Tier 4: Intensive Supports
Speech pathologist
Occupational therapist
Tier 3: School Supports
EA support (Intervention)
Tier 2: Classroom Supports
Text-to-speech/Speech-to-text
Sentence starters
Focus on one letter, word, or paragraph at a time. Break the task into smaller parts.
Scribe
Turn-taking - I write, you write
Read back text - Use text-to-speech, an adult, or peer to read back paragraphs to hear proper sentences and grammar
Using lines to indicate each word in the sentence the child is writing
Tier 1: Classroom Instruction
Sentence or paragraph checklists
Exemplars
Peer-editing
Rubrics with clear criteria