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Peer reviewedEllis, Edwin S.; And Others – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1991
This paper discusses the two important domains affecting the success of learning strategy training for students with learning disabilities or other mild handicaps: students' knowledge of critical skills and information potentially related to strategy use, and students' motivation to learn and use the strategy. The paper presents an eight-stage…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Knowledge Level, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedEllis, Edwin S.; Lenz, B. Keith – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1990
Empirical studies on teaching content-area information to underachieving or mildly disabled students are reviewed. Instructional options include content reduction, learnable text, content enhancement, use of audiorecordings and computer-assisted instruction, and promoting use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies. A content enhancement model…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
