Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom : Ways to Challenge and Motivate Struggling Students to Achieve Proficiency with Required Standards

by Winebrenner, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781575422077
• ISBN10: 1575422077
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Free Spirit Pub

Summary

Proven ways to help special education, "slow", and "remedial" students learn and achieve.

Table of Contents

List of Reproducible	vi
Introduction	1	(4)
Making All Students Welcome in Your Classroom	5	(9)
Welcoming Activities	5	(5)
More Ways to Create a Welcoming Environment	10	(1)
Welcoming English Language Learners (ELLs) into the Classroom	11	(1)
Questions and Answers	12	(2)
Getting Everyone Involved in Learning	14	(7)
The Name Card Method	14	(3)
Cooperative Learning	17	(2)
More Ways to Get Everyone Involved in Learning	19	(1)
Questions and Answers	19	(2)
Understanding Learning Difficulties and Intervening Effectively	21	(22)
LD	22	(6)
Being Gifted and Having Learning Challenges at the Same Time	28	(2)
Other Conditions That Make Learning Difficult	30	(3)
Other Conditions That Create Special Learning Needs	33	(4)
Working as a Team with Special Education Teachers	37	(1)
Questions and Answers	37	(6)
Matching Your Teaching to Your Students' Learning Styles	43	(19)
Understanding Learning Styles	44	(4)
Learning Styles and School Success	48	(3)
Teaching Students About Learning Styles	51	(1)
Teaching Your Students About Their Learning Styles	51	(3)
Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences	54	(3)
Teaching to Multiple Intelligences	57	(1)
Teaching to Complement Learning Styles	57	(2)
Questions and Answers	59	(3)
Teaching So All Students Can Learn	62	(22)
A Few Words About the Revised IDEA	62	(1)
Attribution Theory	63	(2)
Goal Setting	65	(3)
Metacognition	68	(1)
Providing a Meaningful and Challenging Curriculum	68	(4)
Turning Kids On to Learning Through Projects	72	(3)
More Teaching Techniques to Try	75	(2)
Bringing Technology Into the Classroom	77	(3)
Summary of Teaching Strategies for Students with Learning Difficulties and Those Emerging into Fluency in English	80	(1)
Questions and Answers	81	(3)
Teaching Reading: Stories	84	(26)
Teacher-Directed Reading	84	(2)
The Language Experience Method	86	(2)
Improving Fluency	88	(3)
Teaching Oral Reaaing	91	(1)
Improving Comprehension	92	(11)
Literature-Based Reading	103	(4)
Teaching the Skills of Reading	107	(1)
Questions and Answers	107	(3)
Sounds, Vocabulary, and Spelling	110	(12)
Phonemic Awareness	110	(1)
Phonics Instruction	110	(2)
Building Reading Vocabulary	112	(4)
Spelling Instruction	116	(4)
Questions and Answers	120	(2)
Teaching Writing	122	(12)
What to Do When Students Hate to Write	122	(1)
What to Do When Students Don't Know What to Write About	123	(1)
Writing Programs	124	(1)
The Writing Process	124	(2)
Making Writing Visual and Global	126	(3)
Evaluating the Writing of Students with Learning Difficulties	129	(1)
How to Handle Penmanship and Handwriting	129	(2)
Questions and Answers	131	(3)
Reading and Learning in the Content Areas	134	(12)
Getting Ready to Learn	135	(1)
Simple Mapping	135	(4)
Understanding Material from Texts and Lectures	139	(4)
Questions and Answers	143	(3)
Improving Students' Success in Math	146	(15)
Ways to Get Struggling Students Hooked on Math	147	(1)
Teaching Techniques to Try	148	(1)
Teaching the Basics	149	(7)
Word Problems	156	(2)
Questions and Answers	158	(3)
Helping Students Get Organized and Learn Study Skills	161	(13)
Bringing Order into the Disorganized Lives of Students with Learning Difficulties	161	(3)
Teaching Students How to Study	164	(1)
Homework	165	(1)
Tests	166	(5)
Questions and Answers	171	(3)
Assessing What Students Have Learned	174	(15)
Ways to Improve Student Achievement	175	(1)
The Grading Dilemma	176	(1)
Traditional vs. Authentic Assessment	176	(1)
More Ways to Improve Student Achievement	177	(6)
Struggling Students and Standardized Tests	183	(1)
Ways to Make Assessment More Meaningful for All Students	184	(3)
Questions and Answers	187	(2)
Teaching Students How to Behave Appropriately	189	(27)
Looking Dumb vs. Being Bad	189	(2)
Intervening with Inappropriate Behavior	191	(6)
Helping Students Learn to Choose Appropriate Behavior	197	(8)
Improving Behavior for the Whole Class	205	(2)
Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation	207	(1)
Using the Time-Out	208	(1)
The Responsible Thinking Process: A School-Wide Behavior Management Model	208	(2)
Dealing with Bullying in Your Class and School	210	(4)
Questions and Answers	214	(2)
Working with Parents as Partners in Their Child's Learning	216	(19)
Ways to Promote Parent Involvement in School	217	(1)
Homework Issues	218	(1)
Productive Parent-Teacher Meetings	219	(2)
Open Houses	221	(1)
Questions and Answers	221	(14)
Index	235	(12)
About the Author	247