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Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies to Students with Learning Disabilities: A Review of Research.
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Gersten, Russell; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Williams, Joanna P.; Baker, Scott – Review of Educational Research, 2001
Reviews research on reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities focusing on studies on instruction to improve comprehension of narrative text and expository text. Discusses emerging issues in the field, including use of socially mediated strategies, teaching multiple strategies to students, and teaching specific strategies as…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Acquisition and Transfer Effects of Classwide Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies in Mathematics for Students with Varying Learning Histories.
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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas; Phillips, Norris B.; Hamlett, Carol L.; Karns, Kathy – School Psychology Review, 1995
Examines the effects of classwide peer-assisted learning strategies (PALS) in mathematics incorporating the use of curriculum-based measurement on acquisition and transfer learning of three types of students (average-achieving student, low-achieving students, and students with a learning disability). Analysis of variance indicates superior…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies: An Evidence-based Practice To Promote Reading Achievement.
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Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Burish, Pamela – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2000
This article describes the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) program for developing reading skills in grades 2-6. It notes a 3rd grade teacher's perspective and reports on research and development efforts supporting use of PALS reading with students with learning disabilities. Noted is the recent extension of PALS reading downward into…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies for English Language Learners with Learning Disabilities
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Saenz, Laura M.; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas – Exceptional Children, 2005
This study assessed the effects of Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS), a reciprocal classwide peer-tutoring strategy, on the reading performance of native Spanish-speaking students with learning disabilities (LD) and their low-, average-, and high-achieving classroom peers. Participants were 132 native Spanish-speaking English language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 3, Reading Comprehension, Reading Teachers
Effects of Goal and Test-Taking Strategies on the Computation Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Whinnery, Keith W.; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1993
This study, involving 40 students (grades 2-8) with learning disabilities, found that students who participated in curriculum-based measurement test-taking strategy training scored higher on a posttreatment computation test than students without the strategy training. Use of a goal strategy did not result in any achievement differences.…
Descriptors: Computation, Curriculum, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods