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Increasing Strategic Reading Practice with Peabody Classwide Peer Tutoring.
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Mathes, Patricia G.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1994
Peabody Classwide Peer Tutoring is presented as an innovative, research-based instructional alternative that gives teachers greater flexibility to accommodate diversity while increasing students' opportunity to engage actively in meaningful, strategy-based reading practice. During 35-minute tutoring sessions, students participate in partner…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Effects of Modeling in Promoting Generalization of Student Question Asking and Question Answering.
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Knapczyk, Dennis – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Videotaped segments from a regular education world geography class were used in teaching three learning-disabled ninth grade students to generalize question-asking and answering skills. Training procedures implemented in a learning resource room were effective in improving generalization of target skills and increasing accuracy scores on…
Descriptors: Generalization, Geography Instruction, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Teaching Techniques for the Learning Disabled/Gifted Student.
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Waldron, Karen A. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Through a review of the literature, recent research, and implementation results, this article explores teaching methods for use with gifted students with learning disabilities. Methods for application in regular and special classrooms are discussed, including establishment of relationships between home and school life, individualized intervention…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted Disabled, Individualized Education Programs, Intervention
Proofreading for Students with Learning Disabilities: Integrating Computer and Strategy Use.
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McNaughton, David; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
Investigated the impact of integrated proofreading strategy training, which combined a computer-based spelling checker and student strategies, on the proofreading of three secondary students with learning disabilities. Students showed an increase in strategy use and percentage of spelling errors corrected on controlled proofreading materials and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Editing, Error Correction, Learning Disabilities
Using a Learning Set to Increase the Test Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities in Social Studies Classes.
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Hudson, Pamela – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1996
This study of 20 sixth- and seventh-grade students with learning disabilities receiving social studies instruction found that prelesson learning set activities (including interactive review of previous instruction, statements of lesson objectives and expectations, and discussion of the lesson's importance) resulted in significantly better…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advance Organizers, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
The Effects of Teacher Training and Implementation of Two Methods for Improving the Comprehension Skills of Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Simmonds, Effie P. M. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
Twenty-four resource room teachers were trained in either teaching Question-Answer Relationships (QARs) or traditional methods of reading comprehension instruction, including literal questions, locating supporting details, and drawing conclusions. Results indicated that QARs readily accommodated to content area reading material and elevated…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities