Teaching Language Arts, Math, and Science to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

by Browder, Diane M.

• ISBN13: 9781557667984
• ISBN10: 1557667985
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Brookes Pub

Summary

Under NCLB, students with severe disabilities are expected to make progress on state academic content standards in language arts, math, and science. But what material should educators teach from these three content areas, and how should they teach it? With this groundbreaking textbook, future educators will finally have the answers they need. The first major research-to-practice resource on this critical topic, this text goes beyond functional and access skills and shows educators how to make the general curriculum accessible to students of all ages with significant cognitive disabilities. Twenty-five of the best-known researchers in the field.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	vii
About the Contributors	ix
Foreword	xv
Martha E. Snell
Preface	xvii
Part I Access to the General Curriculum
Why Teach the General Curriculum?	1	(14)
Fred Spooner
Diane M. Browder
Promoting Access to the General Curriculum for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities	15	(24)
Michael L. Wehmeyer
Martin Agran
Part II Language Arts
Building Literacy for Students at the Presymbolic and Early Symbolic Levels	39	(24)
June E. Downing
From Sight Words to Emerging Literacy	63	(30)
Diane M. Browder
Ginevra Courtade-Little
Shawnee Wakeman
Robert J. Rickelman
Learning to Read: Phonics and Fluency	93	(32)
Debby Houston
Stephanie Al Otaiba
Joseph K. Torgesen
Balanced Literacy Classrooms and Embedded Instruction for Students with Severe Disabilities: Literacy for All in the Age of School Reform	125	(46)
Terri Ward
Cheryl A. Van De Mark
Diane Lea Ryndak
Part III Math and Science
Enhancing Numeracy	171	(26)
Diane M. Browder
Lynn Ahlgrim-Delzell
David K. Pugalee
Bree A. Jimenez
Addressing Math Standards and Functional Math	197	(32)
Belva C. Collins
Harold L. Kleinert
Lou-Ann E. Land
Science Standards and Functional Skills: Finding the Links	229	(16)
Fred Spooner
Warren Di Biase
Ginevra Courtade-Little
Developing Math and Science Skills in General Education Contexts	245	(32)
Appendix A: Example of Adaptations to a General Education Lesson Plan for Science
Appendix B: Adapted Lesson Plan on Leaf Classification to Include a Student with Significant Disabilities in a Seventh-Grade Science Lesson
Karena Cooper-Duffy
Daniel G. Perlmutter
Part IV Alignment of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
How Students Demonstrate Academic Performance in Portfolio Assessment	277	(18)
Jacqueline Kearns
Michael D. Burdge
Jean Clayton
Anne P. Denham
Harold L. Kleinert
Promoting the Alignment of Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction	295	(18)
Claudia P. Flowers
Diane M. Browder
Lynn Ahlgrim-Delzell
Fred Spooner
Index	313