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Promising Practices for Supporting Students with Disabilities through Writing in Science
Content type: Journal Article
With a growing emphasis on producing 21st century learners who can compete in a global market, there is a need for students with disabilities to develop the critical thinking and problem solving skills taught in science classrooms. However, the emphasis...
Interactive Book Reading With Expository Science Texts in Preschool Special Education Classrooms
Content type: Journal Article
Expository texts convey information. The ability to read and process information presented in expository texts is critical to later reading achievement; however many children, especially those with disabilities, struggle with the more complex sentence...
Child-Level Predictors of Responsiveness to Evidence-Based Mathematics Intervention
Content type: Journal Article
We identified child-level predictors of responsiveness to 2 types of mathematics intervention (calculation and word problem) among second-grade children with mathematics difficulty. Participants were 250 children in 107 classrooms in 23 schools pretested...
Aptitude-by-Treatment Interactions in Research on Educational Interventions
Content type: Journal Article
A common theme uniting articles in this special issue is a focus on aptitude-by-treatment interactions (ATIs). This timely and welcome focus allows the field to synthesize current substantive findings on ATIs in educational intervention research in both...
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...
Self-Regulated Strategy Development in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics for Students With Specific Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Special educators provide specialized instruction to students with disabilities to ensure their access to the general education curriculum. Self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) is an evidence-based instructional framework that can be used for...