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Direct linkWhite, Mark W.; Houchins, David E.; Viel-Ruma, Kimberly A.; Dever, Bridget V. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2014
This study investigated the effects of the "Expressive Writing (EW)" direct instruction curriculum on the expository writing skills of secondary grade students with serious emotional and behavioral disabilities (EBD). The "EW" program targets writing mechanics, sentence writing, and editing but does not include pre-writing…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Writing Instruction, Direct Instruction, Writing Skills
Shippen, Margaret E.; Miller, Alan; Patterson, DaShaunda; Houchins, David E.; Darch, Craig B. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2014
Addressing the reading needs of adolescent learners living in rural areas may create challenges for teachers and administrators in the age of accountability. This study addressed this issue by implementing two explicit instructional approaches with struggling adolescent readers (n = 49) in a rural middle school in the southeastern United States.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adolescents, Rural Schools, Reading Improvement
Viel-Ruma, Kim; Houchins, David E.; Jolivette, Kristine; Fredrick, Laura D.; Gama, Robert – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2010
Students with disabilities often struggle with writing tasks. In order to improve the written expression performance of high school students with deficits in written expression, a Direct Instruction writing program was implemented. The participants were six high school students in programs for individuals with learning disabilities. Three of the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Second Language Learning, Program Effectiveness, English
Patterson, DaShaunda; Houchins, David E.; Jolivette, Kristine; Heflin, Juane; Fredrick, Laura – Journal of Direct Instruction, 2011
Effective written expression is a necessary form of communication and one of the most difficult tasks for students with disabilities to master. Few instructional strategies for writing have been validated specifically for students with emotional and behavior disorders. This single-subject study evaluated the effect of a Direct Instruction program…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Educational Strategies, Holistic Approach, Written Language
Download full textWalker, Barbara D.; Shippen, Margaret E.; Houchins, David E.; Cihak, David F. – International Journal of Special Education, 2007
This study investigated the effects of the Direct Instruction writing program, "Expressive Writing" (Engelmann & Silbert, 1983), for high school students with learning disabilities (LD). The study used a multiple probe design across participants and results indicate the effectiveness of "Expressive Writing" in improving the writing skills of high…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Spelling, Learning Disabilities, Expressive Language
