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Why teach the general curriculum? -- Promoting access to the general curriculum for students with significant cognitive disabilities -- Building literacy for students at the presymbolic and early symbolic levels -- From sight words to emerging literacy -- Learning to read: phonics and fluency -- Balanced literacy classrooms and embedded instruction for students with severe disabilities: literacy for all in the age of school reform -- Enhancing numeracy -- Addressing math standards and functional math -- Science standards and functional skills -- Developing math and science skills in general education contexts -- How students demonstrate academic performance in portfolio assessment -- Promoting the alignment of curriculum, assessment, and instruction.