Show of Hands

Interested in communication and some of its history? Check out Show of hands: A natural history of sign language. Author David F. Armstrong discusses the major theories surround language evolution and looks at specific peoples' development of sign language in their communities. Armstrong also explores visual communication and the Internet and what the future might hold.

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Classroom assessment

Looking for a little help with assessment results? Try Classroom Assessment for Students in Special and General Education. Using a variety of assessment procedures and directions on how to construct, administer, score, interpret, graph, monitor, write, and report assessment results, this book can help you gain the skills necessary to use assessment in understanding the needs of each student in general and special education classrooms.

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Handbook of Reading Interventions

The Handbook of reading interventions is a comprehensive guide presenting evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Interventions for word recognition, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing, along with examples and teaching scripts are included. Teachers of preschool and older readers, English language learners, and students with learning disabilities will find this book worth noting.

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An Introduction to Children with Language Disorders

An introduction to children with language disorders is lauded as an overview of the characteristics of language disorders in children paired with information on assessments and interventions. Broken out into three parts, this textbook presents the characteristics of common language disorders seen in children, discusses assessments for these disorders, and presents the most current information on language disorder intervention.

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Mobile App Monday - Talkulator

For folks with low vision comes a mobile app that's a talking calculator with large buttons and is compatible with VoiceOver. This app also speaks the numbers in seven different languages--English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch.

Check it out on iTunes preview at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/talkulator-talking-calculator/id354890582?mt=8#

Building Your School's Capacity to Implement RTI

Building your school's capacity to implement RTI is a school administrator's guide to creating or expanding RTI school-wide. The book's many tools will help to systematically build your school's teams and processes for implementing RTI. Elements of this guide include:

• forming a planning team
• learning about and teaching staff the RTI components
• determining roles and responsibilities

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Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching

Looking for help with becoming a better teacher? Try Explicit instruction: Effective and efficient teaching. This book offers advice and examples on how to deliver explicit instruction for a variety of content areas, skill sets, and strategies. Inside are sample lesson plans, lively examples, and reproducible checklists and teacher worksheets. Video clips demonstrating the approach in real classrooms can be downloaded from www.explicitinstruction.org.

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