Reading/Writing Resources
Listed below are resources that address the Reading and Writing academic
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General Reading/
Writing Resources
- Teaching Writing Skills to Students with Disabilities
This ERIC EC Reference page provides information about teaching writing
skills to students with disabilities, and links to additional sources
and documents.
http://ericec.org/faq/writskls.html
Autism
- Language Comprehension and Asperger's Syndrome
This web page provides a description of how children with Asperger's Syndrome
process language information and provides a variety of intervention strategies
to address the needs of these children.
http://www.cesa7.k12.wi.us/sped/autism/asper/asper12.html
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Early Childhood
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Gifted
- Differentiating the Language Arts for High Ability
Learners
This ERIC EC Digest by Joyce VanTassel-Baska explores the need to differentiate
language arts experiences for verbally talented learners at all stages
of development.
http://ericec.org/digests/e640.html
- Creative Strategies for Teaching Language Arts to
Gifted Students (K-8)
This ERIC EC Digest by Joan Franklin Smutny presents strategies and activities
that, while appropriate for all students, encourage gifted students especially
to work at their own pace and level of complexity and extend their talents
in a variety of ways.
http://ericec.org/digests/e612.html
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Hearing Impairments
- Literacy & Deaf Students
Gallaudet Research Institute responds to questions about literacy & deaf
students such as: what is the reading level of deaf and hard of hearing
people? how can one assess the language skills of deaf students? and where
can one find reliable research on literacy or another topic related to
deafness?
http://gri.gallaudet.edu/Literacy/
Mental Retardation
Orthopedic Impairments
- Literacy Profile for Students with Physical Impairments
The purpose of this Literacy Profile is to provide a guide to the teacher
of students with orthopedic impairments in making literacy decisions.
This checklist can be helpful in listing considerations the teacher should
keep in mind when teaching literacy skills and making adaptations.
http://education.gsu.edu/physicaldis/mlpro.htm
- Nonverbal Reading Approach
The Nonverbal Reading Approach is a reading strategy designed for students
with severe speech and physical impairments. It provides nonverbal students
a strategy to sound out words. It also provides a way for teachers to
assess if the student can read targeted words.
http://education.gsu.edu/physicaldis/mnon.htm
- Testing the Literacy Abilities of Students with
Physical and Health Impairments
In this article by Dawn Swinehart-Jones, several tests are discussed that
can be adapted for students who are non-verbal. Although this is not
a comprehensive list, these tests cover the range of pre-literacy skills,
reading, comprehension, spelling, and vocabulary knowledge.
http://education.gsu.edu/physicaldis/new/article/test.htm
Other Health Impairments
ADHD
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Serious Emotional Disturbance
- Teaching Students with Learning and Behavioral Differences:
A Reading Resource Guide for Teachers
A resource guide provided by the British Columbia Ministry of Education.
Includes: Strategies for acquiring basic reading skills, acquiring advanced
reading skills, and planning instruction for students who have a lower
reading level than peers.
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/landbdif/23.htm
- Teaching Students with Learning and Behavioral Differences:
A Writing Resource Guide for Teachers
A resource guide provided by the British Columbia Ministry of Education.
Includes: Strategies for basic writing skills, developing correct letter
formation skills, and developing fine motor control.
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/landbdif/25.htm
- Teaching Students with Learning and Behavioral Differences:
An Advanced Writing Resource Guide for Teachers
A resource guide provided by the British Columbia Ministry of Education.
Includes: Strategies for using appropriate punctuation, developing sentence
patterns, increasing vocabulary, developing copying skills, and internalizing
conventional spelling rules.
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/landbdif/26.htm
- Teaching Students with Learning and Behavioral Differences:
Academic Considerations for Secondary Literacy
A resource guide provided by the British Columbia Ministry of Education.
Includes: Strategies for expanding vocabulary, extending comprehension,
developing composition skills, and improving handwriting, spelling, and
mechanics.
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/landbdif/401.htm
Specific Learning Disabilities
- Tips for Teachers: Prerequisite skills for reading
This ERIC EC Reference page provides information about the prerequisite
skills needed for a solid reading foundation.
http://ericec.org/ttips.html
- Turn Students with Learning Disabilities into Writers
CEC Today Online! (Vol 7, No 2, 2000) Bonnie Terry provides some key points
and specific strategies to help turn students with disabilities into good
writers.
http://www.cec.sped.org/bk/cectoday/archives/2000/ldwrite_sept2000.html
- Strategy Instruction For Increasing Reading Comprehension
Ed Ellis describes the paraphrasing strategy (Schumaker, Deshler, & Denton,
1984) that has been demonstrated to increase significantly the reading
comprehension skills of adolescents with LD. Although the strategy contains
only three major steps (read a paragraph, ask yourself questions about
the main idea and details, put the main idea and details into your own
words), and seems to be a simple strategy to teach, teachers need to know
that it is deceptively more complex than the three steps suggest.
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/ellis_readingcomp.html
- A Spelling Test for Teachers of Students with Learning
Disabilities
The purpose of this article by Gary Greene is to allow special educators
to test their knowledge of general and LD specific spelling research in
order to ascertain the degree to which they are practicing sound instructional
spelling methodology with their students.
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/spelling_test.html
- Teaching LD: Teaching How-to's Reading
This is a Teaching LD site that provide several articles about teaching
reading for students with LD. The articles included in Teaching How-to's
are drawn from TEACHING Exceptional Children (TEC), a publication of The
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).
http://www.teachingld.org/teaching_how-tos/reading/default.htm
- Teaching LD: Teaching How-to's Written Language
This is a Teaching LD site that provide several articles about teaching
writing for students with LD. The articles included in Teaching How-to's
are drawn from TEACHING Exceptional Children (TEC), a publication of The
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).
http://www.teachingld.org/teaching_how-tos/written/default.htm
Speech or Language Impairments
Traumatic Brain Injury
Visual Impairments
- A Framework for Understanding the Literacy of Individuals
with Visual Impairments
F our essential facets of literacy of individuals with visual impairments
are explored. This framework proposes four ways in which literacy is demonstrated:
1) when an individual is successful in communicating through written communication;
2) through communication with a desired audience; 3) through the successful
application of reading and writing skills; and 4) at different levels
throughout the life span.
http://www2.edc.org/ncip/library/vi/Koenig.htm
