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Peer reviewedCarr, Sonya C. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2002
Describes a technique that teachers have used successfully in inclusive settings to facilitate self-evaluation among students with learning problems. Notes two critical issues to consider when using self-evaluation procedures: how to teach students to self-evaluate, and what opportunities for self-evaluation can be offered to students. (SG)
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Instructional Improvement, Metacognition, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSearfoss, Lyndon W. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Describes alternative assessment approaches that provide important information about students with reading difficulties. Criticizes the medical or diagnostic/prescriptive approach to diagnosis. Presents a four-step diagnostic process derived from the holistic/wellness model. (HB)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Holistic Approach
Peer reviewedGillis, M. K. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Examines the research on one of the newest labels in the field of reading disabilities: attention deficit syndrome. Argues that such labels do little to help teachers plan instruction and can be harmful. Discusses the current diagnosis for this syndrome and the behaviors generally associated with it. (HB)
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Attention Span, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Peer reviewedThomas, Karen F.; Barksdale-Ladd, Mary Alice – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Outlines the potential for using whole language for remediation of reading disabilities. Criticizes current approaches to remediation. Discusses six principles of whole language instruction that are effective for remediation. Describes four whole-language programs that have successfully remediated students. Suggests alternative assessment…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedHenry, Marcia K. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Considers the effects that might issue from an integration of decoding and spelling for the instruction of disabled readers. Proposes a structural-historical approach reflecting the patterns and word origins inherent in the English spelling system. Provides an alternative to both isolated phonics instruction and the whole-language approach. (HB)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Learning Disabilities, Models, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedCastle, Marrietta – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Discusses ways that teachers can create an interest in reading among students with reading difficulties and how they can attend to these students' low self-esteem. Provides seven guidelines for building supportive environments in which disabled readers develop reading enjoyment and maintain good self-concept. (HB)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedBean, Rita M.; And Others – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Describes a full-time mainstreaming program that was recently implemented in a public elementary school. Discusses the changes in the role of the special education teachers participating in the program and how they perceived those changes. (HB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Mainstreaming, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedSamuels, S. Jay; Naslund, Jan Carol – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Reviews research on lexical access (the process of getting information about a word from a mental dictionary). Discusses implications for comprehension development. Suggests that individual differences in comprehension depend on speed of lexical access as well as on speed of decoding. (SR)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedJordan, Nancy C. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Examines developmental stages of reading from preschool to secondary school. Discusses cognitive requirements of various stages of reading and identifies possible sources of difficulty. Presents several case vignettes to illustrate common patterns of reading disabilities and their behavioral manifestations. Offers specific suggestions for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedGoldsmith-Phillips, Josephine – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Reviews the controversy over a biological basis for developmental dyslexia and illustrates it with two case studies of junior high school students. Reviews neurological evidence for developmental dyslexia, and proposes seven signs characteristic of reading disability that may qualify as dyslexia. (SR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Neurological Impairments
Peer reviewedMulcahy-Ernt, Patricia I.; Ryshkewitch, Suzanne – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Investigates the types and depths of cognitive complexity that 11th-grade readers of high, average, and low reading ability exhibited when given either text-based comprehension questions or reader-based journal response writing assignments. Finds significant differences between the groups in type and depth of cognitive complexity, engagement with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Grade 11, Journal Writing
Peer reviewedDowhower, Sarah L. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Summarizes findings about repeated reading since the 1970s and details the most recent findings. Argues that, because of strong evidence of the effectiveness of repeated reading, the many facets of this procedure should be integrated into the fabric of daily literacy instruction. Offers specific suggestions for applications including applications…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedJohnson, Harold A.; And Others – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Finds that the strategies used by children with hearing impairments to invent spellings were developmentally and phonologically similar to those used by hearing children. (SR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments
Peer reviewedValmont, William J. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Recommends helping reluctant readers learn to make videos as a strategy for helping them engage in language arts activities for authentic purposes. Discusses equipment needs, preproduction, storyboarding and script creation, production, and suggested topics for school videos. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Production Techniques
Peer reviewedKameenui, Edward J.; And Others – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1995
Examines the various meanings of "direct instruction" and "Direct Instruction." Provides a context for the intended and unintended use of these terms. Identifies three major components of direct instruction in reading and the sameness analysis that serves as a theoretical basis for designing reading instruction based on direct…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Instruction
