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Peer reviewedWallace, Ginger W.; Bott, Deborah A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
Four eighth-grade students with learning disabilities were taught paragraph-writing skills using a metacognitive text structure strategy, which included an outline as a paragraph planning guide. Results suggest that when provided with such direct, intensive instruction, these students can improve their paragraph writing. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 8, Learning Disabilities, Metacognition
