To understand more fully the nature of children's difficulties in reading single words, a study investigated whether learning disabled students attend to different word features than nondisabled students, and whether there is a developmental sequence in the word features focused on by disabled and nondisabled children. Word sorts were used to…

A study examined specific reading competencies after participating in Hmong literacy instruction in an after-school setting in the Thermalito, California School District, grades kindergarten through 4. Control and treatment groups were established to compare the English literacy skills of the Hmong students who participated in 40 hours of primary…