Tasks Galore for the Real World


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Tasks Galore for the Real World features over 240 full-color photos of highly organized, multi-modal tasks that emphasize the functional skills needed for daily living. Each task includes visual strategies that enhance independence in the home, school, community, and workplace. Life skill areas covered include domestic skills, independent functioning, vocational skills, and job sites. The tasks attempt to clarify visually and to make concrete abstract concepts, such as telling time, using money, measuring, etc. An introduction describes how strucutured environments can be set up to enhance the learning.




Tasks Galore


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Tasks Galore Let's Play


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Tasks Galore is a compilation of over 250 colored photos of visually structured and fun multi-modal tasks that are appropriate for preschool and elementary aged learners with ASD and other developmental disorders. The context of play is used to enhance skills across developmental areas. Topics span abilities- from engaging in early social games with caregivers to role playing with peers, using toys functionally and symbolically, choosing one toy, and organizing play times. The clarity of the task presentations makes them especially comprehensible for students who are visual learners.




Tasks Galore


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Tasks Galore Making Groups Meaningful is the third book in the Tasks Galore series. The authors describe how applying structured teaching strategies, individualizing skills, establishing a flow between one-to-one teaching and group learning, and organizing curricula around themes, have helped them design successful groups for students wtih autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities. The strategies depicted are especially helpful to students who are visual learners. Photos illustrate how students learn concepts, construct projects, make music, exercise, and simply have fun in group settings. Full color photos of visually structured tasks and routines and simple explanations help teachers, therapists, and parents create their own successful groups.




The Everyday Autism Handbook for Schools


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A practical, easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and strategies that can be implemented within the classroom to help autistic children achieve their full potential. With an introduction to autism and its key differences, insights from autistic individuals and case studies drawn from years of experience, this is the definitive resource for busy teachers supporting autistic children within a mainstream or specialist school environment. This book provides guidance on a variety of topics related to teaching autistic children in primary school, including adapting the curriculum, ensuring effective communication with staff and parents, fostering emotional regulation, as well as staff self-care. Each chapter includes easy-to-follow guides and resources, providing solutions, direction and support for teachers to help students on the autism spectrum to thrive.




Real People. Real Needs. Real Victories


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-- powerful, real-life adventures of people who overcame life's tragedies -- exciting video reenactments bring these powerful testimonies to life -- testimonies that will build faith and strengthen believers Secret military missions were nothing new to Capt. Steve Toller and the men of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. And now they had been dispatched to Somalia. According to the military briefings, the situation was tense, but under control. But, things were about to change... This collection of testimonies highlights the how and why of applying the Word in every situation and circumstance and shows that nothing is more powerful -- or more real -- than the Word of God!




Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching


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This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully. Combines a survey of theory and research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) with insights from language teaching and the philosophy of education Details best practice for TBLT programs, including discussion of learner needs and means analysis; syllabus design; materials writing; choice of methodological principles and pedagogic procedures; criterion-referenced, task-based performance assessment; and program evaluation Written by an esteemed scholar of second language acquisition with over 30 years of research and classroom experience Considers diffusion of innovation in education and the potential impact of TBLT on foreign and second language learning




Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs


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Help students with special needs thrive with over 160 updated educational activities In the newly revised Third Edition of Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs, teacher and author Darlene Mannix delivers a unique collection of over 160 updated activity sheets with related exercises, discussion questions, and evaluation suggestions to help students gain basic skills necessary for independence and success. Each activity sheet focuses on a specific skill in a real-world context and includes teacher directions for objectives, introduction, optional extension activities, and assessment methods. This crucial book includes: Activity sheets and corresponding introductions in a wide variety of critical life skills such as interpersonal, communication, academic and school, practical living, and more Coverage of leisure activities and the importance of finding fulfilling hobbies and pastimes Tools to help students build their self awareness and understand their strengths and weaknesses Perfect for special educators, general education teachers, school counselors, and psychologists, Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs will also earn a place in the libraries of other professionals working with special needs children, as well as the parents of those children.




Tasks Galore Literature-Based Thematic Units


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I'm hungry, I'm hungry, what shall I do?: "What shall he eat? What shall he drink? Decisions "galore' await Triggy as he discovers tasty cafeteria treats."




Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom


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A practical guide to more effective assessment for improved student learning Learn how to be more consistent in judging student performance, and help your students become more effective at assessing their own learning This book o