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Speaker Skills

Listener Skills

Determine their current level in writing and communication

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Ask what is important to the students and build on that

Teaching to request desired objects. Pre-written words for desired items. Build on that foundation

Deliver reinforcements immediately

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How to copy words from labels, books, and sources

Relate the words to a search engine. To help with accessing information.

Teaching a relation between words and the real-world. Such as spelling 'milk' to reference to a 'milk carton'

Assistance:

Students with weak fine motor may need adaptative tools to help with copying.

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Backward Chaining Strategy:

Present spoken word. Have student trace the word. Remove letters from last to first.

Computer-assisted Instruction:

Have student select letters from a computer based array to create the word depicted.

Cover, Copy, Compare:

Four columns. 1. The target word. 2. Student writes word in the second column. Fold columns one and two. 3. Writes word from memory in third column. Compare to the first column.

Video Models:

Record a video of you writing the words. Display while the students type/write the words. Then on a blank screen the students types/writes the word from memory

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Write, type or select word when given a picture or object

Turn into sentences starters, 'I see a ____.'

Decrease starters to create independent sentences

Encourage to write multiple sentences about a picture or object.

Fade out pictures. Students writes sentences on previous learned information.

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Begin with teaching students to write simple paragraphs

Identify topic

Apply to writing a paragraph about a picture. Creating a topic by highlighting the picture.

Visual Organizer to assist.

Model for simple storytelling

Fade out pictures or visual aids

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Provide Editing and Revision Instruction

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Provide Editing and Revision Instruction

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Prompt students to check their work

Is everything included in the sentences. (Person, place, subject)

Check for punctuation

Ask to see if they can identify missing parts in the stories.

Teach to use checklists.

Create independence by providing a graph to self monitor progress.

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Jlillis. (2021, July 22). 7 steps to teaching writing skills to students with disabilities. Brookes Blog. https://blog.brookespublishing.com/7-steps-to-teaching-writing-skills-to-students-with-disabilities/