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Direct linkHsuan-Hui Wang; Elizabeth Swanson; Sharon Vaughn – Journal of Special Education, 2023
Vocabulary is a prominent contributor to reading comprehension. However, little is known about how students with disabilities with lower vocabulary performance respond to Tier 1 instruction, or how their vocabulary knowledge relates to their content acquisition. To examine the differential impact of Tier 1 instruction for U.S. middle school…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Vocabulary, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities
Sharon Vaughn; Jeanne Wanzek – Remedial and Special Education, 2024
This paper provides an examination of the foundations, efficacy, and effectiveness of a set of practices associated with improved social studies and history learning and literacy outcomes for middle grade students, including students with varying learning needs (e.g., English learners, students with disabilities). This approach, Promoting…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Reading Comprehension, English Language Learners, Evidence Based Practice
Sharon Vaughn; Jeanne Wanzek; Leticia R. Martinez; Eleanor M. Hancock; Anna-Mari Fall; S. Blair Payne; Sally K. Fluhler – Grantee Submission, 2025
This pilot study investigated the efficacy of the Promoting Adolescent Comprehension Through Text (PACT) intervention, a social studies content knowledge and reading comprehension set of practices implemented with social studies classes including students with disabilities. Social studies general education teachers were provided with professional…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Content Area Reading, Faculty Development, Social Studies
Elizabeth A. Stevens; Christy S. Murray; Sarah Fishstrom; Sharon Vaughn – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
Students in the middle grades are expected to read complex texts to acquire content knowledge, particularly in social studies/history and science. Most students with disabilities are included in social studies/history and science classes yet read below grade level, requiring significant support with accessing text knowledge. Question generation is…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Students with Disabilities, Knowledge Level
Jeanne Wanzek; Elizabeth Swanson; Sharon Vaughn; Greg Roberts; Anna-Mária Fall – Grantee Submission, 2016
This study investigated the effects of Promoting Adolescent Comprehension Through Text (PACT), a content knowledge and comprehension treatment for English learner and non-English learner students with disabilities who were provided instruction in general education social studies classrooms. Eighth-grade students with disabilities in the treatment…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Reading Comprehension, Students with Disabilities, Teaching Methods
Jeanne Wanzek; Elizabeth Swanson; Sharon Vaughn; Greg Roberts; Anna-Mária Fall – Exceptional Children, 2016
This study investigated the effects of Promoting Adolescent Comprehension Through Text (PACT), a content knowledge and comprehension treatment for English learner and non--English learner students with disabilities who were provided instruction in general education social studies classrooms. Eighth-grade students with disabilities in the treatment…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Social Studies
