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Articles:

• Distance Education and Accommodations for Students with learning disabilities: implications for postsecondary service providers

• Using the Resource Room to Support Content Areas: Teaching the Periodic Table How to break down the maze of symbols so that students can understand chemistry.

• Big Ideas in the Hidden Curriculum: How some students don't learn the important lessons (responsibility, problem-solving, etc.)

• Lowering the Language Barriers in Middle and Secondary Content Areas

• Tips for a Productive Resource Room

• Math Manipulatives for Middle and Secondary School

• Dysgraphia: Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Handwriting Problems and/or Dysgraphia

• Ways to Teach and Learn Vocabulary
  

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Books & Materials:

• "Hi-Low" sources: a listing of publishers of high interest, low vocabulary or low reading level books.

• Book Reviews: build literacy with literature chosen with "emerging readers" in mind

• Book Review: How To Remember Multiplication and Division Facts: A Workbook for Adults by Emma E. Gunterman

• Easy and Excellent Books for New Readers -- an entire adult literacy library available from the Resource Room. Especially for Adult Basic Education programs.

• Tools for the Times Tables - especially for students of all ages who struggle with memorizing.

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Links:

• Learning Styles Links - information and informal assessments of learning styles

• Hi-Low Resources List of publishers of high-interest, low-vocabulary or low reading level books for older emerging readers.

• Power of 2 (http://www.powerof2.org) This site has resources, lessons and ideas for differentiated teaching in different academic areas

• Watering Up The Curriculum for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities (http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/watering_up1.html) Excellent article about making sure LD adolescents are getting the important "big ideas" in the content areas.

• LD OnLine LD In Depth "Teaching Strategies" -- many articles about study skills and strategies for older students.