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Explicit Text Structure Instruction Supports Expository Text Comprehension for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: A Systematic Review
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Hall-Mills, Shannon S.; Marante, Leesa M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
This systematic review article summarizes the effects of explicit text structure instruction on expository text comprehension for adolescents with learning disabilities or at risk for reading failure. A thorough literature search with four databases and backward citation search identified nine studies published in the past 22 years for inclusion…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Direct Instruction, Expository Writing, Instructional Effectiveness
Teaching Children with Language-Learning Disabilities to Plan and Revise Compare-Contrast Texts
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Shen, Mei; Troia, Gary A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2018
This study used a multiple-probe, multiple-baseline single-case design to investigate the efficacy of planning, and then revising strategy instruction using self-regulated strategy development on the compare-contrast writing performance of three late elementary students with language-learning disabilities. After receiving the planning instruction,…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Children, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
Access to General Education Curriculum: The Effect of Preteaching Key Words Upon Fluency and Accuracy in Expository Text
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Coulter, Gail A.; Lambert, Michael C. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2015
The effects of preteaching key words on accuracy and fluency in connected text were examined with three fifth-grade participants identified with learning disability and reading two grade levels below their same age peers. Researchers incorporated a multiple baseline design (i.e., Baseline and Wordlist Intervention) and found that preteaching…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, General Education, Access to Education, Reading Fluency
Teaching Reading in the 21st Century: A Glimpse at How Special Education Teachers Promote Reading Comprehension
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Klingner, Janette K.; Urbach, Jennifer; Golos, Deborah; Brownell, Mary; Menon, Shailaja – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2010
In this study, we conducted 124 observations of 41 special education teachers teaching reading to their third- through fifth-grade students with learning disabilities to determine the extent to which and in what ways they promoted students' reading comprehension. In 42 lessons, we did not observe any comprehension instruction. In 30 lessons, the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Special Education Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction
Process and Product: A Review of the Research on LD Children's Writing Skills.
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Lynch, Ellen M.; Jones, Sheila Dove – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
The article reviews the research on composition and transcription writing skills conducted with elementary-aged learning-disabled students and published during the last five years. Conclusions are drawn concerning the influence of: text production method, specific interventions, text structure knowledge, word presentation form, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Handwriting, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Reading Comprehension Performance of Adolescents with Learning Disabilities.
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Snider, Vicki E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
The study found that instructing 13 learning-disabled junior high students in the necessary prior knowledge (information and vocabulary concepts) led to superior reading comprehension performance. Textually explicit text structure also improved reading comprehension. (DB)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level
Learning Disabled and Nondisabled College Students' Use of Structure in Recall of Stories and Text.
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Bacon, Ellen H.; Carpenter, Dale – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
The study found that college students with learning disabilities (LD) were as able as nondisabled students to use story grammar and comparison text structure to aid recall of social studies text passages. However, LD students scored significantly lower on use of causation text structure. Results suggest that use of comparison structures precede…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities