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Peer reviewedVarnon, Dolores – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1997
Focuses on how and why the systematic incorporation of the arts into the language-arts curriculum improves special needs children's learning and encourages them to become confident, creative, and enthusiastic learners. Discusses visual arts, creative drama, and movement and music. Suggests enriching remedial programs with the arts develops…
Descriptors: Art Education, Elementary Education, Fine Arts, Language Arts
Peer reviewedJitendra, Asha K.; Chard, David; Hoppes, Mary K.; Renouf, Kristin; Gardill, M. Cathleen – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2001
Evaluates four commercial reading programs at the second, fourth, and sixth grade levels with respect to main idea instructional practices and readability of text. Evaluates the type of main idea tasks and main idea statements, as well as placement of explicit main idea statements in the text. Discusses implications for practitioners meeting…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Peer reviewedFreppon, Penny A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Presents a case study of a nine-year-old boy's reading and writing difficulties. Notes that instruction grounded in sociopsycholinguistics, whole language, and emergent literacy helped the learner overcome his difficulties. Provides an account of alternative approaches in assessing written language difficulties; and the role of the reader's belief…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Case Studies, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
