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Literacy Instruction in Multiple-Language First-Grade Classrooms: Linking Student Outcomes to Observed Instructional Practice
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Graves, Anne W.; Gersten, Russell; Haager, Diane – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
This study examined literacy instruction in 14 first-grade classrooms of English learners (ELS) in three schools in a large urban school district in southern California over a two-year period. Pre- and posttest measures of oral-reading fluency for 186 first graders, representing 11 native languages, were the outcome data. Reading-fluency data were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 1, Teaching Methods, Classroom Observation Techniques
Recent Advances in Instructional Research for Students with Learning Disabilities: An Overview.
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Gersten, Russell – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1998
Reviews recent applied instructional research for students with learning disabilities for the purpose of providing educators and counselors with the background and logic behind the development of current instructional practices. Topics include procedural prompts, scaffolds, cognitive strategies, story grammar, think sheets, anchored instruction,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cues, Educational Practices, Educational Research