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Absurdities and Realities of Education: The Best of Ants…, Flying…, and Logs… The 2002 FULL COLOR Edition will be available summer 2002! This beautiful collectable edition includes 100 of the best and most requested cartoons from Ants in His Pants, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants, and Teaching Old Logs New Tricks all in full brilliant color. Use this special edition to add pizzazz and brighten up your training sessions by creating full color transparencies directly from the book. Educators, parents and advocates for students with special needs will appreciate the hidden truths playfully captured in these cartoons. A great gift idea! P-105 / Absurdities - Full color edition / $39.95 |
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Alphabet Learning Center Activities Kit This practical resource based on the unique "Holder & Fastie Alphabet" provides primary teachers with a collection of stimulating, tested learning center activities to teach and reinforce alphabet letters and their sounds. This method provides auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic cues that focus children on how and where the sounds are produced and felt. With this method young children are able to hear and feel the letter sounds, and the modeled reading and writing strategies help them to identify and spell the words with ease. This new release includes easy-to-follow, illustrated steps and detailed directions for presenting each letter of the alphabet. Over 200 reproducible pages of patterns and materials help teachers create a variety of exciting learning centers. PH-342 / BOOK / 8 ½" x 11" / 416 pgs / $29.95 Also available: Holder & Fastie Alphabet Cards for students. Each package includes 25 four-color cards. PH-343 / Alphabet Cards / Set of 25 / $12.95 |
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Building
Inclusive Schools Ann T. Halvorse - Thomas Neary This exciting and comprehensive book covers everything from the legal rational for building inclusive schools to effective classroom techniques. Integrating the systems of general education and special education, inclusion education embodies both the spirit and the intent of the IDEA. its objective is to ensure that all students enjoy access to a free and age appropriate public education. This new release provides: specific student, classroom, and school examples across K-12 school levels and a range of students from "typical" to severely disabled; demonstrates the best practices in general education, encouragine the implementation of research-based trends to fit each school's needs; describes and illustrates curriculum and team planning, instructional strategies, adult collaboration, peer supports, and school change; includes end of chapter references citing more than 200 books, journals, and speeches. PH-324 / 8.5" x 11" / 226 pgs / $49.95 |
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Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom Diane Heacox, Ed.D Differentiation means changing the pace, level, or kind of instruction in response to the learners' needs, styles, and/or interests. This new practical guide presents a menu of strategies and tools any teacher can use to differentiate instruction in any curriculum, even a standard or mandated curriculum. Some strategies are quick and easy whereas others are more comprehensive. Templates and forms simplify planning; examples illustrate differentiation in many content areas. Recommended for all teachers committed to reaching and teaching all learners. Educators Grades 3-12. FS-240 / 8 ½" x 11" / 192 pgs / 8 ½" x 11" / $29.95 |
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Differentiated
Instruction Guide for Inclusive Teaching Twenty years of research shows that 90% of the instructional or behavioral problems faced by teachers fall within the series of questions and their corresponding answers used in the step-by-step approach presented in this book. This resource focuses on the specific questions and corresponding actions teachers must take for differentiating instruction in the general education curriculum for students with disabilities. It gives general and special education teachers, instructional supervisors, and members of the IEP Team explicit steps for ensuring that students have access to the general education curriculum-regardless of the environment where they receive services. The book uses a step-by-step approach: •
to identify barriers to learning NP-674 / soft cover / 140 pgs / $29.95 |
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Dyslexia: Action Plans for
Learning - A Practical Guide to Learning Disabilities Busy teachers need reference books that are quick and easy to use, practical and full of good ideas. Dyslexia: Action Plans for Successful Learning is just that! Based on the best of modern research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of dyslexia. You will find hundreds of excellent, practical action plans based on recognized best practice. There are specialist teaching tips on how to get through the major stumbling blocks experienced by students with dyslexia as well as practical, well proven classroom strategies to ensure that these students experience successful learning. Appropriate for educators at all grade levels who teach students with dyslexia and learning disabilities. P-109 / $21.95 / 8 ½" x 11" / 124 pgs |
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Hands-On Activities for Exceptional Students Educational and Pre-vocational Activities for Students with Cognitive Delays Beverly Thorne This exceptional resource is developed for educators of students who have cognitive delays who will eventually work in a sheltered employment environment. If you need new ideas at your fingertips - this practical book is for you! The activities in this new publication will help students sustain attention, stay on task and work independently and productively, while meeting their IEP goals. All activities can be created with common items easily obtained at school or home. These practical activities will fit into small boxes which can easily be coded and used in a resource room environment or in the inclusive classroom setting. This exceptional easy-to-use guide is divided into 3 sections: Vocational (36 activities); Math (21 activities Box); and Language/Reading (17 activities). Also included are reproducible Mastery Checklists which will help you document student progress and mastery to meet current IEP goals. This excellent resource is developed for all educators K -12 who work with low functioning students. P-107 / $19.95 / 112 pgs / 8.5” x 11” / softcover |
