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Peer reviewedDarch, Craig; Gersten, Russell – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1986
Use of two direction-setting activities (the basal approach to develop student motivation and the advance organizer approach based on the text outline) to improve content area text comprehension with 24 learning disabled high school students was compared. Results indicated that the advance organizer group significantly outperformed the basal…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, High Schools, Learning Disabilities
