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Understanding ambiguous words, phrases, and sentences is an important part of reading well, communicating skillfully, and enjoying humor based on word play. This activity book includes ready-to-use activities based on jokes and puns that help students learn how to decipher the language ambiguities they encounter inside and outside the classroom.

This NEW edition is the friendly how-to book educators need to increase desired behavior in today's K-12 classrooms.

How can today's educators teach academic content to students with moderate and severe developmental disabilities? This text has answers for K-12 teachers, straight from 37 experts in special and general education. This important text prepares teachers to ensure more inclusion, more advanced academic content, and more meaningful learning for their students.

With a strong emphasis on collaboration among all members of the education team, this text leads professionals step by step through every aspect of successful preschool inclusion, from designing an effective program to preparing all children for a smooth transition to kindergarten.

Help transform struggling K-3 students into skillful, enthusiastic readers-in just 20 to 30 minutes a day! It's all possible with the NEW edition of this bestselling curriculum supplement, your key to helping all students grasp the five Big Ideas of early literacy: phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

This handbook includes methods to help schools and programmes make the transition to kindergarten happen smoothly. The guide is built around a model that has been adopted in many diverse schools and communities. It helps professionals develop a transition plan and implement the plan.

What does the research tell us about late talkers, and what are the key implications for clinical practice? Discover the latest findings in this important volume, a comprehensive survey of 30+ years of research about young children with delayed expressive language. More than 25 top researchers explore the causes and characteristics of late language emergence, long-term outcomes for late talkers, effective intervention approaches, and future directions for new research studies. An essential addition to the literature on language development!

Brings together the biggest ideas and the best thinking from more than a dozen top researchers in the early childhood education (ECE) quality movement. It clearly lays out what we know about quality today, which areas need focused improvement efforts, and what kind of innovative program-level changes will strengthen outcomes for children.

When serious health or physical impairments are not present, a delay in language development may be the first symptom that a child is not developing typically. This work shows that children delayed only in the use of words are very likely to catch up on their own.

How can SLPs and other practitioners provide the best supports for adults with aphasia-and help them make a successful return to daily life? Clear answers are in this comprehensive text, the definitive guide to research-based strategies, supports, and technologies that improve outcomes for adults with chronic or acute aphasia.

Technology holds great promise for helping students with autism learn, communicate, and function effectively in the modern world. Start leveraging that power today with this forward-thinking book, your in-depth guided tour of technologies that support learners with autism and help them fully participate in their classroom and community.

Reading problems don't disappear when students enter middle school-recent studies show that nearly a quarter of today's eighth graders aren't able to read at a basic level.* This book arms language arts teachers with the lessons, strategies, and foundational knowledge they need to resolve older students' reading difficulties and increase their chances for academic success.Ideal for use with struggling readers in Grades 6-8, this book clearly lays out the fundamentals of effective teaching for adolescents with reading difficulties. Teachers will discover how to select and administer assessments for comprehension, fluency, and word recognition use assessment results to plan individualized instruction apply research-supported instructional practices develop flexible grouping systems so students get the targeted instruction they need set manageable short-term learning goals with students keep the pacing of instruction quick and energetic so students stay engaged give appropriate positive and corrective feedback monitor student progress over time promote generalization of new reading skills provide effective interventions within a school-wide Response to Intervention frameworkTo help teachers incorporate evidence-based practices into their classroom instruction, they'll get more than 20 complete, step-by-step sample lessons for strengthening adolescents' reading skills. Easy to adapt for use across any curriculum, the sample lessons provide explicit models of successful instruction, with suggested teacher scripts, checklists for planning instruction, key terms and objectives, strategies for guided and independent practice, tips on promoting generalization, and more.With this practical guide to high-quality instruction, middle school teachers will help struggling readers develop the skills they need to master complex academic content and succeed inside and outside the classroom.With 20+ step-by-step sample lessons that improve Fluency Comprehension Word recognition Vocabulary *National Center for Education Statistics, 2011

When you're working with preverbal children on the autism spectrum, you need a complete toolbox of highly effective strategies to expand their communication skills. Add Rapid Motor Imitation Antecedent Training (RMIA), and you'll have one of the most promising interventions for helping young children say their first words.

To succeed in increasingly diverse classrooms, tomorrow's special educators need explicit training on working effectively with all families. Prepare the next generation of teachers with this accessible text, developed by two highly respected experts on cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusive education.

Based on the authors' years of experience with students, teachers, and families, this reader-friendly guide is equally useful for working with students with and without a specific diagnosis. Teachers will learn practical strategies they can immediately implement to help students with a wide range of emotional, behavioural, and social difficulties.

For adolescents with reading disabilities, struggles with comprehension are a major obstacle to mastering academic content areas. Help resolve comprehension difficulties with this practical text, developed for use with students in Grades 6 12 with and without disabilities. An ideal supplementary text for preservice special and general educators and a great resource for inservice teachers looking for new comprehension strategies this book is the key to understanding what's behind comprehension struggles and which strategies make a real difference for adolescent readers. Teachers will discover how to improve students' reading comprehension across content areas with specific, evidence-based strategies such as mnemonics that help remember and retrieve important information graphic organizers that highlight key information and clarify abstract concepts The Embedded Story Structure Routine, which teaches self-questioning, story structure analysis, and summary writing Teachers will get complete overviews of each strategy and how-to guidance based on recommended practice. With the proven, research-based strategies in this textbook, educators will be fully prepared to improve adolescents' comprehension skills and ensure that all students are confident, motivated readers.

Early detection of delays and disabilities can change the course of a child's whole life. Integrated, community-wide screening and early detection/child find systems are needed to coordinate screening efforts so children who need services don't slip through the cracks. This is the first book with the systematic, big-picture guidance and specific information needed to develop a system or strengthen and refine an existing system. Developed by early childhood, medical, and social service experts in screening and assessment, this groundbreaking book helps communities establish an effective early detection system that is comprehensive and low-cost encourages close collaboration among health, social service, and educational agencies meets each child's whole continuum of needs, from universal screening to community services. With this adaptable, integrated plan for early detection/child find that provides detailed guidance on 6 key components of successful community-wide early detection, communities will ensure that delays are caught quickly and all young children and their families get the services and supports they need to thrive.