Sensory obstacle courses provide lesson ideas for teachers targeting objectives in both cognitive and psychomotor domains. Specific cognitive learning includes the movement concepts needed to navigate obstacles set up in the gymnasium aimed at developing athletic motor skills competences needed for sports. Sensory courses include using stations…

A recent report by the joint Informatics Europe & ACM Europe Working Group on Informatics Education emphasizes that: (1) computational thinking is an important ability that all people should possess; (2) informatics-based concepts, abilities and skills are teachable, and must be included in the primary and particularly in the secondary school…

The paper reports on multisensory approaches to reading instruction of learning disabled children. G. Fernald's "tracing" method, also known as the V-A-K-T method, is described and research questioning its effectiveness is cited. Next, the Adapted Fernald Technique (AFT) which requires the student to write, illustrate, read and reread…

Science activities for the visually impaired (SAVI) introduces blind and visually impaired children (9 to 12 years old) to physical and life sciences in a multisensory way. Evolution of SAVI activities involves exploration, local trials, and national trials. SAVI project materials can help integrate handicapped children into the mainstream through…

A spelling program was devised for learning-disabled students, using elements from "Signs for Sounds," the Cloze method, and "Auditory Discrimination In-Depth." Day-by-day use of the program involves drawing word pictures, spelling the words with tiles and blocks, writing on the board, using the words in written sentences, spelling bees, etc. (JDD)

The article describes the empirical development of PREP (Preparatory Reading Program), an individualized program for teaching concepts to visually handicapped children at a prereading level. (Author/SBH)

This case study describes different traditional and sensory approaches to reading which were tried unsuccessfully with Jim, a third-grade nonreader, until a breakthrough was made by teaching him Exact English Signing. The author speculates that other techniques, such as braille, might also help the learning disabled. (SJL)

The multimodal/multisensory interactive unit instructional approach affords teachers and students 16 instructional formats for interaction, differing from other multisensory models in that learner characteristics are neither assigned nor assumed. A case study of an 11-year-old indicated that this approach helped to organize a teaching sequence to…

Multisensory approaches and learning styles theories have been found to be effective in developing strategies to teach diverse learners in the elementary school setting. This paper examines how learning styles theory is related to multisensory approaches to teaching, describes a multisensory approach and the reading styles method, and discusses…

This article discusses how children with oral and written language disorders can benefit from the Montessori method, especially if the Montessorian is trained to use a Multisensory Structured Language approach. Questions are answered regarding the number of children with learning disabilities, considerations in training the classroom assistant,…

Activities for a field experience program involving 50-60 methods students and as many sixth graders is described; the program explores the cemetery as a place to pull together skills and concepts from subjects like reading, mathematics, language arts, science, and social studies. Activities involve tombstone rubbings, family trees, writing poetry…

In this first of a two-part integrated unit for teaching young children about trees and forests, the authors present activities which sharpen awareness of trees by using the senses. (LZ)

The instructional materials for inservice teacher education that are described here focus on five different approaches to teaching reading--phonetics, multisensory, linguistic, language experience, and sight. The program stresses that no one approach is best for all children. This descriptive report provides information on the purposes and content…

ARROW (Aural-Read-Respond-Oral-Written) is a multisensory teaching approach where children listen to their own voices on tape recorders. Advantages of the ARROW program as demonstrated at four sites in Blackford, Somerset (England), with elementary/secondary students presenting moderate to severe learning difficulties, reading/spelling/vocabulary…

Outlines a variety of activities using each of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences to teach map reading skills. The Multiple Intelligences are logical/mathematical, linguistic, musical, bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Includes multiple activities for teaching six key ideas and four skills. (MJP)