BUES Special Education
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We hope to provide you and your student(s) with some ideas and computer links to help with the curriculum and homework. We also intend to share strategies to benefit academics, and social skills, and to provide some behavioral supports.
BUE Special Education Staff
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- Doreen Britton - Britton_Doreen@mybps.us
- Karen Colwell - colwell_karen@mybps.us
- Diahann Cordeiro - cordeiro_diahann@mybps.us
- Dan Hayward - hayward_daniel@mybps.us
- Jennifer Murphy - Murphy_Jennifer@mybps.us
- Christine Peterson - Peterson_Christine@mybps.us
- Lisa Prouty-Caola - prouty-caola_lisa@mybps.us
- Peg Robichaud - robichaud_peg@mybps.us
- Anne Marie Salvatore - Salvatore_AnnMarie@mybps.us
- Cheryl Vozzella - vozzella_cheryl@mybps.us
Reading Resources
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Six Tips for Reading Comprehension
Here are six tips to improve reading comprehension in your early reader:
- Have him read aloud. This forces him to go slower, which gives him more time to process what he reads, which improves reading comprehension. Plus, he's not only seeing the words, he's hearing them, too. You can also take turns reading aloud.
- Provide the right kinds of books. Make sure your child gets lots of practice reading books that aren't too hard. She should recognize at least 90 percent of the words without any help. Stopping any more often than that to figure out a word makes it tough for her to focus on the overall meaning of the story.
- Reread to build fluency. To gain meaning from text and encourage reading comprehension, your child needs to read quickly and smoothly - a skill known as fluency. By the beginning of 3rd grade, for example, your child should be able to read 90 words a minute. Rereading familiar, simple books gives your child practice at decoding words quickly, so she'll become more fluent in her reading comprehension.
- Talk to the teacher. If your child is struggling mightily with reading comprehension, he may need more help with his reading — for example, building his vocabulary or practicing phonics skills.
- Supplement class reading. If your child's class is studying a particular theme, look for easy-to-read books or magazines on the topic. Some prior knowledge will help her make her way through tougher classroom texts and promote reading comprehension.
- Talk about what he's reading. This "verbal processing" helps him remember and think through the themes of the book. Ask questions before, during, and after a session to encourage reading comprehension. For example:
Before: "What are you interested in about this book? What doesn't interest you?"
During: "What's going on in the book? Is it turning out the way you thought it would? What do you think will happen next?"
After: "Can you summarize the book? What did you like about it? What other books does it remind you of?"
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Lexile
The Lexile Framework for Reading is an educational tool that uses a measure called a Lexile to match readers with books, articles and other leveled reading resources. Readers and books are assigned a score on the Lexile scale, in which lower scores reflect easier readability for books and lower reading ability for readers.
So, your child came home from school with an Scholastic Reading Inventory with a lexile score. What does it mean and how can it help you and your child find good books to read. Here is a nice resource to explain lexiles and how to determine the lexile level of the book your child wants to read.
Math Resources
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Cool Math Games
Cool Math Games – Kids love Cool Math games. Let them have some fun as they sharpen their math skills.
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Go Math
Go Math is the math program used in the general education math classrooms. Whether or not your student(s) use this program they have been assigned a password to access it to help them practice the math standards.
- Click on the link
- Click on Go Math icon for their grade
- Enter password and scroll to enter School Name and District
- Click on My Library
- Animated Modules
- Select a skill to learn, practice or quiz.
- Enjoy!
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy has easy to follow demonstration of math concepts and so much more.
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Math Playground
Math Playground – Who says they can't learn on the playground? We think learning happens when kids are having fun practicing math and we think they might too.
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MrNussbaum Math
The MrNussbaum math section contains over 2,000 interactive games, drills, printables, workshops, simulations, videos and much more, organized into math topic centers.
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Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software – This one is great for math skill practice and so much more. Try some math games then language, geography, and reasoning games too!
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XtraMath
XtraMath – Students need to know their basic math facts. Fluency with math facts will help your student with multiplication, division, problems with fractions, telling time, money, decimals, algebra, etc.
This website is free to sign up for and will provide drill and practice of those math facts while it monitors and adjusts as they make progress towards math fluency.