Present information in different ways to support access and understanding
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Classroom strategies years 1-6’
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Ask students what will help
Ask students what will help
- What font size, colour, and style works best for you?
- What background colour do you prefer for paper handouts or slides?
- How much white space on a page or slide helps you focus?
- What style of visual is the most useful to support understanding and attention (graphics, photos, line drawings, cartoons)?
- What other things will support your access, understanding, and attention?
Support understanding with visuals
Support understanding with visuals
Offer information in more than one way.
Use symbols and graphics to illustrate text.
Keep the layout clean and uncluttered.
Take a multi-sensory approach
Take a multi-sensory approach
- Offer real experiences, physical activity, and manipulables to support understanding.
- Support text and spoken information with photos, graphics, audio, and video.
- Present digital text rather than printed text so that students can personalise it by enlarging it or listening to it.
- Use online tools such as Google Slides or blogs to bring multimedia together, so students have content options presented in different media all in one place (for example, a YouTube video, a graphic and some text).
- Make instructions, demonstrations, or key content rewindable and accessible 24/7.
Offer text-to-speech tools
Offer text-to-speech tools
Kit Hard demonstrates the value of text-to-speech tools.
He illustrates how to use them on an iPad.
Play video content with closed captions on
Play video content with closed captions on
Closed captions increase access to video content.
Here's how to find them in YouTube.
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Search for YouTube and open the home page.
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Type search subject (for example “frogs”) into YouTube search bar and press return key.
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On left of screen, click the tab called “Filters” and a menu box will open.
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Select “subtitles/CC” under the Features list.
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Select a video from the selection of filtered videos presented by YouTube.
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Check for accuracy before sharing with students.
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