No Child Left Behind Standards: A Land We Can Share: Teaching Literacy to Students With Autism

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This book helps in-service and pre-service teachers understand how students with mild to significant autism can be perceived as literate and then supported to participate in literacy activities both in and out of school.

A Land We Can Share: Teaching Literacy to Students With Autism Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Parent's perspective, June 15, 2008

Jonathan M. Wenig (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Land We Can Share: Teaching Literacy to Students With Autism (Paperback)

A Land we can Share is directed primarily at educators and para professionals working with children with ASD to welcome then into the world of literacy.

My perspective is somewhat different. I am a parent of a 7 year old girl with ASD. We are currently in the throes of teaching our daughter to read (in collaboration with her teachers and therapists at school, of course). Whereas with my older children, the process of teaching them to read happened almost intuitively and naturally (on our part as parents), for our youngest the process has involved more effort. We have had to try more things, read more literature, consider different approaches, test more software programs and reader packages.

And much as parents really just want a simple solution, the instructional rigour of Paula's book is at once insightful, engaging and inspiring. It resonated with us, in that it delved in a practical and useful way into different literacy approaches, and provided examples and... Read more

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Essential reading for all teachers at the primary and secondary levels, April 2, 2008

Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Land We Can Share: Teaching Literacy to Students With Autism (Paperback)

It takes some adaptation to the curriculum and some insights on the part of the reading instructors, but autistic students can be literate students. "A Land We Can Share: Teaching Literacy To Students With Autism" is the collaborative work of Paula Kluth (consultant, teacher, author, and advocate in Oak Park, Illinois) and Kelly Chandler-Olcott (Associate Professor, Syracuse University Reading and Language Arts Center, Syracuse, New York) and specifically designed to teach the teacher of an autistic student in grades K-12 how to implement researched-based practices in reading and writing instruction (including those consistent with Read First recommendations); plan effective lessons that build on their student's strengths, interests, and individual needs; design a classroom environment that promotes literacy learning for all students while addressing the individual needs of mainstreamed autistic students; assess students who do not (or cannot) show their literacy learning in tradition... Read more

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

A Must Read!, February 23, 2008

Margaret Hartung - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Land We Can Share: Teaching Literacy to Students With Autism (Paperback)

If you are looking for answers to help your students diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum with literacy activities look no further. Paula Kluth and Kelly Chandler-Olcott have put together a valuable resource. Not only will the activities in this text help differentiate your curriculum for those students on the Autism Spectrum but also for those students who are considered neurotypical. The text is very user friendly with explanations of what you will see in the child diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum, the components identified in a strong literacy program, straight-forward explanations of practices and approaches to use in developing your literacy program (both reading and writing), assessment strategies (so important today!), and help developing ideas to use in working with those students who have significant disabilities. Paula and Kelly use many testimonials by individuals that have experienced difficulties in the classroom and what helped them to make gains in the area of literacy... Read more