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Text rendering Spend your dots quick graphs group web How available are you for learning? Find someone who...(people search) using symbols to initiate discussion Wright family activity scavenger hunt 6 word memoir/ 3 word stories 2 truths and a lie alphaboxes I have, who has somebody wanted but so snowball fight dance party cocktail party inside/outside circle opinion continuum thought bubbles,text bubbles __From Making It Real__ by Linda Hoyt: Guess the heading p24, I remember, say something Generating Q& As from pictures p124 Labeling pictures p54 fig.6.1 Reading with scissors p76 Crafting text before reading p111 Beat the Teacher p132-133 Sketch through the text p139-141

some 'big ideas"//"Motivation only allows you to do to the best of your ability, that which you can already do."// Rick Lavoie You could tell me you'll give me a thousand dollars to speak Swahili right now. I'd be motivated- but I couldn't do it.

Kids with comprehension problems don't make pictures in their heads.

Speaking is a cognitive, not associative, activity for some kids.(FAT city)

Children with auditory processing problems are still processing the question, when other kids are processing the answer.(FAT city)

Children with comprehension issues need to be told explicitly what to listen/look for in order to separate "the signal from the noise."

Interrogeration- Many students with learning disabilities do not know how to ask questions.

Hidden Curriulum and social skills- Many students learn these by osmosis. learning disabled students need explicit instruction.