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Wolcott, Willa – 1980
At the University of Florida, writing laboratory classes follow a structured, independent curriculum designed to help students write effective paragraphs and edit their own writing. The four periods in the biweekly block of instruction are devoted to instruction in writing techniques and sentence skills, revision, mastery tests, and individual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Modules, Program Descriptions, Remedial Instruction
Lide, Francis – 1980
Based on the assumption that major sentence errors are caused by a deficit in syntactic fluency that can be aided by sentence combining instruction, student writing errors are analyzed in this paper and explanations are provided showing how these errors could have been prevented or reduced through instruction in sentence combining. Some types of…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education, Remedial Instruction, Sentence Combining
Steen, Marcia; Jansson, Deborah – 1977
The effectiveness of directionality training in alleviating a tendency to reverse letters and/or words was tested with 24 children (ages 8-9 years) with reading and math problems, who had such tendencies. The strategies used to teach directionality were based upon strategies used in previous studies with younger children that resulted in a…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
ROBB, JUANITA – 1967
THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN ARE DEFINED IN ORDER TO PLAN FOR THEIR REMEDIATION. THIS SYLLABUS IS DESIGNED TO MAKE TEACHERS AWARE OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL SEQUENCE OF LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS AND TO PRESENT WAYS AND MEANS TO REMEDY SPECIFIC DISABILITIES. A FEW GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR REVAMPING EDUCATIONAL PLANNING FOR DISADVANTAGED…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs
Boylan, Hunter R. – 1976
This paper describes the operation and results of an individualized center funded under an Office of Education grant for the provision of special services to disadvantaged students. This center is designed to apply individualized instructional techniques to remedial, developmental, and general education courses for disadvantaged students enrolled…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, General Education
Kass, Corrine E. – 1975
Presented is a theory of learning handicaps based on psychoeducational and developmental considerations. Identified are five of the author's biases about remediation such as the tendency for teachers to continue remediation beyond the point of usefulness. Proposed is the existence of five task requirements such as attending to the task, attaching…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Definitions, Exceptional Child Education
Bailey, Ralph E.; Bryant, Diana G. – 1975
This paper describes the Child Study Center (CSC) of the Pinellas County, Florida, Pupil Services Demonstration Project, an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III project. The purpose of the CSC is to provide the diagnostic, prescriptive, and consultative intervention necessary to assist referred students with serious learning problems in…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems
Bogue, Carole – 1976
Skills that are currently referred to as study skills can be separated into two broad categories: techniques for study and applied study skills. Techniques for study could be acquired given sufficient information, but applied study skills require sequential skill development and practice on the part of students, using material near their…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Content Area Reading, Remedial Instruction, Remedial Reading
Proia, Kathleen E. – 1976
In planning a program of remedial English, college English faculties should ask several questions about the necessity of such a program, the needs of the students, the interests and capabilities of the teachers, the content of the courses, and the methods which can be applied in the remedial classroom. In addition, an effective remedial program…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Course Evaluation, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Michael, Gary; Sliger, Mary – 1976
Implemented on the PLATO IV computer-assisted instruction facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Language Arts Routing System (LARS) is a package of lessons and tests designed to provide remedial training in certain basic language arts skills. LARS is a system which may be used by itself or as an adjunct to regular…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Computer Assisted Instruction, Guides
Reid, J. David; And Others – 1976
Compared are the application of direct (criterion referenced) and inferential (norm referenced) measurement to the educational diagnosis and remediation of children with learning disabilities. The task analysis approach is seen to require direct measurements for which standard reliability, validity, and item analysis evaluation procedures are…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Identification
Cahn, Lorynne – 1973
This paper discusses the placement, remediation, and management of the learning disabled child. The procedure for a professional assessment of the learning disabled child includes: (1) noting potentially dangerous signs such as poor visual and/or auditory memory for words, consistent letter or number reversals beyond the primary grades, short…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems, Reading
Nagore, Mary Louise – 1970
This book "represents an effort to present in simply and readily understood terms some of the sounds in English that create problems for the Spanish speaker learning English." Each of the 18 chapters teaches a specific consonant through a comparison of the Spanish and English pronunciations, facial diagrams, explanations of articulation, minimal…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Diagrams, English (Second Language)
Berry, Stephen D.; Wegener, Donald L. K. – 1969
The Diagnostic Learning Center (DLC) serves 85,000 children in Cook County, Illinois. Objectives of the program include: (1) to provide diagnostic services for children having severe learning problems in grades one through 12 and related services for the parents of these children, (2) to provide psychological and medical testing for these…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Disabilities, Parent Counseling
Anderson, Lorena; And Others – 1969
Recommendations are made for building an effective corrective or remedial reading improvement program into the structure of the developmental reading program. An outline of suggestions concerning objectives and goals, personnel, physical facilities, pupil selection, materials, and instruction is given. Samples of interest inventories and…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Program Guides, Reading Difficulty, Reading Programs
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