How To Reach & Teach All Students in the Inclusive Classroom: Ready-to-Use Strategies Lessons & Activities Teaching Students with Diverse Learning Needs (J-B Ed: Reach and Teach) [Paperback]

Sandra F. Rief M.A. (Author), Julie A. Heimburge (Author)

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Publication Date: October 18, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0876283997 | ISBN-13: 978-0876283998

For all classroom teachers, special educators, administrators, and parents, here is a remarkable new resource packed with ready-to-use strategies, lessons, and activities for helping students with diverse learning styles, ability levels, skills, and behaviors in today's inclusive classroom.

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For all classroom teachers, special educators, administrators, and parents, here is a remarkable new resource packed with ready-to-use strategies, lessons, and activities for helping students with diverse learning styles, ability levels, skills, and behaviors in today's inclusive classroom.

Focusing on the "whole child" and a team approach that lets you guide a varied group of students toward academic as well as social and emotional success, the book shows you:

• How to reach all students through their multiple intelligences and learning styles.
• How to create and run a developmental classroom using portfolios, interest and instructional centers, thematic teacing units and more
• How to promot home/school communication and parent involvement with school outreach efforts
• How to manage behaviors and use positive discipline to reduce and prevent problems
• How to get students organized for learning success
• How to use specific programs and strategies to foster students' self-esteem
• How to reach all of your students with special needs
• How to use interventions and adaptations for accommodating special needs
• How to build positive relationships, social skills and conflict resolution skills
• How to team with other teachers to better meet your own and students' needs
• How to apply effective questioning techniques in the classroom
• How to hook reluctant readers/writers through the use of poetry, comic strips, and other motivational materials
• How to make oral language come alive using "Quick-Talks" and other techniques
• How to motivate kids to be successful mathematicians with creative strategies such as "Consumer Math Field Trip" and "Classroom Math Centers"
• How to rev up research skills with the "Mini-Research Project" and the "Learning Fair"
• How to get the most out of students through scientific investigation
• How to capitalize on music in the classroom through "Multicultural Music" and more
• How to reach students throughthe arts with drawing and other expressive forms

PLUS you get more than 100 full-page reproducible management tools, such as a "Parent Volunteer Assistance Form" ... "Portfolio Item Evaluation Form" ... "Mystery Story Planning Sheet" (for thematic unit "Mystery Around Us") ... Teacher Newsletters ... Letter to parents about missing homework ... "Behavior Improvement Form" ... sample School-Home Compact ... "Cereal Box Investigation" (reading/science) ... "Survival Math Packet" ... and "Science Project Information Sheet."

In short, How to Reach and Teach all Students in the Inclusive Classroom gives you all the necessary information and specific techniques you need to effectively integrate heterogeneous groups of students to ensure the success of each and every child in the classroom!

About the Author

Sandra F. Rief received her B.A. and M.A. in elementary and special education from the university of Illinois. She has taught children with learning disabilities as well as attentional and behavioral problems for the last 19 years. For the past 12 years, she has been working as a Resource Specialist in the San Diego City Schools. As a mentor teacher, Sandy became actively involved in the Project for Attention Related Disorders (PARD) and wrote a manual for her school district on effective strategies for teaching children with attention and learning disabilities. She presents numerous workshops and inservices, and is a featured speaker at conferences addressing this topic. She is also the author of How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children (1993) and The ADD/ADHD Checklist (1997) published by the Center for Applied Research in Education.

Julie A. Heimburge (B.A., San Diego, M.A. United States International University) has been an elementary teacher in the San Diego schools for the past 25 years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass (October 18, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876283997
• ISBN-13: 978-0876283998
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sandra Rief, M.A., is a leading author, speaker, and educational consultant on effective strategies and interventions for helping students with ADHD and Learning Disabilities achieve school success. She has written several books and presents numerous seminars, workshops and keynotes nationally and internationally on this topic. Sandra has trained thousands of teachers and other school professionals, as well as parents and clinicians throughout the U.S. and several countries around the world (China, Singapore, Israel, Philippines, Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, South Africa, Colombia, Iceland, Sweden, and Canada). She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Illinois. Sandra is formerly an award-winning teacher (California Resource Specialist of the Year) with over twenty-three years teaching experience in public schools. Sandra retired from San Diego Unified School District, and is currently teaching distance learning/online courses she developed for Seattle Pacific University and California State University East Bay.

Sandra is the author of several popular books. A few of them include: How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD, 2nd Edition (2005), The ADHD Book of Lists: A Practical Guide for Helping Children and Teens with Attention Deficit Disorders (2003), How to Reach & Teach All Children in the Inclusive Classroom, 2nd Edition (2006, co-authored with Julie Heimburge), The ADD/ADHD Checklist: A Practical Reference for Parents & Teachers, 2nd Edition (2008), and The Dyslexia Checklist: A Practical Reference for Parents & Teachers (2010, co-authored with Judith Stern).

Sandra has also developed and presented the acclaimed educational DVDs:
ADHD & LD: Powerful Teaching Strategies & Accommodations, How to Help Your Child Succeed in School: Strategies & Guidance for Parents of Children with ADHD and/or Learning Disabilities, Successful Classrooms: Effective Teaching Strategies for Raising Achievement in Reading & Writing, and Successful Schools: How to Raise Achievement & Support At-Risk Students (with Linda Fisher and Nancy Fetzer).

In addition, Sandra has written laminated cards which are bifolds or trifolds packed with strategies and available through her website. The titles include: Section 504: Classroom Accommodations, ADHD & LD: Classroom Strategies at Your Fingertips, Dyslexia: Strategies, Supports & Interventions, and Executive Function: Practical Applications in the Classroom.

Visit Sandra's Web site at www.sandrarief.com for more information.

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have!, July 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: How To Reach & Teach All Students in the Inclusive Classroom: Ready-to-Use Strategies Lessons & Activities Teaching Students with Diverse Learning Needs (J-B Ed: Reach and Teach) (Paperback)

This book is a must have for both the beginning teacher and the veterans. There are thousands of hands-on practical ideas that you can use tomorrow to reach all the students in your classroom. Some of the catagories range from English language learners, gifted, ADHD, to communication disorders. The best part of this book is that is all in one place. I wish someone would have given this book to me when I was a student teacher or beginning teacher.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars COMPREHENSIVE, October 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: How To Reach & Teach All Students in the Inclusive Classroom: Ready-to-Use Strategies Lessons & Activities Teaching Students with Diverse Learning Needs (J-B Ed: Reach and Teach) (Paperback)

As a Special Educator I encourage every teacher to purchase this book. It is up-to-date on the latest and most innovative teaching practices. The book is loaded with reproducibles that a teacher can use immediately. Sandra Rief and Julie Heimberge not only explain the needs of diverse learners, but have ready-to-use strategies,lessons, and fun activities so that all students may succeed. Gifted, learning disabled, culturally diverse, ADHD, communication disorders, multiple intellegences, learning styles, and developmental classrooms are some of the subjects addressed in their book. Every school district should use this book as part of their professional development. WELL DONE!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource Book, February 24, 2006

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Tonya G. Edwards "Middle School Teacher" (GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How To Reach & Teach All Students in the Inclusive Classroom: Ready-to-Use Strategies Lessons & Activities Teaching Students with Diverse Learning Needs (J-B Ed: Reach and Teach) (Paperback)

I am a middle school English/language arts teacher. It is a great resource book if you are or aren't involved in an inclusion classroom! I would recommend it to anyone in education!