Let's keep thinking and sharing our ideas to help each other. Please post below to share ideas you have found work with your students. No idea is too basic.
Thanks to Julie Frost, District 214, and recent graduate of the Institute to Credential Special Learning Needs Resource Specialists, for sharing her ideas:
Thinking aloud so they
can hear my thought processes helps but usually I try to explain why we are
doing what we are doing. I sometimes pose it as a question to see what
they can generate. For example, I usually put a one page reading on one
side of the paper and the comprehension exercises or questions on the backside.
I love to ask them why after they keep flipping the pages back and forth. They
usually suggest that I'm trying to be eco-friendly. I tell them that and
I am exercising their minds because they have to remember the information long
enough to turn the paper over and write it down. I also thinks it helps
to prevent overt copying and helps them to paraphrase. In summer school,
I usually post a recipe for making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches outside
in the hallway. I ask the high school students to run out, read it and
then come back and write down what they can remember. It is a race
between groups. Only one member of each group can leave at a time.
It is so much fun. Then they have to make it according to the directions
they wrote down. Eating it is the prize.
