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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...
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...
Improving Reading Comprehension for High School Students With Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
The authors examine the results for students with disabilities from a 2-year randomized controlled trial with students identified in ninth grade and followed through 10th grade in their allotted condition group. Prior to ninth grade, students with...
Supporting Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders’ Comprehension and Reading Fluency
Content type: Journal Article
In addition to behavior problems, students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) often experience persistent reading difficulties. These struggles in reading become more pronounced in secondary school (grades 6-12) due to the increased rigor of the...
Enhancing Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text by Building Vocabulary Knowledge
Content type: Journal Article
Secondary-level students are required to learn critical content by reading and comprehending complex text. This task is especially challenging for students with disabilities who spend the majority of their day in the general education content area setting...
Reading Comprehension Strategies for High School Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Content type: Journal Article
Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including those in high school, often struggle with reading comprehension. Two evidence-based approaches that are focused on building the reading comprehension skills of secondary students with ASD are...
Common Core Standards & English Language Arts, Grades 6-12
Content type: Laminated Guide
This laminated reference guide presents an at-a-glance overview of the CCSS for English Language Arts (ELA) for students in Grades 6-12. It is intended to help middle and high school teachers understand the organization and application of the standards for...
Increasing Secondary Students’ Comprehension Through Explicit Attention to Narrative Text Structure
Content type: Journal Article
In spite of the prevailing assumption that formal reading instruction is no longer needed once adolescents reach high school, students at the secondary level still benefit from explicit reading instruction to continue developing advanced literacy skills...
Self-Questioning Strategy Routine to Enhance Reading Comprehension Among Secondary Students
Content type: Journal Article
Reading comprehension expectations in content areas have increased for students during the past decade. Many secondary students, including students with learning disabilities, improve their reading proficiency of grade-level text when they receive explicit...
Incorporating Evidence-Based Literacy Practices into Middle School Content Areas
Content type: Journal Article
Middle school students with reading disabilities and difficulties require evidence-based literacy instruction to access complex grade-level text and acquire content-area knowledge. Because the majority of students with disabilities spend most of the school...