A teacher of learning disabled students describes a color and shape coded system of teaching such calendar concepts as days of the week, months, seasons, and years. (CL)

Advance organizers, activities used before the learning task, can help mainstreamed learning disabled adolescents organize information more efficiently. Ten steps for developing advance organizers proceed from informing students to introducing vocabulary and stating the general outcome desired. This approach is easy to implement and may result in…

Using a classroom discussion of the human digestive system as an example, the article promotes the idea that demonstrating abstractions in concrete experiential terms permits the learning disabled youngster to discover concepts for himself, which is the best possible learning experience. (JYC)

Waterlearning, in which water supplements the classroom as the learning center, provides an alternative through which skills and concepts can be taught to learning disabled students for whom regular teaching methods are often ineffective. (SBH)

A resource teacher of learning disabled adolescents describes a cognitive strategies approach designed to allow students to generalize skills to other tasks. This approach focuses on such skills as gaining information from texts, performing more accurately on tests, and presenting written work attractively and cogently. (CL)

A highly structured six-step strategy to teach paragraph organization skills to learning disabled secondary students revealed that the students, who were beginning rather than remedial writers, could profit from a formula writing approach that focused on one writing component at a time with maximum practice. (CL)

An example is provided of remediation activities for learning disabled adolescents having a specific computation difficulty with place value and the subtraction with regrouping algorhythm. A seven-day remediation procedure, which may be used with the other basic operations, fades from the concrete to the symbolic mode. (CL)

The article describes a method of improving the instruction provided by learning disabilities classroom teacher aides. Advantages of the self-recording approach are listed. (PHR)

Suggestions are made for teaching drama to learning disabled students. (CL)

The process of writing a play serves as a remediation method for developing writing skills in the learning disabled student. The case of an 11-year-old student, who neither writes nor spells, illustrates this method. (SB)

Recounted by the teacher are psychological and academic benefits realized by a class of low achieving children when they dictated and illustrated booklets and read them to other classes. (DB)

Considered are testing and teaching suggestions for developing auditory discrimination abilities in children with spelling difficulties. (CL)

A six-week contingency management program to improve classroom behavior of learning disabled high school students climaxed in a two-day camping field trip. (A detailed trip log is included.) (PHR)

Taking high school students with reading difficulties to movies is often a more successful teaching method than requiring the same students to read novels. (GW)