Academic Content Areas
Obtain information about the following subjects or content areas as they relate to students with disabilities.
Reading/Language Arts
Computer-Assisted Instruction and Reading
This short brief gives an overview of Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) and explains how it can be applied to enhance reading instruction.
Computer-Assisted Instruction and Writing
Learn more about CAI and see how it can be used to improve writing instruction.
Early Reading
Learn effective techniques for improving early reading proficiency to
facilitate access to the general education curriculum.
Reading Differentiation Brief
This short brief gives an overview of Differentiation and explains how it can be applied to enhance reading instruction.
Writing Development
Provides an overview of writing development for children with disabilities.
Writing Differentiation Brief
This short brief gives an overview of Differentiation and explains how it can be applied to enhance writing instruction.
Math
Computer-Assisted Instruction and Math
This brief gives a quick overview of CAI and explains how it can be used effectively in Math classrooms.
Concrete-Representational-Abstract Instructional Approach
Provides an overview of the Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) Instructional Approach and discusses how this intervention can be used to improve math instruction.
Direct/Explicit Instruction and Math
This short brief gives an overview of Direct/Explicit Instruction and explains how it can be applied to enhance math instruction.
Learner Accommodations and Instructional Modifications for Students with Learning Disabilities
Provides teachers with strategies to effectively teach mathematics concepts to students experiencing difficulty learning mathematics. Five sections are dedicated to a learning problem displayed in the mathematics classroom. Teachers consider the characteristics of each student and may select appropriate accommodations and instructional modifications presented in a series of charts.
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Learning Strategies and Math
Learn the importance of Learning Strategies and how it relates to math instruction.
Math Differentiation Brief
This short brief gives an overview of Differentiation and explains how it can be applied to enhance math instruction.
Math Problem Solving for Middle School Students with Disabilities
Focuses on teaching middle school students how to solve mathematics problems through a number of processes and strategies. Marjorie Montague also discusses Solve It!, designed to teach the necessary cognitive and metacognitive processes and strategies that good problem solvers use.
Math Problem Solving for Upper Elementary Students with Disabilities
This brief by Marjorie Montague provides an overview of the math problem-solving process. Further, it discusses how students with disabilities can successfully acquire and develop problem-solving skills.
Strategy/Implicit Instruction and Math
This brief gives an overview of Strategy/Implicit Instruction and explains how it can be applied to enhance math instruction.
Student Access to Division
Explains an alternative approach to designing and implementing Math
lessons to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. In
particular, an approach to teaching the concept of division, which is
based on prior knowledge of place value, measurement, and partitioning,
is described.
Web-Based Resources for Mathematics: Articles Related to Mathematics Education
Provides users with access to articles relating to mathematics education. The articles are all available free and have been cataloged according to the type of research and the content and process standards developed by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
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Web-Based Resources for Mathematics:
Tools and Activities for Teaching and Learning
This valuable resource includes a large annotated list of free web-based tools and activities. Each tool and activity focuses on a specific mathematics concept or skill.
Science
Computer-Assisted Instruction and Science
This short brief gives an overview of Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) and explains how it can be applied to enhance science instruction.
Science Differentiation Brief
This short brief gives an overview of Differentiation and explains how it can be applied to enhance science instruction.
For additional information on this or other topics,
please contact
The Access Center at center@air.org.
The Access Center: Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8
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