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ERIC Number: EJ644216
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-6543
Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies to Students with Learning Disabilities: A Review of Research.
Gersten, Russell; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Williams, Joanna P.; Baker, Scott
Review of Educational Research, v71 n2 p279-320 Sum 2001
Reviews research on reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities focusing on studies on instruction to improve comprehension of narrative text and expository text. Discusses emerging issues in the field, including use of socially mediated strategies, teaching multiple strategies to students, and teaching specific strategies as opposed to merely providing frameworks to structure dialogue on texts read. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Note: Research supported in part by Contract Number HS92017001 from the Office of Special Education Programs and a grant form the National Center for Learning Disabilities.