Executive Function: Skill Building and Support Strategies, Grades 6-12

This tri-fold laminated reference guide by Sandra Rief provides practical strategies to support and enhance the developing executive function skills of all students in grades 6-12. It also describes the key scaffolds and accommodations that help students with ADHD and others with executive function impairments succeed in school and beyond. The guide lists numerous specific strategies including low and high-tech tools to help strengthen the following executive function skills: Inhibition, Working memory, Planning, Sustained focus and attention, Organization, Activation/initiation, Time Management, Shifting/flexibility, Self-monitoring and metacognition, Emotional control.