Ready To Use Tools & Materials for Remediating Specific Learning Disabilities (Complete Learning Disabilities Library, Vol. II) [Spiral-bound]

Joan M. Harwell (Author), Colleen Duffey Shoup (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 21, 1995 | ISBN-10: 087628280X | ISBN-13: 978-0876282809 | Edition: Spi

Volume I in the series, Ready-to-Use Information & Materials for Assessing Specific Learning Disabilities (0-87628-279-6) is a complete reference guide to diagnosing specific learning problems, including a list of behaviors that signal possible learning disabilities. Volume II provides 230 reproducible activities to remediate problems in reading, language arts, and math in grades K-12.

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This practical resource is one of two volumes in the Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Library, a unique set of instructional resources that gives practical educators timely, ready-to-use information, techniques, and activities for helping students with learning difficulties at all grade levels.

Authored by a master teacher with over 30 years of classroom experience in the field of learning disabilities, the two-volume set provides a "library" of tested materials that can save you countless hours of research and preparation time in assessing student strengths and weaknesses, interpreting special education law, working successfully with parents, creating lessons and activities to remediate specific problems, and much more.

Volume I, READY-TO-USE INFORMATION & MATERIALS FOR ASSESSING SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILTIES, is packed with useful guidelines and tips to help you identify and diagnose specific learning problems, including a list of behaviors that signal learning disability ... a review of students and parent rights and how the law affects what the teacher may and may not do ... a list of normal developmental milestones ... specific suggestions for helping students with various difficulties ... criteria for classroom observations ... guidelines for inclusion of special students in regular classrooms ... directions for classroom behavioral management ... a teacher's guide for helping children who find reading extremely difficult ... and 76 tips for classroom and academic management and teaching reading, writing, and math ... and much more.

Volume II, READY-TO-USE TOOLS & MATERIALS FOR REMEDIATING SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES, provides over 230 reproducible remedial activities covering the basic skills areas of reading, language arts, and math, including 11 activities such as "Likenesses and Difference" for children ages 3-7 ... 24 activities like "Using Pictures to Write Sentences" for teaching beginning reading and language arts between the functional levels of 1.0 to 1.5 ... 41 activities like "Compound Words" and "Contractions" for students functioning at level 2.0 ... 63 activities plus "The Five Elements of a Good Sentence/Parts of Speech" for students functioning at level 2.5 to 2.9 ... 90 activities like writing a business letter and answering phone calls for students at level 4.5 or higher.

Moreover, for easy use, each volume is printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of the scores of assessment or remedial tools it contains as many times as you need them for use with individual students, small groups, or an entire class.

In short, the Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Library gives you an unparalleled store of tested, up-to-date information and materials ready for your immediate use to help each child achieve success in learning up to the limits of his or her ability!

About the Author

Joan M. Harwell has over 25 years of experience as a regular classroom teacher and a special education teacher for educationally handicapped children in the schools of San Bernadino, CA. She has run several remedial programs for slow learners and is the author of Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook (1987).

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 348 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; Spi edition (December 21, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087628280X
• ISBN-13: 978-0876282809
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,216,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Packed with ideas, September 17, 2000

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This review is from: Ready To Use Tools & Materials for Remediating Specific Learning Disabilities (Complete Learning Disabilities Library, Vol. II) (Spiral-bound)

I disagree with the reviewer who claimed this book would "keep LD kids stupid." As a fourth grade teacher, I found this book very useful. It is packed with ideas that I can use in my inclusion classroom with ALL students. The reproducibles are easy to use and there are ideas for reading and writing which all of my students enjoy. I didn't read the philosophy of the author, so I do not know if the claim that the other reviewer made (about Harwell believing LD kids can't learn beyond a 7th grade level) is true. Her philosophy does not matter to me if her materials work in my classroom. She makes reading and writing fun, easy, and hands-on. I have been borrowing this book from a fellow teacher for a few weeks and am on-line today to order a copy for myself.

17 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars how to keep LD kids stupid, July 18, 1999

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This review is from: Ready To Use Tools & Materials for Remediating Specific Learning Disabilities (Complete Learning Disabilities Library, Vol. II) (Spiral-bound)

Ms. Harwell's credits notwithstanding, this book exemplifies what's wrong in the public school LD thinking. To say that LD kids cannot achieve past 7th grade level by the time they graduate from high school is a crime. They can! They do! Get better materials.