Challenges with executive functions can impact grades and performance in academic areas even when achievement skills are strong. This is often a cause for frustration, not performing to potential, and decreased productivity.
| Reading | |
| Use tools to organize and keep track of information when reading | Examples: Create a story map to outline/organize the information prior to reading and while reading (e.g. the setting, characters, time of day, etc.) |
| Pull apart sentences and paragraphs with multiple characters to help clarify who is doing what, and make a list for clearer distinctions | |
| Create a timeline to assist with comparing historical events | |
| Make a chart or a list when books or novels shift between ideas, characters, locations, or time periods |  example |
| Generate hypotheses while reading | Examples:
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| Math | |
| Provide various ways to organize math concepts | Organizing patterns in math Math stations |
| Show a pattern for adding | Example: 2+3=5, 2+13=15, 2+23=25; 7+5=12, 7+15=22, 7+25=32) |
| Show a pattern for multiplication | Example: when multiplying by 6, the answer will end in a 2, 8, 4, 0, 6, then the pattern repeats) |
| Create a chart of formulas and math techniques to choose from with samples of when to apply each type | Example: area of ∆ = ½ b x h, circumference=2r, linear equation: Ax+Bx=C, slope: y2-y1/x2-x1, slope intercept: y=mx+b) |
| Make a list of basic number facts | Examples: 365 days in a year, 360 degrees in a circle, 3 feet in a yard, Pi = 3.14, Phi = 1.618 |
| Assist with shift between procedures by circling or color-coding operational signs | |
| Help children learn to apply math |
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| Writing | |
| Brainstorm to generate ideas | Ways to brainstorm for writing Video to brainstorm and plan an essay |
| Organize the ideas | Example Write each idea on a notecard (either physical or digital), then categorize the notecards into sections, and then arrange the sections in the most logical order for developing the paper |
| Develop a plan for writing | Steps to plan an essay |
| Use a Template | |
| Edit for flow and cohesion of ideas | 5 Ways to Create Flow Cohesion |