General Classroom Strategies
What is task analysis?
Which learning strategy involves reading text aloud while engaging students with questions and discussions?
What is shared text reading (read-aloud)
Writing supports this skill, which helps students understand what they read.
What is reading comprehension?
The emphasis of elementary math involves.
What is problem solving?
This federal law defines intellectual disability as significantly subaverage intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior.
What is IDEA?
A functional curriculum focuses on developing these skills for everyday success.
What are life skills?
Which learning strategy gradually increases assistance when a student struggles?
What is least-to-most prompting
These tools allow students to verbally dictate words and sentences.
What is speech-to-text technology?
Teachers use these concrete objects to help students understand mathematical concepts.
What are manipulatives?
An IQ score of approximately which number or lower is one criterion for identifying an intellectual disability?
What is 70?
The concept of _________ emphasizes that students should feel welcomed, accepted, supported, and valued in the classroom.
What is belonging?
Directly teaching students how to understand and interpret text is known as what type of instruction?
What is explicit comprehension instruction?
Traditional keyboards and alternative keyboards are examples of these.
What are alternative writing tools?
Providing modeling, think-alouds, feedback, and practice opporunities are part of what instructional approach?
What is explicit instruction?
Along with intellectual functioning, deficits in which area is required for an intellectual disability diagnosis?
What is adaptive functioning?
When prioritizing instruction, teachers should consider how a skill will increase a students ______.
What is independence?
Teachers explicitly teach these five question words to improve comprehension.
What are who, what, when, where, and why questions?
Eye-gaze frames and alphabet flip charts are examples of this writing support.
What are alternatives to pencils?
This type of instruction involves guided practice with prompts until students can complete tasks independently.
What is systematic instruction?
Understanding social cues, maintaining friendships, and interacting appropriately are examples of difficulties in which area?
What are social and interpersonal skills?
A functional curriculum adapts academic goals to a students needs, abilities, and what?
What are daily routines?
Teaching students to understand these question words helps support reading comprehension
What are WH- words?
The means of conveying meaning, ideas, and information.
What is the main focus of writing instruction?
At the high school level, functional math often focuses on which two everyday life skills?
What are time and money management?
Differing state criteria, changing definitions, and reluctance to label students.
What are challenges supporting students with intellectual disabilities?