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The Learning-to-Learn Strategies of Adolescent Students with Disabilities: Highlighting, Note Taking, Planning, and Writing Expository Texts
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Englert, Carol Sue; Mariage, Troy V.; Okolo, Cynthia M.; Shankland, Rebecca K.; Moxley, Kathleen D.; Courtad, Carrie Anna; Jocks-Meier, Barbara S.; O'Brien, J. Christian; Martin, Nicole M.; Chen, Hsin-Yuan – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2009
This study focuses on an examination of the learning-to-learn strategies of seventh-grade students as they highlight, take notes, plan, organize, and write expository texts. Participants consist of 125 students, 41 with disabilities and 84 without disabilities. The results reveal that the students with disabilities have more difficulties in using…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Disabilities, Metacognition, Grade 7
Connecting the Dots in a Research Program to Develop, Implement, and Evaluate Strategic Literacy Interventions for Struggling Readers and Writers
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Englert, Carol Sue – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2009
This article follows the development of three literacy programs that were designed by researchers at Michigan State University to support struggling readers and writers. The literacy interventions focus on strategy instruction in both writing and reading, and they culminate in the development of an integrated reading-writing program to support the…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Intervention
Making Writing Strategies Work.
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Stevens, Dannelle D.; Englert, Carol Sue – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
This article proposes that teachers of students with learning disabilities combine instruction in writing strategies with training in strategy attribution, whereby students learn to attribute their success or failure to use or nonuse of a particular writing strategy. Specific strategies are offered for writing subprocesses and steps in linking…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Shared Understandings: Structuring the Writing Experience through Dialogue.
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Englert, Carol Sue; Mariage, Troy V. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
This article reviews recent projects using text structures and the writing process as frameworks to guide the composition dialogue. Learning-disabled students' attitudes toward writing as a required skill rather than a means of expression are confronted in the emphasis on dialogue. Several blank forms for organizing prewriting thoughts are…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Prewriting
Socially Mediated Instruction: Improving Students' Knowledge and Talk about Writing.
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Englert, Carol Sue; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1992
Fourth and fifth grade learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled students, who participated in a socially mediated writing intervention emphasizing the process of writing, writing strategies, and the role of teacher-student and student-student dialogue, were compared to a similar group of students who had not participated in the intervention.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dialogs (Language), Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Making Strategies and Self-Talk Visible: Writing Instruction in Regular and Special Education Classrooms.
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Englert, Carol Sue; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1991
The effects of an intervention--Cognitive Strategy Instruction in Writing--to improve students' expository writing abilities was studied. The program emphasizes teacher and student dialogues about expository writing strategies, text structure processes, and self-regulated learning. Results of 183 fourth and fifth graders indicate that dialogic…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Dialogs (Language), Elementary School Students