What are some fun books for children with learning disabilities?
I am looking for ideas to help my class in the fall as I take on a new assistant position.
I know I will be facing children with various learning disabilities, so I would like these books to be easy, rewarding, and short!
These children are in 6th grade BUT are most likely performing anywhere from a 4th-5th grade reading level.
Some key aspects I would like you to help me with are:
- Books to appeal to every type of reader including boys and girls.
- Ways to keep my students engaged and interested.
- Activities to follow the books to ensure that they learned something.
Thank you for your help!
-ACumbest
I have no experience with the upper grades at all. However, I think I may have a book for you and a link with some great activities. One book that I think your children would love is "Matilda" by Roald Dahl. The following link has several activities--I really think the activity on vocabulary would be great. I know from talking with upper grade teachers that vocabulary is one area that students are struggling in.
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This looks great! Thank you for your input!
DeleteAshley, The Lightning Thief is a really great book. It is a 4.7 reading level and although it's not short, it is an easy read with lots of action that will keep everyone interested. The main character is a boy, but his best friend is a girl so both genders will find enjoyment in this book and someone to relate to. I used this book during my student teaching and even struggling readers were totally into it. After the book was read, all the students chose a Greek god or goddess to do a little bit of research on and then were given the option to create a PowerPoint, a poster, or a reenactment of that person's life. It was really fun. You could even do a Greek day where everyone dresses up as their chosen god or goddess and gives a little biography about them. Hope this is helpful!
ReplyDeleteAshley, I am an educational leadership major so I did my best to look around on the internet to see what I could help with. One thing that stuck out to me was Judy Blume books. As a child (and even now with her older books) she is one of my favorite authors! She has books on all reading levels. I remember "Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing," "Blubber", all of the "Fudge" and "Super Fudge" books and so much more. I think she is a great author to look into for books to read. They are on many reading levels and also vary in length.
ReplyDeleteI found a couple of websites that may be useful to you. One is a list of books and their description. These are at the 4th grade level. http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/showarticle/677/
ReplyDeleteThe other website has a lot of different fun reading activities to learn new words, suffixes, prefixes, and base/root words. http://www.aasd.k12.wi.us/staff/boldtkatherine/ReadingFun3-6/ReadingFun_PrefixesSuffixesRoots.htm
I hope these help!
This is an excellent use of a weblog to encourage collaboration with classroom colleagues and share information resources. If you have not done so already, I strongly suggest that you consider enlisting the assistance of the media specialist and the school library at your school as well.
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