T/TAC William & Mary Library

November 2012

Peer Support Strategies

for Improving all Students'

Social Lives and Learning

By Erik W. Carter

This is the concise, practical guide every middle and high school needs to implement peer support strategies--including cooperative learning and peer tutoring--to benefit students with moderate to severe disabilities and their peers. Filled with reproducible planning, implementation, and evaluation tools, this must-have guide will help educators and paraprofessionals create schools where all students--with and without disabilities--achieve academic and social success.

Call Number: CSL117

Peer Buddy Programs for Successful Secondary

School Inclusion

By Carolyn Hughes &

Eirk W. Carter

A good peer buddy program can play an invaluable role in making inclusion happen, and this guidebook shows secondary educators exactly how and why and gives schools the step-by-step guidance they need to get a program started and keep it going. To help with every phase of the program implementation, readers will get practical, research-based materials: extensive case examples, program checklists, classroom adaptations, sample forms, evaluation tools, and learning activities school staff can use to brainstorm and solve problems.

Call Number: IN195

Social

Relationships

and Peer Support

By Rachel Janney &

Martha E. Snell

Positive, mutually supportive relationships among students with and without disabilities are a critical part of inclusive schooling--they improve students' social skills and help boost academic achievement. Complete with blank forms for implementing cooperative learning and assessing students' behavior and relationships. This revised and updated edition provides new peer support guidelines for middle and high school students and ready-to-use strategies on everything from teaching social skills to making peer instruction work.

Call Number: BM285

Responding to Probelm Behavior in Schools: The Behavior

Education Program

By Deanne A. Crone, Leanne S. Hawken, & Robert H. Horner

This bestselling book has been used in schools across the country to establish efficient cost-effective systems of Tier II positive behavior support. The Behavior Education Program (BEP) was developed for the approximately 10-15% of students who fail to meet school-wide disciplinary expectations, but do not yet require intensive, individualized services. Clear, step-by-step guidelines are provided for implementing the approach, which incorporates daily behavioral feedback, positive adult attention, and increased home-school collaboration. Reproducible daily progress reports, handouts, and planning tools are included.

Call Number: BM321

Now We Get It!: Boosting Comprehension with Collaborative

Strategic Reading

By Janette Klingner

This practical book offers teachers and staff developers in grades 4-12 a step-by-step guide to the acclaimed Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) program, an evidence-based approach to boosting comprehension in mixed-ability classrooms. The book provides everything educators need to implement CSR seamlessly and successfully, including: classroom-ready materials, handouts, descriptions, ready-to-use activities and more. Questions and practices aligning with the Common Core Standards are also provided. Bonus web content includes a PowerPoint presentation on CSR and short video clips.
Call Number: CRD276

Keystone: A Guide for

Teaching Language

Structure

By Ruth H. Lund &

Mary S. Cheatham

This important resource describes a quick, flexible, and systematic approach to teaching language structure to students with dyslexia. It offers clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, and an abundance of well-organized and easy-to-use charts for teaching the basic predictable structure of language. At the heart of Keystone's approach is a student notebook, developed as students' progress, and clearly described in the appendices. Instructors and students will come to rely on the notebook for its quick reference to materials to be reviewed, it's easy-to-access visual aid for understanding the organization of language patterns, and its tangible evidence of a student's mastery of language structure.

Call Number: CLA58

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