Home School Helps / Special Needs & Gifted |
Academic and practical resources for you and your special needs student. Guides for homeschooling exceptional and gifted children,
many written by homeschooling parents who have had experience. They will give you curriculum and testing resources, suggested ideas for daily lesson
plans and daily routines.
Basic Skills Checklists
-- $19.95 $18.47
-- Basic Skills Checklists is an easy-to-use, informal assessment tool that brings method to the madness of classroom and home assessment. It focuses on pre-academic, readiness, and academic skills expected from learners in the early elementary years. Author and experienced teacher Marlene Breitenbach developed these helpful checklists in special-needs and inclusive classrooms while serving children with autism and other developmental disabilities. The checklists have been used by resource teachers . . .
Complete-A-Sketch
Vision-Dexterity-Focus
-- $18.00 $14.75
-- The key benefit to this title from Melvin Peterman is that is was created specifically to meet vision challenges. Vision-Dexterity-Focus™ is a great all-in-one package and was developed specifically for the challenged learner, with input from parents and vision therapy professionals. This book contains most of the art used in Volumes 1 - 3 of the Complete-A-Sketch series with some new and unique art. It contains orthographic, (flat two-dimensional line art), isometric (three-dimensional art) and . . .
Following Directions
-- $21.99 $17.97
-- This book is divided into 2 categories:
Following Oral Directions, and Following Written Directions, with an answer key in the back.
Below is a copy of what is on the back of the book, but I (Lindley) wanted to make a note before you read their paragraph. As I reviewed this book, I opened this in the middle first. I thought – wow, this would be a great ADULT study! So flipping to the front I see where they . . .
Gifted Children At Home
-- $24.95 $21.97
-- This practical guide for home schooling families can be one of your best tools to searching out the best possible options for educating your gifted student. Whether your student is currently home schooled, after schooled, or enrolled in a traditional school, here are options and hard-earned wisdom from women who have been there, done that. Feeling frustrated in meeting your child's educational needs? Take heart! This book will encourage you and give you a firm foundation for making important . . .
Homeschooling the Challenging Child
-- $14.99 $12.97
-- By Christine M. FieldOften, families will choose home schooling because they have children who cannot cope or thrive within traditional educational environments due to special physical or emotional needs. Homeschooling the Challenging Child addresses these issues offering potential and current home schooling families qualified and expert advice. Experienced home school mom and author Christine Field will offer hope and direction for those seeking to offer their children the best educational opportunities . . .
How To Get Your Child
Off The Refrigerator
and on to Learning
-- $16.99 $12.97
-- Homeschooling Highly Distractible, ADHD, or Just Plain Fidgety KidsBy Carol BarnierIn her search for solutions to teach her highly distractible son, Carol developed techniques that are not only fun for all children, but highly successful with any child who struggles with focus. You’ll find may effective and fun solutions to the daily dilemma, “How do I teach my child tomorrow?” Cathy Duffy says “...I think just about all parents would love the help Carol offers for those days when the kids just can’t . . .
Life Skills Activities for Special Children
-- $29.95 $25.87
-- Gives parent-teachers over 180 step-by-step lessons with reproducible activity sheets to help special students develop and practice the basic "survival" skills they need for both school and daily living situations. Builds skills in these areas: interpersonal, communication, academic, practical living, vocational, lifestyle choices, and problem-solving. The lessons are primarily intended for upper-elementary-aged students with special learning needs. While skills such as reciting one' name and address . . .
LLATL Green Teacher's Edition (7th Grade)
-- $27.00 $20.29
-- Integrated language arts lessons include grammar, higher-order thinking, study skills and spelling. Teacher fiendly, with little or no teacher preparation needed! Review Activities follow most lessons providing additional skill practice. Assessments help teachers to evaluate students progress.
The Green level includes a 12 week grammar unit comprised of dictation, sentence structure, and diagraming using classical literature for the middle school student. The Poetry Unit encourages an appreciation . . .
Social Skills Activities for
Special Children 2nd Ed.
-- $29.95 $25.87
-- The second edition of the best-selling Social Skills Activities for Special Children provides 164 ready-to-use lessons--complete with reproducible worksheets--to help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and develop proficiency in acquiring basic social skills. Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations, giving teachers a means to guide students to think about why the social skill is important. The hands-on activity that accompanies each lesson helps . . .
Speechercise Level 1 Music CD
-- $12.95 $10.47
-- Help your child improve pronunciation and articulation with songs that make daily speech practice fun and easy. At home, school, or even in the car, follow the Speechercise workout leaders through the musical workout. This speech development CD will assist those who -
Mispronounce a sound in certain words, yet pronounce it clearly in other words
Leave out entire syllables from longer words
Leave off the beginning or ending sounds of words
Make the /T/ or /K/ sounds incorrectly
Pronounce . . .
Speechercise Level 2 Music CD
-- $12.99 $10.47
-- An advanced musical workout for your mouth with more songs, drills, and strategies designed to help children develop proper speech and articulation skills. Follow the workout leaders through musical exercises that target:
Tongue and teeth placement
Challenging beginning, middle, and ending consonant sounds
More complex consonant-vowel transitions: f and v, s and z, ch and j, sh and s, th, l, r, and w.
It's more great practice for young children beginning to develop speech habits OR those . . .
Training Scissors - 5 inch
-- $4.97
-- 2 sets of finger holes accommodate your hands along with your students. It helps the child feel the tension needed to help guide along cutting lines.
Writing Skills Activities for Special Children
-- $29.95 $25.87
-- This lay flat, paperback edition is the book you need to help your elementary student with special needs develop basic writing skills, relate writing to real-life tasks, and explore writing as a creative, enjoyable event! The book includes 135 step-by-step lessons and 269 illustrated activity sheets. It moves from copying words and completing sentences to processing the writing reports and stories, from filling out necessary forms to taking class notes, writing a letter, and addressing an envelope. . . .
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