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Wallach, Geraldine P.; Ocampo, Alaine – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017
Purpose: In this discussion as part of a response to Catts and Kamhi's "Prologue: Reading Comprehension Is Not a Single Activity" (2017), the authors provide selected examples from 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-grade texts to demonstrate, in agreement with Catts and Kamhi, that reading comprehension is a multifaceted and complex ability. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reader Text Relationship, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Allor, Jill H.; Mathes, Patricia G.; Jones, Francesca G.; Champlin, Tammi M.; Cheatham, Jennifer P. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2010
Jacob, Bart, and Carl are children with intellectual disabilities (ID; i.e., mental retardation) who experience significant difficulty in learning to read. In the past, most research about reading methods for students with ID focused on teaching students to memorize sight words, a method that is clearly effective. Memorization of sight words is…
Descriptors: Phonics, Mental Retardation, Sight Vocabulary, Phonemic Awareness
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Garcia, Shernaz B.; Ortiz, Alba A. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2008
Response to Intervention (RTI) was encoded into the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, and is being adopted on a wide scale as an alternative approach to identification of students with learning disabilities. For RTI to be an effective mechanism for addressing disproportionate representation of culturally and…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Identification
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Lowery, Ruth McKoy; Sabis-Burns, Donna; Anderson-Brown, Shawn – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2008
This article discusses how Book buddy reading activities can help to develop interpersonal relationships between younger and older students, increase all children's reading levels and abilities, and foster their positive self-esteem and confidence. Teachers, families, and other caregivers often seek techniques to improve children's reading…
Descriptors: Reading, Learning Activities, Kindergarten, Grade 5