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Butler, Whitney Sommers; Hord, Casey; Watts-Taffe, Susan – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
In spite of the prevailing assumption that formal reading instruction is no longer needed once adolescents reach high school, students at the secondary level still benefit from explicit reading instruction to continue developing advanced literacy skills enabling them to access complex narrative texts. This article argues for the importance of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Students with Disabilities
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Spear-Swerling, Louise – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2019
Structured Literacy (SL) approaches are often recommended for students with dyslexia and other poor decoders (e.g., International Dyslexia Association, 2017). Examples of SL approaches include the Wilson Reading System (Wilson, 1988), Orton-Gillingham (Gillingham & Stillman, 2014), the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program (Lindamood &…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities
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Cahill, Gail; Govendo, Barbara – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
The National Assessment of Educational Progress and the Common Core State Standards require students, starting in elementary school, to read an increasing amount of informational text (U.S. Department of Education, 2010). Students with learning disabilities, however, typically struggle with expository text and require even more direct instruction…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Reading Strategies