New Activity and Idea Books

The complete learning disabilities handbook : ready-to-use strategies & activities for teaching students with learning disabilities
An overview of the field of learning disabilities -- Research in the field of learning disabilities -- Understanding the laws -- Early childhood education for at-risk students -- The student study team process -- Formal assessment and identification of the student with learning disabilities --Planning for the student with learning disabilities -- Classroom management for teachers -- Academic management considerations -- Interventions for specific problems -- Reading and the student with learning disabilities -- Writing, spelling, and speaking -- Teaching mathematically challenged students -- Adolescents and adults with learning disabilities -- The role of the family -- Education in the new millennium

The Civil War : literature units, projects, and activities
This unit uses literature to teach the story of the Civil War. Six core books -- two works of historical fiction (Across five Aprils / by Irene Hunt ; Bull Run / by Paul Fleischman), two informational books (The boy's war / by Jim Murphy ; Undying glory / by Clinton Cox), and two biographies (Lincoln : a photobiography / by Russell Freedman ; Behind rebel lines / by Seymour Reit) -- are used to build the unit.

Sequencing. Grade 4