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The visual mnemonic strategies introduced in Regina G. Richards’ Memory Foundations for Reading are designed to help students transform a struggle with basic phonics into a successful learning experience. While some children learn sound/symbol relationships quickly and easily, others need more practice and there are some who struggle greatly. The visual mnemonic system presented in MFR can be modified and adapted for a variety of learning situations.

Memory Foundations for Reading: Visual Mnemonics for Sound/Symbol Relationships

Regina G. Richards

“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.

The Writing Dilemma: Understanding Dysgraphia

Regina G. Richards

This book tries to help parents, teachers, and students understand dysgraphia. The book also suggests some specific strategies that people with dysgraphia can try. Throughout the story, Eli describes his feelings about writing and the reactions of his teachers and classmates. After an important adventure, Eli and his friends realize that everyone is different with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Eli, The Boy Who Hated to Write: Understanding Dysgraphia

Regina G. Richards

Writing Better: Effective Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning Difficulties

Steven Graham, Karen R. Harris

Learning Disabilities: Foundations, Characteristics, and Effective Teaching

The prevalence of learning disabilities has provoked both the growth of research into the field and the development of educational interventions to assist those with learning disabilities. This book’s aim is to present the current state of this research and intervention ideas and programs. It includes updated material on the 1997 re-authorization of IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and expanded coverage of ADHD and its relationship to learning disabilities. This book presents the latest information on the characteristics of persons with learning disabilities, the causes of their problems, and educational interventions to help them succeed in school and at work. The book is research-based, user-friendly, and practical.

*This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Learning Disabilities: Foundations, Characteristics, and Effective Teaching

Daniel P. Hallahan, John W. Lloyd, James M. Kauffman, Margaret P. Weiss

How to Reach and Teach All Children in the Inclusive Classroom

Sandra F. Rief, Julie A. Heimburge

The updated second edition of Unlocking Literacy is here — and now pre- and inservice educators will have the very latest research and practical guidance on teaching good reading and spelling skills. Developed for general and special educators of students from prekindergarten to middle school and beyond, the new edition of this bestselling textbook arms teachers with the most recent developments in reading research and shows them how to apply their knowledge in the classroom to help all students learn.

Focusing on two interlocking skills — decoding and spelling—this textbook gets teachers ready to:

promote students’ print awareness and phonological awareness through letter naming, letter forming, and listening and speaking activities such as poetry and play
improve students’ spelling skills by teaching the origins of English words, Anglo-Saxon base words, Latin affixes and roots, Greek combining forms, and multisyllabic words
help students understand and correctly use the components of the English language, including common consonant and vowel patterns, syllable patterns, common spelling rules, prefixes and suffixes, roots, nonphonetic words, and contractions
deepen older students’ proficiency with language by introducing less common Latin roots and Greek combining forms, new words entering the English language, and lessons built around themes such as calendars and mythology

To help educators teach with confidence once they’re in the classroom, this text is packed with practical, immediately applicable material. Educators will get engaging classroom activities (including 21 NEW activities suitable for use all students, including English language learners); lesson plans incorporating multisensory, language-based instruction; samples of student work; explanations of current research; and even more websites and reference material to strengthen their instruction.

An essential text for college and university courses on reading instruction — and an ideal professional development resource for inservice educators—this new edition of a classic bestseller will help teachers unlock literacy for all their students.

Unlocking Literacy

Marcia K. Henry

Part of the “Psychology in the Classroom” series, Teaching for Thinking addresses higher order thinking processes. The book helps teachers understand teaching strategies to enhance thinking, understand the role of questioning, helps teacher focus on teaching and evaluating creative insight skills, and understand the basic principles and pitfalls in the teaching of thinking skills.