Pro-ed Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing Help for Language by Andrea M. Lazzari - 31610

Pro-ed Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing Help for Language

Ages: 8-Adult
Grades: 3-Adult

Develop language flexibility and reasoning for everyday situations. Clients learn abstract language as it applies to functional skills like question-answering, question-asking, and descriptive language.

Written in the best-selling format of the Help series, these lessons have:

goal-driven activities
expansive content
appeal to a broad age-range
gradual increase in complexity within and between activities
application to a wide range of developmental and acquired disorders

Clients learn to:

read between the lines
draw logical conclusions from inadequate information
discriminate among multiple meanings of words
choose between literal and non-literal meanings
extrapolate useful from irrelevant information

The activities develop higher-level language in four areas:

Answering and Asking Questions
what would happen if
what could
when do/does
how do/does
why don't/doesn't
if questions and true/false statements
Describing Objects and Defining Words
object attributes, functions and actions
exclusion and negation
similarities, differences, and classifying
analogies
descriptive words
using context to determine word meanings
Reading and Listening
predicting content
identify the main idea
paraphrase passages
draw inferences from stories
describe and interpret pictures
Applying Language Skills
interpret subtle meanings
discriminate between literal and rhetorical questions
interpret idioms and proverbs
explain similes, metaphors, and oxymorons
understand intonation

167 pages • 8.5 x 11 • softcover • ©2004