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Ideas on developing a curriculum with little or no resources? I am a career changer, year two special ed teacher who will be teaching several 9th grade intervention literacy skills courses for students who are more at a fifth grade level. Our district does not have any intervention curriculum for this class- - I have to design everything from scratch. I have access to a book room but at most there are maybe 10 copies of certain novels and I will have 15 to 18 kids. There might be a few old Read 180 workbooks but that's about it. I thought about teaching some of the KU Learning Strategies like the Self Questioning Strategy and the Visualize strategy. I might print off some high interest leveled news articles from www.Newsela.com to use as well. Also I want to work on vocabulary - affixes, and of course fluency. Does anyone have any ideas for building these classes from scratch? Good resources, lesson plan resources, teacher books, etc? I'm familiar with Teachers Pay Teachers, and simila...See More
MomtoThree Amy - the situation you describe is just sad and totally illegal in not providing these students with a basic, core curriculum for literacy. And these students are only in 9th grade and have four more years of high school ahead, and I assume operate under IEPs.

I am a parent and our youngest now young adult daughter has a cognitive disab...See More
Aug 7, 2015


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