Working Memory
Working memory: Skills that enable one to hold onto information and later use it in context.
- Carrying out multi-step activities
- Accomplishing mental academics
- Following complex directions.
- Sustaining attention
- Breaking down assignments into manageable parts
- Reading- Reasoning Skills: Making Text Connections, Text Analysis, Inferences, Prediction
- Writing- Planning, attending long enough to create substantial amount of writing, revising and editing.
- Math- Word problems, two step problems
- Use self-talk to guide problem solving
- Checklists of steps
- Chunk information
- Create and follow routines
- Visuals- directions always visually displayed
- Breaking down assignments into manageable parts
- Graphic organizers
- Stamina Tracker