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The Effects of Strategic Morphological Analysis Instruction on the Vocabulary Performance of Secondary Students with and without Disabilities
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Harris, Monica L.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Deshler, Donald D. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2011
This study tested the effects of teaching high school students with learning disabilities (LD) and other students enrolled in general education classes a morphemic analysis strategy for analyzing and predicting the meaning of words. A comparison-group design was used with random assignment of three intact classes to each of two conditions: (a) the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learning Disabilities, Morphology (Languages), Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with LD: What We Know; What We Need to Learn
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Faggella-Luby, Michael N.; Deshler, Donald D. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2008
The changing job market requires a sophisticated array of literacy skills that adolescents with learning disabilities reading below grade level have not yet acquired. This summary of the research on reading comprehension highlights emerging findings and related instructional conditions necessary to achieve optimal student outcomes with limited…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Research and Development, Learning Disabilities, Adolescents
Embedded Learning Strategy Instruction: Story-Structure Pedagogy in Heterogeneous Secondary Literature Classes
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Faggella-Luby, Michael; Schumaker, Jean S.; Deshler, Donald D. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2007
The effects of using the Embedded Story-Structure (ESS) Routine in a literature course were investigated. A heterogeneous group of 79 ninth graders, including 14 students with LD, were randomly assigned to one of two conditions, with instruction occurring in groups of 12 to 14 students in general education literature classes over a nine-day…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Ensuring Content-Area Learning by Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Deshler, Donald D.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Lenz, B. Keith; Bulgren, Janis A.; Hock, Michael F.; Knight, Jim; Ehren, Barbara J. – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2001
Three factors tied with secondary student success in content-area reading are demonstrated: validated teacher-focused and student-focused interventions, integrated and comprehensive service delivery systems, and well-designed, data-based professional developmental programs. The key role that school administrators play in ensuring each of the…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Disabilities, Postsecondary Education