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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.

• Teaching Study Skills and Learning Strategies to Therapists, Teachers and Tutors
  How to Give Help and Hope to Disorganized Students
  by Diane Newton (reprinted with permission from the International Dyslexia Association)s

• 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

• 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.