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Editorial Projects in Education, 2024
Strong foundational reading skills empower students to succeed both within and beyond the classroom. This Spotlight will help readers identify how much time should be spent teaching foundational reading skills; review how reading aloud to students can be a critical tool for developing literacy; investigate how teachers can support older students…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Skills, Time on Task, Reading Aloud to Others
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Allington, Richard L.; McGill-Franzen, Anne – Elementary School Journal, 1989
Results indicated that students identified as disadvantaged who participated in Chapter One received significantly more reading and language arts instruction in regular education classes than did mainstreamed children identified as handicapped and served through special education programs. (PCB)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties
McCabe, Patrick – Streamlined Seminar, 1998
In evaluating remedial reading programs, 10 guiding principles should be observed. Programs should educate teachers, increase time on task, provide taped books, transfer new skills to children's textbooks, test appropriately, employ video and telecommunications technologies, provide feedback, talk to parents, encourage children to take learning…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Books, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Beech, Marty – 2000
This English-Spanish language booklet is designed to help parents understand two important features of special education services, accommodations and modifications for students with disabilities. Examples of accommodations and modifications are provided, federal laws requiring schools to provide accommodations and modifications are cited, and…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Attention Deficit Disorders, Classroom Techniques