This highly effective material teaches visual memory of words. It is suited developmentally for students in grades 1-6; remedially for students in grades 1-adult. Develops working visual memory for reading, writing and spelling. Suitable for individual, small group or classroom instruction. Covers a visual memory letter span of from 3-13 letters in a controlled fashion. Teaches phonics including common word parts, syllabication and sight vocabulary while developing visual memory. Wondering teaching tool for all schools, homeschooling parents, optometrists who specialize in vision training and facilities that work with stroke patients. Easy to administer in 5-10 min. sessions.
An expanded program of Achieve, Levels V-VI is suited for developmental work with students in grades 7 & 8; remedially for students in grades 7-adult. It covers a visual memory span of from 11-16 letters. Teaches and reinforces syllabication, sight vocabulary, and word meaning while it develops visual memory of words. Easy to administer in 5-10 min. sessions.
Little Lemon: Activities for Motivation and Memory Skillsby Betsy B. Lee
This K-3 book has a multi-media and multi-modality approach with an emphais on visual memory skills. In the story, learning strategies are called secrets for remembering. A lemon puppet makes lemonade when he has the chore of helping a discouraged child who has a poor memory. Lesson plans, music, discussion questions, and hands-on activities are included for motivation and for learning how to remember. Visit the author's site Remember the Cat which contains a valuable guide for all children to use to increase their memory.
A Funny Dolch Word Book#3: Stories, Fables, Word Puzzles
These Funny Dolch Word books are suitable for grades K-3. They are written with a controlled reading vocabulary. Using the basic Dolch vocabulary, which consists of the most commonly used words for beginning readers, these books are an excellent teaching tool for all children who are learning to read, but, in particular, for learning disabled children. Each word is presented numerous times after it is introduced, thus making it easier for beginning readers to learn and expand their sight vocabulary. Lessons plans include letter, word and digit reversal visual training, visual recognition of Dolch words including different common word part endings.
Details of these books can be found on the author's Learning Abilities Books
Expanding students listening skills, these books are
excellent teaching tools for teaching students how to listen well for information presented in context. Each book contains 75 passages at three different graduating levels so that students can developmentally expand their listening skills. Book 1 is appropriate for students in pre-school through grade 3. Book 2 is appropriate for grades 4-6. Teaches children how to focus on details (dates, proper names etc.) while expanding their auditory memory (listening) skills. Great teaching tool for ADD and ADHD students. Easy to administer and highly effective.
Guess Who is a pre-primer book and very appropriate for use as the first book for beginning readers. The stories are humorous and the vocabulary in the reader is controlled so that once a word is introduced it is presented over and over again. An excellent reader for children who are experiencing difficulties learning to read.
Who Can Help
Who Can Help is another beginning reader in the Sally, Dick and Jane Series that offers a controlled vocabulary making it easy and pleasurable for children to learn to read.
Fun with Dick and Jane
Fun with Dick and Jane is a first half of first grade reader that offers humorous stories and a wonderfully controlled vocabulary. It follows Guess Who and Who Can Help and is easily adapted to the development of sight vocabulary because once a word is introduced in appears in the book over and over again. A wonderful book to use with children who are beginning readers and those who are having serious difficulties learning from the Whole Language approach. Fun with Sally, Dick and Jane can be used to teach phonics and word attack as well as sight words.
Achieve: A Visual Memory Program is now available in two volume sets:
This workbook is excellent for beginning readers who are weak in visual perception, that is, noting likenesses and differences in words. The students read a sentence and then circle the same words from a list of words below that also contain words that are similar. It is an excellent teaching tool to train students carefully at words, beginning, middle and end. It contains frequently confused words and helps students to note the differences between such words as when and then, what and that,them and then, what and where, would and could, and every and ever.
Symbol Discrimination & Sequencing
This workbook is a wonderful teaching tool to help pre schoolers and kindergarten students develop visual recall of pictures, symbols, letters and numbers. It begins with a 3 letter span and progresses to a 5 letter span. Students can be told to view the sequence of items at the top of the page. After a five second viewing, the sequence can be covered up and the student can then find that sequence among various items in the section below. It does not teach visual memory of words which is essential for readers. For that skill Achieve: A Visual Memory Program above is recommended.
Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane and Friends
(Hardcover) by William S. Gray
A wonderful collection of the three beginning readers, We Look and See, We Come and Go and The New We Work and Play. Each book introduces vocabulary in a controlled fashion. Once a word is introduced it is found over and over again throughout the book. An excellent teaching tool for beginning readers who are finding it difficult to learn to read with the Whole Language or Integrated Language Approach. This book lend themselves beautifully for using a combined combined phonics, sight and comprehension approach to reading. Note: Page 28 is misprinted.
Complete Learning Disabilites Handbook:
Ready to Use Strategies and Activities for Teaching
Students with Learning Disabilities
by Joan Harwell
This book contains 400 pages and is a practical
resource for special education teachers looking for materials that can be photocopied to teach basic skills as well as self motivation and self esteem.
Auditory Sequential Memory InstructionalWorkbook by Addie Cusimano
This instructional workbook is a wonderful source for parents and educators to use to teach children how to expand their attend, listen and recall of series of numbers, letters and words. It is presented in a developmental fashion, and easy to administer in 5-10 minute sessions to groups or on an individual basis. It develops auditory sequential memory skills that help students memorize number facts, lists of words for social studies or science, and the sequential order of letters for spelling easy. Includes a teaching manual, 66 exercises and a reproducible student record sheet.
A Funny Dolch Word Book #1: Stories, Poem, Word Puzzles
A Funny Dolch Word Book #2: Stories, Poems, Fables, Word Puzzles
The Buggy That Boogied Away
by Betsy B. Lee
Wonderfully illustrated in bright colors, this delightfully humorous book tells the story of a horse who decides he has waited long enough for his owner who is visiting friends. Much to his owners surprise, his horse and buggy are not there when he is ready to go home! What happens to the horse is the joy of the story. It is told in a cumulative fashion, allowing young readers to develop fluency and ease while reading repeated phrases while adding more and more vocabulary as the story evolves. A wonderful book for parents and teachers to use to help children develop confidence in reading. Children of all ages will enjoy the story that also includes a musical version for children to learn to sing.
Visual Discrimination:
Noting Differences in Frequently Misperceived Words
by Addie Cusimano
This workbook is excellent for helping beginning readers and students with visual discrimination problems to overcome their weaknesses in noting the differences in similar words. At last a workbook that helps students to accurately read the most frequently misperceived words. Such words as was and saw, this and that, where and there, how and now, come and came, went and want are taught in this workbook using techniques that have been proven to most effectively help students who display reversals, additions, omissions in their reading and do not note likenesses and differences in vowels and consonants. Visual Discrimination includes an instruction manual and 60 exercises to
