Ready-To-Use Tools & Materials for Remediating Specific Learning Disabilities

Harwell, Joan M.

ISBN 10: 087628280X ISBN 13: 9780876282809

Verlag: Prentice Hall Direct, 1996

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Volume I in the series, Ready-to-Use Information & Materials for Assessing Specific Learning Disabilities (0-87628-279-6) is a complete reference guide to diagnosing specific learning problems, including a list of behaviors that signal possible learning disabilities. Volume II provides 230 reproducible activities to remediate problems in reading, language arts, and math in grades K-12.

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Joan M. Harwell has over 25 years of experience as a regular classroom teacher and a special education teacher for educationally handicapped children in the schools of San Bernadino, CA. She has run several remedial programs for slow learners and is the author of Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook (1987).

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This practical resource is one of two volumes in the Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Library, a unique set of instructional resources that gives practical educators timely, ready-to-use information, techniques, and activities for helping students with learning difficulties at all grade levels.

Authored by a master teacher with over 30 years of classroom experience in the field of learning disabilities, the two-volume set provides a "library" of tested materials that can save you countless hours of research and preparation time in assessing student strengths and weaknesses, interpreting special education law, working successfully with parents, creating lessons and activities to remediate specific problems, and much more.

Volume I, READY-TO-USE INFORMATION & MATERIALS FOR ASSESSING SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILTIES, is packed with useful guidelines and tips to help you identify and diagnose specific learning problems, including a list of behaviors that signal learning disability ... a review of students and parent rights and how the law affects what the teacher may and may not do ... a list of normal developmental milestones ... specific suggestions for helping students with various difficulties ... criteria for classroom observations ... guidelines for inclusion of special students in regular classrooms ... directions for classroom behavioral management ... a teacher's guide for helping children who find reading extremely difficult ... and 76 tips for classroom and academic management and teaching reading, writing, and math ... and much more.

Volume II, READY-TO-USE TOOLS & MATERIALS FOR REMEDIATING SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES, provides over 230 reproducible remedial activities covering the basic skills areas of reading, language arts, and math, including 11 activities such as "Likenesses and Difference" for children ages 3-7 ... 24 activities like "Using Pictures to Write Sentences" for teaching beginning reading and language arts between the functional levels of 1.0 to 1.5 ... 41 activities like "Compound Words" and "Contractions" for students functioning at level 2.0 ... 63 activities plus "The Five Elements of a Good Sentence/Parts of Speech" for students functioning at level 2.5 to 2.9 ... 90 activities like writing a business letter and answering phone calls for students at level 4.5 or higher.

Moreover, for easy use, each volume is printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of the scores of assessment or remedial tools it contains as many times as you need them for use with individual students, small groups, or an entire class.

In short, the Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Library gives you an unparalleled store of tested, up-to-date information and materials ready for your immediate use to help each child achieve success in learning up to the limits of his or her ability!

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Prentice Hall Direct
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 087628280X
• ISBN 13: 9780876282809
• Einband: Spiralbindung
• Zeichner: Shoup Colleen Duffey
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar