Finding adapted books for special education While teaching beginning literacy skills to my high school aged students I found I had an issue that I ran into again and again. The levelled readers or adapted books I used just weren’t capturing their attention. These high school special education students were 12-19 years old reading books targeted at 4-6 year old… Read More
The Importance of age appropriate activities for Teens
How can you ensure that you are using age-appropriate resources for teens with disabilities? This is a huge topic for special education teachers and one that can be difficult to address. Here is the issue: There are many teenagers with developmental disabilities that are working on life skills and reading at an emergent reader level. In turn, most of the… Read More
6 Easy Emergent reader strategies
On the blog lately, we’ve been all about discussing emergent literacy. What is emergent literacy, you may be asking? Check out this blog post to read all about emergent literacy in detail. To put it simply, it means that spoken language and reading/ writing skills are connected. It is very important for children to show and be exposed to emergent… Read More