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A Good Reader Has a Plan: Helping Students with Learning Disabilities
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Cahill, Gail; Govendo, Barbara – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
The National Assessment of Educational Progress and the Common Core State Standards require students, starting in elementary school, to read an increasing amount of informational text (U.S. Department of Education, 2010). Students with learning disabilities, however, typically struggle with expository text and require even more direct instruction…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Reading Strategies
Effective Reading and Writing Instruction: A Focus on Modeling
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Regan, Kelley; Berkeley, Sheri – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2012
When providing effective reading and writing instruction, teachers need to provide explicit modeling. Modeling is particularly important when teaching students to use cognitive learning strategies. Examples of how teachers can provide specific, explicit, and flexible instructional modeling is presented in the context of two evidence-based…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Evidence, Learning Strategies, Reading Instruction
What All Reading Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do
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Fedora, Pledger – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2014
When students experience reading difficulties--or even before they do--teachers can use specialized knowledge to help them achieve success. This overview of the International Dyslexia Association's "Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading" describes those reading and literacy standards and provides resources for teacher…
Descriptors: Reading Teachers, Reading Instruction, Academic Standards, Educational Resources
Intensive Interventions in Reading for Students with Reading Disabilities: Meaningful Impacts
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Vaughn, Sharon; Wanzek, Jeanne – Grantee Submission, 2014
We use three data sources to build a rationale for why intensive interventions are necessary for students with pervasive reading disabilities: current data on the performance of students with disabilities on reading achievement measures over time, observation studies on students with reading disabilities in general and special education…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement, Observation
Advances and Remaining Challenges in Adult Literacy Research
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Miller, Brett; McCardle, Peggy; Hernandez, Ricardo – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Low literacy levels in adult learners pose an educational and public health challenge to practitioners and the scientific community. Increasing demands placed on literacy can limit opportunities in the workplace and access to health-related resources, negatively affecting public health. Current estimates from the National Center for Education…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Public Health, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
Systematic Synthetic Phonics Instruction: Are There Particular Advantages for Urban Learners?
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Wrench, Marva – 2002
In 1994, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) discovered that reading difficulties permeate all segments of the school-aged population. As a result, Congress asked the director of the National Institute of Child and Human Development (NICHD) and the former Secretary of Education to assemble a panel on reading. This National…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Phonics, Reading Difficulties