Teaching Language Arts, Math, and Science to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

Name: Teaching Language Arts, Math, and Science to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
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ISBN: 9781557667984

ISBN-10: 1557667985

ISBN-13: 9781557667984

Edition: 2006

Authors: Martha E. Snell, Diane Browder, Fred Spooner

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Under NCLB, students with severe disabilities are expected to make progress on state academic content standards in language arts, math, and science. But what material should educators teach from these three content areas, and how should they teach it? With this groundbreaking textbook, future educators will have the answers they need. The first major research-to-practice resource on this critical topic, this text goes beyond functional and access skills and shows educators how to make the general curriculum accessible to students of all ages with significant cognitive disabilities. Twenty-five of the best-known researchers in the field prepare educators to - adapt lessons in language arts,…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Brookes Publishing
Publication date: 3/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Martha E. Snell, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.




Why teach the general curriculum?




Promoting access to the general curriculum for students with significant cognitive disabilities




Building literacy for students at the presymbolic and early symbolic levels




From sight words to emerging literacy




Learning to read : phonics and fluency




Balanced literacy classrooms and embedded instruction for students with severe disabilities : literacy for all in the age of school reform




Enhancing numeracy




Addressing math standards and functional math




Science standards and functional skills : finding the links




Developing math and science skills in general education contexts



Example of adaptations to a general education lesson plan for science



Adapted lesson plan on leaf classification to include a student with significant disabilities in a seventh-grade science lesson




How students demonstrate academic performance in portfolio assessment




Promoting the alignment of curriculum, assessment, and instruction