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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 – Reading Psychology, 2009
This comparative study examines the role of contextual features embedded in a dialogic environment in fostering literacy. The study, implemented by language arts teachers in a middle school setting, investigates the effectiveness of an instructional program designed to create a collaborative dialogic learning environment that imparts literacy. The…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Discourse Communities, Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy