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Peer reviewedDavis, Sara Calhoun; Skinner, Michael E. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1997
Discusses textbooks and the myth of the homogeneous classroom, differentiated reading assignments (DRAs), locating sources for DRAs, evaluating appropriateness of reading sources, collecting and organizing DRA sources, creating individualized student assignments, providing content exposure for students who cannot read available materials, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Peer reviewedMcKenna, Michael C.; Reinking, David – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1997
Notes that talking books have the potential to give remedial students extensive supported practice in real reading. Suggests talking books must not be regarded as a means of fully meeting the teacher's instructional responsibility to these students. Concludes that talking books represent a new resource for an old dilemma, but they are not a total…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Nonprint Media, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedStahl, Steven A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1998
Suggests that children often get confusing or conflicting instruction that possibly exacerbates initial problems. Reviews approaches to teaching children with reading problems. Concludes that effective phonics instruction for children with reading problems is both novel and systematic. Recommends a two-pronged solution: provide one clear and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
