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Teaching Academic Vocabulary to Adolescents With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Knowing the meaning of academic vocabulary words helps adolescents understand content-area text and improves their academic achievement. To demonstrate deep understanding of words, students reading below grade level and students with learning disabilities...
Teaching Handwriting to Elementary Students With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Handwriting is an important skill for students to acquire in elementary school. Determining and delivering appropriate handwriting interventions to students with learning disabilities can be complicated. Teachers must juggle handwriting with other...
Blending Wheels
Content type: Journal Article
Children with learning disabilities typically struggle with learning to read, particularly with developing phonemic blending skills. Finding ways to provide sufficient decoding practice is an ongoing challenge for special educators. Blending wheels are...
Using Read-Alouds to Help Struggling Readers Access and Comprehend Complex, Informational Text
Content type: Journal Article
Fascinating and educationally important words and worlds are found in informational text, but informational text is often extremely challenging for students—those who struggle with reading or have a learning disability—to access, because of their limited...
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...
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...