Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities (Jossey-Bass Teacher) by Nancy Mather

by Nancy Mather

A hands-on guide for anyone who teaches writing to students with learning disabilities This valuable resource helps teachers who want to sharpen their skills in analyzing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities. The classroom-tested, research-proven strategies offered in this book work with all struggling students who have difficulties with writing-even those who have not been classified as learning disabled. The book offers a review of basic skills-spelling, punctuation, and capitalization-and includes instructional strategies to help children who struggle with these basics. The authors provide numerous approaches for enhancing student performance in written expression. They explore the most common reasons students are reluctant to write and offer helpful suggestions for motivating them. Includes a much-needed guide for teaching and assessing writing skills with children with learning disabilities

Genres: Writing

Paperback

First published October 1, 2009

Reviews

[Jess Sherwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good advice, but I feel like a lot of it was very "surface" in terms what implementation could be done. It does have a lot of great examples from students at different levels, but not a lot of useable resources. It's a hefty read, but useful in terms of a good intro to writing for students with disabilities. It can be a tough to implement a lot of those strategies, but she does a good job of trying to keep the strategies rounded and accessible.

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Minimally helpful. Truly, nobody seems to do serious research on writer NT interventions for kids with LD at the level of organization and ideas - way too much focus on handwriting, mechanics and spelling.