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McCabe, Don – 1982
The author explains the five-pronged approach to reading and spelling through classifying words into "simple,""fancy,""insane,""tricky," and "scrunched up" categories, and reports average gains of two grade levels in one semester by junior high school students with severe behavioral problems who learned the approach. Examples of the five word…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Classification, Elementary Education, Phonetics
