But What Do I DO?: Strategies From A to W for Multi-Tier Systems of Support

Selecting individualised and evidence-based interventions for struggling students can overwhelm even the most experienced teachers. Save time and get the help you need with this comprehensive guide from an expert in special education and cultural differences! Organised around an alphabetised and cross-referenced list and a fold-out selection grid featuring more than 150 PBIS, RTI, and MTSS interventions, you’ll quickly find the tools to resolve specific learning and behavioural challenges. This must-have resource helps you effortlessly locate appropriate strategies based on student needs and desired learning outcomes.

Teachers, counsellors, and instructional intervention teams will learn to

• Meet the needs of all your struggling students including at-risk, culturally and linguistically diverse, as well as those with IEPs
• Progress monitor, document, and modify instructional strategies
• Identify specific interventions for distinct learning and behaviour problems, including many reading, writing, math, and attention strategies
• Implement classroom-wide, small group, or individualised interventions
• Use classroom-based data to guide decision making
• Implement in a variety of settings, including special education, learning assistance programs, and full-inclusion Including implementation checklists, examples of every strategy as well as its research base, and graphic organisers, use this book to discover the what, why, and how to help each student achieve success!

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Strategy Selection Grid

• Academic language transition
• Accountability
• Active processing
• Advanced organizers
• Alternate response methods
• Analogy
• Assessment
B
• Belonging
• Bilingual Aide
• Bilingual peers
• Bilingual texts
• Building connections
• Building connections '" Reading strategy
C
• CAN DO '" Retention strategy
• Choices
• Chunking
• Class buddies / Peer helpers / Peer tutors
• Class Contracts
• Classroom and school survival strategies
• Cognitive Content Picture Dictionary
• Cognitive strategies in home and community language
• Concurrent language development/acquisition sessions
• Consequence Wheel
• Consistent Sequence
• Content Language games
• Content modification
• Context embedding
• Contracting
• Control & attention strategy - STAR
• Cooperative learning strategies
• Coping/Problem solving
• COPS '" writing strategy
• Cross-cultural communication strategies
• Cross-cultural counseling
D
• DEFENDS '" writing strategy
• Demonstration
• Differentiation
• Double-entry
E
• EASY '" reading comprehension
• Embedding
• Entry points
• Evaluation
• Expectations awareness/review
• Experience-based learning
• Exploration (Inquiry technique)
• Exploration Team
F
• Family-centered learning activity
• Fifty Grid (Math)
• FIST '" reading strategy
G
• Graphic organizers
• Guided lecture procedure
• Guided memories - personal timelines
• Guided practice & planned interactions
• Guided reading & writing in home and community language
H
• Home activities
I
• Individualizing
• Information organization (EASY)
• Inquiry Charts
• Inquiry technique
• Interdisciplinary unit/Thematic Instruction
K
• Krypto '" Math strategy
• KWL+ Charts
L
• Language games
• Learning centers or stations
• Learning styles (Entry points)
• Leveled activities
• Listening comprehension (TQLR)
M
• Magic Bag (Sorting)
• Manipulatives
• Marking text
• Math strategy - Fifty Grid
• Math strategy '" KRYPTO
• Math strategy (SQRQCQ)
• Mediated stimuli in classroom
• MET Expectations
• Mind Mapping
• Modeling
O
• Observation charts
• Oral discussions
• Organization (Sorting)
P
• Paraphrasing (RAP)
• PARS '" retention strategy
• Participant Collage
• Partners '" reading strategy
• PEARL
• Peer / school adaptation process support
• PENS '" writing strategy
• Personal timelines
• Picture This!
• PIRATES '" test taking strategy
• Planned ignoring
• Planned movement
• Positive reinforcement
• PQ4R '" reading comprehension
• Prompting
• Proof reading (COPS)
• Proximity (Proximics)
Q
• Questioning
• Quick Write
R
• RAP
• Reading comprehension - PQ4R
• Reading comprehension - SQ3R
• Reading strategy (FIST)
• Reading strategy - Partners
• Reading strategy - RIDER
• Reading & writing strategy (SSCD)
• Reading strategy - Visualization
• Reality-based learning approaches
• Reduced stimuli
• Reciprocal questioning
• Retention strategy (CAN DO)
• Retention strategy '" PARS
• Rest and relaxation techniques
• RIDER - Reading strategy
• Role-playing
S
• Scaffolding
• SCORER '" test taking strategy
• Self concept activities
• Self-monitoring techniques
• Self-reinforcement
• Sheltered instruction
• Shortening Student Assignments
• Signals
• Sorting
• SQ3R - Reading strategy
• SQRQCQ '" math strategy
• SSCD '" reading and writing strategy
• STAR '" control & attention strategy
• Story Star
• Student Input
• Success
• Survival strategies for parents/families
• Survival strategies for students
T
• Test-taking strategy - PIRATES
• Test-taking strategy - SCORER
• Time-out
• Total physical response - TPR
• Touch
• TOWER '" writing strategy
• TPR '" total physical response
• TQLR '" listening strategy
U
• Use of first language
V
• Varied grouping
• Videos about interaction patterns
• Visualization '" reading strategy
• Visualization strategy - RIDER
• Vocabulary Pyramid
W
• Wordless picture books
• Writing strategy - COPS
• Writing strategy ( DEFENDS)
• Writing Strategy (Inverted Pyramid)
• PENS '" writing strategy
• Writing strategy (TOWER)
• W-Star

References

Index