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A Method for Teaching Sight Words to Disabled Readers.
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McNinch, George H. – Reading Teacher, 1981
Demonstrates that intensive direct instruction followed by practice can help slower students learn sight vocabulary. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
Assessing and Alleviating Visual Problems in the Schools.
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Ritty, J. Michael – Reading Teacher, 1979
Identifies some functional vision problems and describes some assessment procedures for determining whether a child needs professional help. (MKM)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulty
In Defense of "Crabby" Teachers.
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Dockweiler, Deborah – Reading Teacher, 1989
Explains how a hermit crab, the classroom pet for a class of learning disabled elementary level students, stimulated various writing-related activities, including categorizing, information gathering, and poetry writing. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities
Autistic Children and Reading.
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Lanquetot, Roxanne – Reading Teacher, 1984
Describes the way in which reading was taught to three nonverbal autistic children, the motivation used, and the children's adaptation to the learning situation. (FL)
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Educational Research, Learning Disabilities
Word Boxes Help Children with Learning Disabilities Identify and Spell Words.
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Joseph, Laurice M. – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes Marie Clay's word boxes that help children attend to phonological and orthographic features of words, developing phonemic awareness and improving word recognition and spelling. Describes a study showing that the use of word boxes with several elementary school students with learning disabilities was effective for improving and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Writing a Movie.
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Hoffner, Helen – Reading Teacher, 2003
Explains a reading and writing assignment called "Writing a Movie" in which students view a short film segment and write a script in which they describe the scene. Notes that this assignment uses films to develop fluency and helps students understand the reading and writing connections. Concludes that students learn to summarize a scene from film,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Films, Learning Disabilities, Literacy
Teaching Older Nonreaders How To Read.
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Horowitz, Jeff – Reading Teacher, 2000
Uses the example of a 12-year-old nonreader to review fundamental principles essential to teaching seriously disabled preadolescent nonreaders. Argues that teachers must begin with an acute awareness of how students feel; accurately access strengths and weaknesses; find starting points that will guarantee initial success; be clear about time…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Practical Teaching Ideas (In the Classroom).
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Reading Teacher, 1988
Describes the following teaching ideas: note writing; books supplementing a unit on measuring; parents' activities calendars; quick phonics inventory; map reading; language experience chart stories; predicting activities with titles; summer mail for learning disabled students; role playing; teaching guides for novels; sentence transformation; and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach