline data?
300
A prewriting strategy used to help organize ideas prior to writing.
What is brainstorming?
300
Before reading a topic, a teacher may display photos about the topic to get the students engaged and to give them an overview of the topic.
What is visualizing?
300
TOTD
What is Ticket Out the Door?
400
Setting up notes in a format that easily displays key points
What is Cornell notetaking strategy?
400
Identifying observable behaviors and manipulating the antecedents and consequences of these behaviors to change behavior.
What is ABA (applied behavior analysis)?
400
This strategy is used to dissect unfamiliar vocabulary words.
What is a concept map?
400
Frequently collecting and charting data about a student's reading progress using various checkpoints (e.g. time periods) throughout the year.
What is progress monitoring?
400
B.I.P.
What is Behavior Intervention Plan?
500
Using the alphabet to prime students' background knowledge of a topic.
What is Alphabet/ABC brainstorming?
500
Teacher providing temporary and adjustable support as a student develops new skills, strategies, and knowledge.
What is scaffolded instruction?
500
When writing, this is used to help students check over their writing during the editing phase.
What is checklists/rubrics?
500
Fill in the blank: K ___ L.
What is W (what we want to know)?
500
E.L.L.
What is English Language Learner (ESOL)?
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