Strategies for teaching students with learning disabilities /
From the Publisher: Written by a teacher for teachers, this engaging book provides more than 100 practical strategies for students with learning disabilities, along with guidance on accommodations and assessment.
| Основен автор: | Martin, Lucy C. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Corwin Press,
℗♭2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Strategies for teaching students with learning disabilities. |
Съдържание:
- Acknowledgments
- About the author
- Introduction
- 1: Awareness And Sensitivity: The Starting Point
- What's your pommel horse?
- Top 10 reasons to understand students with disabilities
- Base of the learning pyramid
- Air conditioners and anxiety
- Under knowledge
- Difference strokes
- When root words don't help
- Exponentially confusing
- Bridge freezes
- Gail Wellin's handwriting
- Summary
- 2: Student Needs: Clarifying And Understanding
- Seven good reasons
- Soft signs of dysgraphia
- Degrees of difference
- Can't versus won't
- Six box
- Dig in!
- Summary
- 3: Parents: Informing And Supporting
- Limits to conference
- Communicating sensitively and accurately
- Teachers as parents
- Who said what?
- Pre conference preparation
- Doesn't want to be different
- Tutor's challenge
- Invisible disabilities
- Crafting reports on students with needs
- Value of evaluation
- Very bright?
- Describing hyperactivity
- Summary
- 4: Program: Facilitation, Support, And Consultation
- Three As of meeting learning needs
- Awareness
- Acceptance
- Advocacy
- Talking with students about learning plans
- Who goes there?
- Learning specialists are like acupuncturists
- Better than going the extra mile
- Not just for students with disabilities
- When less is more
- Recorded books
- Appliance manuals
- Split-pea soup
- Accommodation with documentation
- Life vest
- Support persons-who does what?
- Academic coach
- Tutor
- Learning specialist
- Levels of support
- Remediation
- Support
- Helping jugglers in the classroom
- Summary
- 5: Accommodations: Adjustments That Work
- Why of accommodations
- Art museums
- How long to accommodate?
- No fear Shakespeare
- Business class for all
- Managing dysgraphia
- Big difference
- Provide versus offer
- Use it or lose it!
- Table or booth?
- Hear this!
- Penned notes
- List of common accommodations
- Classroom setting
- Instruction
- Student response
- Test format
- Test setting (timing and place)
- Other
- Summary
- 6: Strategies: Practical Tips To Help Students
- Strategies that address difficulties with attention
- Hear yourself think
- Sound of silence
- Emergency treatment for chatty classes
- Recording blanks
- Mostly listening with a chance of discussion
- Lights out!
- Strategies that address difficulties with memory
- Fading
- Adding sensory feedback to flashcards
- Envelope sort
- Mistakes that help
- Flying apostrophe
- Environmental cues
- Cutting for comprehension
- What's in a name?
- Minimal pairs
- Talking to yourself is a good thing!
- Working memory
- Strategies that address difficulties with notes
- Step aside!
- Note card no man's land
- Word processing index cards
- Laterality and learning
- Driving and note taking
- Strategies that address difficulties with reading
- Touch the page
- Reading fluency
- Friendly font
- Vitamin P
- How of how
- White in black and read
- Dates and margins
- Active voice
- Readability: little things mean a lot
- Layout and memory
- Can they read the text?
- Music and poetry
- Tachistoscope
- People are round
- Epic management
- Jagsaw puzzles and research projects
- Unstructured texts
- Strategies that address difficulties in writing
- Pick it! stick it!
- Writing and pancakes
- Write a green paragraph
- Franklin language master
- Prompts on the computer
- Beat it!
- Boldly stated
- Planned ignoring of written mistakes
- Strike through
- Puzzle pieces
- Struggling with topic sentence
- Strategies that address difficulties with math
- At first I was puzzled
- Dramatizing variables
- Math and margarine
- Which way does it go?
- Break an arm
- Place value, alignment, and boxes
- Strategies that address various difficulties
- One that got away
- Dumbo had a good thing
- Cueing for contribution
- Tone of voice
- Big schedule, big clock
- Tilt!
- Quiet fidgets
- All and nothing
- Color me organized
- Columns for comparison
- Getting in the game
- Too much of a good thing
- Catching up
- Color me comprehensible
- Materials modification
- Quantifying clueless
- Summary.
- 7: Organization: Techniques To Get It Together
- Do the combo mambo
- Parkas in July
- Thinking ahead and planning backward
- Disability versus disinterest
- Practical assignment for September
- Organizing organization
- Analysis of organizational problems
- Why women can't borrow purses
- Preparing for teacher tutoring
- Binder blues
- Back to basics
- Assignment book
- Binder
- Clean out book bag
- De-clutter locker
- 1-2-3 weed out!
- Schedule for teacher help
- Real estate agents are right
- Bordering on madness
- Launching and landing pad
- Student information and resources
- Tracking teachers
- Reminders that work
- Long-range planning
- Take control
- Promoting toting
- Putting tangents in their place
- Distinctive gear
- Spare binder in the classroom
- Extra! extra!
- In lieu of lockers
- Accessible assignments
- What's going on?
- Tools of the trade
- Ding!
- Summary
- 8: Test Format: Facilitating Accurate Assessment
- Hit "enter" for multiple choice
- Creative tests
- Word bank high
- Test that taught
- Testing accommodations for all
- Relax format requirements
- Offer chewy candy during test
- Eliminate extra credit questions
- Color-coded tests
- Meet them halfway
- Writing tests-overview
- Summary
- 9: Test Taking: Effective Tips For All
- Music and test taking
- Sensory feedback during tests
- Anchors and cloze
- Managing complete sentences
- Y, M, and N
- Cause and effect
- Downsize
- True-false adaptation
- Multi step directions
- Feet first
- First the Yos, then Usteds
- Word retrieval and staples
- Splashdown
- Splashdow 2
- Simply scissors
- CBL-three-letter magic
- Suggestions for students
- Suggestions for teachers
- Count the question marks
- Managing hand fatigue
- Making something out of nothing
- Wallpaper for open-note tests
- Closer look at test performance
- Summary tips for test takers
- Splashdown
- CBL
- Touch the page
- Read items two or three times
- Read items quietly to yourself but loud enough to hear your own voice
- Underline key parts of directions
- Number multistep directions
- Use a marker to check work
- Ask for help if you're stuck
- Downsize for math
- Summary
- 10: Self-Advocacy: The Path To Independence
- Scripts for self-advocates
- Empasize solution
- Promises
- Bridging the gap
- Advocacy support in college
- Exploring department of disability services
- What if self-advocacy doesn't work?
- Summary
- Notes: Space for your own ideas
- Resources: Explore and connect to support
- References
- Index.