Category: Lesson Plans
Using Principles of UDL and
Research-Based Strategies
We've incorporated the principles of Universal Design for Learning and research-based strategies in these lesson plans, complete with free media files from several of our Start-to-Finish Library books—MP3 audio files, PDFs of book chapters and even an Incite! film, all available to download or view online. Go to the main Articles page for more titles.
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Links point to Part II of each article. Be sure to go back to the beginning of each article to get more background information. Click on the Universal Design for Learning link at the left for 'basic training' in the principles of UDL. Click the month below to view the LeaderLink newsletter which introduced each article.
Traveling Off the Map with Lewis and Clark, INCITE!® Films, Start-to-Finish® and SOLO®, October 2007
Integrates strategies from Response-to-Intervention and Universal Design for Learning along with supplemental tools and resources.
Traveling Off the Map with Lewis and Clark,
Blue Level Core Content
Writing Next: A Call to Action using SOLO Writing Coach Lesson, September 2007
Employs key elements from the Writing Next Report (2007) to turn struggling learners into independent writers.
SOLO Writing Coach
for use with SOLO Literacy Suite
Building Wings: Tools that Guide Students to Self-Advocacy using Building Wings, August 2007
Insight from the experts on the value of helping students 'take charge' of their own learning. All the tools you need to create your own student self-advocacy model.
Building Wings: How I Made it Through School
Don Johnston's autobiography
Summer Reading Under the Blankets and Around the Campfire using The Gold Bug and The Telltale Heart, May 2007
Struggling
readers need to read MORE, but how to get them to do that? Use these
FREE scary stories to motivate leisure-time reading!
The Tuskegee Airmen, Building Wings and Learning to Fly as a Reader, using The Tuskegee Airmen, April 2007
Use
this sample UDL (Universal Design for Learning) lesson to help YOUR
students experience learning in a more personal and meaningful way.
Because students are engaged in their reading they will ask questions,
talk to
“experts” and use the resources available to them to increase their
knowledge.
The Tuskegee Airmen,
Start-to-Finish Library, Blue Level
Two Thumbs Up: Academic Award for Best Use of Literacy, using For Liberty: A Story of the American Revolution, March 2007
Check out this “revolutionary” UDL approach to introducing a unit
on the American Revolution. This sample lesson can quickly and easily
be adapted and applied to any area of your curriculum.
Alacatraz, The Rock: Escaping the Prison of Reading Poorly, using Alcatraz, the Rock, February 2007
How do we break down the prison walls of struggling learners and find ways for them to break out of the cycles of failure?
Alcatraz, the Rock
Start-to-Finish Library, Gold Level
