The Co-Design Model for Collaborative Instruction

This chapter explains everything you need to know about the co-design model, including the four research-based pathways to adopt the system in your classroom. Use the co-design model to promote successful learning for all students in the inclusive classroom setting. Read More

The Color Poem

Often, teaching poetry in the classroom is achieved successfully through imagery. This introductory lesson from The Word in Play provides students with insight into their own creative depths, helping to establish their “eye for resemblances.” Read More

The goal and the lesson

Read the excerpt and discover the role of lesson goals in UDL, how to design goals using the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as an example, and how goals promote student ownership of learning. Read More

The Magnocellular Theory of Dyslexia

This excerpt examines the research supporting the belief that fundamental phonological reading problems in people with dyslexia may be due to mild, but pervasive, impaired development of magnocellular systems throughout the brain. Read More

The rest of the family

Read the excerpt and learn more about family issues that often arise when a child has an ASD. This chapter focuses on the impact a child with an ASD has on marital relationships, sibling relationships, grandparents and other extended family members, friendships, as well as strangers and aquaintances. Read More

Thinking spatially

Through instruction and experience with quantities, children become familiar with numbers and develop a reliable mental picture of how they relate to each other. Read the excerpt and explore how spatial insight affects one’s understanding of number and quantitative problem solving. Read More

Tube feeding

Read the excerpt from Supporting Students with Special Health Care Needsto discover guidelines for care in regards to tube feeding. Essential for every school health office, Supporting Students with Special Health Care Needsis the ultimate guide to caring for and supporting children with special health care needs in educational settings. Read More