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100 Powerful Learning Specialist and Educational Therapy Materials

This week I wanted to tell you about my online store, Good Sensory Learning. I’m Dr. Erica Warren, and I established this site so I could share all the materials that I have created over the last 20+ years as a learning specialist and educational therapist. When I first began my private practice, Learning to Learn, I had great difficulty finding fun and multisensory materials for my students that were effective and engaging. So back in 2005, I made it my mission to design and distribute high-end, remedial products as well as memorable, motivating lessons that bring delight to learning. If you would like to try a free sampling of my activities , CLICK HERE . How Are the Products Organized at Good Sensory Learning? You can download my Free Printable Catalog or you can browse the site using the grey “search all products” bar in the top right of any page with keywords such as dyslexia, working memory, and executive functioning. What’s more, drop down menus in the red banner allow you t

7 Great Free Homework Help Sites

The internet offers a growing number of wonderful resources for students, and there are quite a few free websites that can help to make the learning process both fun and memorable. Here is a list of my favorite resources:
sites that help with home work
Quizlet:
Quizlet allows students to browse through and use millions of study materials created by other users, or they can also generate their own. Once information is entered into a set, students can use this content in many ways. Electronic flashcards can be viewed or printed or students can also learn the material through questioning activities. In addition, a variety of games can be generated from the information entered. Finally, students can create tests in a number of formats and take them online for an immediate score. Testing options include multiple choice, true and false, and fill-ins. There are even visuals and a feature that reads information aloud. Students can save their content, share them with others, and even merge them for midterms or finals.

Wolfram Alpha:

Instead of placing your questions into Google and other search engines, Wolfram Alpha offers its own engine that computes answers in many subject areas. The content and resources on this website are growing daily, and it already has a huge collection of knowledge. Go to Wolfram Alpha and ask a question. You will be amazed. It’s fabulous for calculating difficult math problems, and is a great way to check homework.

BookShare

Bookshare is supported by the Department of Education and offers audio books at no cost for school aged students with print-based disabilities.  Others can use it too for a nominal fee.

Shepard Software:   


This website offers hundreds of educational, interactive activities and games to help students learn math, geography, science and more. It's great for all ages.


The Khan Academy

This is a wonderful not-for-profit organization that provides a free, quality education to students around the globe. They offer an ever growing collection of thousands of videos covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to chemistry, programming, history, SAT prep and more. They also have a practice/lesson component that is terrific. This allows students to test their new knowledge, and if they get stuck, the website walks them through the process and even offers the needed video tutorial! They have built into this site motivational tools such as avatars as well as feedback and progress summaries for parents and teachers.

Prezi:

If you want to take your presentations to a whole new level, create a Prezi! Like PowerPoint, you can generate a presentation, but a Prezi offers a different experience. Present your ideas on a large canvas, and show relationships through scale and placement.

Google Docs:    

Google Docs is Googles version of a word processing program.   You can create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys and more.  In addition, they offer a growing selection of add-on apps that provide templates, bibliography assistance, table of contents help, a thesaurus and more. What makes this extra special is that documents are saved in cyberspace so they can be accessed from any location.  In addition, you can invite others to view or even work on the same document. 

Google accounts are free and they can be accessed from any computer.  Google also offers free email (gmail), an excellent personal calendar (google calendar), and a translator (google translate).  


To learn about some more great resources on the internet that I share with my students, click here.

Cheers, Dr. Erica Warren
Dr. Erica Warren is the author, illustrator, and publisher of multisensory educational materials at Good Sensory Learning and Dyslexia Materials. She is also the director of Learning to Learn and Learning Specialist Courses.

· Blog: https://learningspecialistmaterials.blogspot.com/
· YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/warrenerica1
· Podcast: https://godyslexia.com/
· Store: http://www.Goodsensorylearning.com/ & www.dyslexiamaterials.com
· Courses: http://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/
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