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Promoting Motivated Writers: Suggestions for Teaching and Conducting Research with Students with Learning Disabilities and Struggling Learners
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De La Paz, Susan; Butler, Cameron – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
This article considers the topic of motivation for writing, and explores connections between writing interventions and motivation. We review the extant literature with K12 students who participated in writing interventions and examine the motivation outcomes in those studies to determine whether improvements in writing ability also led to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Disabilities, Writing Instruction, Intervention
Effects of a Word-Problem Intervention on Word-Problem Language Features for Third-Grade Students with Mathematics Difficulty
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Powell, Sarah R.; Stevens, Elizabeth A.; Berry, Katherine A. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Word problems require students to read a language-based problem, identify necessary information to answer a prompt, and perform calculation(s) to develop a problem solution. Solving word problems proves particularly challenging for students with mathematics difficulties because skill in reading, interpretation of language, and mathematics are…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Intervention, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Mathematics Fluency/Calculations: Differences between Children with and without Mathematics Disabilities
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Montani, Teresa Oettinger; Smith, Lisa – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
This study examined the performance of one hundred thirty-one fifth graders on timed versus untimed mathematics tests. Measures of math fluency and calculation were administered. Low achieving students performed poorly on both calculation and math fluency. Normally achieving children performed within the average range on both calculation and math…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Grade 5, Computation, Elementary School Students