Improving Reading and Social Studies Learning for Secondary Students With Reading Disabilities

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. We describe two approaches: (a) Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT), and (b) Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). The set of instructional practices aligned with each of these approaches (e.g., teaching essential words, main ideas, and using text to verify responses) are described with examples for classroom implementation.