Chapter 10

Chapter 10 – Strategies for Independent Learning

How can you encourage student self-awareness and self-advocacy?

·         Self-advocacy – the ability to make decisions and direct behavior so that the desired goals are achieved

·         While the goal of becoming self-determined is important for all student, it is particularly important for students with special needs who are at risk for learned helplessness and low self-esteem

How can you effectively teach independent learning strategies in class?

·         Assess current strategy use

·         Clarify expectations

·         Demonstrate strategy use

·         Encourage students to memorize strategy steps

·         Provide guided and independent practice

·         Administer Posttests

What are some examples of successful learning strategies?

·         Word-identification and reading fluency strategies

o   Identify words in textbook reading

§  Look for word parts at the beginning and end of the word, and vowel sounds in the rest of the word

§  Say the parts of the word

§  Say the parts fast

§  Make it a real word

o   WARF

§  W – Widen your eye span

§  A – Avoid skip-backs

§  R – Read silently

§  F – Flex your reading rate

·         Vocabulary Strategies

o   Look for root word, prefix, suffix

o   Put meanings of these together

·         Reading comprehension strategies

o   SCROL

§  Survey, Connect, Read, Outline, Look back

o   PARS

§  Preview, Ask, Read, Summarize

o   CAPS

§  C – Who are the characters

§  A – What is the aim of the story?

§  P – What problem happens?

§  S – How is the problem solved?

o   SLiCK

§  S – Set it up

§  L – Look ahead through the chapter

§  C – Comprehend

§  K – Keep it together.

o   RUDPC

§  R – Read the title and the heading

§  U – Use the cursor to skim the page

§  D – Decide whether you need the page

§  P – Print the page

§  C – Copy the bibliographic information

o   POSSE

§  P – Predict ideas

§  O – Organize the ideas

§  S – Search for the structure

§  S – Summarize the main ideas

§  E – Evaluate your understanding

·         Listening and note-taking strategies

o   Give Me Five

§  Eyes on the speaker, mouth quiet, body still, ears listening, and hands free

o   TALS

§  Think, Ask why, Listen for what, Say to self

o   TASSELL

§  Try not to doodle, Arrive at all prepared, Sit near the front, Sit away from friends, End daydreaming, Look at the teacher

o   CALL UP

§  Copy from the board, Add details, Listen and write the question, Listen and write the answer, Utilize the text, Put in your own words

·         Writing Strategies

o   POWER

§  Planning, Organizing, Writing, Editing, Revising

o   COPS

§  Capitalized, Overall appearance, Punctuation, Spelling

·         Strategies for using technology to improve student writing

o   Use the internet

o   Revise essays

o   Use spell checkers effectively

·         Strategies for problem solving in math

o   LAMPS – Addition

§  Line up, Add, More, Put, Send

o   SLOBS – Subtraction

§  Smaller, Larger, Cross off, Borrow, Subtract

o   FOIL – Factoring

§  Multiply first terms, Multiply outermost terms, Multiply innermost terms, Multiply last terms

How can students learn to use strategies independently?

·          Self instruction, Self-monitoring, Self-questioning,

Outside Resources
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