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Peer reviewedBos, Candace S.; Anders, Patricia L. – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1989
This article presents an interactive model for teaching content area concepts to secondary students with reading/learning disabilities. It offers procedures for activating student background knowledge and for assisting students in developing the relationships among concepts that are critical for concept evaluation, synthesis, and application.…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Area Reading, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
Smith, Gayle; Bos, Candace S. – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1987
Two articles look at effective practices with the learning disabled. The first, "Facilitating Mainstreaming through a School-Wide Study Skills Program" (Gayle Smith), stresses one skill each month. "Semantic Feature Analysis: An Interactive Teaching Strategy for Facilitating Learning from Text" (Candace Bos and Patricia Anders) offers a method for…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedAnders, Patricia L.; Bos, Candace S. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Explains semantic feature analysis, a technique that helps students learn a new vocabulary by seeing how words are alike and how they are different. (HOD)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Guidelines, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning
