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Savaiano, Mackenzie E.; Compton, Donald L.; Hatton, Deborah D.; Lloyd, Blair P. – Exceptional Children, 2016
The association made between the meaning, spelling, and pronunciation of a word has been shown to help children remember the meanings of words. The present study addressed whether the presence of a target word in Braille during instruction facilitated vocabulary learning more efficiently than an auditory-only instructional condition. The authors…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Visual Impairments, Blindness
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Dennis, Danielle V. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2013
The confluence of No Child Left Behind and the National Reading Panel report on the five essential components of reading instruction forged a path for struggling adolescent readers that supports a narrow curriculum designed to address gaps in constrained skills. Adolescents from a large school district in the state of Tennessee who failed state…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Special Needs Students, Adolescents