Strategy Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities

Strategy Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities
Author: Robert Reid
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-09-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1462512208

"Practical and accessible, this book provides the first step-by-step guide to cognitive strategy instruction, which has been shown to be one of the most effective instructional techniques for students with learning problems. Presented are proven strategies that students can use to improve their self-regulated learning, study skills, and performance in specific content areas, including written language, reading, and math. Clear directions for teaching the strategies in the elementary or secondary classroom are accompanied by sample lesson plans and many concrete examples. Enhancing the book's hands-on utility are more than 20 reproducible worksheets and forms"--

Strategy Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities

Strategy Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities
Author: Robert Reid
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1462512216

Filling an important need for K-12 educators, this highly practical book provides a step-by-step guide to cognitive strategy instruction, one of the most effective instructional techniques for struggling learners. The authors present well-validated strategies that target self-regulated learning and study skills as well as performance in specific content areas, such as writing, reading, and math. Detailed classroom examples illustrate how to teach the strategies systematically and monitor student outcomes. More than 20 reproducible worksheets, checklists, and other tools are included; purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print these materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition *Chapter on lesson planning, including extensive sample lessons for two strategies. *Chapter on handwriting and spelling. *New material on response to intervention and on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). *Expanded coverage of working memory. *Additional strategies throughout the content-area chapters.

Strategy Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition

Strategy Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition
Author: Robert Reid
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781462512225

Filling an important need for K-12 educators, this highly practical book provides a step-by-step guide to cognitive strategy instruction, one of the most effective instructional techniques for struggling learners. The authors present well-validated strategies that target self-regulated learning and study skills as well as performance in specific content areas, such as writing, reading, and math. Detailed classroom examples illustrate how to teach the strategies systematically and monitor student outcomes. More than 20 reproducible worksheets, checklists, and other tools are included; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print these materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition *Chapter on lesson planning, including extensive sample lessons for two strategies. *Chapter on handwriting and spelling. *New material on response to intervention and on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). *Expanded coverage of working memory. *Additional strategies throughout the content-area chapters.

Academic Success Strategies for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities and ADHD

Academic Success Strategies for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities and ADHD
Author: Esther Hirsch Minskoff
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This strategy-filled handbook will teach education professionals how they can help students with mild disabilities apply their academic skills to organization, test-taking, study skills, note taking, reading, writing, math, and advanced thinking.

Nowhere to Hide

Nowhere to Hide
Author: Jerome J. Schultz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2011-06-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118091736

A new approach to help kids with ADHD and LD succeed in and outside the classroom This groundbreaking book addresses the consequences of the unabated stress associated with Learning disabilities and ADHD and the toxic, deleterious impact of this stress on kids' academic learning, social skills, behavior, and efficient brain functioning. Schultz draws upon three decades of work as a neuropsychologist, teacher educator, and school consultant to address this gap. This book can help change the way parents and teachers think about why kids with LD and ADHD find school and homework so toxic. It will also offer an abundant supply of practical, understandable strategies that have been shown to reduce stress at school and at home. Offers a new way to look at why kids with ADHD/LD struggle at school Provides effective strategies to reduce stress in kids with ADHD and LD Includes helpful rating scales, checklists, and printable charts to use at school and home This important resource is written by a faculty member of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry and former classroom teacher.

Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities
Author: Lucy C. Martin
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2008-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 145229612X

"I wish I had this book when I started teaching! Every teacher starts out with an empty bag of tricks; it is nice to peek into someone′s bag!" —Nicole Guyon, Special Education Teacher Westerly School Department, Cranston, RI Classroom-tested strategies that help students with learning disabilities succeed! Teachers are often challenged to help students with learning disabilities reach their full academic potential. Written with humor and empathy, this engaging book offers a straightforward approach to skillful teaching of students with learning disabilities. Developed for K–12 general and special education classrooms, this resource draws on the author′s 30 years of teaching experience to help teachers gain a greater understanding of students′ learning differences and meet individual needs. Strategies are organized by skills—including reading, writing, math, organization, attention, and test-taking—helping teachers quickly identify the best techniques for assisting each student and encouraging independent learning. Readers will find: More than 100 practical strategies, interventions, and activities that build students′ academic abilities Recommendations on appropriate accommodations, assessment techniques, and family communication Support for complying with recent federal mandates related to learning disabilities, including the ADA, Section 504, and the reauthorization of IDEA 2004 Helpful guidance and stories from the author′s own classroom experiences Ready-to-use tools, forms, and guides Discover innovative, easy-to-implement teaching methods that overcome barriers to learning and help students with special needs thrive in your classroom.

How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children

How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children
Author: Sandra F. Rief
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1993-03-31
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Practical techniques, strategies, and interventions for helping children with attention problems and hyperactivity.

Literacy Skill Development for Students with Special Learning Needs

Literacy Skill Development for Students with Special Learning Needs
Author: Leslie Todd Broun
Publisher: National Professional Resources Inc./Dude Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781934032077

This valuable resource provides a methodology that focuses on visual learning, and is especially significant for those students having difficulty learning to read through a traditional auditory, sound based approach; includes explicit direction for the instructional steps to be taken and the kinds of visual materials that can be created and used to build skills; is packed with strength-based strategies and reinforcement activities for the development/acquisition of literacy skills; is designed for students with special learning needs, including ASD and Down Syndrome; and embraces the basic tenets of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

Learning Disabilities

Learning Disabilities
Author: William N. Bender
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780205388561

The best classroom practices. The latest research. The issues for debate. "Learning Disabilities" makes the connection between the characteristics of students with learning disabilities and the classroom tested instructional strategies that work in class. With up-to-date content, this practical guide offers insight into practical educational concerns from a teacher's perspective, while covering the relevant scholarship to best prepare your students for working with these students. About the Book: NEW! Recommendations from the Commission for Excellence in Special Education are included, preparing your students for the transformation of the field of LD. NEW! Focus on the latest in brain compatible research and instructional practices. NEW! Contains research-based reading strategies, as emphasized in the No Child Left Behind Legislation! NEW! Emphasis on multiple intelligences instructional options for students with learning disabilities. Teaching Tips sections in every chapter reveal practical strategies on how to teach students with learning disabilities. Uses actual assessment and referral reports to present the characteristics of students with disabilities (Ch. 5 & Appendix). Provides practical guidelines for identification of the particular components that college-bound students with learning disabilities and their parents should look for in selection of an appropriate college program (Ch. 13). " ...elements of the text ...are EXTREMELY beneficial to the university students as learning tools." Dr. Coleen E. Klein, "University of Central Florida" " ("Learning Disabilities") provides learners with sufficient opportunities to interact with the text and apply their learning...The questions and activities at the end of each chapter encourage students to reflect upon or think critically about the context." Daqi Lee, "State University of New York at Oneonta"