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Pbs: Using a Communication Device to Participate in a Small Group Discussion, Part 1

3rd - 6th
Watch how a student uses his communication device to tell another student what he liked about her story during an Author's Chair writing activity.
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Pbs: Utilizing a Cloze Activity to Promote Decoding

3rd - 6th
video shows how to use a cloze activity to promote decoding as an effective strategy for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities in literacy instruction.
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Pbs: Using a Communication Device to Participate in a Small Group Discussion, Part 2

3rd - 6th
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, a student demonstrates how to use the text-to-speech option on his voice output communication device to share a story he wrote with his peers.
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Pbs: Retelling Key Events in a Story

9th - 10th
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, a high school teacher supports students in retelling a story allowing students access to a text and a communication system, if needed.
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Pbs: Using a Timeline Containing Historical Events to Illustrate Text to Self

9th - 10th
Video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates the use of a timeline containing historical events to illustrate text to self.
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Pbs: Opportunities to Engage With the Word Wall

9th - 10th Standards
In this self-contained high school classroom, the teacher has students identify the beginning sound in a word, then selects a student to match the beginning sound of a word to the correct letter on the word wall.
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Pbs: Planning for Communication/strategies for Students With Cognitive Disabilities

9th - 10th Standards
In this self-contained high school classroom, the teacher encourages the student to use the communication system as well as a vocal response while learning a new word.
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Pbs: Conveying a Clear Message

9th - 10th Standards
In this self-contained high school classroom, a teacher supports her student in being persistent in her communication attempt. They use both the student's verbal abilities and her augmentative communication system to try and convey a...
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Pbs: Indicating Letters With an Eye Gaze System

9th - 10th Standards
The video demonstrates effective strategies for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities in literacy instruction, in particular the eye gaze system.
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Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 3

K - 1st Standards
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to set a purpose then listen to see if you can find the solution.
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Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 1

K - 1st
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, the teacher uses a literature book to set a purpose for reading and the students successfully listen to achieve the purpose: to identify the...
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Pbs: How Do We Know What the Character Is Feeling

K - 1st Standards
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to identify how the character feels in a story.
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Pbs: Selecting a Topic for Writing

K - 1st Standards
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, explores how a classroom teacher chose a topic for a writing assignment.
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Pbs: Using Aac to Communicate About a Book

K - 1st Standards
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, a student uses an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device to communicate with the teacher about a self-selected alphabet book.
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Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 2

K - 1st Standards
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, students are asked to identify the story elements, specifically the problem in the story.
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Pbs: Communicating My Writing With Others

K - 1st Standards
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, watch how a students uses an individualized comprehensive communication system to tell about her drawing.
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Pbs: Acknowledging Communication Attempts

3rd - 6th
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, watch how the teacher acknowledges the student's communication attempt.
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Pbs: Multiple Means of Communication During Book Discussion

3rd - 5th
Video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates the use of a variety of communication approaches to support students ability to identify and talk about the feelings of a character.