Resources

These resources were created and/or collected by Outreach staff to assist you in better understanding how to teach students with LBLD.

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  Best Practices for Teaching Reading

  Learn more about best practices for teaching reading. This in-depth American Public Media reports covers the history of teaching reading, current brain-research, and how schools can use this information to improve reading scores.

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  Creating Positive Student Outcomes in Middle School Special Education: Tackling Text Structure

  by Erin Broudo

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  BLOG SERIES: Helping Students with LBLD Experience Academic Success

  See all of the blog posts that are a part of this series

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  Measuring Reading Progress

  How is Reading Progress Measured? Reading is a complex process that involves a variety of skills and components. Before determining a way to measure reading progress, the specific reading skill being measured must first be identified. Please note that phonemic awareness is not included here as that particular skill generally requires more complex progress monitoring.

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  Creating Positive Student Outcomes in Middle School Special Education: Creating Richer Personal Narratives

  by Erin Broudo

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  Study Skills in Early Elementary School: Assigning and Working through Research Projects

  by Lauren Guerriero

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  Decisions, Decisions! Making the Final Post-Secondary Decision for Students with Learning Disabilities

  by Rachel Thomaszvic

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  Common Myths Around Dyslexia and Reading

  Understand more about the common myths around reading and dyslexia.  Edutopia works to contradict many of the pervasive myths about teaching reading and dyslexia and describes new teacher training that helps them understand how students learn to read and how to implement a systematic approach to teaching reading.

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  Brain-Based Research and the Teenage Brain

  Explore brain-based research and the teenage brain.  This Edutopia article outlines the outdated myths related to adolescent behavior and discusses new findings that help us understand the behaviors better, and through this understanding, help to better reach adolescents in the classroom and beyond.

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