ADHD Reading Strategies
Reading strategies helpful when dealing with students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or Attention Deficit Disorder
A list of reading strategies to use with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), also known as attention deficit disorder (add).
This is a list of tips for helping students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), also known as attention deficit disorder (ADD), deal with reading. Not all these strategies will work for every child or every teacher. Don't be afraid to try something and then admit it doesn't work. That's why there's a list of different things! Go ahead and try different things until you find what works for both you and the child.
Reading Skills:
1. Have the student listen to taped or recorded stories while following in the text.
2. Pair readers for reading assignments and then put a good reader with a poor reader. Use cooperative learning groups to enhance students' strengths.
3. Read or have an excellent reader read orally to the class and let students follow along in the text.
4. Use comic books, simplified synopses, films, and filmstrips with classics to encourage attention to the task.
5. If parents are cooperative, try to enlist a family member to read to their youngsters with a reading problem.
6. Review lessons frequently to build the sequence for students having some difficulty following the story line.
7. Provide student with copy of reading material with main ideas underlined or highlighted.
8. Provide an outline of important points from reading material.
9. Teach outlining as well as identifying the main-idea, details and concepts.
10. Provide tape of the text and/or chapter. Even better is an mp3 or podcast that the student could listen to on his Ipod. (Check copyright laws. They do allow for "copying" material for educational use as long as it is not sold.) Pages can be marked with the cassette players counter or podcast minute/second marker.
11. Provide additional reading time.
12. Use "previewing" strategies.
13. Select text with less on a page.
14. Shorten amount of required reading.
15. Always introduce new words by going over their dictionary meaning and explaining how the words are related to what students will be reading.
16. Guide students' reading with meaningful questions and not cut and paste answer ones. (Questions that require the student to find the answer and copy it directly from the book.)
17. Encourage students to take a sheet of paper before reading or studying and write down everything on his or her mind and place that at the end of what he or she needs to study. This clears the mind for studying.
18. Teach students to use a reading marker or strip to help keep their place (and it allows you to check where a student is in the text).
19. Start out the year doing teacher guided reading. Show how you identify the key concepts and main ideas of a chapter. Formulate questions that predict and actively involve readers using clustering and semantic mapping.
For more teaching strategies, see my pages on
classroom environment, teaching style, writing assignments and in-class work, homework
and lecture rentention.
