This Writing Instructional Intervention Supplement from the Mississippi Department of Education contains benchmarks, informal assessments, and suggested teaching strategies for the fourth through eighth grades. Benchmarks outline what students should know and be able to do to meet mandated competencies. Informal and observational assessments…

This handbook of procedures related to dyslexia is designed to provide guidelines for Mississippi school districts, teachers, and parents in the identification and instruction of students with dyslexia, to assist regular educators in gaining current information concerning dyslexia, accommodations and modifications, and to provide information on…

This report presents school-based interventions that teachers can employ in regular classrooms to educate students with attention deficit disorders (ADD). The report attempts to compensate for the limitations in the ADD research literature by extrapolating from research on other difficult-to-teach students to identify and describe academic and…