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Kampwirth, Thomas J. – Academic Therapy, 1983
Suggestions are made for helping learning disabled students correct reversal errors. Activities include tracing over words, using a pencil or finger to keep the eyes moving toward the right, and underlining frequently reversed words. (CL)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties
Corman, Cheryl – Academic Therapy, 1978
The benefits of using games in instructing learning disability students are pointed out, and some games that can be played with a deck of learning cards are outlined to illustrate several methods that can be used with a single set of materials. (SBH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities
Creekmore, W. N.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1985
The article reviews traditional analog time-telling instruction and introduces an alternative approach for learning disabled and other mildly handicapped students. The applied digital approach couples concrete instructional techniques with murals depicting time-related actions of student's day. (CL)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Mild Disabilities, Teaching Methods
Neibart, Marilyn – Academic Therapy, 1986
The author reviews the role of logic problems in teaching thinking strategies to LD students. Devising one's own written logic problems is advocated to present less wordy tasks. (CL)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Logic, Logical Thinking
Burton, Grace M. – Academic Therapy, 1982
The article discusses ways to help learning disabled and other young children learn to write numerals through the use of fading, development of prewriting skills, analysis of numeral form, and avoidance of reversals. The issue of dominance is briefly discussed. Sixteen learning activities prior to using worksheets are listed. (DB)
Descriptors: Handwriting, Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Primary Education
Dobbs, Mary Carolyn – Pointer, 1976
Class hobbies such as coin collecting, stamp collecting and pen pal projects can accelerate the learning of teenaged slow learners. (GW)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Hobbies, Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedHeyman, Elsye – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1977
Explained is a step-by-step approach for using chalkboard exercises to teach cursive writing to elementary level learning disabled students. (CL)
Descriptors: Chalkboards, Cursive Writing, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Hoffman, Ellen R. – Academic Therapy, 1985
English projects successfully used in secondary resource rooms for learning disabilities include student-developed storybooks, pen-pal letters, anthologies of student writing, and bulletin boards. (CL)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Resource Room Programs
Peer reviewedDalke, Connie – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1984
Games enlarged to human proportions are versatile and motivating tools for instruction with learning disabled students. Suggestions for construction and use of life-size game materials and "human sandwiches" are provided. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities
Sofge, Ann – Pointer, 1977
Considered are testing and teaching suggestions for developing auditory discrimination abilities in children with spelling difficulties. (CL)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities
Harbaugh, James F. – Man/Society/Technology, 1976
Suggestions are presented for initiating a 6-week program of industrial arts activities for sixth grade students. Tool families, take-home projects, classes for students with learning and emotional disabilities, objectives, and results are discussed. (MP)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Grade 6, Industrial Arts
Peer reviewedGraham, Steve; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1996
The Directed Spelling Thinking Activity (DSTA) is a method of teaching spelling to students with learning disabilities by encouraging active thinking and analysis of word patterns. With DSTA, students compare and contrast words that fit different but related spelling patterns. Words illustrating 37 spelling patterns are listed. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Spelling Instruction, Teaching Methods
Kenestrick, Donna Sholar – 1985
The article presents six remedial handwriting activities which address a variety of deficits commonly affecting the handwriting of learning disabled (LD) students. Each activity is presented with a rationale, step-by-step instructions, exemplary worksheets as necessary, and suggestions for teaching. In the "Coin Challenge" students learn correct…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Handwriting, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedDanforth, Marion McC. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1978
Some procedures used for teaching a learning-disabled child are suggested as good teaching practices for the regular classroom. (MP)
Descriptors: Achievement, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction
Peer reviewedHanson, Irene W. – Language Arts, 1976
Descriptors: Cursive Writing, Elementary Education, Handwriting, Handwriting Instruction
