Successful Inclusion Strategies for Secondary and Middle School Teachers: Keys to Help Struggling Learners Access the Curriculum

`This is a wonderful and concise presentation of strategies that are useful in any classroom′ - Joyce C Dresser, Middle School Special Needs Teacher, West Tisbury School, West Tisbury, Massachusetts Sucessful Inclusion Strategies for Secondary and Middle School Teachers helps practitioners access this specific research that targets students with disabilities in middle school and secondary classrooms. The author recognizes educators′ need for a quick resource of research-supported strategies at their fingertips. M C Gore offers field-tested and teacher-friendly approaches to understanding the levels and stages of learning in students with disabilities.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments Acknowledgments 1. Locks that Bar Access to Learning The Locks on the Doors 2. Keys to the Effectiveness of the Inclusion Strategies Dual Coding Theory and Tri-Coding of Information 3. Teaching the Concepts and Vocabulary of Our Disciplines Key 1: Taxonomic Tree Key 2: Semantic Feature Analysis Matrix Key 3: Compare and Contrast Vocabulary Matrix Key 4: Typology Key 5: Word Analysis Diagram Key 6: Semantic Web Key 7: Quick Sketching a Definition Key 8: Total Physical Response and Vocabulary Drama Key 9: Linguistic Link Lists and Word Towers Key 10: Keyword Mnemonic Strategy Key 11: Vocabulary Word Card Ring Key 12: Vocabulary Concept Dictionary 4. Teaching Devices for Increasing Student Learning From Lectures Key 13: Simply Slowing Down Key 14: Pause Procedure Key 15: Cueing the Most Important Points Key 16: Explicitly Teaching teh Big Ideas Key 17: Giving a Preview, Overview, or Advance Organizer Key 18: Soliciting Concrete Examples from Students′ Lives Key 19: Providing More Examples than You Think They Need Key 20: Providing Plenty of Concrete Nonexamples in Concept Teaching Key 21: Teaching Concepts through a Concrete, Semiconcrete, Abstract (CSA) or Concrete-Representational-Abstract Key 22: Role Playing Difficult Content Key 23: Incorporating Humor 5. Increasing Learning by Using Notetaking Strategies Key 24: Guided Notes Key 25: Strategic Notes Key 26: AWARE Strategy Key 27: Brick and Mortar Notes Key 28: Three-Column Personalized Notes Key 29: Newspaper Notes Key 30: Power Notes 6. Helping Students With Special Needs Maximize Learning From Reading the Textbook Key 31: Using Graphic Organizers to Make Relationships Within Domain Knowledge and Discipline Knowledge Explicit Key 32: Preteaching Vocabulary Key 33: Explicitly Teaching Text Structure Key 34: Highlighted Textbooks Key 35: Recorded Textbooks Key 36: Universal Design Learning Key 37: Peer Reader Key 38: Study Guides 7. Increasing Learning by Using Guides Key 39: Content Guide Key 40: Process of Reading Study Guide Key 41: Analogy Guide Guide Key 42: Extended Anticipation Guide Key 43: Point-of-View Guide Key 44: K-W-L Study Guide Key 45: Flip Flop Study Guide Key 46: Cause and Effect Study Guide Key 47: Hypertext Study Guide Key 48: Videotape/DVD Viewing Study Guide 8. Increasing Understanding of Higher-Order Thinking Skills Key 49: Storyboards Key 50: Flowcharts Key 51: Timelines Key 52: The Forest and the Trees Key 53: Venn-Euler Diagram Key 54: Use of teh Venn-Euler Diagram to Help Students Develop Analytical Ability Key 55: Apple Orange Tree Key 56: Compare and Contrast Matrix Key 57: Campfire Key 58: Evaluation by Elimination Matrix Key 59: Evaluation by Addition Matrix 9. Improving the Quality of Expository Writing Key 60: Data Retrieval Chart Key 61: Charting Key 62: Semantic Webbing Key 63: Power Notes Key 64: Campfire Key 65: Evaluation Matrices Key 66: Teaching Text Structure Key 67: Rubrics 10. Mnemonic Devices Key 68: Keyword Mnemonics Key 69: Pegword Mnemonics Key 70: Musical Mnemonics 11. Possible Future Keys The Accountability Mandate Resources Index

About the Author :
M. C. (Millie) Gore is Hardin Distinguished Professor in the Special Education Program of the Department of Counseling, Kinesiology, and Special Education at the Gordon T. and Ellen West College of Education at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including the Corwin title (with John F. Dowd) Taming the Time Stealers: Tricks of the Trade From Organized Teachers. Gore received undergraduate and master’s degrees from Eastern New Mexico University and a doctorate from the University of Arkansas.

Review :
"This is a wonderful and concise presentation of strategies that are useful in any classroom."