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The LD Teacher's IDEA Companion (6-12)
Molly Lyle Brown

The LD Teacher's IDEA Companion (6-12)

The LD Teacher’s IDEA Companion Grades 6-12 is designed to help you translate the impact of IDEA into how you work with the students, their parents, regular educators, and the general curriculum itself. This book provides materials that correspond to the major IEP changes resulting from the reauthorization of IDEA.

A teacher taking a selfie with his students.

The Teacher's Role in Developing Social Skills

Playing with friends is a daily ritual for most children. But kids with learning disabilities are often isolated and rejected. Their problems making and keeping friends are compounded by their poor social skills. The challenges confronting learning disabled children in their lives both in and out of the classroom are examined in this video program designed for both teachers and parents.

The Twice-Exceptional Dilemma
National Education Association

The Twice-Exceptional Dilemma

Twice-exceptional children — those with both a disability and a gift or talent — present education proffessionals and families with significant challenges. This guide focuses on the identification considerations, common characteristics, obstacles and learning difficulties, roles and responsibilities for educators to ensure the academic success of the largest group of twice-exceptional children — those who have a disability and are also academically gifted.

View a PDF of The Twice-Exceptional Dilemma.

The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas
Linda Dobson

The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas

As a homeschooling parent, you’re always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you’ll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family’s homeschooling needs. And even if you don’t homeschool, you’ll find this book a great teaching tool outside the classroom.

The Unwritten Rules of Friendship
Eileen Kennedy-Moore

The Unwritten Rules of Friendship

This practical and compassionate guidebook enables parents to sharpen any child’s social skills by pinpointing the child’s particular social strengths and difficulties. Each chapter — from “The Shy Child” to “The Little Adult,” from “The Short-Fused Child” to “The Sensitive Soul” — uses case studies that focus on the specific social conventions that certain children don’t “get,” and offers drills that parents and teachers can use to help children understand the unspoken underpinnings of social situations, the knowledge essential to building, sustaining, and repairing relationships.

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The Use of Context Cues in Reading

When children encounter an unfamiliar word in reading, they may make use of context cues, that is, information from pictures or from sentences surrounding the unknown word. One of the most misunderstood topics in reading instruction involves the extent to which children should be encouraged to rely on context cues in reading.

The Use of Manipulatives in Mathematics Instruction

Manipulatives are concrete objects that are commonly used in teaching mathematics. However, because manipulatives typically are used as part of a much broader program of math instruction, it has sometimes been unclear in research studies how much benefit children derive specifically from manipulatives as opposed to other features of instruction.

The Writing Dilemma: Understanding Dysgraphia
Regina G. Richards

The Writing Dilemma: Understanding Dysgraphia

“Clearly it is time for a holistic approach to the understanding of writing. The Writing Dilemma offers an embarrassingly overdue breakthrough, as this most important work acknowledges and describes vividly the multiple possible breakdown points that must be considered in a child who is not developing writing skills.” Other sections include components that facilitate automatic writing performances, assessment techniques, and a variety of recommendations for compensations and remediation of writing problems.

Tips for Encouraging Kids to Read

We asked the parents and teachers who frequent our web site for their ideas about how to encourage kids, especially those who aren’t excited about books, to do more reading. Thanks to all you tip-sters out there, we received tons of advice, which we’ve summarized in the seven tips below.

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