Early skills in alphabetics serve as strong predictors of reading success, while later deficits in alphabetics is the main source of reading difficulties. This article argues the importance of developing skills in alphabetics, including phonics and decoding.
Teach your students how to improve their time management. Learn to teach task analysis, enabling your students to divide academic projects into smaller tasks, figure out how long each task will take, and produce their work when it needs to be done.
Consider some excellent lesson models for teaching vocabulary, explaining idioms, fostering word consciousness, instruction for English Language Learners, and mnemonic strategies.
The following articles provide information on how to teach writing to students with learning disabilities or ADHD. These articles include how to teach students with dysgraphia, a specific writing disability.
You are writing as both a teacher and a parent, with concern that advocating on behalf of your child may result in your being “black balled.” Both Section 504 and the ADA provide some protection
Teachers.Net web site provides teacher networking, columns by educators such as Alfie Kohn and Harry Wong, lesson plans, live meetings with experts, and job information.