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Working Together: Linking skills and curriculum for adolescents with a language learning disability

$63.59  Softcover
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M Brent, C Millgate-Smith Australian author

  • Working Together
  • Working Together
    This Australian book shows how the mainstream curriculum can be differentiated for the benefit of the entire ability range. Covers English, Maths, Science & History.

208 pages
2009
ISBN: 9780864318565

This book is a working collaboration between Chris Millgate-Smith, secondary teacher, and Mandy Brent, speech pathologist. This new book significantly expands on the work of One in Eleven: Practical strategies for teaching adolescents with a Language Learning Disability published in 2001.

The needs of LLD students can be perceived by busy classroom teachers as just too hard to cater for. This book shows how the mainstream curriculum in all States can be differentiated for the benefit of the entire ability range. Cognitive and strategy instruction has been embedded into six units designed for mixed ability classrooms, covering the major disciplines of English, Maths, Science and History.

The key areas that impact on LLD students accessing the curriculum — difficulties with memory, limitations in oral language and vocabulary, and poor reading and writing skills, as well as anxiety, self awareness and empathy — are described for the subject teacher. Detailed suggestions are provided for teachers and support staff aligned to a sequenced curriculum. The curriculum is central to the work of teachers, the support staff and the LLD student; however additional instruction which supports the curriculum, particularly in the area of literacy, is critical to success.

Strategies for tracking learning in the classroom and the organisational and structural changes required to assist LLD students are also included.