Memory

Common Difficulties:

• Teach proof-reading strategies

• Create outlines prior to writing

• Use color coding

• Use large-print materials

• Reduce the amount of visual information on the page

Accommodations/Strategies:

• Use a stepwise approach to studying

• Use visual organizers, highlighting, and checklists

• Tools such as a calculator, list of written formulas, math facts table

Common Difficulties:

• Difficulty with multi-step directions

• Difficulty writing dictated information

• Weak vocabulary

• Difficulty remembering a series of steps

Accommodations/Strategies:

• Repeat information, making connections to other known concepts

• Give instructions in short sentences

• Have the student repeat back what he or she heard and fill in any necessary gaps

• Break tasks into smaller instructional units

Common Difficulties:

• Weaknesses with keeping track of steps in math problems

• Weak reading comprehension due to poor decoding skills

• Difficulty with remembering a question while integrating information from passage

Accommodations/Strategies:

• Provide step-by-step guides

• Teach use of a calculator and/or number line

• Build sight word vocabulary

• Highlight, re-read, write in the margins

• Graphic organizers

Common Difficulties:

• Perform poorly when reviewing previously learned material

• Forgets steps in algorithms

• Difficulty in understanding time

• Understand in class but struggle with how to proceed after leaving class

Accommodations/Strategies:

• Review, repetition, and immediate feedback

• Memory aids (i.e, rhymes, acronyms, etc.)

• Checklists

• Teach chunking strategies

• Limit the amount of new concepts in one lesson