Interventions for Reading
- Draw upon a student's background knowledge to connect what he/she already knows to the new topic(s) being taught
- Have the student use specific strategies to learn new vocabulary (e.g. match pictures with words, mnemonic devices, etc)
- Have the student use a highlighter to mark important details
- Provide the student a copy of the written materials on which important information/terms have been highlighted or underlined
- Choose a peer to participate in daily drill activities with the student.
- Pair the student with a peer who demonstrates good comprehension skills to read with the student and help him/her understand the meaning of words not understood
- Have the student maintain a vocabulary notebook with definitions of words whose meaning he/she did not know
- Provide reading materials in an audio format to supplement the students' reading experience with the material
- Reduce the amount of information on a page if its visually distracting to the student
- Have the student prepare test questions based on information read
- Vocabulary notebooks
- Reading partner