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Curcic, Svjetlana; Johnstone, Robin S. – Computers in the Schools, 2016
This study examined the effects of an intervention in writing with digital interactive books. To improve the writing skills of seventh- and eighth-grade students with a learning disability in reading, we conducted a quasi-experimental study in which the students read interactive digital books (i-books), took notes, wrote summaries, and acted as…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Skills, Learning Disabilities, Cartoons
Avant, Glen R.; Weber, Margaret B. – 1979
Nineteen students, ranging in age from 8 to 18, served as subjects in an investigation of the effect of an individualized reading tutorial program on the locus of control (LOC) and locus of evaluation (LOE) of children with reading disabilities. Over a 12-week period, the subjects received from 24 to 60 50-minute sessions of individualized reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluative Thinking, Individualized Programs, Locus of Control
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1982
The handbook presents guidelines and suggestions for the use with handicapped students of the cloze procedure, a method for systematically deleting words from a prose passage and evaluating the reader's success in supplying them. Chapter 1 considers the use of the cloze procedures for assessment purposes and notes the differences between cloze…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Education Programs
Piercy, David; And Others – 1984
The document describes the development and use of skill sequences in individualized education programs (IEPs) for mildly handicapped students. Developed to standardize format and terminology among teachers and parents, the sequences promote the continuity of instruction and the maintenance of consistent records. Sequences were developed for use…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Education Programs, Mathematics
Price, Anne; Crawford, Shawn; Tottle, Johanne; Maunula, Susan – Online Submission, 2006
This publication focuses on teaching students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). The first chapter identifies and explains AD/HD: its causes, characteristics, its diagnosis and assessment process, related conditions, and what it looks in the classroom. The following chapters offer information and sample strategies supporting…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Elementary Secondary Education, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)