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Peer reviewedMaki, Hanna S.; Vauras, Marja M. S.; Vainio, Seppo – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2002
A case study with two Finnish 10-year-old boys evaluated an intervention designed to promote the spelling skills of students with severe writing difficulties. The intervention comprised strategy instruction, procedural facilitation, and computer-assisted tutoring. Participants showed gains in spelling accuracy, spelling revision skills, decoding…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Download full textMothus, Trudy G.; Lapadat, Judith C.; Struthers, Lynda; Fisher, Heather; Paterson, Karin – 2002
This report discusses the effectiveness of strategy-based writing instruction for adolescents with language-based learning disabilities. The instruction is being provided to Canadian students in grade eight who are at least two grade equivalents below their peers in reading and writing ability. The students are taught a paraphrasing strategy that…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness
