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Alves, Kat D.; Romig, John Elwood – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2021
Students with learning disabilities (LD) often face significant difficulties in reading. Research has found a variety of different evidence-based practices to support the reading development of students with LD in areas such as word work, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. However, these practices are most often intended for use in traditional…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam A. – Online Submission, 2016
The idea of this book arose out of an awareness that students with language learning disabilities are completely ignored in the Egyptian school system and there are no special programs that cater to these students. They are placed in normal schools that are not prepared to deal with their unique difficulties. This book, therefore, is an attempt to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Learning Disabilities
Carreker, Suzanne; Birsh, Judith R. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
With the new edition of this activity book--the companion to Judith Birsh's bestselling text, "Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills"--students and practitioners will get the practice they need to use multisensory teaching effectively with students who have dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Ideal for both pre-service teacher…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Manzone, Christine A. – 1989
The paper describes six skills that can be used to improve the reading comprehension of learning disabled students. The skills can be utilized in a reading program or with reading in a content area. Examples from particular models of instruction are provided as well as a rationale for each. The skills may be used either individually, as a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Paul, Peter V. – Academic Therapy, 1989
The need for direct, systematic vocabulary instruction in improving language comprehension abilities of hearing-impaired and learning-disabled students is discussed. Vocabulary instruction should be knowledge-based and should be combined with extensive reading opportunities. Sample instructional techniques, such as word maps, semantic feature…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Skills, Learning Disabilities
Schewel, Rosel H.; Waddell, Julia G. – Academic Therapy, 1986
Four strategies effective in helping learning disabled students develop specific skills necessary for effective reading comprehension are described: (1) self questioning, (2) lookback strategies, (3) use of a code, and (4) inference modeling. The procedures are designed to shift students from a passive to an active role in reading. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Metacognition, Questioning Techniques
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Swanson, Philip N.; De La Paz, Susan – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1998
Offers an instructional model for teaching several metacognitive strategies which have been shown to improve reading comprehension in students with learning and reading disabilities. Techniques cover summarizing expository text, comprehending story structure, self-questioning, and text lookbacks and question-answer relationships. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension
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Gurney, Dana; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
An instructional strategy for teaching comprehension of literature was tested with seven high school students with learning disabilities. The strategy taught story grammar through use of short stories and the paradigm of modeling/guided practice/independent practice. Students showed improved story comprehension. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Literature
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Vaughn, Sharon; Klingner, Janette Kettman – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1999
Provides an overview of collaborative strategic reading (CSR) as an approach to enhancing the reading-comprehension skills of students with learning disabilities. Procedures for implementing CSR with collaborative groups and techniques for teaching reading-comprehension skills are provided. The role of the teacher is described and sample teaching…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
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Bakken, Jeffrey P.; Whedon, Craig K. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2002
This article discusses how to teach children with mild disabilities to identify the five different types of expository text structures: main idea, list, order, compare/contrast, and classification. It then explains a strategy for each text structure type that can be taught to children to improve comprehension in content area classes. (Contains…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Learning Disabilities, Mild Disabilities
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Sorrell, Adrian Lloyd – 1996
This conference paper provides examples of reading comprehension strategies that can be used with students with learning disabilities or reading comprehension difficulties. Before reading, during reading, and after reading strategies are presented. The before reading strategies, which activate the students' background knowledge and attention,…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention
Wong, Bernice Y. L. – Canadian Journal for Exceptional Children, 1986
Successful instructional strategies for enhancing the reading comprehension and comprehension test performance of learning disabled students are described. Students are taught to self-monitor their comprehension of expository materials and stories through recognition and analysis of recurrent elements and problem passages, content summarization,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry, Learning Disabilities, Questioning Techniques
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Henk, William A. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Concludes that modified standard reading inventories may be made more useful for assessing the specific abilities and needs of disabled readers. Offers suggestions for making modifications. (FL)
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis
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Hedley, Carolyn – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1985
Teachers can use microcomputers in informal assessment of learning disabled students' academic achievement, math and science progress, reading comprehension, cognitive processes, motivation and social interaction. Selected software for unobtrusive, informal assessment is listed. (CL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Assessment
Sorrell, Adrian L. – Academic Therapy, 1990
Three reading comprehension strategies are presented to assist learning-disabled students: an advance organizer technique called "TELLS Fact or Fiction" used before reading a passage, a schema-based technique called "Story Mapping" used while reading, and a postreading method of categorizing questions called…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
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