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Improving Access to Elementary School Social Studies Instruction
Content type: Journal Article
Social studies instruction in upper elementary school (Grades 3-5) is important for building foundational content knowledge to equip students for the secondary school curriculum. Due to numerous school initiatives and demands on the time of teachers...
How to Reach First-Grade Struggling Readers
Content type: Journal Article
This article provides an overview of an instructional framework aimed at improving reading outcomes for first grade students who are early struggling readers and may be at-risk for reading disabilities. Specifically, we describe an integrated reading...
What Do Beginning Special Educators Need to Know About Intensive Reading Interventions?
Content type: Journal Article
Beginning elementary level special educators need to be well versed in evidence based intensive reading interventions in order to serve both special and general education students. Here we highlight two suggested effective practices for beginning special...
Intensifying Instruction to Meet Students’ Early Writing Needs
Content type: Journal Article
With over 70% of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students in the United States scoring below proficiency levels in writing (NCES, 2009), teachers must provide early and effective writing intervention to accelerate students’ writing skills to meet grade...
Curriculum Programming in the General Education Setting for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Content type: Journal Article
The location that children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are receiving specially designed instruction and related services is changing from self-contained to general education settings. General educators, who deliver instruction based on...
Using Paraphrasing and Text Structure Instruction to Support Main Idea Generation
Content type: Journal Article
Whether states use the Common Core State Standards or their own progressive state standards, students are consistently required to read informational texts, determine the main ideas, and integrate those ideas to write summaries. Unfortunately, many...
High- and Average-Achieving Students' Perceptions of Disabilities and of Students with Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms
Content type: Journal Article
This study investigates attitudes toward disability held by children with disabilities and average- and high-achieving children, and the latter two groups' experiences in inclusive elementary classrooms. Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Form-Scale (ATDP...