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Structured Literacy Interventions: Teaching Students with Reading Difficulties, Grades K-6. Guilford Series on Intensive Instruction
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Spear-Swerling, Louise, Ed. – Guilford Press, 2022
Comprehensive and evidence-based, Structured Literacy (SL) approaches place a high value on explicit, systematic, and sequential instruction. This book brings together leading experts on key components of literacy to help K-6 teachers design and target SL interventions for particular student profiles. Chapters identify effective features of…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Elementary Education
Teaching Learning Disabled Students Place Value Using the Concrete to Abstract Sequence.
Peterson, Susan K.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research, 1988
The study compared two methods of teaching an initial place value skill: a concrete, semiconcrete, abstract teaching sequence and an abstract-only presentation. Learning-disabled elementary and middle school students (N=24) using the concrete to abstract teaching sequence performed significantly better on three posttests than students taught the…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
Using a Graduated Word Problem Sequence to Promote Problem-Solving Skills.
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Miller, Susan Peterson; Mercer, Cecil D. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1993
This article presents a graduated word problem sequence in mathematics, beginning with simple words; progressing to phrases, sentences, and paragraphs; advancing to paragraph word problems with extraneous information; and finally having students create their own word problems. Results from 67 elementary students with learning disabilities support…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction
Using Data to Learn about Concrete-Semiconcrete-Abstract Instruction for Students with Math Disabilities.
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Miller, Susan Peterson; Mercer, Cecil D. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1993
Nine students (ages 7 to 11) with math disabilities were effectively taught using an instructional sequence that moved from the concrete to the semiconcrete to the abstract. Subjects needed between three and seven lessons using manipulative devices and pictures before being able to do abstract-level problems. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Validating the Concrete to Abstract Instructional Sequence for Teaching Place Value to Learning Disabled Students. Monograph #20.
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Peterson, Susan K.; And Others – 1989
This study evaluated the generally recommended concrete-to-abstract hierarchy for presenting a new skill, with three students with learning disabilities in grades 1, 2, and 4. The three subjects enrolled in the Multidisciplinary Diagnostic and Training Program's classroom housed on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville. Following…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Reading Program--Remedial, Integrated, and Innovative.
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Butler, Susan R. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1991
The Reading Assistance Tutorial (R.A.T.) Pack is a systematic, multidisciplinary remedial reading program incorporating listening, speaking, seeing, writing, thinking, and comprehension skills. The sequenced activities demand a high percentage of on-task behavior and train phonological processing strategies and functional language use. Research…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials, Integrated Activities