Below is one of the many types of readings Strategies that can help students with learning disabilities chunk down material and cope with academics
Reading strategies K-W-L
- K = what you already know about a topic
- W = background knowingly -> find answers
- L = What learned in reading
Some variations are what do I know and what do I want to know
Another variation; what did I learn or what new questions do I have?
Skimming and Scanning -> another way to recap and build content learning
This is helpful as a tool for college level preparation. A reader looks quickly and finds the most important features and information in a text
Ways to work: -> give students a reading assignment that is expository.
Look at titles, headings and sub-headings, visuals bold adverb. First and last paragraph.
Finally remembered chunk down that material and use visual aids