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Alfassi, Miriam; Weiss, Itzhak; Lifshitz, Hefziba – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of strategy instruction on the reading literacy of students with mild and moderate intellectual disability. Students aged 15-21 with intellectual disability (n=35) participated in 24 sessions of literacy strategy instruction (experimental condition) or remedial literacy-skill acquisition-…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Mental Retardation, Reading Skills, Reciprocal Teaching
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Alfassi, Miriam – American Educational Research Journal, 1998
The effects of strategy instruction (reciprocal teaching methods) on reading comprehension were studied by comparing 53 high school students receiving strategy instruction with 22 who did not. Results indicate that strategy instruction is superior to traditional methods in fostering reading comprehension as measured by experimenter designed tests.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness