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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...
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8 Successful Ways to Help Students Complete Homework

After a long day of school, many kids are cognitively spent and they have little patience and energy to pull out their assignment pad and slog through more academic work.  Often, what should take little time, drags out into hours and hours and families are often desperate for manageable solutions.
homework strategies

What Can We Do to Make Homework a Manageable Task?
  1. Stop calling it homework!  Just the name can trigger pouty moods and cantankerous behaviors.  Find another word to use such as assignments or activities. 
  2. Use a timer to help some students stay on track.  I usually set the timer for both completing assignments and taking breaks.  If students have a competitive nature, you can also use a timer to see how fast they can complete a few problems, and then see if they can beat their time.  This often creates a motivating game that can help them to maintain attention on the task at hand.
  3. Create a structured routine.  Make an afternoon and early evening schedule that includes blocks of time for assignments, eating, and even unstructured play time.
  4. Accommodate your child's best ways of learning.  You can learn more about this by CLICKING HERE.
  5. Pair pleasantries with the process.  For instance, one can prepare healthy snacks and tasty drinks and also collect favorite pillows, fidget toys... that can be used to calm and soothe the mind.
  6. Create an optimal spot for completing assignments. Have fun designing a study space that has all the resources, light, and materials.  For instance, be creative and create a cool study loft, with a pillow corner for reading, a desk and Zenergy Ball chair with color-coded cubbies and bins filled with markers and colorful paper.
  7. Use erasable Frixion markers, pens and highlighters when completing assignments.  Brining color into assignments can often increase the fun factor.  
  8. Take kinesthetic, brain breaks to help high energy students manage their get up and go nature.
Where Can I Get Ready Made Materials?
Planning, Time Management, and Organization for Success offers a 168 page, digital download bundle for elementary through high school and college students. With quick and easy approaches/handouts students learn to master executive functioning skills. The areas of focus are:
    ultimate editable agenda
  • the recording of homework assignments with a large selection of editable agendas
  • checklists and to-do lists
  • planning for long-term assignments
  • writing organizers and strategies
  • reading strategies
  • math computation strategies
  • motivation
  • memory strategies
  • note taking
  • test taking 
These materials were all created over a twenty year period in my private practice as an educational therapist. What’s more, the materials are varied and accommodate learners of all ages from elementary to college. Finally, get a free sample handouts from the publication, as well as view a free video on executive functioning. Click Here

Cheers, Erica
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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