Academic Strategies & Interventions

(Also refer to checklists on ‘Modification of Assignments & Curriculum’, and ‘Instructional Interventions and Accommodations’ and other resources for more academic strategies.)

• Teach prerequisite skills needed to do grade level/classroom work.
• Structure seat work to include activities to reinforce learning that can be done successfully at student’s independent level and grade level activities with a peer partner.
• More time daily engaged in reading at instructional level
• More time daily engaged in reading at independent level
• Direct, systematic instruction to build skills in area(s) of identified weakness
• Consult with special education teacher/other staff for strategies and suggestions in how to teach concepts/skills in a different way.
• Increase use of visuals, charts, models, exemplars for easy student reference.
• Use of multisensory techniques to present information, cue students, and aid in learning of all content areas
• Supplement instruction using alternative approaches to teaching the concept/skill.
• Increase student use of manipulatives and tools of technology to learn skills and concepts and reinforce learning.
• Utilize books on tape – student listens and follows along in text.
• Teach active reading strategies (i.e., SQ3R), summarizing, identifying main ideas, story grammar skills.
• Allow use of calculators, graph paper to align numbers, charts, manipulatives, and other aides for math.
• Teach math facts using mnemonics to make rhymes.
• Set math facts to music and practice at regular intervals.
• Provide several process examples in math.
• Increase instruction to explicitly teach: the writing process, prewriting strategies, handwriting, coherent and expanded sentence/paragraph writing, written organization, mechanics, editing.
• Modify written work requirements (e.g., shorten assignment, allow student to dictate responses, allow to print rather than write in cursive).