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Video link: Mnemonics
Description: This video provides an overview of Mnemonics, including what they are and how they are used.
Learning Objective: Define attention and mnemonic strategies and describe how to teach them. Provide examples for on-task attention, selective attention, acronyms, acrostics, rhymes, keywords, and pegwords.
508 Compliant and accessibility:  Audio & CC
 

Video link: Peg Word Mnemonic
Description: This video explains the peg words and how they function in assisting memory and recall.
Learning Objective: Define attention and mnemonic strategies and describe how to teach them. Provide examples for on-task attention, selective attention, acronyms, acrostics, rhymes, keywords, and pegwords.
508 Compliant and accessibility:  Audio & CC
 

Audio link: Misunderstood Minds: Auditory Activity
Description: Try this auditory activity from PBS to experience listening to directions from the perspective of a student with a disability. Note: This activity requires Flash player.
Learning Objective: Defend why students with high-incidence disabilities need strategy instruction based on the notion of strategic learner.
508 Compliant and accessibility:  Audio
 

Video link: Test-Taking Smarts for Students with Learning Disabilities
Description: The test-taking strategies presented in this video are for older students, but most of the strategies can be adapted to fit the needs of younger students with learning disabilities.
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast organizing strategies, study strategies, test-taking strategies and notetaking strategies. Provide multiple examples of each and describe when and how they should be taught.
508 Compliant and accessibility: CC
 

Video link: Creative Study Skills
Description: The video defines different types of issues in independent work and study skills as well as provides links to resources.
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast organizing strategies, study strategies, test-taking strategies and notetaking strategies. Provide multiple examples of each and describe when and how they should be taught.
508 Compliant and accessibility:  Audio & CC
 

Web link: Misunderstood Minds: Visual Activity
Description: Try this visual activity from PBS to experience reading from the perspective of a student with a disability. 
Learning Objective: Defend why students with high-incidence disabilities need strategy instruction based on the notion of strategic learner.
508 Compliant and accessibility: None