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How the Special Needs Brain Learns David A Sousa Today's classrooms embrace students of all abilities and Sousa's latest work provides the most up-to date information and insight on how to work effectively with each students challenged by: learning disabilities in the area of speech, reading, writing, and math; ADHD/ADD; sleep disorders; Emotional and Behavioral disorders; Autism; and Asperger's Syndrome. Offering real strategies for real classrooms, this new publication is an indispensable tool for all educators - school administrators and teachers, staff developers and parents who want to better understand the way their children process and retain information. All Educators. CP-100 / 8 ½" x 11" / 237 pgs / 2001 / $34.95 |
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Inclusion: Strategies for Working with Young Children A Resource Guide for Teachers, Childcare Provider and Parents Lorraine O. Moore, Ph.D. The developmentally based strategies in this exceptional resource focus on children between the ages of three and seven. This outstanding publication will help younger students who need additional challenges and the older students who may be developmentally delayed.The book commences with a synopsis of inclusive education and the future of learning. Subsequent chapters present hundreds of developmentally based child-focused strategies at your fingertips! Communication, large and small motor development, social/emotional development, pre-reading, writing, and math are only a few of the extensive topics covered. The vast collection of reproducible activities help young children learn about feelings, empathy, resolving conflicts peacefully, and problem solving. Educators and parents will find useful forms to chart student behaviors, frequency of behaviors, modifications, child interviews and more! This comprehensive publication appeals to a large audience of adults: Early childhood and K-2 general and special education teachers, adults in preschool settings and child care providers. P-301 / $23.95 / 8 1/2" x 11" / s/c |
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Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors A Guide to Intervention and Classroom Management Nancy Mather, Ph.D., Sam Goldstein, Ph.D. This new release is a working manual for educators! This 2001 release presents the "Building Blocks of Learning", a straightforward, practical model, educators can use to help students with learning disabilities and challenging behaviors. Busy educators simply complete the Building Blocks questionnaire for individual students to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Once completed, the corresponding chapters will provide the research and information needed to understand the issues, cultivate the student's strengths, address weaker areas, and develop appropriate accommodations and instructional interventions. This publication is also a perfect textbook for teaching pre-service educators and specialists to understand how specific developmental, behavior, and academic problems influence school success. B-213 / $48.00 / 8 1/2" x 11" / 398 pgs |
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Real-Life Writing Activities for Grades 4-9 Cherlyn Sunflower The 40 illustrated writing lessons will capture students' attention, build their writing skills, and teach them a writing process (motivation, brainstorming, composing, revising, and publishing) that will serve them throughout their lives. These activities are designed for young writers who are just learning the composing process, as well as for advanced writers who are ready to experiment with a variety of writing and speaking genres. They feature a wide range of practical writing tasks that students can easily relate to their own lives including descriptive, directional, persuasive, narrative, and poems and songs. All lessons provide step-by-step instructions, including alternative motivators, examples of what to say to elicit students' response and suggestions for responding to students' writing in a way that will encourage them. PH-341 / 8 ½" x 11" / 496 pgs / $29.95 |
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A Ready-to-Use Activities Program for Students with Spelling Difficulties (Grades 4 and up) This book has been revised and updated with new lay-flat paper binding for 2002. This edition is for all regular and special education teachers in grades 4 and up. This ready-to-use activities program combines language concepts and phonics strategies to teach students with spelling difficulties how to spell by recognizing patterns and consistencies rather than memorizing hundreds of isolated words. Included are step-by-step instructions for utilizing the program, 40 sequential lessons covering sounds, syllables, word building, rules and generalizations plus 200 reproducible activity sheets PH-345 / 8 ½" x 11" / 432 pgs / $29.95 |
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Study Skills Program for Middle School and High School Students! See
a sample chapter: This exceptional new release Winning the Study Game is designed to level the playing field for middle school and high school students in special education programs and for students in the general education setting who would benefit from a study skills program. The comprehensive Student Workbook provides a range of effective and engaging exercises specifically tailored to advance students' study, analytical, critical, and strategic thinking skills while concurrently strengthening reading comprehension and writing capabilities. This field-tested program will help students acquire the learning tools, judgment, and self-confidence they need to succeed in school and in life.
