For Parents and Professionals
Computer Resources for People with Disabilities: A Guide to Assistive Technologies, Tools, and Resources for People of All Ages
Completely updated, with 40 percent new material, this is an indispensable guide for people with disabilities who wish to improve their lives through computer technology. It lists what's available and how best to use it; provides names of organizations, vendors, and online resources; and tells the stories of real people of all ages who are using technology successfully.
Connecting Content and Academic Language for English Learners and Struggling Students, Grades 2-6
While many educators may understand why academic language is important, they may wonder how to teach it more explicitly and effectively. In this hands-on guide, experts Ruth Swinney and Patricia Velasco offer a number of strategies and approaches to help ELLs and struggling learners master the language necessary to access grade-level curriculum and to succeed in related reading, writing, and speaking tasks. Part I of the book focuses on integrateing language development into classroom lessons, and Part II offers thematic units with detailed information on how to model appropriate academic language, address student errors, and identify key vocabulary words and grammatical structures before a lesson. Helpful tools include graphic organizers, concept maps, and numerous examples from a variety of classroom settings and language instruction models.
Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners
Product Description: This practical, hands-on guide outlines strategies for creating and managing environments that spur sophisticated levels of student communication, both oral and written. Paying special attention to the needs of ELLs and using numerous classroom scenarios, the authors detail steps for designing lessons that spark student talk; describe easy-to-use assessments for all grade levels; provide rubrics, worksheets, sentence frames, and other imaginative tools that encourage academic communication; and offer guiding questions to help teachers plan instruction.
Copy This! : Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies
The now-retired founder of Kinko's mixes autobiographical anecdote with large doses of business advice in this candid, conversational account of his entrepreneurial rise. His autobiographical sections explain how a man with dyslexia, an uncontrollable temper and a mistrust of authority managed to grow a tiny California copy shop into a $2-billion-a-year company.
Creating a College Culture for Latino Students: Successful Programs, Practices, and Strategies
Product Description: Concha Delgado Gaitan, an award-winning professor, scholar, and first-generation Latina college graduate, shares winning strategies for creating effective college-readiness programs for Latino students at the district and school level. You'll find guidance on creating a "college culture" in elementary, middle, and secondary schools, both within the classroom and throughout the building; working with families and community organizations to promote Latino students' school achievement and college goals; and best practices for coaching students for tutors, mentors, counselors, teachers, and administrators, including five essentials for college preparedness.
Creative Resources for the Anti-Bias Classroom
Product Description: This text on anti-bias activities integrates information about developmentally-based planning and child development that reflects the current diversities of our society. Activities are organized by developmental areas and by curriculum areas (e.g. math, language, social studies, science, art, music, etc.). A sequential Anti-Bias Developmental Overview chart summarizes all 300 activities as an illustration of skill progression from infancy to school age.
Day One & Beyond: Practical Matters for New Middle-Level Teachers
The middle level years are an extraordinary period of our human development. The only other time we grow as much physically, emotionally, and intellectually is form ages zero to two. But early adolescence is much more than just tripping over large feet and calling friends on the phone to discuss who likes whom. The ways we deal with conflict, relationships, and personal development as adults have direct connections to specific experiences we had between the ages of ten and fourteen. We can create a very positive future then, when we provide careful and compassionate experiences for today's young adolescents.
Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Widely recognized as the classic in the field, the book has sold more than a million copies. Now a second revolution is under way in the approach to ADD, and the news is great. Drug therapies, our understanding of the role of diet and exercise, even the way we define the disorder — all are changing radically. And doctors are realizing that millions of adults suffer from this condition, though the vast majority of them remain undiagnosed and untreated. In this new book, Drs. Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey build on the breakthroughs of Driven to Distraction to offer a comprehensive and entirely up-to-date guide to living a successful life with ADD.
Developing Recreation Skills in Persons with Learning Disabilities
This book is designed to help recreation leaders better understand individuals with learning disabilities in order that they may better implement quality leisure experiences. The book describes in detail characteristics of various learning disabilities; the instruments used to diagnose learning disabilities; self-awareness of a learning disabled in regard to learning, living, and leisure; the benefits of leisure to a learning disabled individual; and possible modifications needed in the delivery of recreation and leisure services to these individuals. Packed with helpful appendices and suggestions, it sheds new light on helping create quality leisure experiences for all individuals.
Diagnostic Teaching of Reading: Techniques for Instruction and Assessment (4th Edition)
This book provides a tool for teachers to understand various instructional frameworks underlying diagnostic teaching techniques. Presents new techniques for decoding and identifying words within a balanced framework. Highlights how diagnostic teaching assessments are conducted with beginning readers.
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