Literacy Instruction

We investigate the efficacy of a reading intervention integrated with Engaged Learners, a program that applies behavioral and cognitive principles to increase student behavioral attention and reduce...

Literary works authored by youth with disabilities provide insightful perspectives on their lived experiences, understanding of disability community, and processes of disability identity development...

The Individualized Student Instruction (ISI) intervention was designed to help teachers increase their use of differentiated core reading instruction, to optimize student growth by providing...

The Individualized Student Instruction (ISI) intervention was designed to help teachers increase their use of differentiated core reading instruction, to optimize student growth by providing...

Students with learning disabilities (LDs) often have a limited repertoire of effective learning strategies (Reid et al., 2013). When teachers use strategy instruction, they provide students with tools...

Writing a cohesive, complete paragraph on one idea can be a challenging task for students with high-incidence disabilities who have writing instructional needs. Writing simultaneously requires complex...

Literacy learning is of central focus for all students, primarily in the early years. As students enter intermediate grade levels, fluent reading is vital for success not only in language arts class...

The Institute for Education Sciences identifies main idea and summarization instruction as effective practices for improving adolescent students’ reading comprehension (i.e., readers in Grades 4...

Learning to read is of primary focus in the early grades. Reading can be a challenge for many students, especially those with disabilities. With rising class sizes, and more students with disabilities...