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Johny Daniel; Amy Barth; Ethan Ankrum – Reading Teacher, 2024
Reading comprehension is contingent upon the integration of various reading skills, including word reading, reading fluency, and comprehension strategies. Students who encounter challenges in both word reading and reading comprehension present an opportunity for growth across multiple reading-related domains. Recent intervention data, as…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Elementary School Students
K. Lea Alexander – Reading Teacher, 2024
More and more students with learning disabilities and other diverse learners are placed for instruction in general education classrooms, which often leaves teachers grappling to design successful peer interactions and literacy activities to meet the needs of all learners in their classrooms. As the shift is made to align literacy instruction to…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Literacy Education, Inclusion
Dougherty Stahl, Katherine A. – Reading Teacher, 2016
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multiple tiered system of instructional interventions that may also serve to identify children with Specific Learning Disabilities (particularly in reading and spelling). This article summarizes the findings of Evaluation of Response to Intervention Practices for Elementary School Reading (Balu, Zhu, Doolittle,…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Teaching Methods, Learning Disabilities, Elementary School Students
Applegate, Anthony J.; Applegate, Mary Dekonty; Turner, Jennifer D. – Reading Teacher, 2010
It takes a literacy leader to save some schools and districts from serious misconceptions about the nature of core reading programs as well as the nature of some reading disabilities. Well-prepared professionals can, by means of their extensive pedagogical repertoire, help districts to avoid compulsive repetition of the same fundamental types of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Learning Disabilities, Misconceptions
Johnston, Peter – Reading Teacher, 2010
The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 encourages schools to use interventions to ensure that students' literacy difficulties are not instructional problems before assuming a learning disability. The law frames these interventions in two ways: as a strategy for identifying students with learning disabilities--a measurement…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Intervention, Identification, Reading Difficulties
Winters, Rod – Reading Teacher, 2009
Limited vocabulary knowledge has been cited as a key factor in the literacy achievement gap, particularly for students with learning disabilities, students of color, and English-language learners. Recent authorities have recommended multipronged approaches to assist vocabulary growth in classrooms. In addition, authorities have called for…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Learning Disabilities, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods

Raver, Sharon A.; Dwyer, Robert C. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Shows that mentally handicapped preschool children can learn to read words when word cards become tools for communicating their wishes. Indicates also that language skills improve and that these transfer to other situations. (FL)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
Hudson, Roxanne F.; High, Leslie; Al Otaiba, Stephanie – Reading Teacher, 2007
Dyslexia is a disorder of the language-processing systems in the brain. It is a specific learning disability in reading that often affects spelling as well. This article describes: (1) Common characteristics experienced by people with dyslexia or reading disabilities; (2) Common misconceptions about dyslexia; (3) What brain research tell us about…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Misconceptions, Learning Disabilities, Brain

Carbo, Marie – Reading Teacher, 1978
Tape recording part or all of books can be a help to students reading below grade level. (MKM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulty, Reading Instruction

Shanahan, Timothy – Reading Teacher, 1989
Reviews two tests which highlight important trends in the assessment of learning disabilities, and presents potentially valuable, practical developments in assessment. Identifies the recurring problem of the lack of a theory, construct, or clear definition to guide the assessment of learning disabilities. (MG)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods

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

McCarthy, Francis E. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Discusses aspects of the interdisciplinary stress within the fields of remedial reading and learning disabilities. (MKM)
Descriptors: Corrective Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Interdisciplinary Approach

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
Forbes, Leighann S. – Reading Teacher, 2004
This article (a) explains why teachers should use the Internet as a component of instruction, (b) identifies difficulties that at-risk learners have using Internet resources, and (c) recommends use of Web-based bookmarks as a strategy for linking Internet content to instruction. Through concrete examples, it describes how Web-based bookmarks can…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Based Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Reading Instruction

Witman, Carolyn Cattron; Riley, James D. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Reports on the successful use of a modified Fernald technique with second graders using colored chalk on the blackboard. (MKM)
Descriptors: Chalkboards, Grade 2, Kinesthetic Methods, Language Experience Approach
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