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The Directed Spelling Thinking Activity: Application with High-Frequency Words.
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Graham, Steve; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1996
The Directed Spelling Thinking Activity (DSTA) is a method of teaching spelling to students with learning disabilities by encouraging active thinking and analysis of word patterns. With DSTA, students compare and contrast words that fit different but related spelling patterns. Words illustrating 37 spelling patterns are listed. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Spelling Instruction, Teaching Methods
Increasing Strategic Reading Practice with Peabody Classwide Peer Tutoring.
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Mathes, Patricia G.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1994
Peabody Classwide Peer Tutoring is presented as an innovative, research-based instructional alternative that gives teachers greater flexibility to accommodate diversity while increasing students' opportunity to engage actively in meaningful, strategy-based reading practice. During 35-minute tutoring sessions, students participate in partner…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Implementing Effective Teaching Strategies with Learning Disabled Students through Curriculum-Based Measurement.
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Whinnery, Keith W.; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
Computer application of Curriculum-Based Measurement is presented as a methodology capable of linking student performance and instructional decision making. A case study with a fifth grade learning-disabled student and mathematics illustrates how CBM with computerized feedback systems can be used to systematically implement effective teaching…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Managed Instruction, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
A Sociocultural Perspective: Teaching Ways-of-Thinking and Ways-of-Talking in a Literacy Community.
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Englert, Carol Sue; Mariage, Troy V. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1996
The activities of a literacy project are described as examples of social constructivism. The role of social and dialogic interactions of teachers and students in literacy communities in which the production, rather than the reproduction, of knowledge is the goal of the instruction is emphasized. Examples of teacher and student dialog are provided.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities