Help for the Struggling Student: Ready-to-Use Strategies and Lessons to Build Attention, Memory, and Organizational Skills [Paperback]

Mimi Gold (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 7, 2003 | ISBN-10: 078796588X | ISBN-13: 978-0787965884 | Edition: 1

Here is a unique picture book of learning solutions for teachers who are trying to help students struggling in three main areas of learning - attention, memory, and organization. For each area, it identifies specific problems such as difficulties with left to right scanning (an attention problem), presents an observed student behavior, explains the problem, and provides strategies and visuals to correct it, including illustrated worksheets.

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Help for the Struggling Student offers teachers and parents a picture book of solutions for their students who are having difficulties in three main areas of learning: attention, memory, and organization. This book also provides information that is needed to identify a student's specific learning style and shows how to select the right strategy for each student. Filled with a wealth of effective learning strategies and solutions presented in a pictorial format, this resource will give you the tools to show your struggling students how to do a task in a new way. By presenting your students with a pictograph of a solution prior to instructing them about it, you will greatly improve their understanding and reduce the need for excessive words in the instruction. And these pictures can be copied, cut out, and placed near the student's work area to remind him or her how to use the strategy. You can also enlarge the pictorial solutions and post them on your bulletin board or chart stand.
Written in easy-to-understand language and presented in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" layflat format, this helpful book gives you the resources to aid your struggling students including information about

• Learning styles
• How students learn
• Strategies
• Attention-enhancing strategies
• Memory-enhancing strategies
• Organization-enhancing strategies

The strategies in this practical book can be used to enhance a student's strengths or compensate for a weakness.

About the Author

Mimi Gold (Masters in Human Development) is the school program coordinator for children and adolescents who are hospitalized in the Rehabilitation Departments of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia. In addition, she works as an educational consultant, advising families and schools on special services, cognitive therapy, and instructional strategies. For more than two decades, her work has focused on meeting the special needs of students with learning disabilities.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (February 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078796588X
• ISBN-13: 978-0787965884
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,967 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help for the Veteran Teacher!, March 20, 2003

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This review is from: Help for the Struggling Student: Ready-to-Use Strategies and Lessons to Build Attention, Memory, and Organizational Skills (Paperback)

I have taught children with learning disabilities for many years and yet this book offers ways to reorganize my thinking about any student that struggles. It's not that I haven't thought about some of these things before, but this book reminds me to observe behaviors I sometimes overlook in the press of daily teaching chores. You know how special education teachers are always seeking ways "to change the brain". Well, it is apparent that it is also Ms. Gold's objective and she offers effective examples to get a teacher moving in the right direction to do this.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars making a difference, January 3, 2006

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Kristine Al-rashidi "Missing the desert" (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Help for the Struggling Student: Ready-to-Use Strategies and Lessons to Build Attention, Memory, and Organizational Skills (Paperback)

We recently found out our son has genius IQ, auditory processing problem and needs occupational therapy for his handwriting. Problem is, we live in Kuwait where there are no services in private schools. I ordered several books and this one has given me the most help to help him. We are working through it and he is reversing his b and d's less and learning organizational skills. So often it is assumed that kids know how to do all these things, but they need to be taught how. Thank you for putting together a sequential set of activities to help children. It is also written in an easy to understand way.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for students with learning disabilities, May 19, 2003

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Annie Hollis (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Help for the Struggling Student: Ready-to-Use Strategies and Lessons to Build Attention, Memory, and Organizational Skills (Paperback)

Although I have no diagnosable learning disabilities, Ms Gold points out that we each learn in our own style, which can translate into stronger and weaker styles. Then she proceeds to inform on how to strengthen our weaker styles. This book is for everyone who is curious about the way we learn and for anyone who would like to strengthen their comprehension and learning speed. Great practical advice. Highly recommend. So interesting.