Teaching Students with Special Needs to solve Word Problems
Many special-needs students have difficulty in learning words. Special-needs students often learn in different ways than students in classrooms. Some special ways might help them so they are able to understand how to solve it.
Many special-needs students, such as those with learning difficulties, might benefit from computer games. Computers games solving word problems can be more interesting to students who do not learn well in traditional ways. Let your special-needs students partner up to play computer games, and you might see even more progress.
Draw Pictures
Special-needs students who have difficulty hearing or listening for long periods might gain word-problem-solving skills by drawing pictures to show the problem. Ask your special-needs students to draw a picture of the problem.
Encourage your special-needs students to read the word problems out loud and discuss what they are about. Many special-needs students gain word-problem-solving skills when they are able to speak out the problem and think of possible answers.
When special-needs students improve their reading skills, they might also improve their word-problem-solving skills. When the students are given homework to understand the difficult problems, they will be able to solve them. When your students understand what the math problem is to solve, they will give a right answer.
A. Play Computer Games
B. Eat something delicious
C. Talk It Out
D. Practice Reading
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A.These activities are good ways to think about words. They make the meaning of words stronger in your long-term memory. And they give a way to find a word when you need it.
B.When you see, hear, or read something, it goes first into short-term memory. But short-term memory lasts for only a few seconds. You will only remember something longer if it goes into long-term memory.
C.When you learn a foreign language, you need to remember lots of words. To remember words better,you need to understand how memory works. There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term.
D.Your long-term memory is like a very big library with many, many books.And like a library, it’s organized. When you put away a book —or memory—you can’t just leave it anywhere. You have to choose a place where you can find the word again.
E.How can you do this? The answer is to work with the word and think about the word in new ways. You can write new sentences that include it, or you can invent a little story about the word, with people or places that you know. Another way is to make a picture in your mind with the word.For example, if the word is“height”, you can think of the tallest person you know.
【推荐3】For Canaan Elementary’s second grade in Patchogue, N.Y., today is speech day, and right now it’s Chris Palaez’s turn. The 8-year-old is the joker of the class. With shining dark eyes, he seems like the kind of kid who would enjoy public speaking.
But he’s nervous. “I’m here to tell you today why you should … should…” Chris trips on the “-ld,” a pronunciation difficulty for many non-native English speakers. His teacher, Thomas Whaley, is next to him, whispering support. “…Vote for …me …” Except for some stumbles, Chris is doing amazingly well. When he brings his speech to a nice conclusion, Whaley invites the rest of the class to praise him.
A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago. Whaley recalls (回想起) how at the beginning of the year, when called upon to read, Chris would excuse himself to go to the bathroom.
Learning English as a second language can be a painful experience. What you need is a great teacher who lets you make mistakes. “It takes a lot for any student,” Whaley explains, “especially for a student who is learning English as their new language, to feel confident enough to say, ‘I don’t know, but I want to know.’”
Whaley got the idea of this second-grade presidential campaign project when he asked the children one day to raise their hands if they thought they could never be a president. The answer broke his heart. Whaley says the project is about more than just learning to read and speak in public. He wants these kids to learn to boast (夸耀) about themselves.
“Boasting about yourself, and your best qualities,” Whaley says, “is very difficult for a child who came into the classroom not feeling confident.”
What does the underlined word “stumbles” in paragraph 2 refer to?| A．Improper pauses. |
| B．Bad manners. |
| C．Spelling mistakes. |
| D．Silly jokes. |
