This practicum developed a multimodal approach for remediation of "main idea" reading comprehension deficits with secondary school students having behavior disorders. The six target students (ages 12 to 18) attended a school within a psychiatric hospital and residential treatment center and were reading significantly below grade level. The individualized tutorial program duration was from 3 to 12 weeks and utilized strategies which included a paraphrasing technique, computer-assisted instruction, journal writing, and use of high-interest low-difficulty reading material. Students showed an increase in main-idea comprehension mastery measured by the pretest/posttest comparison and a per session graphing on a progress chart. Appendices include a copy of a student contract, sample journals, progress charts, and a paraphrasing score sheet. (Contains 17 references.) (DB)