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Utley, Cheryl A.; Obiakor, Festus E. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2015
Evidence-based programs and interventions targeting special education programs fall within a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) which consists of increased instructional time, interventions, and improved educational outcomes for students in general and special education. The NASP Position Statement, "Appropriate Behavioral, Social, and…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Special Education, Intervention, Reading Difficulties
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Kessissoglou, Sophie; Farrell, Peter – British Journal of Special Education, 1995
This article describes the eight-step precision teaching program and reports on this method's use with four British elementary students with reading difficulties. In comparison to two control groups, children receiving precision teaching made substantially greater gains in reading comprehension and slightly greater gains in reading accuracy. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Precision Teaching
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Peterson, Susan K.; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1990
Two interventions, both using repeated readings combined with a simple error correction technique and precision teaching, were used with two at-risk elementary students to improve their oral reading skills. Both interventions (language experience approach stories and passages from a basal reading program) worked equally well. (JDD)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Intervention
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Fitzpatrick, Erin; McLaughlin, T. F.; Weber, Kimberly P. – International Journal of Special Education, 2004
The purpose of the present case report was to examine the effects of one and two day reads over lessons in Reading Mastery. The participant was a fifth grade male with learning disabilities. Data were collected on his correct and error rate across various lessons. The data were gathered in the participant's resource room classroom. The overall…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Grade 5, Precision Teaching, Reading Difficulties