Review Previous Days Material for Continuity and to Enhance Long Term Memory

For students with Learning Disabilities, it is important to start the days lesson for the first three-to-eight minutes by reviewing the previous days lesson. Not only does it help in building a schema so students see the connection of why the previous material was important - it connects to what is currently being learned and what will be learned in the future. It also allows for a review of the important concepts and skills that connect past learning to present learning and the future.

Using math as an example: Archer and others recommend spending the start of a days lesson going over the previous days homework for problems and questions, then going over problems where there were clear examples of errors, then reviewing the skills and concepts that are required for success in that days lesson and finally, reviewing the lesson vocabulary that students must know to be successful.

Learning Disabled students need repetition of important concepts far beyond their non-disabled peers  and information of how concepts and main ideas fit together toward a coherent whole. Over teaching important concepts and skills to those students helps them move important themes and ideas from short-term to long-term memory.