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Teaching Academic Vocabulary to Adolescents With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Knowing the meaning of academic vocabulary words helps adolescents understand content-area text and improves their academic achievement. To demonstrate deep understanding of words, students reading below grade level and students with learning disabilities...
Teaching Handwriting to Elementary Students With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Handwriting is an important skill for students to acquire in elementary school. Determining and delivering appropriate handwriting interventions to students with learning disabilities can be complicated. Teachers must juggle handwriting with other...
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...
Using Explicit and Systematic Instruction to Support Working Memory
Content type: Journal Article
Differences in working memory capacity have important implications for learning new skills and completing instructional activities. Students with learning disabilities are particularly vulnerable to contending with compromised working memory while learning...
Contextualizing Instruction for English Language Learners With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
With the increase in the number of English language learners in today’s classrooms, teachers are faced with the task of delivering evidence-based instructional strategies to very diverse groups in their classrooms. The challenges of teaching children with...
Helping Students With Mathematics Difficulties Understand Ratios and Proportions
Content type: Journal Article
Ratios and proportions are foundational to student understanding across multiple topics in mathematics such as slope, constant rate of change, and similar figures, which are all fundamental to algebraic concepts and skills. The CCSS-M includes concepts and...
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...
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...
Does Cognitively Focused Instruction Improve the Academic Performance of Low-Achieving Students?
Content type: Journal Article
Stakeholders are debating the value of cognitively focused instruction for students who have not benefited from a skills-based approach. Much of the discussion, however, is occurring without recognition of research that has been conducted in the past 2...
The Effectiveness of Reading Interventions for English Learners
Content type: Journal Article
This article reviews published experimental studies from 2000 to 2012 that evaluated the effects of providing reading interventions to English learners who were at risk for experiencing academic difficulties, including students with learning disabilities...