Strategies for teaching students with learning disabilities / / Lucy C. Martin

• Autore: Martin Lucy C
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Corwin Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.9/0472
• Soggetto topico: Learning disabled children - Education (Elementary) - United States; Learning disabled teenagers - Education (Secondary) - United States
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-139) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Awareness and Sensitivity: The Starting Point -- What's Your Pommel Horse? -- The Top 10 Reasons to Understand Students with Disabilities -- The Base of the Learning Pyramid -- Air Conditioners and Anxiety -- Underknowledge -- Different Strokes -- When Root Words Don't Help -- Exponentially Confusing -- Bridge Freezes -- Gail Wellin's Handwriting -- Summary -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 3 - Parents: Informing and Supporting -- Limits to Conference -- Communicating Sensitively and Accurately -- Teachers as Parents -- Who Said What? -- Preconference Preparation -- Doesn't want to be Different -- Tutor's Challenge -- The Invisible Disabilities -- Crafting Reports on Students with Needs -- The Value of Evaluation -- Very Bright? -- Describing Hyperactivity -- Summary -- Chapter 4 - The Program: Facilitation, Support, and Consultation -- The 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 without Documentation -- Life Vest -- Support Persons-Who does What? -- Academic Coach -- Tutor -- Learning Specialist -- Levels of Support -- Remediation -- Support -- Helping Jugglers in the Classroom -- Summary -- Chapter 5 - Accommodations: Adjustments that Work -- The Why of Accommodations -- Art Museums -- How Long to Accommodate? -- No Fear Shakespeare -- Business Class for All -- Managing Dysgraphia. ; A 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 -- Chapter 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 -- The 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 -- Jigsaw Puzzles and Research Projects -- Unstructured Texts -- Strategies that Address Difficulties with 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 -- Strikethrough -- 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 -- Closer Look and Collaboration -- Place Value, Alignment, and Boxes -- Strategies that Address Various Difficulties -- The 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 8 - Test Format: Facilitating Accurate Assessment -- Hit "Enter" for Multiple Choice -- Creative Tests -- Word Banks High -- A 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. ; Chapter 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 -- Multistep Directions -- Feet First -- First the Yos, Then the Usteds -- Word Retrieval and Staples -- "Splashdown" -- "Splashdown" 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 -- A 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 -- Chapter 10 - Self-Advocacy: The Path to Independence -- Scripts for Self-Advocates -- Emphasize 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Strategies for teaching students with learning disabilities
• ISBN: 1-4522-9612-X; 1-4522-1111-6; 1-4416-5258-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824707503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II