Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs » (2nd Edition)

Updated for today's educators—especially those new to inclusion—the second edition of this bestselling guide is the lifeline preschool teachers need to fully include children with disabilities in their classrooms.

Easy to use with any existing curriculum, including Creative Curriculum and HighScope, Building Blocks gives educators three types of practical, research-based inclusion strategies that promote progress in critical areas like behavior, emergent literacy, and peer relationships. A must for professional development, this revised edition helps teachers thrive in the era of accountability with NEW material that reflects the six years of changes in early education since the first edition. Teachers will

• discover how the Building Blocks approach aligns with OSEP outcomes to help teachers meet the federal requirements for special education

• learn everything they need to know about evidence-based practice and how to apply it in their classrooms

• print more than a dozen helpful forms—including classroom assessments, planning worksheets, and child evaluation forms—with the convenient NEW CD-ROM

Through clear and instructive vignettes woven throughout the book, teachers will also meet four young children from diverse backgrounds and learn from their teachers' examples of successful interventions. A perfect training tool for teachers and an ideal textbook for college and university courses, this revised bestseller will help today's preschool educators start all their students on the road to lasting school success.

• curriculum modifications that allow all children to participate

• embedded learning opportunities used in typical classroom activities

•child-focused instructional strategies that help students with individual learning objectives

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The authors, professors of special education at the University of Washington, offer suggestions for easily implemented curriculum modifications that allow all children to participate, embedded learning opportunities to use in typical classroom activities, and child-focused instructional strategies that help students achieve individual learning objectives, including IEP goals. Examples are given for everyday classroom situations such as free play, book corner, and clean up. Reproducible forms are included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

CD-ROM Contents

Foreword Mary Louise Hemmeter Hemmeter, Mary Louise

Sect. I Using the Building Blocks Framework

Ch. 1 Introduction 3

Ch. 2 Evidence-Based Practice and the Building Blocks Framework 9

Ch. 3 Keys to Collaboration 21

Ch. 4 Getting Started 29

Sect. II Teaching Strategies

Ch. 5 Curriculum Modifications 53

Curriculum Modifications by Type 60

Curriculum Modifications by Activity and Routine 84

Ch. 6 Embedded Learning Opportunities 135

Ch. 7 Child-Focused Instructional Strategies 149

Sect. III Important Topics Related to the Building Blocks Framework

Ch. 8 Becoming More Independent 165

Ch. 9 Acquiring and Using Knowledge Including Language and Early Literacy 171

Ch. 10 Friendships and Social Relationships 181

Ch. 11 Developmentally Appropriate Classroom Behavior 187

Ch. 12 Concluding Thoughts 195

References 197

Appendix A Blank Forms 203

Appendix B Additional Resources 221

Index 229