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Verbal Working Memory and Early Literacy Acquisition: Do ELLs Allocate Resources Similar to Their Typical Monolingual Peers or Monolingual Children with SLI?
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Zaretsky, Elena – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
The role of verbal working memory (VWM) in early language and literacy development among typical and atypical monolingual children exposed to different orthographies is well established. Less is known how English Language Learners (ELLs) allocate their VWM resources in early stages of literacy acquisition in English (L2). This study examined the…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Short Term Memory, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
Efficacy of a Reading Intervention for Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities
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Wanzek, Jeanne; Vaughn, Sharon; Roberts, Greg; Fletcher, Jack M. – Exceptional Children, 2011
This experimental study reports findings on the effects from a year-long reading intervention providing daily 50-min sessions to middle school students with identified learning disabilities (n = 65) compared with similar students who did not receive the reading intervention (n = 55). All students continued to receive their special education…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Intervention, Reading Fluency, Learning Disabilities