#1 The book Design and Deliver by Loui Lord Nelson discusses planning and teaching for UDL and includes a link to 16 short videos made by experienced UDL educators as follows, www.brookespublishing.com/nelson-videos
I found the video "Promoting Executive Functions: Laurie Martin and Quality Product" to be interesting and helpful. Martin shows how she uses rubrics to keep her 8th grade class on track to complete a project. She reviews the rubric on a daily basis and provides written and oral instructions. Martin carefully selects partner groups for shared feedback regarding rubric completion. Throughout the video, Martin emphasizes a variety of methods to help her 8th graders stay on-task and, ultimately, to foster their executive functioning skills.
#2 "Read With Me E-Books" found at Read With Me E-books can be used easily by teachers and parents of young children to promote early literacy. These free e-books include audio and can also be downloaded and printed to serve as reinforcement and variety. Books focus on different important early literacy skills such as phonological awareness, Bright and cheery, Silly Pets, pictured below, shows children how to identity sounds and syllables
throughout the story.
#3 The Site "Cool Math 4 Kids" found at Coolmath4kids is designed to make math more fun for children aged 12 and under. The site provides clever free math games, lessons, quizzes, and brain teasers structured to teach math in an appealing, user-friendly manner. Games like "Tractor Multiplication," picture below are provided to teach students how multiplication works and the lattice method of multiplication by means of a multi-player tug-of-war contest.
These are awesome sources! I particularly like Read with me E books, it does a great job of tapping into some additional resources for students and teachers to enforce reading. To bad it is focused more towards an elementary audience, there are many special education teachers that could utilize this as part of the recognition network of UDL.
ReplyDeleteYes, this would be a great tool for special education teachers working with children of all ages if there were a wider range of books. Prior to working at Cabrini, I helped teach Title 1 Reading an elementary school in MNSD and I wish that I had known about Read to Me Ebooks as my younger students would have really enjoyed this type of reading experience.
ReplyDeleteRead with Me Ebooks is a great resource. Thanks for sharing. I have a student that is in emotional support and it is very difficult to get him to sit down and do work but he loves books.
ReplyDeleteThe sites you have listed will be very useful for my classroom and students, especially the read with me ebooks. I have a lot of reluctant readers and this could give them the boast to feel confident in their reading.
ReplyDeleteI agree with these thoughts about Read With Me Ebooks. They are compelling, user-friendly, and carefully planned to focus on critical literacy skills.
ReplyDeleteI agree with these thoughts about Read With Me Ebooks. They are compelling, user-friendly, and carefully planned to focus on critical literacy skills.
ReplyDeleteWow! These additional resources seem full of important information on UDL! Design and Deliver has informative videos to watch on UDL.
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