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Facilitating Early Language Development with Milieu Intervention Procedures.
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Warren, Steven F.; Gazdag, Gail – Journal of Early Intervention, 1990
This study, involving two three-year-olds with mild mental retardation, found that milieu language intervention can directly enhance the acquisition and generative use of lexical and semantic forms used for varied pragmatic functions and that adult systematic commenting and child spontaneous imitation may interact to facilitate the teaching…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Generalization, Incidental Learning, Interaction
Academically Gifted Students' Use of Imagery for Creative Writing.
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Jampole, Ellen S.; And Others – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1994
This study evaluated the use of guided imagery practice to enhance creative writing with 43 academically gifted students (stratified as either high or low creativity) in grades 3 and 4. Groups receiving the guided imagery practice (regardless of original creativity level) generated more original writing, which contained more sensory descriptions…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Creative Writing, Creativity, Elementary Education
Teaching Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities To Solve Word Problems Using a Schema-Based Approach.
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Jitendra, Asha K.; Hoff, Kathryn; Beck, Michelle M. – Remedial and Special Education, 1999
This study investigated the effectiveness of a schema strategy on the mathematical word-problem-solving performance of four sixth- and seventh-grade students with learning disabilities. The schema strategy led to substantially improved word-problem-solving performance for all four students and these results were maintained at two- and four-week…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools
Direct Instruction in Math Word Problems: Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Cynthia L. Wilson; Paul T. Sindelar – Exceptional Children, 1991
This study compared the effectiveness of 3 procedures for teaching 62 elementary students with learning disabilities to identify the correct algorithm in solving addition and subtraction word problems. The group receiving strategy teaching and sequencing practice problems and the group receiving strategy teaching only scored higher than…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Instruction
An Exploratory Study of the Interaction between Language Teaching Methods and Child Characteristics.
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Yoder, Paul J.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1991
This study examined whether the relative efficacy of 2 language teaching methods was predicted by pretreatment subject characteristics of 40 handicapped preschoolers. Seven statistical interactions between pretreatment subject characteristics and language teaching methods indicated that lower-functioning children benefited more from the Milieu…
Descriptors: Disabilities, English Instruction, Factor Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness
Effects of a Reciprocal Peer Revision Strategy in Special Education Classrooms.
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MacArthur, Charles A.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Intermediate grade students with learning disabilities learned to work in pairs to help each other with editing and revising of their compositions. The 13 subjects made more revisions and produced papers of higher quality when revising with peer support than did 16 students in a process-approach control group. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
Peer Tutoring in Arithmetic for Children with Learning Disabilities.
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Beirne-Smith, Mary – Exceptional Children, 1991
Twenty primary-aged students with learning disabilities were tutored by nondisabled students in grades 3-6. Tutored students' performance on single-digit addition facts improved compared to a no-treatment control group. There were no significant differences between two tutoring procedures: a counting-on approach and a rote-memorization approach.…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Improving Learning Disabled Students' Skills at Composing Essays: Self-Instructional Strategy Training.
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Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R. – Exceptional Children, 1989
The study with three sixth-grade learning-disabled students found that a self-instructional strategy to facilitate the generation, framing, and planning of argumentative essays had a positive effect on the students' writing performance and self-efficacy. Effects were maintained over time and transferred to a new setting and new writing genre.…
Descriptors: Essays, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades