The Resource Room

Tools, Strategies, and Structured Explorations for Interesting Learners

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• Lessons, ideas, articles and links for multisensory learning for people of all ages.
• Resources for people who learn differently, or have learning difficulties or learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia.

Teachers, home educators, curriculum developers, tutors, students, parents, Orton-Gillingham trained specialists, and other curious souls welcome!

What's New at Resource Room

 

• Article Review: From Reading to Spelling and Spelling to Reading : Transfer Goes Both Ways by Nicole Conrad (Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008, vol. 100, no. 4, 869-78) - in short, this research supports explicit instruction in spelling, and does not support the idea that students will learn to spell through "massive reading." 

• Teaching the Structure of Language through Seeing, Hearing and Doing
  by Suzanne Carreker - some of the secrets of hands-on, minds-on learning from the experts. (added 2/09)

• Linking up with Spelling City- see the blog :)

• Review: Five Times Five Is Not Ten by Susan Greenwald, M. A. Ed. Learn the times with fun and rhymes!

• Revived and relocated! Joyce Steeves' Very Good At Everything: Social & Emotional Ramifications of Dyslexia and Other Atypical Learning Styles and Patterns (thanks to the person who alerted me that it had been deleted - I love active surfers!)

• Adding Fractions with Different Denominators: using motor memory.

• Sue Jones' blog! Links and comments and who knows what else? Latest entry 9/28 (Biking Blog, too if you're feeling distractible :-))

• Word Part : Di .

• Building Vocabulary in Remedial Settings: Focus on Word Relatedness reprinted with permission from the International Dyslexia Association

• Teaching Study Skills and Learning Strategies to Therapists, Teachers and Tutors: How to Give Help and Hope to Disorganized Students
  by Diane Newton

• Speaking To Write/Word for Word: An Overview of Speech Recognition by Bob Follansbee, Ed. D. Another invaluable article reprinted with permission from the IDA Perspectives journals.