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| Gayeski, Gail Y. | 1 |
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| Lane, Patricia K. | 1 |
| Miller, Margery Staman | 1 |
| Monda, Lisa E., And Others | 1 |
| Otto, Wayne | 1 |
| Spector, Barbara | 1 |
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Peer reviewedGayeski, Gail Y. – Journal of Reading, 1990
Uses the language experience approach with a state driver's manual to teach disabled adolescent readers and educable mentally retarded students. (RS)
Descriptors: Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities, Remedial Reading, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMonda, Lisa E., And Others – Journal of Reading, 1988
Offers suggestions for using the newspaper to help learning disabled students improve their reading, language arts, and mathematics skills. (ARH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Mathematical Enrichment
Peer reviewedOtto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1985
Examines the evidence that supports using the technique of repeated readings to increase the reading fluency of students with reading difficulties. (HOD)
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Learning Theories, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedSpector, Barbara; Kossack, Sharon – Journal of Reading, 1988
Describes activities using the newspaper in the science area to help older disabled students learn decision-making skills such as identifying cause and effect, separating fact from opinion, and predicting outcomes. (NH)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Decision Making Skills, Instructional Design, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedEldridge, Bruce H. – Journal of Reading, 1990
Describes an experience-based vocabulary instruction technique suitable for learning disabled or mentally disabled junior high school students. Reports that the students improved their vocabulary over the long term and requested inclusion of words from their other courses. (RS)
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedLane, Patricia K.; Miller, Margery Staman – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: Adolescents, Critical Thinking, Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1987
Discusses (1) strategies that make learning disabled adolescents independent in subject area classrooms, (2) the use of medieval rhetoric to help modern students expand their writing, and (3) students' opinions of sustained silent reading. (NKA)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Independent Study, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1986
Describes six study and notetaking techniques for reading/learning disabled adolescents and suggests circulating a series of training notes to help high school teachers incorporate reading techniques into the content area classrooms. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedEldridge, Bruce H. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Explains six instructional components, based on a psycholinguistic view of reading, for teaching the adolescent disabled reader to read. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedGillock, John D. – Journal of Reading, 1988
Presents a remedial program model which helps to alleviate students' diagnosed skill deficits using activities and materials directly connected to their content courses. (ARH)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Instructional Materials
