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Inform yourself about curriculum strategies and classroom management for students with different learning needs. We have resources on everything you need to know about teaching special needs students effectively. You'll find information for teaching students with ADHD, Autism, Asperger's, Giftedness, and Handicaps. We'll help you figure out ways to create an inclusive classroom, adapt and supplement your classroom materials, make assessment accommodations, and provide you with other useful tips.

Descriptions of a number of reading strategies

Scaffold student understanding of text usingthe following ideas and strategies that I have briefly described below. Many of these strategies are suitable for secondary as well as elementary students. I have researched links and materials to additional information about each strategy and have provided downloads to worksheets that you can print to provide students with support for many of the strategies.

"When making your own PowerPoint book, a template can be a helpful time saver. The templates below are for creating ABC books and personal books for students with significant disabilities, including deaf-blindness. The templates have high contrast backgrounds and some have finger spellings. (The finger spelling photos come from Pics4Learning.com. They are free!). The templates have also been setup so that there is an auditory click and some movement when students turn the pages in the book. In all of the downloadable templates, the pages and the text boxes have already been made. Teachers, therapists and/or parents can spend time adding pictures and text, rather then the technical aspects of starting from scratch."

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The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept.

In this online tool, students can learn about and write acrostic poems. An acrostic poem uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word. As part of the online tool, students brain

fun games for learning mouse skills. also practices other skills

fun games for learning mouse skills. also practices other skills

Help students working on basic mouse skills, eyehand coordination and/or timing. Minimouse.us is a simple game that teaches how to move the mouse and click. Additionally, it helps students think spatially as they predict their character's trajectory when he jumps.

Free activities to motivate and engage children to learn speech, language, and communication skills. Need a way to help your students with a speech impairment? Check out this site for ideas to help students make the connection between language, literacy and communication.

"The flip chart easel is used along with the alphabet flip chart for self-selected writing activities. The easel allows for the partner in partner-assisted scanning to have their hands free to point to the letters as well as write the letters the student chooses on their page. It also allows the student to have the alphabet flip chart at eye level as they focus on the letters being scanned. The easel can also be used with the communication flip chart for other partner assisted scanning activities. The easel has been designed by Julie Brickhouse, a teacher on the Deaf-Blind Model Classroom Project in North Carolina."

"Skills to Pay the Bills" is a free downloadable resource created by the Office of Disability Employment Policy for students getting ready to step into the world of work. This scripted curriculum can be incorporated weekly into your daily routine as you prepare your students for employment.

Welcome to CAST Science Writer, the tool that supports students in writing lab and class reports. This tool is geared toward middle school and high school students. Check out the supports and help available in Science Writer described below. Or click the "Take a Tour" button above to see how Science Writer works.

The Penn State AAC community of faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students are dedicated to enhancing communication and improving the overall quality of life for individuals who have complex communication needs and their families.

"The SIFTS is a quick and easy web-based survey tool developed primarily to support IEP teams who need assistance in matching student needs and strengths to AT features. It has embedded text, picture and video supports to assist teams in building their knowledge of assistive technologies as well as their capacity to implement AT assessments."

Be a student of History so you aren't doomed to repeat it! This podcast provides audio descriptions and discussions about the people and events from the past who shaped our present. Use specific episodes as an option to provide audio content that complements the topic of study. Invite students to listen during their commute!

John Newman, an AT specialist, shares his experiences growing up as a student with a disability. Share this video with students who are working to manage school so they can see that, like John, they too can succeed.

Playing Fraction Hopscotch provides a low tech, multisensory way for students to practice ordering fractions and equivalent fractions during gross motor activities. Students can walk, jump, crawl, or sit and scoot on the fraction squares!

"SnapType helps students keep up with their peers in class even when their penmanship holds them back. Students can easily complete school worksheets with the help of an iPad or iPhone."

Is science self-correcting over time? Do the processes involved in biomedical research-collaboration, communication, skepticism, peer review-lead to a valuable and objective way of learning about the world? This curriculum introduces students to ways in which scientific research is conducted, how social forces influence scientific priorities, and how basic scientific research may, or may not, support medical applications for human health. Throughout the unit, students are asked to consider their roles and responsibilities as scientifically literate citizens.

Use this site to create decision trees with students. Students can use trees to make decisions about what tools they should use, what life choices they should make and much more!