About the Author: A graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, Lawrence J. Greene is an educational diagnostician, educational therapist, curriculum developer, university instructor, and consultant to school districts throughout the United States and Canada. He is the author of thirteen books in the field of education including: Learning Disabilities and Your Child, Improving Your Child's Schoolwork, Finding Help When Your Child is Struggling in School and Roadblocks to Learning, recently published by Warner Books. His best-selling mainstream study skills program-Getting Smarter-is published concurrently by Pearson and McGraw-Hill.
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Successful Inclusion
Strategies Discover the keys to help all students unlock the doors of learning so they can develop the tools they need to succeed. This 2004 release helps teachers access this specific research targeting students with disabilities in middle school and secondary education. Providing a quick resource of research-supported strategies, Gore offers field tested and teacher-friendly approaches to understanding the levels and stages of learning. This valuable resource examines the locks that bar access to learning, including: Input locks: problems with attention, perception, discrimination, and sequencing Information Processing / Retention Locks: confusion, difficulty with organization, reasoning, memory, and metacognition. Affective Locks: frustration and motivation problems. Output Locks: difficulty with persistence and production
CP-160 / Success Inc Sec and MS / 8 ½” x 11” / 240 pgs / $34.95 |
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Test
Anxiety & What You Can Do About It: Joseph Casbarro, Ph.D. Higher standards and greater accountability have brought an alarming rise in test anxiety. To help students pass mandated assessments, teachers drill on facts and give endless practice tests. But teaching to the test isn’t enough. High
stakes testing creates high anxiety which, in turn, lowers performance.
Teachers need to do more. They need to prepare their students emotionally!
Test Anxiety & What You Can Do About It offers constructive, powerful
and proven strategies that: Finally, there is a resource that can help teachers at all grade levels address test anxiety in a practical way that will ultimately result in higher test scores. Learn about techniques to use during the pre-testing, test-in-progress and post-testing phases. Helpful tips on how to work with anxious parents are also included. The No Child Left Behind Act mandates yearly standardized testing starting in third grade. Everyone—including principals, teachers, parents and kids alike—feel the pressure. It’s time that the impact of this stress is acknowledged and addressed as part of our classroom instruction. No teacher should be without this valuable resource. You owe it to your students to prepare them...and you haven’t truly prepared them until you have read Test Anxiety & What You Can Do About It. Special discounts for schools purchasing multiple copies for their staff. NP-673 / $19.95 / soft cover / 200 pp. |
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The General Educator's Guide to Special Education Jody L. Maanum Is valuable new resource (2004 edition) is essential for educators (and special educators). This practical and easy-to-use publication is divided into five important sections. Section I describes disability categories along with possible educational approaches. Section II guides the educator through the often-confusing process of Special Education from pre-referral to placement. Section III provides the educator with practical easy-to-implement curriculum and behavioral adaptations and modifications organized by topic. Section IV provides general information about medications and alerts the educator to the possible side effects. Section V contains extensive teacher resources with organizations, websites and books related to disabilities - many which can be integrated into the classroom setting. This new release is appropriate for educators at all levels. Very useful and practical! P-108 / 8 .5" x 11" / approx 192 pgs / softcover / $25.95 |
