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Color-Coded Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing to Students With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
The adoption of Common Core State Standards has placed a much greater emphasis on writing across all content areas. Students with Learning Disabilities (LD) struggle with various components of written expression, including developing ideas that adequately...
Improving Reading and Social Studies Learning for Secondary Students With Reading Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
This article describes evidence-based practices special education teachers can readily implement in special or general education settings to promote reading and social studies learning for students with disabilities as well as general education students...
Does Cognitively Focused Instruction Improve the Academic Performance of Low-Achieving Students?
Content type: Journal Article
Stakeholders are debating the value of cognitively focused instruction for students who have not benefited from a skills-based approach. Much of the discussion, however, is occurring without recognition of research that has been conducted in the past 2...
Specific Learning Disability and Response to Intervention: State-Level Guidance
Content type: Journal Article
This study investigates how state departments of education are defining response to intervention (RTI) assessment processes as they relate to specific learning disability (SLD) eligibility 5 years after the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA...
Longitudinal Effects of ADHD in Children with Learning Disabilities or Emotional Disturbances
Content type: Journal Article
Despite the high prevalence of comorbidity between attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and learning disabilities (LD) or emotional disturbances (ED), few studies have examined the long-term effects of these comorbid relationships on student...
A Meta-Analysis of Writing Interventions for Students With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
In this meta-analysis, the impact of writing interventions on the quality of writing produced by students with learning disabilities (LD) was assessed. Ancestral and electronic searches were used to locate experimental, quasi-experimental, and within...
Emphasizing Planning for Essay Writing With a Computer-Based Graphic Organizer
Content type: Journal Article
The authors conducted a multiple-baseline study to investigate the effects of a computer-based graphic organizer (CBGO) with embedded self-regulated learning strategies on the quantity and quality of persuasive essay writing by students with high-incidence...
The Effectiveness of Reading Interventions for English Learners
Content type: Journal Article
This article reviews published experimental studies from 2000 to 2012 that evaluated the effects of providing reading interventions to English learners who were at risk for experiencing academic difficulties, including students with learning disabilities...
Collaborative Strategic Reading for Students With Learning Disabilities in Upper Elementary Classrooms
Content type: Journal Article
Sixty fourth- and fifth-grade general education teachers were randomly assigned to teach Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR; Klingner, Vaughn, Boardman, & Swanson, 2012), a set of reading comprehension strategies, or to a business-as-usual comparison...
Elementary Students’ Use of Dialect and Reading Achievement: Examining Students With Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Nonmainstream American English, or dialect , among children may have important implications for reading research and practice. However, much of the research involving relations between dialect and literacy has analyzed dialect use in only one context and...