Jayden's Writing Strategies

Jayden (not his real name) is 8 years old and a third-grade student at Jane Long Elementary School. He has been identified as having autism and speech impairment but is gradually improving academically.
His personal records show that Jayden is reading at a second-grade level. He once placed in Tier 3 reading but is now moved to Tier 2 with sustained intervention. He is very confident of his letter names and sounds and improving a little bit with decoding and comprehension. His academic difficulty in the area of reading is due to his speech impairment. His frustration in reading sometimes leads to even more academic difficulties when he exhibits behavior problems because he also suffers from autism. Jayden has autism spectrum disorder and sometimes
McLaughlin (2015) explained that the text box as a writing strategy is used to promote successful note taking. The text box writing strategy helps students to monitor their reading by focusing on text structure and important facts. Originally, the text box contains two columns: the first column is for students’ notes about important facts and the second column is for students’ reflections about the text and any
Prior to this, Jayden would have watched already a YouTube video clip, Introduction to Reading Skills: Identify main idea and supporting details (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42SJTk2XSi4) as a motivation activity. However, I found out that using the YouTube video clip in explaining our lesson made Jayden even more attentive. In fact, he was more attentive to the video clip than to me asking him scaffolding questions during his video guided practice. The positive part I experienced in developing this lesson was the easiness of using the text box as a writing strategy. It was just easy for me to create the text box template because I simply I changed the original label of the first column from Notes to Details and the original labels of the second column from Reflections and Questions to Main Idea and Possible Title,