Helping Special Education Teachers Deliver Effective Interventions
As a resource room teacher, I only get 30-45 minutes with some of my students. They spend a whole lot of time in the general education classroom. Meaning, they need accommodations! Accommodations can help them to be successful with grade level material. Below, you’ll find reading accommodations that can be used in the general education […]
I absolutely love picture books for teaching and modeling reading skills. But you know what? I can’t afford to buy them all. I can’t even remember which ones I have, which ones I use for what skill, or if I borrowed them from a friend. The struggle is real, my friends. Several years ago, I […]
How many special education evaluations do you have during one school year? I average about 20-30. And I must say, it is HARD to manage at times. This year, I started using a checklist to help keep my special education evaluations organized. You can download this printable for FREE by clicking here! After downloading the […]
I absolutely LOVE to teach students to compare and contrast. I can’t explain it, but I love to take books that are obviously similar and pick them apart. I also love trying to find similarities between two very different books. I like to introduce comparing and contrasting by using classic stories that many of my […]
Teaching students to recognize when a synthesis is happening is DIFFICULT! Like seriously, it was a really hard concept for me to wrap my mind around as a reader. Over time though, I began to see that nearly all characters in a story with a decent plot make some type of change over time. As […]
Taking a few minutes to access background knowledge can be an essential part of improving reading comprehension. Research shows that our brains need somewhere “to go” with the information as we read. Simply reminding students to think about their background knowledge isn’t enough. For my special education students, I wanted a way to allow them […]
