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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Sight Word Literacy: A Functional-Based Approach for Identification and Comprehension of Individual Words and Connected Text
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Alberto, Paul A.; Waugh, Rebecca E.; Fredrick, Laura D.; Davis, Dawn H. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Reviews of the research on literacy for students with moderate intellectual disability indicated that sight-word instruction continues to be their primary mode of reading instruction. Reported in this article are data supporting the Sight-Word Component of the larger Integrated Literacy Curriculum for Students with Moderate to Severe Intellectual…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Sight Vocabulary
From Initial Phonics to Functional Phonics: Teaching Word-Analysis Skills to Students with Moderate Intellectual Disability
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Fredrick, Laura D.; Davis, Dawn H.; Alberto, Paul A.; Waugh, Rebecca E. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Reading instruction for students with MoID is typically limited to sight-word instruction. We developed a 2-part, phonetic instructional sequence based upon Direct Instruction teaching methodology to teach students with MoID word-analysis skills that generalize to untaught words encountered in their environment. Elementary and middle-school…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Moderate Mental Retardation, Phonics, Sight Method
Simultaneous Prompting: An Instructional Strategy for Skill Acquisition
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Waugh, Rebecca E.; Alberto, Paul A.; Fredrick, Laura D. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2011
Errorless learning is an instructional approach designed to eliminate and/or reduce the number of errors students produce in traditional trial-and-error approaches (Mueller, Palkovic, & Maynard, 2007). Various response prompting strategies are employed to produce errorless learning. Simultaneous prompting is an errorless learning strategy that has…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Prompting, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods