Providing an outline helps students identify the most important information and themes so they don't get lost in the details. The outline includes the information students should eventually be able to identify on their own, so scaffold the amount of information you provide versus what the student identifies.
Best-suited for students with weaker: Attention, Self-Regulation, Long-term Memory, Working Memory, Metacognition, Processing Speed (Source: Digital Promise Learner Variability Project)