Rebuilding the Foundation

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Rebuilding the foundation: Effective reading instruction for 21st Century literacy is not a prescription for designing reading programs. Rather, it leads its readers to engage in a deeper and more thoughtful professional conversation about what is meant by effective reading instruction for all students. The contributors examine how reading instruction is conceptualized and what must be done to make it work for all students. Hence, this book is less about building onto or altering existing models of reading education and more about how reading educators and policymakers might think about rebuilding and reconceptualizing, perhaps from the ground up, what it means to provide effective instruction in reading to all students at all levels.

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The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units

Looking for help with the basic concepts and elements of Understanding by Design (UbD)? Try The understanding by design guide to creating high-quality units. Intended for K-16 educators, this book looks at ways to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students' understanding of important ideas. It is useful for:

• Those who have already received some training in UbD and want to continue that training
• Those who've read Understanding by Design and want to design curriculum units but have no access to formal training
• Graduate and undergraduate students in university curriculum courses
• School and district administrators, curriculum directors, and others who facilitate UbD work with staff

Downloadable resources include the UbD template set up as a fillable PDF form, additional worksheets, examples, and FAQs.

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Special Needs and Early Years

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Now in its third edition, Special needs and early years: A practitioner's guide is a respected and influential textbook. This book is essential reading for early years students and practitioners, and for all those working with young children with special educational needs and their families.

New to this edition are up-to-date information on all the relevant policies and legislation, including the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), Every Child Matters (ECM) and the training guidelines for new SENCOs; a timeline showing the development of policies and legislation in the field; learning objectives at the beginning of chapters; points for reflection, to aid independent study and facilitate critical thinking; new case studies, covering the Birth to 8 age range; new content on the role of fathers, pupil voice and listening to children, taking an holistic view of the child, and current issues around diversity and inclusion.

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Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification

Looking for an overview of the definitions and methods for identifying specific learning disabilities (SLDs)? Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification focuses on describing the manifestations of SLDs in the areas of reading, writing, math, oral expression, and listening comprehension. It features contributions by leading experts in the field, including Virginia Berninger, Steven Feifer, Jack Fletcher, Nancy Mather, Jack Naglieri, and more.

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Mobile App Monday -- Articulate it!

Got a child with speech delays? Articulate it! may be able to help. This app is designed to help parents and therapists work with children on improving their speech by recording the child's pronunciation of words. Comparing their own pronunciation of words to the app's audio recording allows children to hear the differences and correct their speech. The app also gives users the ability to track multiple students with separate goals.

Want to learn more? See the full description at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/articulate-it/id391296844?mt=8#