Scribd
Upload
66 views

Instructional Strategies

This document provides instructional strategies and accommodations to help students with visual perception challenges. Some key strategies include giving clear copies of materials, providing verbal explanations along with visual presentations, highlighting important information, breaking down lengthy directions, allowing extra time to process visual information, and using cooperative learning activities so students can support each other. The strategies address challenges in reading, writing, spelling, math, and other academic subjects by reducing visual clutter, teaching organizational skills, and checking for understanding along the way. The overall goal is to make visual information as clear and accessible as possible for students.

Uploaded by

api-249645960
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
66 views

Instructional Strategies

This document provides instructional strategies and accommodations to help students with visual perception challenges. Some key strategies include giving clear copies of materials, providing verbal explanations along with visual presentations, highlighting important information, breaking down lengthy directions, allowing extra time to process visual information, and using cooperative learning activities so students can support each other. The strategies address challenges in reading, writing, spelling, math, and other academic subjects by reducing visual clutter, teaching organizational skills, and checking for understanding along the way. The overall goal is to make visual information as clear and accessible as possible for students.

Uploaded by

api-249645960
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 4

Taken from:

Accommodations and Instructional Strategies That Can Help Students


By: Vermont Department of Education
Strategies for Students with Visual Perception Challenges Students with visual
perception challenges have difficulty comprehending what is seen. They probably do not
like to read as well as they like to talk or listen. They may seem to have difficulty seeing
the correct spelling or may change beginning and ending letters of words. When reading
aloud they may skip lines or easily lose their place. They may have difficulty copying
things accurately.
General

Give clearest copy available


Adjust for special lighting needs
Make sure student is seated close to the teacher, board, work area
Write clearly and neatly on the board and on worksheets
Give verbal information or explanation along with visual presentations
Divide worksheets physically by cutting, folding, drawing, covering the part of the

worksheet not being focused on at the moment


Give directions orally
Have a buddy read the directions to the student
Allow a peer with good note taking skills to use carbon paper or make copies

when material has to be copied from the board


Summarize the key points of your lesson at the end of each period to make sure

students have recorded important material


Give worksheets with few distracting pictures or designs
Condense lengthy written directions by writing them in brief statements and/or

including pictures or diagrams for clarity


Allow time for students to ask questions about written directions
Use taped textbooks, lectures, assignments
Write directions in a different color
Have student use template to reduce visual field
Use technology for magnification Use visual clues, highlighter, flags to draw
attention to important points, questions, directions, or steps

Taken from:
Accommodations and Instructional Strategies That Can Help Students
By: Vermont Department of Education

Highlight main portions of a reading so that the student wont have to read the

entire chapter
Make a copy of your lecture notes and share with student
Use activity worksheets to avoid problems associated with copying
Promote copying accuracy by first allowing student to copy from a paper on their

desk instead of the board


Allow student to correct his/her own notes using another students accurate notes
Teach students how to copy and proofread what they copy
Set aside a few textbooks that can be used repeatedly by students

Reading/Literature

Use directed reading thinking activities


Use cognitive reading strategies (questioning, predicting)
Use hypothesis testing procedures
Use highlighting to cue the student to important words and concepts
Teach students to use highlighting to identify important words and concepts
Introduce new vocabulary in context before a reading assignment
Allow student to use a marker or index card to keep place while reading
Set a purpose for each reading assignment
Pair students for reading assignments, taking turns reading aloud to each other
Use discussion activities often, allowing the students to relate to the story with
their own personal experiences rather than writing answers to questions following

a reading activity
Discuss in class students answers to questions, allowing for clarification of
important points and a chance to see the relationship between individual

questions and answer as well as the general concept being studied


Divide hard words by syllables on worksheets to help students decode phonetic

words on their own


Substitute easier words/synonyms for difficult words
Use pictures or ask students to illustrate or pantomime new vocabulary
Give the students an outline, chart, or blank web to fill in during class
presentations

Taken from:
Accommodations and Instructional Strategies That Can Help Students
By: Vermont Department of Education
Spelling

Post commonly misspelled words on charts in a consistent place for easy student

reference; beside each word write it in a sentence or give a pictorial clue.


Have students make their own word file, dictionary

Writing

Have students write in a journal daily, 5-10 minutes


Allow students to dictate their stories into a tape recorder
Arrange for students to work as partners to develop stories, requesting the
students partner to do the recording to enable the student to be creative without
being frustrated by the mechanics of writing. Students should be encouraged to

assume more and more responsibility for writing his/her own story
Help students make their stories more interesting by discussion and posting
synonyms

Math

Verbalize steps
Have students practice reading word problems to identify key words and the

operation needed to solve each problem


Distinguish clearly each operation on worksheets that have a mixture of
operational problems; draw a circle around addition steps, a square around

multiplication steps, etc.


Group problems by the operation process to be used
Alert students to the importance of paying close attention to the sign of the
operation on randomly mixed problems

Taken from:
Accommodations and Instructional Strategies That Can Help Students
By: Vermont Department of Education

Exchange practice worksheets with another teacher is more practice is needed

Space problems farther apart on worksheets


Allow students to use computational aids, number lines, technology, etc.
Provide activities that help the student rapidly note the essential details of

numerals and how to quickly scan numerals


Provide activities that help the perception of numerals and groups of numerals in

their correct orientation and sequence


Highlight important discriminating features of numerals, sequences of numerals,

and their orientation Use graph paper


Limit the number of problems on each assignment sheet

Social Studies/Science

During oral presentations pause periodically to ask for questions and give

students a chance to add notes to their papers


Summarize at the end of lectures and encourage students to ask questions about

what they may have missed in their notes


Review the notes from the previous lesson beginning before beginning a new

presentation
Teach book format to students
Use cooperative learning strategies such as pairing students by strengths
(Vermont Department of Education, 2009, p. 13-16)

You might also like