Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Nonverbal Learning Disorder and Literacy
By guest author Anna Super. It might seem contradictory to write about NLD -non-verbal learning disability - and difficulties with literacy homework. After all, those of us with NLD have strong...
Using MS Word Readability to Improve Your Student’s Writing
From Umm...Studying, What's That? The readability level of a piece of writing is dependent on the types of words and sentences used. Using words with more syllables and more complex sentences...
Using MS Word Readability to Improve Your Student's Writing
From Umm...Studying, What's That? The readability level of a piece of writing is dependent on the types of words and sentences used. Using words with more syllables and more complex sentences...
Dyscalculia and Long Division
by Anna Super, guest blogger Growing up with Dyscalculia was lonely. Everyone expects students not to like math and, traditionally, many people make the false assumption that more girls dislike math...
Homework Ideas for Students with Learning Disabilities
By guest author Anna Super. As a child growing up with a diagnosed but unspecified learning disability, I was often told that I was intelligent but that I learned differently. I believed that...
Helping or Hovering?
One important issue that we often see when teaching students with special needs is the difference between helping students to complete tasks themselves and hovering over them. The Council for...
Homework, A Letter To Teachers
Dear Teachers, My former child and teenage self wanted to share something with you about homework. Something that may help you assign homework that will educate kids like me. You see, I have a...
Teaching Summarizing Skills
Summarizing is a life-long skill that greatly affects student learning. It is also a skill that students struggle with significantly. One of the worst consequences of a lack of summarizing skill is...
Four Easy Teaching Strategies for Summarizing Skills
Summarizing is a life-long skill that greatly affects student learning. It is also a skill that students struggle with significantly. One of the worst consequences of a lack of summarizing skills is...
Conference Table Style Flexible Grouping!
A Class Divided in Half One day, while coaching at a middle school in North Carolina, I entered a small classroom, found that the teachers had divided the class in half, and were doing alternative...
Non-Linguistic Vocab Interventions
Since RTI was originally created to help lower elementary school children with literacy issues, much of the existing material on RTI focuses on vocabulary or linguistic interventions. It is...
7 Easy-to-Implement Non-Linguistic Vocabulary Interventions
Since RTI was originally created to help lower elementary school children with literacy issues, much of the existing material on RTI focuses on vocabulary interventions or linguistic interventions....