Teaching Strategies to Students with Disabilities

There are 13 different disability categories as identified by IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).  
​https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/special-services/special-education-basics/conditions-covered-under-idea

Reading Strategies:
Think-Aloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPsOK3Qg3dY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGvmSSCgwJE
The think-aloud strategy models for students how skilled readers construct meaning from a text.
The think-aloud helps readers learn to monitor their own thinking as they read and monitor their own comprehension. It teaches students to re-read a sentence, read ahead to clarify, and/or look for context clues to make sense of what they read.
It also slows down the reading process and allows students to watch their understanding of a text. 

Story Maps
•Students can diagram the story grammar of the text to become aware of the elements the author uses to develop the story.
•Setting:  When and where the story takes place
•Characters:  The people or animals in the story
•Plot:  The story line which usually includes one or more problems or conflicts
•Theme:  The main idea or lesson that the author wants you to get from the story.

Think – Pair - Share  (Turn and Share)
https://comprehensionrstrategies.weebly.com/think-pair-share.html

Visualization
https://powerupwhatworks.org/sites/default/files/Lesson%20in%20Action%20-%20Visualizing%20-%20Seeing%20Charlott%27s%20Web.pdf
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https://www.csi-literacy.com/blogs/blog/reading-strategies-visualizing

Venn Diagram
This graphic organizer can be used to help students understand how events and concepts and categories can overlap each other.

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The 5 W's
https://www.edrawsoft.com/five-ws-chart.html

Examples

https://www.teachthought.com/literacy/25-reading-strategies-that-work-in-every-content-area/

https://www.activityshelter.com/reading-strategies-printable/

https://www.myteachingpalblog.com/2019/09/how-to-get-early-readers-responding-to.html