TOOLS AND MATERIALS

The READ is a tool for enhancing school wide, program or individual professional improvement in critical areas that are related to improving outcomes for students with disabilities. Learn More

The EDIT Strategy enables students to find and correct errors on assignments created with a word processor. Students learn to enter their first draft into a word processing program, perform a spell check, run through the COPS Questions (which are related to capitalization, overall appearance, punctuation, and substance of the paper), and make the needed corrections. (2010, 98 pages) Learn More

The Error Monitoring Strategy is now available as a PDF download! This strategy is used by students to detect and correct errors in hand written work or on a printout of a written assignment done on a computer. Learn More

Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy is appropriate for students who already have a thorough grounding in basic concepts and terms (such as "subject" and "verb"). In Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy instruction, students learn advanced sentence writing skills, including writing compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Learn More

Instruction in Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy is appropriate for students who need a thorough grounding in basic concepts and terms, such as "subject," "verb," or "infinitive." Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy can be used as a developmental writing curriculum or as a quick set of lessons to improve students' understanding of these concepts. Learn More

With the Paragraph Writing Strategy, students learn to list ideas related to a topic; plan the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph; plan the sequence in which ideas will be expressed; and write a variety of topic, detail, and clincher sentences. Learn More

This manual contains a set of instructional methods that science teachers can use to help students engage in higher order reasoning associated with argumentation. Learn More

Problems like “3 + 6” and “0 + 9” may seem easy, but they probably cause a few anxious moments when students first learn them—especially at an automatic level. Learn More

Does adding the bigger numbers, like 8 + 9, make students to break into a cold sweat or send them scurrying to the nurse’s office? If so, provide the skills they need to tackle those math facts; teach them how to add numbers that total up to 18. Learn More