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SAGE 800.818.7243 or 805.499.9774 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. pt fax: 805.375.5291 12 TEXTBOOKS DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES: New Best Practices for General and Special Educators THIRD EDITION William N. Bender, The Teacher's Workshop In order to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities in the classrooms of today and tomorrow, general and special educators must work together to differentiate instruction. The new differentiation must take place within an RTI framework, it must make use of the most modern technologies, and it must engage students' interests. In this new book, William Bender builds on the success of this text by providing new ideas, strategies, and examples of the most effective instructional practices. With an emphasis on real-world problem solving and brain-based learning, this book will be an invaluable and practical resource for current and future elementary teachers. CONTENTS 1. Differentiated Instruction: Then and Now / 2. Universal Design and Differentiated Instructional Models / 3. Technology and the New Differentiated Instruction / 4. Response to Intervention and Differentiated Assessment Strategies / 5. Instructional Support Strategies for Differentiated Instruction / 6. Cognitive Strategy Instruction for Differentiated Classes PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-9859-8 • ©2012 • 216 PAGES • • CORWIN TEACHING LITERACY TO LEARNERS WITH DYSLEXIA: A Multi-sensory Approach Kathleen Kelly, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K. • Sylvia Phillips, Glyndwr University, U.K. Providing a structured program for teaching literacy to children and young people with dyslexia and specific literacy difficulties, this book makes explicit links between theory, research, and practice. Designed to help support any learner, ages 5 to 18, with dyslexia or specific learning difficulties, the authors encourage the use of the program as part of the specialist teaching of learners with dyslexia while giving strategies for everyday teaching to not only develop literacy but to put learners with dyslexia in control of their own learning. CONTENTS PART I: TEACHING LEARNERS WITH DYSLEXIA: THEORY AND CONTEXT / PART II: CONQUERING LITERACY - A MULTI-SENSORY PROGRAMME FOR TEACHING LEARNERS WITH DYSLEXIA - TEACHING STRATEGIES / PART III: CONQUERING LITERACY - A MULTISENSORY PROGRAMME / PART IV: ADAPTING THE PROGRAMME / PART V: RESOURCES PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-0-8570-2535-7 • ©2011 • 424 PAGES • SAGE THE DYSCALCULIA TOOLKIT: Supporting Learning Difficulties in Math SECOND EDITION Ronit Bird With over 200 activities and 40 games, this book is designed to support learners aged 6 to 14 years who have difficulty with maths and numbers. Ronit Bird provides a clear explanation of dyscalculia, and presents the resources in a straightforward fashion. New to this new edition: even more activities, games and printable resources; additional material, provided on the easily accessible CD-ROM; a table indicating which difficulties are supported by which activities; and material that caters for a wider range of abilities and ages. This book and accompanying CD meet the needs of specialist and non-specialist teachers who are working with learners with difficulties in maths in mainstream settings. CONTENTS PART I: EARLY NUMBER WORK - NUMBERS UP TO 10 /PART II: BASIC CALCULATION WITH NUMBERS ABOVE 10 / PART III: PLACE VALUE / PART IV: TIMES TABLES, MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION PAPERBACK W/CD • ISBN: 978-1-4462-6719-6 • ©2014 • 160 PAGES • SAGE Gifted Education TEACHING ADVANCED LEARNERS IN THE GENERAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM: Doing More With Less! Joan Franklin Smutny, National-Louis University • S.E. von Fremd, Freelance Editor, Researcher, Writer This book provides helpful methods for teaching challenging students who need more than the regular curriculum can provide. It includes tips for using existing resources and potential, how to progress from simpler to more complex adjustments for advanced learners, and specific lessons for language arts, math, science, social studies, and the arts. CONTENTS 1. Understanding Advanced Learners / 2. Making the Most of Your Resources / 3. Creating Appropriate Goals for Advanced Students / 4. Meeting the Needs of Advanced Students: Strategies to Begin / 5. Meeting the Needs of Advanced Students: Strategies to Extend Learning / 6. Teaching Advanced Students in Language Arts and Social Studies / 7. Teaching Advanced Students in Science and Mathematics / 8. Keeping Yourself Inspired PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-7545-2 • ©2011 • 200 PAGES • CORWIN

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