Melbourne-based speech pathologist Brent and secondary teacher Millgate- Smith's text expands on Brent's earlier co-authored work, One in Eleven: Practical Strategies for Teaching Adolescents with A Language Learning Disability (ACER Press, 2001). Designed for secondary school educators, the text examines how to effectively teach students with a language learning disability (LDD) by combining knowledge from two important areas: curriculum development, and cognitive and strategy instruction. A section focusing on direct instruction for students in the areas of understanding motivation and anxiety, memory and thinking, reading, vocabulary, writing, and self-awareness and empathy is followed by discussion of and tasks for the critical language and literacy skills development needed by students with LDD in the major disciplines--English, math, science and history--and discussion and practical ideas for monitoring student comprehension, and suggestions for school structure reform. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. Oversize: 8.25x11.75". Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
