Teaching language arts, math, & science to students with significant cognitive disabilities / edited by Diane M. Browder and Fred Spooner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why teach the general curriculum? / Fred Spooner and Diane M. Browder -- Promoting access to the general curriculum for students with significant cognitive disabilities / Michael L. Wehmeyer and Martin Agran -- Building literacy for students at the presymbolic and early symbolic levels / June Downing -- From sight words to emerging literacy / Diane M. Browder, Ginevra Courtade-Little, Shawnee Wakeman, and Robert J. Rickelman -- Learning to read / Debby Houston, Stephanie Al Otaiba, and Joseph K. Torgesen -- Balanced literacy and embedded instruction for students with severe disabilities : literacy for all in the age of school reform / Terri Ward, Cheryl A. Van de Mark, and Diane Lea Ryndak -- Enhancing numeracy / Diane M. Browder, Lynn Ahlgrim-Delzell, David K. Pugalee, and Bree A. Jimenez -- Addressing math standards and functional math / Belva C. Collins, Harold L. Kleinert, and Lou Ann E. Land -- Science standards and functional skills : finding the links / Fred Spooner, Warren Di Biase, and Ginevra Courtade-Little -- Developing math and science skills in general education contexts / Karena Cooper-Duffy and Daniel G. Perlmutter -- How students demonstrate academic performance in portfolio assessment / Jacqueline Kearns, Michael D. Burdge, Jean Clayton, Anne P. Denham, and Harold L. Kleinert -- Promoting the alignment of curriculum, assessment, and instruction / Claudia Flowers, Diane M. Browder, Lynn Ahlgrim-Delzell, and Fred Spooner.