Vocabulary
Extent to which a student can identify supports needed to succeed and communicate that information effectively to others, including teachers and employers.
What is self-advocacy?
Students use of skills to organize their time and efforts toward meeting their goals.
What is time management?
Use of direct-observation checklists, analyses of student products, and student self-evaluations to determine whether students possess the preskills necessary to perform a strategy.
What is assessing current strategy use?
This is a self-questioning strategy that guides students as they look for important story elements.
What is CAPS?
Organizing study materials involves having the appropriate school supplies, making sure these supplies are brought to class when they are needed, and having this to ensure easy access to information.
What is an organized notebook?
Providing meaningful opportunities for students with disabilities to express their needs and goals so that their wishes guide decision making.
What is self-determination?
Skills that build student self-determination, help students set realistic school or life goals and develop and carry out a plan to meet those goals.
What is self-advocacy?
This makes it easier for students to recall a strategy when they need to use it.
What is memorizing strategy steps?
Students can use this strategy to derive important information from a webpage.
What is RUDPC?
This is a critical aspect of independent learning, which often requires students to check their performance to see whether it is effective and make a change when a particular strategy is not working.
What is self-monitoring?
Strategy in which students are taught to talk themselves through tasks.
What is self-instruction?
Involves skills in listening to directions during lessons and on the job and in reading and interpreting textbooks, source books, and Internet and other media.
What is gaining information?
These allow a teacher to assess whether students have succeeded in acquiring a learning strategy.
What are posttests?
This strategy helps students use text headings to aid their comprehension and to take notes while they are reading.
What is SCROL?
You can make sure that students obtain the appropriate school supplies by requiring that they tell these people what materials they need daily.
Who are their parents?
A way to teach students to comprehend reading material by providing them with teacher and peer models of thinking behavior and allowing them to practice these thinking behaviors with their peers.
What is reciprocal teaching?
Includes the tasks of taking tests and writing papers, as well as employment tasks such as developing a printed menu for a fast-food restaurant.
What is expressing information?
When done well, this involves both careful explanation and the presentation of a multitude of both positive and negative examples.
What is demonstrating strategy use?
Students who struggle to understand an oral text should use this strategy to help with comprehension of digitally recorded texts.
What is SLiCK?
More schools are teaching students to use these to help them arrange their time.
What are schedule books?
A graphic organizer designed to help students organize their written papers.
What is a pattern guide?
Consists of strategies for taking notes and preparing for tests or other evaluations.
What is storing information?
Having students use controlled materials when they are first learning a strategy is an example of this.
What is guided practice?
This strategy includes many practices that have been shown to aid reading comprehension, such as graphic organizers, text structures, stimulation of student background knowledge, and self-monitoring.
What is POSSE?
Lerner & Johns (2011) and Silver (2006) identify this as a common characteristic of students with disabilities.
What is a lack of organization?