Willis, Judy

Provides brain-based teaching strategies for improving phonemic awareness, reading skills, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Neurologist and middle-school teacher Willis describes a number of strategies that educators in inclusion classrooms can use to engage students with and without learning disabilities. These instructional practices draw upon findings from recent research on the learning brain. A number of sample lesson plans for inclusion class activities are provided in the appendix, along with a glossary and an extensive bibliography. Annotation ?2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Provides researched-based teaching strategies, discussing memory and test-taking success, strategies for captivating students' attention, how stress and emotion affect learning, and assessment.