Four Blocks Children with Disabilities: Reading and Writing the Four-Blocks® Way, Grades 1 - 3 Resource Book - Softcover

Koppenhaver, David; Erickson, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1600221254 ISBN 13: 9781600221255

Publisher: Four Blocks, 2007

Synopsis

Meet the learning needs and preferences of all students using Children with Disabilities: Reading and Writing the Four-Blocks® Way for students in grades 1–3. This 144-page book provides a glimpse into an inclusion special-education classroom that uses the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model. This wonderful collection of ideas, strategies, and resources includes information on Self-Selected Reading, Guided Reading, Writing, and Working with Words. It also includes strategies for reading and writing success in special-education classrooms, variations for students with disabilities, teacher's checklists, IEP goal suggestions, examples of assistive technology, and answers to commonly asked questions. The book supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model and provides a list of children's literature that can be used in lessons.

About this title

About the Authors

David Koppenhaver is an associate professor of Language, Reading, and Exceptionalities at Appalachian State University and the cofounder of the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is a former language arts teacher with more than 25 years of experience teaching and studying struggling readers and writers.

Karen Erickson is a former teacher of children with significant disabilities who has worked in self-contained special education and resource room settings. Karen is the director of the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Along with David Koppenhaver, Karen has conducted research and provided staff development for more than a decade.

From the Back Cover

Children with Disabilities: Reading and Writing the Four-Blocks® Way supports the efforts of general education teachers and the children with disabilities who they teach in their inclusive classrooms. Children with disabilities require significant supports and informed teachers to succeed in any instructional setting. The Four-Blocks® Literacy Model provides that significant support. The ideas, strategies, and resources in this text provide teachers with the means to truly meet the learning needs and preferences of ALL students in the general classroom. In addition, this book can help teachers in special education classrooms have success in teaching their students to read and write. The principles of instruction in the Four-Blocks® framework can also apply to children in special education environments.

Edition details

• Publisher: Four Blocks
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1600221254
• ISBN 13: 9781600221255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144