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Elementary Students’ Use of Dialect and Reading Achievement: Examining Students With Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Nonmainstream American English, or dialect , among children may have important implications for reading research and practice. However, much of the research involving relations between dialect and literacy has analyzed dialect use in only one context and...
Examining the Role of Pre-Instruction Academic Performance Within A Text-based Approach to Improving Student Content Knowledge and Understanding
Content type: Journal Article
Students with disabilities are often included in general education social studies classes, but these classes can differ in the achievement level of the overall class, including wide variation in content-related background knowledge, reading achievement, or...
The Relationship Between Study Quality and the Effects of Supplemental Reading Interventions: A Meta-Analysis
Content type: Journal Article
Empirical studies investigating supplemental reading interventions for students with or at risk for reading disabilities in the early elementary grades have demonstrated a range of effect sizes. Identifying the findings from high-quality research can...
Are Students With Disabilities Accessing the Curriculum? A Meta-Analysis of the Reading Achievement Gap Between Students With and Without Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Federal policies have aimed to improve access to grade-level curriculum for students with disabilities (SWD). Current conceptualizations of access posit that it is evidenced by students’ academic outcomes. In a meta-analysis of 180 effect sizes from 23...
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Using Data to Make Instructional Decisions for Struggling Readers
Content type: Journal Article
Students with reading disabilities (RD) require intensive, individualized instruction in order to make measurable gains in reading achievement. The hallmark of intensive intervention is a customized approach in which the teacher uses data to adjust...
FIX: A Strategic Approach to Writing and Revision for Students With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Teaching students in upper elementary school to revise their papers effectively requires a three-pronged approach. First, teachers provide instruction on a relevant genre or writing form (using CCSS English Language Arts or other relevant standards as a...
Helping Students With Dyslexia Read Long Words: Using Syllables and Morphemes
Content type: Journal Article
Students with dyslexia have great difficulty reading words with more than one syllable, polysyllabic words. This article describes efficient, “micro-evidence based practices” (Cook & Cook, 2013) to help students read these words. The strategies include: (a...
The Neurobiology of Dyslexia
Content type: Journal Article
Advances in neurobiological research have created new opportunities for understanding and exploring dyslexia. The purpose of this paper is to (a) provide a straightforward, although not overly simplified, overview of neurological research on dyslexia and...
Improving Reading Comprehension of Informational Text: Text Structure Instruction for Students With or At Risk for Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
The ability to comprehend informational texts is critical to students’ academic success in a range of content areas. However, informational texts pose challenges to the reading comprehension of adolescents with or at-risk for learning disabilities (LD)...
ABC or 123? How Reading Can Get in the Way of Math Achievement and What to Do About It
Content type: SET Blog
Posted:
14 February, 2022
Most math materials suffer from the same problem—readability—which is problematic for students with learning disabilities. Here's how we developed word problems that are more accessible without sacrificing the math.