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Understanding and Implementing the Common Core Vocabulary Standards in Kindergarten
Content type: Journal Article
The purpose of this article is to address common concerns educators might have regarding the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for language arts and vocabulary in the early grades. We first provide an example of a kindergarten...
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...
By the Book
Content type: Journal Article
Children’s literature has great potential for starting conversations about human diversity and ability. In this paper, books from the Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award are provided as a model for using children’s literature to talk about disability in...
10 Research-Based Tips for Enhancing Literacy Instruction for Students With Intellectual Disability
Content type: Journal Article
Research conducted in the last twenty years has increased our understanding of the most effective methods for increasing the literacy skills of students with Intellectual Disability (ID). The purpose of this paper is to provide special education teachers...
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...
Selecting Appropriate Text for Adolescents With Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Teachers of students with disabilities are required to provide instruction that aligns with the Common Core State Standards, including close reading of complex text. However, teachers often struggle with how to select text for students with disabilities...
Performance of Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities on Early-Grade Curriculum-Based Measures of Word and Passage Reading Fluency
Content type: Journal Article
Alternate assessments have been used for the last 10 years to evaluate schools' efforts to teach children with significant cognitive disabilities. However, few studies have examined the reading skills of children who participate in these assessments. The...
Too Much, Too Soon? Unanswered Questions From National Response to Intervention Evaluation
Content type: Journal Article
The report of the national response to intervention (RTI) evaluation study, conducted during 2011–2012, was released in November 2015. Anyone who has read the lengthy report can attest to its complexity and the design used in the study. Both these factors...
Reconceptualizing Instruction for Writing in Science Using the WiS Co-Planning Tool
Content type: Journal Article
The WiS Co-Planning Tool is a research-based tool to help special educators and their science educator colleagues plan writing instruction in a way that offers solutions to barriers of including writing instruction in science class. The Tool is aligned to...
Examining the Effects of a Tier 2 Reading Comprehension Intervention Aligned to Tier 1 Instruction for Fourth-Grade Struggling Readers
Content type: Journal Article
This article presents findings from a quasiexperimental study examining the effects of a Tier 2 intervention aligned to Tier 1 instruction, a nonaligned Tier 2 intervention, and a business-as-usual (BAU) comparison on the content knowledge, vocabulary, and...