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Developing Independent Readers: Strategy-Oriented Reading Activities for Children With Special Needs
Developing Independent Readers StrategyOriented Reading Activities for Children With Special Needs Author:Cynthia Conway Waring This unique resource gives teachers of reading-disabled students structured, sequential, multisensory lessons for teaching basic phonic elements combined with activities and worksheets that allow students to apply newly learned skills to children's books. Activities and worksheets help teach 37 graphophonic elements. AUTHOR BIO: Cynthia has an ... more »M.Ed. from the Reading Specialist Program at Lesley College, an M.A. in Special Education/Learning Disabilities from the University of Connecticut, and a BA in English-Honors and Psychology from the University of Massachusetts. She is certified as an elementary teacher (K-8), teacher of children with moderate special needs (N-12), reading 5pecialist'consulting teacher of reading (K-12), and Orton-Gillingham Therapist. She is a registered educational therapist and member of The Learning Disabilities Network (based in New England) and her local TAWL (Teachers Applying Whole Language). During her more than twenty years of teaching in the areas of reading, language, and learning disabilities, Cynthia has developed and used Developing Independent Readers. She has taught students with diverse special needs from kindergarten age to adult in full inclusion, classroom, clinic, adult literacy program, and resource room settings and in private tutoring practice. Cynthia has made presentations at professional conferences, lectured in graduate-level courses, and conducted in-service workshops and teacher training. Her article "Keys and a Clue" was published in Teaching Exceptional Children. Currently, Cynthia is a full-time teacher of children with special needs at Shutesbury Elementary School in Massachusetts, where teachers support all children in their classrooms in a full inclusion special education model. In addition, Cynthia tutors children and adults in private practice using Developing Independent Readers, conducts in-service workshops and teacher training, and consults with teachers in elementary schools and adult literacy programs.« less