The Resource Room

The Resource Room

Tools, Strategies, and Structured Explorations for Interesting Learners

Click on folder tabs for: Lessons, ideas, articles and links for multi-sensory learning for people of all ages.Resources for people who learn differently, or have learning difficulties or learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia.

Teachers, home educators, curriculum developers, tutors, students, parents, Orton-Gillingham trained specialists, and other curious souls welcome!

What's New at Resource Room

Why Can't Students Get the Concept of Math? 

This article from Spring 2011 Perspectives (shared with permission) describes typical misunderstandings that middle school level students have, and explains that this is going to make it harder to keep moving forward. It's not limited to students with learning disabilities, either.

Camtasia explorations in math... exploring integers. 

Check it out in the MATH section (If Salman Khan and his Khan Academy confuses you... )

Joyce Steeves' Very Good At Everything: Social & Emotional Ramifications of Dyslexia and Other Atypical Learning Styles and Patterns

Adding Fractions with Different Denominators: using motor memory. (It works, by the way!)

Sue Jones' blog! Links and comments and who knows what else?

Word Part : Di .

Building Vocabulary in Remedial Settings: Focus on Word Relatedness reprinted with permission from the International Dyslexia Association

Teaching Study Skills and Learning Strategies to Therapists, Teachers and Tutors: How to Give Help and Hope to Disorganized Students by Diane Newton www.resourceroom.net