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Rachel E. Donegan; Sally K. Fluhler – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Explicit instruction is a high-leverage practice for special education and is associated with improved learning for students with disabilities (Hughes et al., 2019). The high-leverage practices are 22 critical practices in special education that are effective for improving outcomes for a broad range of students with and at risk for disabilities…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Intervention, Special Education, Reading Difficulties
Alexandra Shelton; Jade Wexler – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Despite the importance of reading comprehension, many secondary students with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) struggle with this skill. Students with ID also experience greater challenges in foundational literacy skills (i.e., skills related to phonological awareness) and the cognitive skills temporal processing and nonverbal reasoning (Van…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Intellectual Disability
Alicia A. Stewart; Elizabeth Swanson – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Although many students struggle to comprehend text, some populations of students are particularly impacted. Students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), for example, perform lower on working memory measures, which can make reading comprehension even more difficult (Gropper & Tannock, 2009). Inattention, specifically, appears…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention, Students with Disabilities, Reading Instruction
Butler, Whitney Sommers; Hord, Casey; Watts-Taffe, Susan – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
In spite of the prevailing assumption that formal reading instruction is no longer needed once adolescents reach high school, students at the secondary level still benefit from explicit reading instruction to continue developing advanced literacy skills enabling them to access complex narrative texts. This article argues for the importance of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Students with Disabilities
Shelton, Alexandra; Wexler, Jade; Kurz, Leigh Ann; Swanson, Elizabeth – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
To support reading comprehension and content acquisition among middle school students with reading disabilities and difficulties, content area teachers must employ evidence-based literacy instruction. This type of instruction is especially crucial in the content areas because the majority of students with disabilities--those who typically struggle…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension
Gibbs, Anna S.; Reed, Deborah K. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
Delays in oral language development in early childhood can be an indicator for later reading disabilities and affect students' overall school success through high school. Fortunately, there are research-based approaches to help young students at risk for reading disabilities make long-term improvements in their vocabulary development skills. This…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Reading Difficulties, Story Reading, Reading Aloud to Others
Whitbread, Kathleen M.; Knapp, Sheryl L.; Bengtson, Melissa – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
According to research by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD; 2000), reading is the single most important skill a child will learn in life. Reading proficiency is a powerful predictor of academic success, on-time graduation, and future earning potential in the workforce. Children who reach adulthood without adequate…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
Dennis, Lindsay R.; Weatherly, Jennifer; Robbins, Audrey; Wade, Taryn – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
High-quality early childhood (EC) education has emerged as a national priority alongside the need for ensuring practitioners have the knowledge and skills to support the learning of all children, including those with disabilities and delays (Snyder et al., 2012). To create high-quality learning environments that meet the needs of children…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Paraprofessional School Personnel, Program Implementation, Reading Aloud to Others
Hall, Colby; Dahl-Leonard, Katlynn; Denton, Carolyn A.; Stevens, Elizabeth A.; Capin, Philip – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
The Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) model for instructional delivery is well supported by research evidence and is often identified as a critical element of instruction for students with learning difficulties. However, there are challenges associated with effectively releasing responsibility to students. This may be especially true during…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Reading Difficulties, Teaching Methods, Student Responsibility
Rogers, Michelle; Hodge, Janie; Counts, Jennifer – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Although most students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) receive instruction in the general education setting (U.S. Department of Education, 2018), their academic outcomes have been found to be poor. Two evidenced-based practices that improve outcomes for students with SLD are explicit instruction and cognitive and metacognitive strategy…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Self Management, Teaching Methods
Moore, Brooke; Smith, Clara; Boardman, Alison; Ferrell, Amy – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Adolescent students with learning disabilities across the United States are not demonstrating gains on reading assessments from previous years, and many are not even achieving at proficient literacy levels (Boulay et al., 2015). Despite their difficulties with reading proficiency, adolescents with learning disabilities are often enrolled in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Video Technology, Reflection
Jerome, Marci Kinas; Ainsworth, Melissa K. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Access to quality literacy instruction is access to acceptance into the literate community in which students with severe disabilities live and work. Providing that instruction to students with severe disabilities who are not traditional readers and writers can be challenging. Luckily, there are many easy and interactive tools available for…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Assistive Technology, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
Zimmermann, Leah M.; Reed, Deborah K. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
The ability to comprehend informational texts is critical to students' academic success in a range of content areas. However, informational texts pose challenges to the reading comprehension of adolescents with or at risk for learning disabilities (LD). One such challenge is the use of multiple text structures in a single text. Text structure…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, At Risk Students, Adolescents
Roberts, Garrett J.; Solis, Michael; Chance, Becky – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2019
The research illustrated throughout this article supports the cycle of creating reading and behavior goals, monitoring of goals, and reflecting on goals to improve future goals. This article provides examples of how teachers of small-group reading interventions can incorporate these brief and targeted self-regulation interventions as part of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Small Group Instruction
Brum, Christopher; Hall, Laura J.; Reutebuch, Colleen; Perkins, Yolanda – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2019
Maintaining a focus on reading comprehension is essential for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as some will still need to develop this skill during their high school years. Two evidence-based approaches for reading comprehension for high school students with ASD are Alternate Achievement Literacy (AAL) and Collaborative Strategic…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, High School Students, Autism