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"Spelling Mastery" is designed to explicitly teach spelling skills to students in grades 1 through 6. One of several Direct Instruction curricula from McGraw-Hill that precisely specify how to teach incremental content, "Spelling Mastery" includes phonemic, morphemic, and whole-word strategies. The What Works Clearinghouse…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Elementary School Students, Direct Instruction
Direct linkBurton, Rivka – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many students with cognitive impairments are not afforded the opportunity to develop their potential as readers. A review of the literature reveals that few researchers have evaluated the effects of phonics instruction on the reading skills of students with cognitive impairments. The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of a…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Alphabets, Teaching Methods
Yssel, Nina; Prater, Mike; Smith, Deb – Gifted Child Today, 2010
During the past 6 years, the authors have worked and interacted with twice-exceptional middle school students as well as with their parents at an annual residential summer camp. Through surveys and interviews with the parents and their children, the difficulties that twice-exceptional students encounter at school emerged. Furthermore, parents'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Learning Experience, Summer Programs, Evaluation Methods
Morris, Darrell; Gaffney, Meghan – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
This case study describes a year-long, tutorial intervention with a disfluent eighth-grade reader. Focused instruction, including guided reading at the appropriate instructional level (4th grade), repeated readings, and home tape-recorder readings, led the student to improve his reading rate by 33% (75 wpm to 100 wpm). Formative and summative…
Descriptors: Intervention, Remedial Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate
Sabatino, David A.; Hayden, David L. – J Learning Disabilities, 1970
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Learning
Smith, Sally L. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2004
Improve school success for students who have learning disabilities and ADHD with "Academic Clubs," the proven learning-by-doing approach presented in this energizing guidebook. Sally Smith--the highly respected founder of the Lab Schools, where 95% of students with learning problems go on to college--shows elementary school educators how to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Experiential Learning, Clubs, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedNelson, J. Ron; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1992
Effects of a summary skills learning strategy on the comprehension of science text were examined with five elementary-age urban minority students with learning disabilities participating in a summer remedial program. The strategy produced clear improvement in comprehension which was associated with similar improvements in the completeness of the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
